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New York Times:
Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft — A CEREBRAL computer-scientist-turned-executive, Eric E. Schmidt has spent much of his career competing uphill against Microsoft, quietly watching it outflank, outmaneuver or simply outgun most of its rivals. — At Sun Microsystems …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Misunderstanding Copyright Law And Ruining Everyone's Fun — So the video that everyone has been talking about is history (mostly - good old Daily Motion tends to ignore the take down notices, so I was able to embed it above). It is the victim of a bullying tactic by a photographer and her lawyer.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Why Lane Hartwell is wrong — According to a piece at Wired, the person who got the "Here Comes Another Bubble" video pulled down from YouTube was photographer Lane Hartwell, who saw one of her images — of Valleywag writer Owen Thomas — pop up in the hilarious video from Richter Scales.
Lewis Wallace / Wired News:
Why Lane Hartwell Popped the 'Here Comes Another Bubble' Video — When one of Lane Hartwell's photographs showed up without her permission in a popular viral video, she wasn't flattered. She was frustrated. — Hartwell's frustration quickly morphed into action.
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bub.blicio.us, TECH.BLORGE.com, I, Platform, Crossroads Dispatches, TechWag, bytes|genes, WebMetricsGuru, Burningbird and broadstuff
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Amazon removes the database scaling wall — When Amazon introduced S3 in March 2006 I knew I would use it and I was sure a lot of other developers would. I saw it as a solution to a problem we all have — storage that scales up when needed, and scales down when not.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Profiles — They're coming and it will be difficult to get away without having one. Google Profiles will be integrated in most Google services so you have a coherent identity and a simple way to manage your contacts. — "A Google Profile is simply how you represent yourself on Google products …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Hannah Montana Tickets on Sale! Oops, They're Gone — HANNAH MONTANA has made 2007 a very bright year for various business interests, but especially for StubHub, the online ticket exchange site. — Though the year is not yet complete, StubHub announced on Dec. 5 that its concert ticket sales …
Rob Griffiths / Macworld:
Add more power to 10.5's screen sharing — One of 10.5's new features that I use quite often is the built-in screen sharing. You can use screen sharing from iChat, which is great for family tech support, but I'm referring specifically to screen sharing in the Finder.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Surviving the 2008 recession — Recession is in the air. It isn't here for sure, but, damn, when you pay $50 for two coffees and a tart in Paris you know your economy isn't healthy. Add in the latest energy prices and you see we're almost definitely going to have a problem over the next year …
Jack / Twitter Blog:
T-Mobile + Twitter — We've been tracking a missed connection between T-Mobile and Twitter for the past few days. If you're a T-Mobile customer using Twitter in the United States over our shortcode 40404, you may see intermittent failures (both with sending and receiving updates).
Skrentablog:
Google sees own shadow, jumps overboard — Google announces "Knol"... First-order response — Bad news for jason and mahalo! Google declares war on jimmy and wikipedia! — Some context — So Google makes an algo that puts wikipedia at the top of all the results.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:Wikipedia Competitor Being Tested by Google
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rexblog.com, Elliott C. Back, ConsortiumInfo.org …, Mark Evans and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Scripting News:
Twitter takes a break, we're awake, and wondering... There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. — What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time?
Coding Sanity:
REVIEW: WINDOWS XP — I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop. — Look & Feel — Windows XP has quite a cartoony look and feel compared to the slick look of Aero Glass …
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
The BBC Tinkers With Netvibes-Inspired Homepage — The British Broadcasting Company quietly launched a beta version of their spiffed up new homepage last week. The new page, which the Beeb has dubbed a "lick of paint," draws on a number of so-called web 2.0 design aesthetics: rounded corners …
