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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life! — Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang made his inaugural CES appearance, outlining how he plans to evolve his company ahead of the curve and to become an indispensable starting point for consumers' Web experience, which has become richer and more complex over the last decade.
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
CES: Yahoo's Jerry Yang Talks Up Yahoo! Go! 3.0, Letting Any Developer or Advertiser Build “Widgets” — Yahoo's (YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang comes out in khaki's and a blue polo shirt. — “We're ready and excited about what the next phase of the Internet has to offer.”
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IP Democracy, Gearlog, Techland, GigaOM, The Technology Chronicles, mocoNews.net, PC World and paidContent.org
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo! Life! and Go 3.0 Announced at CES - is Yahoo! Back in '08? — Yahoo! co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang was on stage today at CES and he showed a fascinating glimpse into the future of Yahoo. Yang outlined a product strategy that takes the simplicity and all-in-one portal approach that Yahoo! …
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mocoNews.net
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Flickr to Authenticate OpenID - Is This The Yahoo! CES Announcement? — Rumors abound that Yahoo! will make a major announcement about OpenID today at CES. It looks like at the very least you'll be able to use your Flickr user page URL to log in anywhere that supports OpenID login.
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
This Video Makes Bill Gates Look Cooler Than Steve Jobs — OMG, I can hear the fanboys battling already. Here's a video from last night's CES 2008 keynote, Bill Gates' last for the foreseeable future. And I know its scripted, edited and contrived, but I'm sold: The man is a cool geek.
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Between the Lines, Kotaku, Wikinomics, Windows Connected, Blast Magazine, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and Digg
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
No More New Things From Microsoft — In an era when the vanguard of technology is creating smart devices for entertainment and communications, Bill Gates, the outgoing chairman of Microsoft, had little that was interesting or innovative to show off in his last annual keynote at CES in Las Vegas on Sunday.
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
Apple Closes In on Hollywood — Steve Jobs is negotiating with the big studios to offer more movies for sale and rental on iTunes, but both sides will have to give a little — It has been Hollywood's worst-kept secret: Steve Jobs is starting to win over the film industry.
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CNET News.com, paidContent.org, MacRumors, Electronista, Epicenter, Infinite Loop and MacDailyNews
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Kristin Huguet / Apple:
Andrea Jung Joins Apple's Board of Directors — Apple® today announced that Andrea Jung, chairman and chief executive officer of Avon Products, was elected to Apple's board of directors. Andrea also serves on the board of directors of the General Electric Company and is a member …
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John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
MWSF 2008 keynote bingo — Ah, winter in San Francisco: the time of year when a young man's fancy lightly turns to keynote bingo. What's that, you ask? You haven't played? Oh, but you must. Peruse last year's edition to learn the rules and internalize the philosophy.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Scoop: Live Videocaster Mogulus Nails Second Round of Financing — Mogulus, the New York based-start-up, which is one of the cool new companies providing the tools for individuals and publishers to stream live video, has raised an additional $1.5, Beet.TV has learned.
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VentureBeat, HipMojo.com, NewTeeVee, Silicon Alley Insider, Paul Kedrosky's … and Mashable!
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond — Steve Outing wrote a very good article at Editor and Publisher on Friday about the need for cultural change inside the newpapers around the US (found via the wonderful CyberJournalist.net).
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Problem With CNet: No One Wants to Buy It — Andrew Ross Sorkin reports in this morning's New York Times that an investor group has amassed a stake in CNet Networks and wants to put pressure on its management by electing new board members. — We've seen this script before in many industries.
Intel:
Intel Unveils 16 Next-Generation Processors, Including First Notebook Chips Built on 45nm Technology — New Transistor Design, Manufacturing Capabilities will Also Power Mobile Internet Devices — INTERNATIONAL 2008 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, Las Vegas, Jan. 7, 2008 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Clearly Up To Something Big Around Music — There have been rumors that Yahoo Music is preparing to launch a big new product sometime soon. And when I read this overview of a presentation given by Yahoo Music's VP of Product Development Ian Rogers last month it basically confirmed it for me …
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Lefsetz Letter, mathewingram.com/work, David's blog, FISTFULAYEN, Changing Way and ReadWriteWeb
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
FACEBOOK DUMPS SECRET CRUSH APPLICATION OVER SPYWARE CLAIM — This post was updated at 12:10 PM ET to include comment from Zango. — Good riddance: Facebook has banned the “Secret Crush” application due to its affiliation with a notorious spyware manufacturer.
Matt Croydon / Postneo:
Google apps for your newsroom — I like to think that I'm pretty good at recognizing trends. One thing that I've been seeing a lot recently in my interactions with the newsroom is that we're no longer exchanging Excel spreadsheets, Word files, and other binary blobs via email.
BBC:
Clarkson stung after bank prank — TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column. — The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers after rubbishing the furore over the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two computer discs.
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Techdirt, WebProNews, TECH.BLORGE.com, Computerworld Blogs, F-Secure Antivirus …, Valleywag, The Register and Digg
Reginald Braithwaite / raganwald:
A programming language cannot be better without being unintuitive … —David MacIver, via In Defence of (0/:l)(_+_) in Scala — Or as Jef Raskin put it: … —Jef Raskin, Intuitive Equals Familiar — Complaining that a programming language “Violates the Principle of Least Surprise” …
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Obama Effect: ABC News Claims 1M Downloads Of Facebook App — ABC rang in huge Nielsen numbers for its ABC News/Facebook debates Saturday night. But we're more interested in the fact that ABC is claiming that more than a million Facebook users have downloaded ABC News' U.S. Politics application.
