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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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Plaxo Flubs It — News leaked prematurely today about a new Plaxo Pulse feature that allows users to match Facebook contacts to Pulse contacts, and then import contact data about the matches into Pulse. — Plaxo has been testing the feature with a number of journalists and bloggers.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What I was using to hit Facebook — unreleased Plaxo Pulse — OK, so I've been released from my NDA. I was alpha testing an upcoming feature of Plaxo Pulse — this feature has not yet been released and now that my account has gotten shut down it's not clear whether it will be released.
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Mashable!, Valleywag, Compiler, New York Times, All Facebook, VC Circle, Global Neighbourhoods, Going Social Now and TechCrunch
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Free the Scoble 5,000!! — It is easy to make light of the constant swirl of twittery online activity that surrounds well-known blogger Robert Scoble. — But Facebook's disabling of his account yesterday-because he was apparently using a script to access and pull data from his own profile …
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Guardian Unlimited, WinExtra, Global Neighbourhoods, WebProNews, O'Reilly Radar, Now I Have a Blog Too and SmoothSpan Blog
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 …
Nick / Rough Type:
Scoble: freedom fighter or data thief? — The great revolutionary activist of our day, Robert Scoble (or “Che Scoble,” as Mike Butcher says), is battling for the ideal of data freedom with the evil forces of Facebook. At issue, writes Kara Swisher, in a post titled “Free the Scoble 5,000! …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Facebook Right, Scoble Wrong: Social Network Interoperability and the O'Reilly Social Graph FOO Camp — I've read a number of stories this week that highlight that interoperability between social networking sites will be a “top ask” in 2008 (as we say at Microsoft).
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Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Netflix, LG to offer movie set-top box — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - DVD rental company Netflix Inc on Wednesday said it was developing a set-top box with LG Electronics Inc to let subscribers watch movies streamed directly from the Web to their TVs. — Netflix, with about 7 million subscribers …
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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 …
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PC JOINT, Engadget, SlashGear, atmaspheric, Gadget Lab, Apple Gazette, CyberNet, MacDailyNews, bijansabet.com, Tech Blog, technabob and Insanely Great Mac
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Mozilla / Firefox IPO — How much is the entity that manages the Microsoft IE-killing browser Firefox worth, and when will it go public? Answers: 1) A lot, and 2) Probably this year or next. — Background: — In the past few years, Mozilla's open-source Firefox browser has done …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for January 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: January 3, 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: January 8, 2008 — This is an advance notification of two security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on January 8, 2008.
Joel Johnson / Boing Boing Gadgets:
Dell Crystal LCD Monitor — This is Dell's new fancy monitor, the “Dell Crystal LCD." I applaud Dell's willingness to put this one to market. Its design certainly makes a statement. — Here's why you shouldn't buy it: It's only a 22-inch monitor with a 1,680 by 1,050 resolution.
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Richard Thurston / CNET News.com:
Office 2003 update blocks older file formats — The latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 has made a range of older files inaccessible, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, it emerged this week. — Office 2003 Service Pack 3 …
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One Microsoft Way, Compiler, Computerworld, Zoli's Blog, TechSpot News and An Antic Disposition
irconnect.com:
Speak Up and Give Your Thumbs A REST: Ask.com Mobile Launches Speech-Activated Mobile Driving and Walking Directions — New Voice-Enabled ‘Click to Speak’ Directions is a Search Engine First — Ask.com today introduced free(1) voice-activated capabilities to its Ask.com Mobile Directions service …
Greg Jarboe / Search Engine Watch Blog:
ChaCha launches text service at Sundance Film Festival — ChaCha, a “human-powered search engine”, today announced a new service that allows users to text questions of any kind to 242242 (which is ChaCha on a phone keypad) and receive text answers on their cell phone.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple set to ship Macs with Blu-ray support - report — Apple Inc. at this month's Macworld Expo will will outline a high-definition video strategy that will see its weight thrown further behind Sony Corp's Blu-ray DVD format as opposed to Toshiba's HD-DVD, according to one Wall Street analyst.
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NeoSmart Technologies:
Exclusive: Microsoft to Push Silverlight via Redesigned Homepage — Several months ago, Microsoft inserted themselves into the RIA framework business - years too late and against pretty scary odds - with the initial release of the Silverlight framework. Microsoft Silverlight is the online counterpart …
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.
