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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Porn, Ning, and the Internet — There's been a recent flurry of commentary about Ning and porn. While I appreciate everyone's thoughts on the topic, I wanted to post directly and tell you what we know and what we think. — Let's take the issues in order:
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Insider Chatter, WebMetricsGuru, TechCrunch, Download Squad, CPM Advisors and Howard Lindzon
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Saddest Sight in the World: HD DVD Sponsored Bags at CES — Oh, poor HD DVD. Toshiba pays big bucks to stamp its name and the HD DVD logo on every journo bag they hand out at CES. But Warner's bitchslap has sent them home to cut their wrists and cry in the corner, so they're not even here!
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The Boy Genius Report:
Vodafone Roadmap: Palm Drucker! — Been a Palm fan forever but feel you're getting quite shafted lately? We'd agree. So let's see if the Palm Drucker can change any of that! To start it off, the Palm Drucker is going to rock quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE with a tri-band UMTS/HSDPA radio!
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Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You — “HACKERS, welcome! Here are detailed circuit diagrams of our products — modify them as you wish." — That's not an announcement you'll find on the Web sites of most consumer electronics manufacturers, who tend to keep information on the innards of their machines as private as possible.
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Christopher Grant / Engadget:
Magellan and Google buddy up for Maestro Elite 5340+GPRS — The GPS magicians at Magellan and the search wizards at Google have combined their relative (and also fantastical) talents to deliver the Maestro Elite 5340+GPRS, a GPS unit rocking some GPRS cellular capabilities.
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Amit / Digital Inspiration:
How Techmeme Homepage Changes Over Time - Video — It's amazing to see how blog stories make it to the Techmeme homepage, stay there for a couple of minutes (or hours) and then get replaced by fresh news. — The following video clip captures 50 hours of Techmeme activity and replays it in 50 seconds.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Is the Apple MacBook Touch a Realistic Possibility? — Some Apple fan mixed the real iMac-like dock patent and the fabled MacBook touch, getting a very nice rendition of how both concepts may look together (even when I had to move the Apple logo in the screen-dock mock-up because the original was off-center.)
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Data And The Future Of The Web — After I asserted several times that data is the key to the future of the web, Umair Haque gave my head a good spin by asserting that data is in fact a commodity. Umair is half right — we are increasingly overrun by data, and SOME of it is a commodity.
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Matt McAlister
Howard Owens:
Journalists doing their jobs better is a competitive advantage — In a piece about data portability, John Battelle shifts into a discussion about the difference between a business that competes on price vs. a business that competes on service. He says:
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Telecom Firm in China Sets Sights on U.S. Market — ‘Opaqueness’ in Firm's Ownership and State Ties Raises Security Concerns — SHENZHEN, China — From a fortress-like corporate campus in this southern city, retired army officer Ren Zhengfei is building one of China's most successful experiments in capitalism.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
@twitcrit: instareviews — So here's what I'm trying — and I'm grateful for any help in doing it better: — The idea is that Twitter users can share instant reviews of what they're watching — TV shows, movies, concerts, anything — by twittering (is the verb form tweeting?) to @twitcrit.
Kim Zetter / Wired News:
FAA: Boeing's New 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack — Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its onboard computer networks that could allow passengers to access the plane's control systems, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
David Leblanc / David LeBlanc's Web Log:
Office SP3 and File formats — In Office 2007, we changed the default to disable a number of older file formats where we saw very low usage and a high security risk in our code that loads these formats. From the security standpoint, this is the right thing to do.
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Microsoft Help and Support, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Computerworld, Hardware 2.0 and Security Watch
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
CES Unveiled: We're here — We're here at CES Unveiled, the pre-pre-pre CES event that debuts some new products before the actual show starts. We're in line and already being hassled by people to get us to view their goods. The actual Unveiled opens at 4PM PST (7PM EST) …
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