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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace Joining Google's OpenSocial — We hear Google is planning to announce yet another partner to its anti-Facebook coalition today — News Corp.'s MySpace. [Haven't confirmed]. Look for an announcement by the end of the day. This makes a lot of sense for both sides …
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Epicenter, Search Engine Land, CNET News.com, All Facebook, FORTUNE, Valleywag and Mashable!
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Checkmate? MySpace To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed) — Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle. — This was reported by Silicon Valley Insider earlier today, and we have confirmed it from a source as well …
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Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, VentureBeat, Between the Lines, Wired News, Master of 500 Hats and ClickZ News Blog
John Biggs / New York Times:
A Computer That Works With Google, Not Microsoft — Advocates of Linux, the free open-source operating system, like to say that buying a standard-issue computer involves a Microsoft Tax, because you have no choice but to pay for Windows. New versions of Linux and inexpensive hardware …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Updates MacBooks to Santa Rosa, GMA X3100; 2.6GHz MacBook Pro — As rumored, Apple has quietly updated the MacBook tonight to the Santa Rosa architecture with mild speed bumps and the GMA X3100 integrated video. — White 13.3" — $1099.00 2.0GHz/1GB RAM/80GB/Combo/GMA X3100
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Gizmodo, BetaNews, The Tech Report, TechSpot News, O'Grady's PowerPage, UNEASYsilence, dailywireless.org and Digg
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro quietly updated — The rumors were rampant about the pending upgrade; now the deal is done. The Apple MacBook has finally moved to the Santa Rosa architecture with a healthy GMA X3100 video bump from the lethargic GMA 950 of yore.
François Bancilhon / Mandriva Blog:
An open letter to Steve Ballmer — Hi, this is François, from Mandriva. — I'm sure we're way too small for you to know me. You know, we're one of these tiny Linux company working hard for our place on the market. We produce a Linux Distro, Mandriva Linux.
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CNET News.com, Digital Daily, Engadget, BetaNews, Channel 9, p2pnet, Jeremy's Blog, WebProNews, Slashdot and Digg
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player: $100, this Friday, Wal-Mart — Still waiting to jump into the high def disc game? Or just wanted another weaker, cheaper player for the last-gen TV you phased out to your rumpus room? Well, whatever your reasons, some (not all!)
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Gizmodo, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Gadget Lab, BetaNews, technabob, UNEASYsilence and Gadgetell
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Matthew Moskovciak / CNET News.com:
HD DVD players hit $99 at Wal-Mart, Best Buy — Earlier this week it was big news that HD DVD broke the $200 price barrier. Well, in the same week it looks like HD DVD has broken the $100 price barrier as well. As previously reported, Wal-Mart is running a "Secret In-Store Specials" …
Jon Swift:
Facebook Declares War on the Blogosphere — Just as in earlier times a man was only as good as his family name, today we are defined by the social networks we belong to. So imagine my horror when I learned that I have become a virtual bastard. Earlier this week I logged into Facebook …
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WebProNews, Epicenter, CNET News.com, Irregular Enterprise, Scobleizer, All Facebook, franticindustries, Blogcosm, TechFold and robhyndman.com
Rob Mead / Tech.co.uk:
Is Apple's Leopard still in beta? — Mac users are hitting problems galore in Mac OS X 10.5 — Even a casual glance across the Mac web in the last few days will reveal a litany of problems faced by users upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. — Problems range from application crashes to login problems …
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Traci / Burning Questions:
AdSense Integrated with FeedBurner Site Ads — There's really nothing spookier than hollow, empty ad spaces rattling around your blog and/or web site, putting no cash in your pocket nor any extra hob- in your goblin. Before you banish these underperforming idlers to some distant house upon a lonely hill …
Lev Grossman / Time:
Invention Of the Year: The iPhone — Stop. I mean, don't stop reading this, but stop thinking what you're about to think. Or, O.K., I'll think it for you:
Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Internal Tool to Check Search Results? — Just a note : I've photoshopped the screenshot, so the numbers are real but not for "www.ffp.asso.fr" ;-) — Tom, does that include all numbers displayed alongside www.ffp.asso.fr, or just the GG Score? — the bottom lines are real, but they are not related to the results.
Peter Dille / PlayStation.Blog:
New PS3 TV Ad Campaign — Greetings PlayStation Nation! — Like all of you, I've been a big fan of our new blog - but until now, I've been staying behind the scenes. I'm excited to share my first post here and thought that our new advertising campaign for the PS3 would be of interest to everyone.
Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:
A dangerous conflict of interest between Firefox and Google — The Firefox browser may not be as independent as previously thought. Mozilla essentially owns Firefox, and it proved so whenit flexed its muscles last year in forcing Debian to rename its browser IceWeasel.
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Between the Lines
phx.corporate-ir.net:
Kodak Reports 3rd Quarter Profit on Sales of $2.581 Billion — 3rd Quarter Net Earnings From Continuing Operations of $34 Million, up $117 Million — Digital Revenues Grow 12%, Driven by Digital Plates, NEXPRESS, Consumer Digital Capture, and Kiosk Sales — 3rd Quarter Digital Earnings Nearly Triple From Year-Ago Quarter
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Kodak (EK) Q3: Digital Growth Outpaced By Analog Slump
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Is Facebook the next Netscape? — Marc Andreessen's Ning team has put together a screencast and screenshots of OpenSocial in action. He notes that the examples are a little light on social functionality at this point, but they are working on getting user's friends information and ctivities feed into the applications.
Verizon:
Verizon Plans Fivefold Increase in HD Channels on FiOS TV in 2008 Part of a Major Expansion of High-Definition and Standard-Definition Programming on Verizon's Video Network — More Sports and Multicultural Content on the Way — NEW YORK - Verizon FiOS TV customers will get even more of …
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
The Ad Network Spending Spree — Big Internet companies have been snapping up ad networks to boost ad revenue. Now Specific Media plans to join the M&A frenzy — The wave of dealmaking engulfing the online advertising sector isn't over yet. The most recent evidence came Nov. 1 …
