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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Some Conversations have shifted to Twitter — Twitter is one of the top referrers of traffic to my blog, over 2000 referrers from twitter to my blog in the last 30 days...there's something happening there. — I've also noticed and increase of new users over the past 30 days, feel free to add me as a friend, I will add you back.
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Darmano / Logic+Emotion:
Why is Twitter Exploding? Because it's A Conversation Ecosystem. — Lot's of chatter happening round the blogosphere regarding Twitter, between Forrester's Peter Kim and Jeremiah (also of Forrester). I've described Twitter as a "conversation ecosystem" in places like BusinessWeek …
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Kevin / NotebookReview.com:
Microsoft Offers Free Copy of Windows Vista Ultimate if you Surrender Privacy — Need a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate? Are you incredibly trusting of big corporations? Well I have the deal for you, with a new program through Microsoft called the Windows Feedback Program.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Snag Vista Ultimate for free, in exchange for your privacy — Microsoft's been keeping its record pretty clean of late, but we suppose it couldn't end the year without a parting shot meant to cheese off the ultra-private, Microsoft-eats-children types. The company's latest diabolical plan …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA: Those CD rips of yours are still "unauthorized" — Those MP3 and AAC files that you've ripped from your CD collection are still "unauthorized copies" in the eyes of the recording industry. In a brief filed late last week, the RIAA said that the MP3 files on a PC owned by a file-sharing defendant …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:RIAA NOT Saying That Personal Copies Are Illegal (Yet)
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
The Internet. The TV. — Here's how to finally bring them together. — Millions of people love watching Internet video on their PCs. So why can't the technology industry figure out how to get them to watch Internet video on their television sets? — It isn't for lack of trying.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
SanDisk Gives NBCU What Apple Wouldn't: Pricing Flexibility — Now that the rift between NBC U and Apple's iTunes looks irreparable (for now), NBC U is busy putting its shows everywhere else. Today NBC U announced a deal with SanDisk, which has a unique, if inelegant solution to bridge the TV-Internet divide.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:NBCU: SanDisk Fanfare = Our New iTunes Store
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
'Here Comes Another Bubble' Takedown! — So, it turns out YouTube actually can protect copyright! — In this case, that's too bad, since the video-sharing service just took down the very popular music video parody called "Here Comes Another Bubble," by San Francisco's Richter Scales …
Kevin Fitchard / TELEPHONY Magazine:
Sprint to soft-launch WiMAX before Christmas — Within the week, Sprint will turn live its WiMAX networks in Chicago and Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Sprint officials said today. The soft launch will extend only to Sprint employees and is intended to prepare the networks for a broader customer trial in the first quarter.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Failed WGA checks lead to a barrage of antipiracy lawsuits — As part of its global antipiracy efforts, Microsoft announced today that it has filed 52 lawsuits around the world and referred another 22 cases to law enforcement agencies in 22 different countries.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Some turbulence for JetBlue's in-flight e-mail — Special thanks to my editors for posting this. I've filed it in-flight via e-mail. — I'm typing this somewhere over Louisville, Ky. (or so the "live map" on my seat monitor tells me) on board JetBlue flight 641, a New York-to-San Francisco flight …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Second Stage Of The Radiohead Experiment — Certainly an awful lot has been written about Radiohead's experiments with new business models, but it's starting to crank up again, as the band gets ready to release the new album on CD. While some fans felt "betrayed" by this …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
MTVN Tries To Streamline Multiplatform Ad Sales Again With Digital Fusion — MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) has formed a new unit called Digital Fusion to package advertising and marketing deals across the Viacom company's growing web-based and mobile properties.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 Arrives Early — Micosoft cuts testing short, a sign to some that there aren't enough users to do the testing. — The Office team beat its own deadline of early 2008 and will release Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Dec. 11. — In an unusual move …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Update: AT&T: U-Verse Available To 30 Million Homes in 2010; EchoStar Buy Unlikely; Strong Ad Growth — At a meeting for analysts, AT&T (NYSE: T) said it expects U-Verse to be available in 30 million homes by the end of 2010, compared to 5.5 million as of its last quarter.
