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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
More Facebook Advertisers Bail From Beacon. Plus, New Concerns. — The backlash against Facebook's Beacon advertising program just gets worse every day. First, advertising partner Coca-Cola got cold feet over privacy issues. Now Overstock is bailing from the program, and Travelocity is having doubts.
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PC World, parent . thesis, All Facebook, Are You Paying Attention?, InfoWorld, Tim Oren's Due Diligence and Valleywag
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Two More Facebook Advertisers Say No To Beacon
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eWEEK.com, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, TECH.BLORGE.com, paidContent.org, Epicenter, HipMojo.com, Going Social Now, All Facebook and Digital Daily
Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Images and new categories launch tonight — Hey everyone. Believe it or not, the dedicated images section you've been waiting for finally goes live later tonight. Lots of changes in this release: — New Universal Taxonomy — Now you can submit news, images, or videos to any category on Digg!
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CenterNetworks, TechCrunch, franticindustries, ParisLemon, Valleywag, GigaOM, ChasNote and Mashable!
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Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
The next evolution of labels — Back in the Paleolithic Era, the world was a very different kind of place. People were hunter-gatherers, lived in caves, and kept all their email in folders*. You can't really blame them. Between tracking woolly mammoths, fashioning crude stone tools …
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Adobe Debuts Flash Media Server 3 - Slashes Price — Adobe, which celebrated its 25th birthday over the weekend, today announced the release of Flash Media Server 3, the delivery platform for its near ubiquitous Flash technology. Perhaps the most striking change to Flash Media Server is the drastically reduced price.
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David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
Between H.264 & 90% price drop, will Adobe's new media servers mean more YouTubes? — Today, Adobe announced the third versions of its two Flash Media Servers: Flash Media Interactive Server 3 and Flash Media Streaming Server 3. While the two servers represent a range of improvements to both products …
The Boy Genius Report:
Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard in 100 pictures — Can't believe we missed this! The brand new Motorola Q9 with Wi-Fi we just got? Yeah, that has Windows Mobile 6.1 on it! We're getting the video up soon, but for now, check out our full Windows Mobile 6.1 gallery, and the new things we found!
AppleInsider:
Apple, AT&T sued over iPhone's Visual Voicemail feature — Apple and AT&T on Monday were hit with a hefty patent infringement lawsuit from Klausner Technologies, which charges the pair with treading on patented technology by offering Visual Voicemail service to iPhone customers.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Motorola CTO steps down following CEO's departure — Motorola's chief technology officer has resigned her position, just days after CEO Ed Zander announced his own plans to move on. — Gizmodo reported Monday that Padmasree Warrior's departure was announced via a company-wide e-mail Monday …
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David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Report: Apple caves in Hollywood face off, will raise iTunes movie prices — An important rule of playing chicken in the business world is that someone, sooner or later, needs to blink. Otherwise deals don't get made, consumers don't get to spend money on anything, and summer mansions in extravagant locations sit lonely year round.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:News Corp Hugging Apple: 20th Cent. Fox Films To iTunes
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AppleInsider, Epicenter, CNN, TechCrunch, Bits, paidContent.org, Valleywag, Gizmodo, NewTeeVee, Macsimum News and Podcasting News
Andrew Hampp / AdAge:
Nick Show Captures Bigger Audiences Online Than on TV — 'Yo Gabba Gabba' Has Turned Into a Viral Sensation With 17.8 Million Streams — by More Than Just Kids — Either kids have gotten really web-savvy (quite likely) or adults are starting to spend more time watching shows geared toward the preschool set (even likelier).
Oliver Starr / blognation USA:
Marc Orchant Suffers Massive Coronary — THIS IS NOT AN ATTEMPT AT HUMOR — PLEASE REPOST — At some time between 7:30 and 8:10 AM on Sunday Morning December 2nd, 2007, Marc Orchant, my fellow author on this blog, as well as one of my closest friends sustained a massive heart attack while working in his home office.
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Scobleizer, Practical Blogging, Mobility Site, Tech~Surf~Blog, Ryan Stewart, Digital Common Sense, Industry Girl, jkOnTheRun, GottaBeMobile, Global Nerdy, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Ensight, A View from the Isle, PalmAddicts, Between the Lines, Connecting the Dots, bub.blicio.us and Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
Noah / FishBowlNY:
News Corp. Buys Beliefnet.com — Steve Waldman's belief paid off today when News Corp. purchased Beliefnet.com, the spirituality-based Web site Waldman founded in 1999 and has run as editor-in-chief since. — In response to an anonymous tip we received, a call to Waldman resulted …
Chris Williams / The Register:
Microsoft's sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children — The Register Desktop Support Seminar . Live & Online 11th December (10am PST) — Disturbing news has reached our Yuletide youthful innocence bunker that Microsoft's new artificial intelligence-powered Santa bot is subjecting …
Schneier on Security:
Security in Ten Years — This is a conversation between myself and Marcus Ranum. It will appear in Information Security Magazine this month. — Bruce Schneier: Predictions are easy and difficult. Roy Amara of the Institute for the Future once said: "We tend to overestimate the effect …
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Daisy Whitney / TVWeek.com:
Online Fame Easy; Ads Harder to Get — Income for Web Video Creators Varies From 'Retire' to 'Keep Your Day Job' — Some Web video stars, like the "Ask a Ninja" guys, are raking it in. Some, like Beet.TV video blogger Andy Plesser, are earning a hefty supplement to their day jobs.
Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
iPhone browsing marketshare closes in on .1% — Net Applications came out with its quarterly browser marketshare report this weekend. More surprising than the solid market share gains that the Mac platform made, was iPhone's phenomenal showing. — .09 percent may seem …
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Gizmodo, InfoWorld, Valleywag, Podcasting News, 9 to 5 Mac, Macsimum News, PalmAddicts and Digg
Alice Z. Cuneo / AdAge:
Could IPhone Up Mobile-Marketing Stakes? Land Rover, Others Think So — Apple Device's Share Is Tiny, but Its Graphics, Apps Offer Brands Big Ad Possibilities — If some early returns from Land Rover and 20th Century Fox are to be believed, Apple's iPhone will raise the stakes for marketers that go mobile.
