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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A Familiar Editor for Gawker — Nick Denton, the entrepreneur who has built Gawker Media into a formidable blog brand, said two weeks ago that he wanted the new editor of his flagship site, Gawker.com, to oversee its evolution toward a more traditional news operation.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Dash Express beta hands-on — We recently got to take a Dash Express beta unit for a spin, and while they're still gluing all the software together behind the scenes in anticipation of launch, we did spot the makings of a few obvious and ridiculously useful features new users can expect in February.
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Dash Express finally shipping — I've been following the Dash Express — the "flocking" GPS device that tells other Dash devices in its vicinity about traffic problems and can connect to WiFi to look up addresses — for over a year now and every time I've met with them they've been pushing back the ship date.
Dan Tynan / PC World:
The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007 — These much-ballyhooed products, sites, and services, it turned out, left much to be desired. — Recommend this story? — Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do? — It's not that Vista is awful.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
A Few Thoughts On Google Knol — News of Google most recent project, Knol, came out late last Thursday without, as far as I can tell, much in the way of press pre-briefings. All the major publications were late to the story. Blogs hit it fast, but had nothing to go on other than the brief blog post put …
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Ribbit debuts as "Silicon Valley's phone company" — I met with the top executives at Ribbit last week and found their strategy to be eye-opening. The Mountain View company, which bills itself as "Silicon Valley's phone company," is making it easy to embed web phones in just about any kind of web site …
Wendy Tanaka / Forbes:
Help Wanted: A Vacancy In Google's Top Ranks — Everyone wants to work at Google. It's a money machine with a stock price bouncing around $700. The employees are brilliant and free organic meals are served every day. — But there is one job the search giant seems to be having a hard time filling: chief financial officer.
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Chris Silver Smith / Search Engine Land:
Anatomy & Optimization Of A Local Business Profile — Many local companies depend upon their information's presence in various directories in order to advertise themselves, and the basic instrument of these marketing efforts is the Business Profile. The majority of businesses …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Vint Cerf Interviewed — Google vice president and chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf was interviewed by Suisse publication Das Magazin in Zurich in late November. Here are some of his statements (my translation): — Asked on the semi-religious meaning of his job title …
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Start-Up to Create Market For Trade of Virtual Goods — A start-up plans to help game companies get a grip on the booming illicit market for virtual goods, including everything from currencies to magical swords that help players advance in online games. — Live Gamer Inc. is developing …
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 …
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Gregory Bonnell / Canadian Press:
Facebook suing Ontario porn firm — Alleges firm hacked into its system to get personal data — A Canadian company specializing in Internet porn is being sued by Facebook amid allegations it hacked the popular social networking website's computers and tried to access the personal information of users, court documents show.
Pew Internet:
Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency — Mary Madden Susannah Fox Aaron Smith Jessica Vitak — Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint; 47% have searched for information about themselves online, up from just 22% five years ago.
Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data — Each day about 1,700 juniors at an East Coast college log on to Facebook.com to accumulate "friends," compare movie preferences, share videos and exchange cybercocktails and kisses. Unwittingly, these students have become the subjects of academic research.
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