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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Google ruining Christmas? Get a grip — Since I'm full of the milk of human kindness after a wonderful Christmas, I've been trying to remain calm in the face of all the Google Reader hysteria about shared items and so on — but wiping out on some ice yesterday and landing on my ass …
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, Fh on earth, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Binary Bonsai, Hightouch and Mashable!
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Is Google Reader Sharing Too Much? — A small privacy debate is igniting over a new sharing feature in Google Reader. A couple weeks ago, Google turned on a new feature in its feed reader that lets you share posts with anyone in your Gmail or Gtalk contact list (assuming you use either of those other Google services as well).
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Reader needs GPC — Oh, man, is the Google Reader team under attack for its new social networking features. — There's a few ways I could take this. — 1. I could call people idiots for not understanding the meaning of the word “public." — 2. I could call the Google Reader team idiots …
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Download Squad, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, The Social Times, Deep Jive Interests, Mashable! and ParisLemon
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Broadband Mechanics announcement(s) — I hate doing press releases - they seem so old school Web 1.0-ish. Scheduling appointments to go kiss Om Mailk's or Arrington's ring just seems so arcane to me, but it's clearly what has to be done to get coverage. And then they assign the post …
Financial Times:
Apple in online film-rental deal with Fox studio — By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles and Kevin Allison in San Francisco — Apple has signed News Corp's 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the way people pay for online film content.
Amazon.com:
Amazon.com Wraps Up Its 13th Holiday With Best Season Ever — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 2007 holiday season finished as its best ever, with its busiest day being December 10. On that day, Amazon customers ordered more than 5.4 million items, which is 62.5 items per second.
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Masterful Web Entrepreneurs Hit a Snag in Miami's Condo Market — Jim Clark and Tom Jermoluk cut a swath through Silicon Valley in the 1990s with companies like Silicon Graphics, Netscape and WebMD. But they are finding that it is a lot harder to maneuver through the real estate market than to master the Internet.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Radiohead: Free New Year's Web Concert, Amazon Beats iTunes To ‘In Rainbows’ — Alterna-rockers Radiohead will stream a free, hour-long concert of their latest album, In Rainbows, on Monday, New Year's Eve, via their Web site, Current TV, and Current.com. “This is a wee celebration …
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WebProNews, The Web Services Report, Current.com // Current Picks, Podcasting News, ParisLemon and Mashable!
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Shares Cross $200; Let The Rumors Fly — As Apple (AAPL) shares crossed the $200 mark today for the first time ever, the rumor mill is cranking out plenty of grist for CEO Steve Jobs's keynote at the Macworld convention in San Francisco, which runs January 14 through 18.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Study: Ads in online shows work better than ads on TV — Good news for TV networks: online ads work. As TV shows continue their lengthy migration onto the web, new research finds that the people watching those shows actually pay more attention to both advertising and content when they watch online.
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Tamar Weinberg / techipedia:
Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 — Last year, I ended 2006 with a great (and still pertinent) list of blog posts and articles that I felt were really the best in their class in the area of Internet Marketing. This year, I present you my favorite timeless posts of 2007 …
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
Russian GPS alternative near completion, Putin and dog celebrate — Russia has announced the successful launch of three additional GLONASS navigation satellites on Christmas Day, bringing the total number of functional units to 18, and reportedly scaring the beejezus out of Santa and his reindeer during liftoff.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Everex gPC gets reviewed, thrashed — Just because something sells out, that doesn't mean that it's up to snuff. Substantiating said claim is the Everex gPC, which recently did an outstanding job of frustrating and disappointing reviewers at PCMag. Put simply, the gPC was found …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Predictions for Google's 2008 — Some of these items are obvious, others are mostly wishful thinking. — 1. Google will try to unify its application and transform them into a big social network. The Maka-Maka project (or Google's activity stream) will enhance the already existing profiles.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
GigaOM Interview: Dr. Mendel Roseblum, Chief Scientist, VMWare — Right before the Christmas holidays I got a chance to catch up with Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, VMWare's chief scientist and one of the company's five co-founders. Rosenblum is also an associate professor of computer science …
Justin Berka / Ars Technica:
Hacks and smack-talking make hi-def format war even uglier — The format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD continues, but now the participants are really getting feisty. Both camps have been particularly aggressive this holiday season, offering a variety of discounts, free movies …
