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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Exec Souders To Google; Yahoo to Zero? — Steve Souders, Chief Performance Yahoo, is jumping to Google as of Jan. 7. From the outside, hard to see this as anything other than yet another long-term exec (2000) fleeing a sinking ship. Any insights appreciated. Steve's bio below.
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James Thomas / MentallyRetired:
What is Jakob Lodwick up to? Tumblr acquisition? — Last night I posted the Vimeo “Flagpole Sitta” video. The relation to Vimeo made me want to check out what Jakob Lodwick has been up to since his infamous canning from IAC. Little did I know, it would take me on an hour long easter egg hunt on the internet.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:What The Heck Is a Norbum? Jakob Lodwick and David Karp Know.
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Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Public and private spaces, and why YouTube comments are so awful — Why do Reddit and YouTube comment areas suck so bad? — Have any of you guys read YouTube comments lately? They are just really awful - just click through to the YouTube site and read them.
The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 9000 surfaces? — Who knows at this point, honestly. From our own mock-up, to many other ones online, it's going to take a lot to convince us. That said friends, this does look pretty legit if it turns out to be true. We'll let you all debate whether you like or not.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:New Blackberry 9000 in iPhone Black?
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John Leyden / The Register:
Nintendo Wii hack opens door to homebrew games — Security researchers have hacked into a Nintendo Wii game console to run their own code in a move that makes it far easier to develop homebrew games for the popular gaming device. — Up to now developers have only been able to write homebrew games for the Gamecude, not the Wii.
Ben Edelman:
The Sears “Community” Installation of ComScore — Late last month, Benjamin Googins (a senior researcher in the Anti-Spyware unit at Computer Associates) critiqued a ComScore installation performed by Sears' “Sears Holdings Community” ("My SHC Community" or “SHC").
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Reuters:
Vonage and Nortel settle patent dispute — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet-based calling company Vonage Holdings Corp (VG.N) said it has agreed to settle a patent dispute with Nortel Networks (NT.TO) (NT.N) with no payment of damages, sending its share up more than 8 percent.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Five Ways You Can Fall in Love With Tagging Again — Tagging content online is something that doesn't seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to. — Is it too complicated for widespread adoption? Is it too arbitrary to have the impact that formal taxonomies offer?
Karl / DSLreports:
$20 AT&T Naked DSL Arrives - Merger condition required it before year's end.... In order to gain government approval for its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T was allowed to conveniently author their own merger conditions (pdf), which the FCC boldly stated they probably wouldn't enforce anyway.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
P2i's Ion-Mask coating could make waterproof phones an everyday occurrence — Plenty of waterproof phones and other small weatherproof devices have made it off the assembly lines and into our clumsy clutches, but P2i, a small spinoff company using tech originated within the Defence Science …
James Niccolai / Macworld:
US bans spare lithium batteries from checked bags — New rules will go into effect on Jan. 1 that prohibit air passengers in the U.S. from carrying spare lithium batteries in their checked baggage. — The new rules, announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Transport, are designed to reduce the risk of fires in aircraft.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Ho-ho-horrible: album sales plunge 20 percent this Christmas — To some music lovers, the fact that Josh Groban's Noel was the highest-selling album of 2007 is all the proof they need that major-label music is dying. To shareholders and label execs, though, the numbers are more important …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Broadcom wins major injunction against Qualcomm — In the latest major twist in this epic battle between wireless chipmakers, a US District Judge has slapped a permanent injunction on any products containing those Qualcomm 3G chips ruled to be infringing on Broadcom's so-called '686 patents.
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Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
Facebook, Lifelets, and Designer Responsibility — If you're a regular reader of Bokardo then you know I think issues like the Facebook Beacon incident, the Facebook News Feed incident, and the Digg gaming incident(s) are big deals. (I've written about all three here on Bokardo)
heise Security:
24C3: Barcode systems susceptible to serious hacker attacks — Experts say that the Barcodes our highly automated business world could now hardly do without, often display serious security holes. In particular, one- or two-dimensional systems of barcodes and matrix codes are open …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Open Media Web: Online Music — An interesting new online video series, called Open Media Web, debuted today. The first episode is an interview with Yahoo's Lucas Gonze - who created music playlisting service WebJay, acquired by Yahoo! in January 2006. The interview was conducted by Chris Messina and Brian Oberkirch.
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