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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Facebook disabled my account — If you are trying to contact me on Facebook, please don't. My account has been “disabled” for breaking Facebook's Terms of Use. I was running a script that got them to keep me from accessing my account. I'm appealing. I'll tell you what I was doing …
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Updated: Facebook blocks Scoble for downloading his contacts, sparks revolt — Data portability from social networks is going to become a huge tech industry issue in the new year. Why? Because well known tech blogger Robert Scoble has had his Facebook account disabled after he tried …
Rodney Rumford / Facebook Applications Reviews …:
Facebook Bots Disable Robert Scoble — Facebook Bots Disable Robert Scoble's Facebook Account. Apparently Robert broke facebooks terms of service. He was being totally cool about how it happened. I am sworn to secrecy by Robert about exactly what he was doing.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Netflix Partners With LG to Bring Movies Straight to TV — SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix, the DVD-by-mail company with more than seven million customers, has a new strategy that may one day make those red envelopes obsolete. — The company wants to strike deals with electronics companies …
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Skrentablog:
Why Search? — I've gone and founded a search startup... you can read it about it in this write-up in TechCrunch. But I get asked - why do search? — Simple - the idea that the current state-of-the-art in search is what we'll all be using, essentially unchanged, in 5 or 10 years, is absurd to me.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko — Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career - taking on Google. In search. — Skrenta left Topix last June.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Apple Docking Patent Works Perfectly with Ultra-Slim MacBook — This Apple docking station patent shows a screen base in which you can slide in a MacBook through its side. While this would be difficult to do with current MacBook models, it fits perfectly with the idea of the ultra-light …
MacScoop:
Next iPhone software update to allow copy-paste — Apple will release an iPhone software update during MacWorld Expo 2008, well informed sources confirmed MacScoop. But it appears that the unpolished iPhone sofware version recently leaked on the Internet doesn't include all the features of the final release.
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Lionel Menchaca / Direct2Dell:
New Inspiron 1525: Smaller, Thinner and Lighter than the 1520 — Today, customers in the United States can order our new Inspiron 1525 notebook. More regions will be able to soon. — Starting at 5.9 pounds, the 1525 is about 25% smaller and thinner than the Inspiron 1520 and about a half pound lighter.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Speaking of design, Dell updates its 15.4-inch Inspiron notebooks — Dell said Thursday that it is updating its Inspiron 1525 15.4 inch notebooks with smaller versions and new colors. — Dell noted in its blog that its Inspiron 1525 is 25 percent smaller than the previous version …
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Glenn Derene / Popular Mechanics:
Macworld 2008 Prediction: Apple's MacBook Plus Tablet Laptop — In his biweekly trends column, PM's senior tech editor forecasts what he thinks Steve Jobs will show the computer world at this year's Apple developers conference: a touchscreen “MacBook Plus” to enter the growing tablet market.
InfoWorld:
Asus unveils terabyte laptop (InfoWorld) — Asus unveils terabyte laptop — San Francisco - Asus will unveil a laptop that should satisfy the storage needs of all but the biggest of power users: the M70S comes with 1TB of storage space. — GPS gadget Spot can save your hide, for a price
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
5min Raises $5 Mil — How-to video sites make a lot of sense. Video is often a far better way to demonstrate how to do something than text or audio. And then there's the business side; viewers seeking out video are expressing interest in a specific topic, meaning they are ripe targets for advertisers.
CNET News.com:
Dual-boot Windows and Linux, step 1: Get Ubuntu — This is the year I kiss Windows good-bye. Well, maybe not entirely, but the writing is on the wall for Microsoft's flagship operating system, and all other desktop bloatware: The future of PC software is open source.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
LG.Philips announces 14.3-inch flexible e-paper display for CES — Try to contain yourself when we rattle off the following list of specs for LG.Philips's latest A4 sheet of flexible e-paper: 14.3-inches, 1280 x 800 pixels, 16.7m colors, 300 micrometers thick, full 180° viewing angle.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Plaxo's For Sale — Plaxo, the Sequoia-backed start that transformed itself from a hated spam monster into a mild mannered and interesting business social network, has started a sale process according to a source. They've hired an investment bank, Revolution Partners, who are spearheading the sale effort.
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Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog:
SEO Company CEO Arrested, Jailed: Accused of Foreclosure Scam — Traffic Power earned an infamous reputation as a search engine optimization firm, allegedly using “black hat” tactics that may have resulted in bans by Google, Yahoo and other search engines. — Now Traffic Power's CEO …
