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12:00 AM ET, December 28, 2007

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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The MacMini HDTV revolution  —  Yesterday I was over talking with the team behind Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine.  —  We all agreed that Apple TV sucks.  More on that in a minute.  —  But we all notice a trend: hooking MacMinis up to your HTDV.  I think it's a revolution.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
New product release today  —  Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls...  It's with much anticipation that I say this.  —  I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.  —  The idea is simple.
Discussion: Mashable! and louisgray.com
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
FlickrFan: Dave Winer's New Photo Viewing Software  —  Long-time inventor Dave Winer has released an early version of his new Mac software called FlickrFan tonight.  Though there are some kinks in it at launch, the service leverages a number of APIs to do some very cool things.
Discussion: GigaOM
Podcasting News:
Dave Winer Intros FlickrFan & Turns Your HDTV Into The Next Internet Platform  —  RSS and podcasting pioneer Dave Winer has a new project, FlickrFan, that's a platform for uploading and downloading Flickr images.  —  Even more important, though, it's an attempt to turn your HDTV into a platform that embraces the Internet.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Wal-Mart Kills Video Download Store Before Christmas, No One Notices  —  Honestly, if we hadn't been tipped to this, we probably would've been none the wiser—same as pretty much everybody else on the planet apparently—but it looks like Wal-Mart's video download store caught pneumonia and died on Dec. 21.
Discussion: Reel Pop and ParisLemon
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Wal-Mart Cancels Video Download Service; HP Says Wasn't Worth Powering  —  Yet another example of bricks-and-mortar scale not translating to online sales power .and of grand plans deflating ... Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) reports that Wal-Mart, (NYSE: WMT) one of the largest sellers of DVDs …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Gina Keating / Reuters:
Wal-Mart cancels movie download service  —  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc quietly canceled its online video download service less than a year after the site went live, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday.  —  Wal-Mart shut down the download site after Hewlett Packard Co discontinued …
Discussion: Engadget and MacDailyNews
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Apple's Piping Hot Innovation  —  Want a coffee with your iPhone?  —  Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs wants to patent a process that will save customers the hassle of waiting to order a cup of coffee at a local Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX - news - people ) …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Yahoo to patent “smart drag-and-drop,” Ars submits prior art
Discussion: MacNN and CNET News.com
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Apple Tries To Patent A Way to Avoid Long Lines
Discussion: Doc Searls Weblog
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Dell XPS One Is Better Machine than iMac, Loses Battle for the Software, Mossberg Says  —  Today, December 27 at 1:01AM EDT, The Supreme Pope of Tech Walter Mossberg has declared the Dell XPS One a better machine than the iMac.  And yes, that sound you thought you dreamt was Steve Jobs screaming and Hell freezing over.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
What Is The ROI Of Requiring User Registration To Access Online Content?  —  I somehow got logged out of my NYTimes.com registration and just hit the registration wall when I tried to read an article — I almost forgot it was there.  Which made me wonder, now that the TimesSelect pay wall is gone …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
3 down, 1 to go: Warner Music Group drops DRM  —  Warner Music has bent beneath the force of the anti-DRM winds sweeping the globe.  The label will now offer its complete catalog, DRM-free, through Amazon's new MP3 store.  —  The announcement means that EMI, Universal …
Center for Democracy & Technology:
Music Download Warning List  — Claims to have the “Largest Music & Movie Selection,” “Over 12 million MP3 files,” and to allow users to “Find Any Song for Movie Fast!"  — Charges $34.44 for a lifetime membership  — Claims to be “legal” on the home page.
Discussion: InfoWorld and Mashable!
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
$40K to fill an iPod?  One third of PCs use LimeWire instead  —  Pop quiz: what music and movie downloading app is installed on over one third of the world's computers, according to a new report from Digital Music News and media tracking specialist BigChampagne?
Discussion: TorrentFreak, WinBeta, hypebot and Digg
Georges Yared / BloggingStocks:
Apple's new price target: $300  —  Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been a truly fun company and stock to watch and write about during the course of 2007.  Not a bad name to own either.  I have probably written a dozen posts for BloggingStocks about Apple, and I have raised my price target five or six times this past year.
 
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
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Ellen Lee / The Technology Chronicles:
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Will Apple Blow Past Netflix, Amazon, and Microsoft With A Fox Deal?
Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
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Discussion: DSLreports and Engadget Mobile
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Samsung's P720, F490 make their video debut
 Earlier Items: 
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Once Again: The Great Inventors Often Were Neither Great, Nor Inventors
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Inside Apple Stores, a Certain Aura Enchants the Faithful
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ross Levinsohn Speaks!
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The major incidents on the internet in 2007
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Movie Industry: DRM Is For Customers, Not For Members
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo and Digg
Marci Alboher / New York Times:
Blogging's a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple's new laptops: confirmed!
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Google suffers patent blow
Discussion: Mashable!
 

 
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