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Mario Sundar / The LinkedIn Blog:
Announcing LinkedIn News, Redesigned Homepage & more — The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your profile.
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Download Squad, Todd Watson, Searchviews, /Message, Webware.com, CenterNetworks, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, bub.blicio.us, Web Strategy …, Valleywag and Digg
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Anne Zelenka / GigaOM:
LinkedIn Needs to ReachOut — Professional networking service LinkedIn wants to emulate Facebook's success by drawing users and applications through the use of a similar portal strategy. But LinkedIn's best chance at success lies in doing just the opposite: reaching out to other web sites and applications.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
LinkedIn Announcement: The Good News and The Bad — LinkedIn, the holy grail for widget developers seeking to prove their software is serious, has taken some interesting steps towards a more social future in the release of some new features and discussion of their forthcoming API this morning.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
YouTube Partner Program Opens to All; Chocolate Rain Guy Gets Ad Deal — Tay Zonday, the young man behind the Chocolate Rain song and megameme, is among 100 YouTube power users selected to be added to the YouTube Partners program - the site's ad revenue sharing plan for high quality, original content.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
NYTimes Surges, Cnet Slumps — Ever since the NYTimes.com swept away the last remaining boulders of its subscription pay wall (aka Times Select) in mid-September, its traffic has been going through the roof. According to comScore, it gained 7.5 million readers worldwide from the end …
Microsoft:
MSN Mobile Launches Advertising and Premium Content — Microsoft extends mobile display leadership with premier advertisers Paramount Pictures and Jaguar. — Mobile display advertising is now available on MSN Mobile for the first time, Microsoft Corp. announced today.
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Tech Tracks, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, LiveSide, Digital Trends, dailywireless.org and David Dalka
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:Microsoft bringing ads to mobile devices
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E-Commerce Times, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, TechSpot News, Search Engine Land and Mashable!
Jeff Bakalar / Crave: The gadget blog:
Nintendo adds gift giving with this week's Virtual Console update — A new feature of the Wii Shop channel beginning this week is the ability to send a friend a Virtual Console title as a gift—just in time for the holidays. There is a catch, though; gift giving will require you to start learning …
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Azadeh Ensha / New York Times:
Yahoo to Start Internet Program for Technology Investors — Yahoo, which already owns one of the most successful financial sites on the Web, is putting the final touches on a new online program for technology investors that is scheduled to begin next month.
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Search Engine Journal, Silicon Alley Insider, PDA, BloggingStocks, Search Engine Land, broadstuff and Mashable!
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Dude, My Bad: Buyers Forgive Facebook — Perhaps they are caught up in the holiday spirit, or maybe everybody loves a good mea culpa, but most digital media buyers are in a forgiving mood when it comes to Facebook's recent string of Beacon blunders. — Buyers say they are generally satisfied …
tfaw.com:
Back To The Future Flux Capacitor Replica — Type: — Genres: — Released: — Availability: — Pre-Order — UPC: — A Diamond Select Release! Get your own time machine up and running with this high-tech replica from the 1985 classic Back to the Future!
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Ultra-Portable MacBook Rumor Roundup — As rumors start to build for Macworld San Francisco 2008, the most consistent rumor appears to be one of an ultra-portable Apple notebook computer. — These rumors started back in March 2006 by MacScoop who indicated that "very reliable" …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Nobel Laureate Says The Internet Makes Us Dumb, We Say: Meh — Newly awarded Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing has used her acceptance speech to tell the world that the internet makes us dumb. — According to Lessing, who was too old and ill to make the speech herself and instead …
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Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …, The Open Road, broadstuff, mathewingram.com/work, WinExtra and Burningbird
Toshiba:
Toshiba Launches High Performance Solid State Drives with MLC Devices — TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced its entry into the emerging market for NAND-flash-based solid state drive (SSD) with a series of products featuring multilevel-cell NAND flash memories.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Coming Soon To NewTeeVee: 'Scoop' About Tiny Startups? — YouAre.tv is a tiny video site — 56,000 pageviews last month — trying to sell itself on eBay: starting bid $25,000. The company plans to talk itself up at tonight's NY Video 2.0 meetup at the Roosevelt Hotel, and co-founder/CEO David Dundas has a …
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Oliver / StarrTrek:
In Memoriam: Marc Orchant — I received the news around 3PM today that my closest friend, business associate, co-conspirator, sometime mentor, sometime — protege and full time confidante had passed away a week after suffering a massive heart attack at his home in New Mexico. He was 50 years old.
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jkOnTheRun, Channel 9, Life On the Wicked Stage, Jeff Barr's Blog, mobilejones and Jeff Sandquist
