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7:45 PM ET, December 26, 2007

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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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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).
Discussion: WebMetricsGuru
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 …
Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews:   Google Reader Becomes Holiday Snitch
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:   Google Reader: Naughty or Nice? Santa Safe!
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Google Readers' Social Flaws Have Users Up In Arms
Discussion: Googling Google
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Online Holiday Cheer
Discussion: Gizmodo
Mac Os / PC World:
Apple's Record Breaking Year
Discussion: ParisLemon
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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:   Radiohead To Promote Album With New Year's Eve Concert on Current TV
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.
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 …
Discussion: Joe Duck
Seeking Alpha:
Details of Apple's Mysterious New Portable Device  —  I have been working on gathering more information about a new Apple (AAPL) portable device from several different sources during the past 6 months.  I have pieced together the puzzle which portrays a picture of what can be perhaps best described …
Discussion: ParisLemon and Computerworld Blogs
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Shares Cross $200; Let The Rumors Fly
Discussion: Seeking Alpha
Yiwyn / Techland:
Survey: More online ads, free content  —  By Yi-Wyn Yen  —  A new study reveals that the majority of consumers would rather be bombarded with online ads than pay for content on the Web.  Deloitte's annual media consumption report also indicates that 66% of Internet users would click …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Study: Ads in online shows work better than ads on TV
Discussion: broadstuff and Valleywag
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 …
Discussion: GigaOM and chrisbrogan.com
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.
Discussion: Associated Press and Slashdot
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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.
CNN:
Nokia says door open for cooperation with Apple on web portal Ovi - Vanjoki  —  Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) — Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) doors are open for Apple Inc to sell its music via the company's planned Ovi web portal, management board member Anssi Vanjoki told Berliner Zeitung.
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 …
Fareastgizmos.com:
NEC Hello Kitty laptop LaVie G decorated with Swarovski Crystals  —  NEC has launched Hello Kitty laptops LaVie Decorated with Swarovski Crystals.  The NEC Hello Kitty laptop with AMD Turion CPU, 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 15.4"WXGA (1,280×800) display, 120GB SATA HDD and DVD+RW Drive …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
 
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eHomeUpgrade:
NETGEAR Expands Award-Winning ReadyNAS Family of Network Attached Storage Devices
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Oldnewthing / The Old New Thing:
Microthink: If you can't measure it, then it doesn't exist
Elaine C. Kamarck / Boston Globe:
Increasing Internet capacity
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Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Information Overload Costing $650 Billion
Discussion: Ars Technica
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Ola! Craigslist Goes Bilingual
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Sarah Fallon / Wired News:
Confessions of an Online Scrabble Cheat
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Christmas At The Apple Store: Very, Very Crowded
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Canon, Panasonic and Hitachi Join Up, Dig In for Flat-Panel War
Discussion: Ars Technica
 Earlier Items: 
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
2007 In Numbers: Low Traffic Is One Problem Yahoo Doesn't Have
Discussion: Digg
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
FCC Leaks Details on the Motorola ROKR E8
Google Watch:
Google Taps NTT DoCoMo in Mobile No-Brainer
Discussion: Mashable!
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
First look: Qt 4.4.0 with Phonon and WebKit
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Update: Like Gaboogie, Foonz Losing Its Voice Too
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
CTO Session: Nortel's Roese Speaks Out
Discussion: All About Nortel
P2P Blog:
IFPI wants ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, filter P2P traffic
Matthew Hurst / Data Mining:
IceRocket Relaunch?  —  I'm sure I'm very late in noticing this …
Discussion: Mark Evans and Jim Kukral
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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