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12:20 AM ET, December 17, 2007

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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 …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft in Denial: Google Threat is Classic Disruption  —  To understand why Google is such a threat to Microsoft—and why Microsoft's pooh-poohing of this threat is, at best, a smokescreen—you need to understand how technology disruption works.  —  Disruptive technologies do not destroy existing market leaders overnight.
Discussion: Clickety Clack
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Google vs. Microsoft = Microsoft vs IBM 30 years ago  —  This battle of the titans has been brewing for 5 years or more.  It is inevitable.  Not because of animosity between the companies, but because of underlying business and technology trends driven by new customers and technology advances.
Mike Gunderloy / Web Worker Daily:
Google Sneaks up on Identity Management  —  Another part of Google's master plan has quietly debuted on a couple of their sites: Google Profiles.  Most easily accessed at the moment through Google Maps (look for the "My Profile" link in the top menubar if you're logged in to a Google account) …
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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 …
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Photographer takes down Bubble 2.0 fun  —  Recently I posted Bubble 2.0, the video, a very funny song by Richter Scales.  However, if you click the YouTube link now you'll find it's no longer available.  It's been taken down by YouTube because a photographer, Lane Hartwell …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Misunderstanding Copyright Law And Ruining Everyone's Fun
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Is All About Large Amounts of Data  —  In a very interesting interview from October, Google's VP Marissa Mayer confessed that having access to large amounts of data is in many instances more important than creating great algorithms. … Marissa Mayer admitted that the main reason …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Wikia's Got A Truck Full of Servers — 1,000 To Be Exact!  —  Over the past week, one of the messages on the Wikia search mailing list I am on asked for an update on the Wikia search project.  To which Jimmy Wales replied with, "On track, we are hard at work right now..." and displayed the image below.
evhead:
Will it fly?  How to Evaluate a New Product Idea  —  I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately.  In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them.  Here's a first attempt at defining that.  It's not as clear as I'd like it to be.
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Xbox 360 wireless radiations jam your Bluetooth  —  This is interesting.  It's almost like an old-fashioned whodunit - but this time it's the console doing the killing.  Some staff at Morrisville State College were noticing a lot of interference in certain places resulting in trouble syncing their Bluetooth headsets.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Ubergizmo and Engadget
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Find Your Gmail Contacts in orkut  —  It's not clear whether the fact that Gmail automatically adds to the address book all the people you've ever sent messages makes it irrelevant or comprehensive.  It's not clear whether orkut will ever become a respected social network in other places than Brazil and India.
Discussion: orkut Blog
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Battle of the next-gen: FireWire S3200 versus USB 3  —  The IEEE 1394 Trade Association has announced a new FireWire specification that the group claims is capable of delivering up to 3.2Gb per second of throughput.  The new interface (officially known as S3200) is directly based upon …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Sixty years ago today: transistors — and modern electronics — were born  —  Like transistors?  You must — you're using a few million (or billion) right now just reading this sentence.  But it's actually difficult to overstate the transistor's importance since its invention exactly 60 years ago today …
Discussion: Computerworld
Mozilla Labs Blog:
Personas for Firefox  —  Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser.  —  Personas is a prototype that builds upon the ideas that:  — themes today are too hard to find, install and use  — graphic designers should be able to style the browser without having to code
Discussion: Ars Technica and Neowin.net
 
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T-Mobile + Twitter  —  We've been tracking a missed connection …
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