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Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Steal This Wi-Fi — Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people — and attracts the most criticism — is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There's no password. There's no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Trent Reznor: Why won't people pay $5? — UPDATE at 8:55 a.m.: The headline of the story was changed to reflect more broadly what Trent Reznor said during the interview. As some readers noted, the original headline put too much emphasis on one of Reznor's statements.
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BBC:
Americans turn to online videos — Online video sharing sites are reaping the benefits of the ongoing writers' strike in the US. — According to net measurement firm Nielsen Online, some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end of October.
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Lee Rainie / Pew Internet:Increased use of video-sharing sites
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
LinkedIn, SixApart and Flickr People Join DataPortability.org: Is This Stuff For Real? — The Data Portability Working Group is announcing today that key people from LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter are joining the group. These new names are just the most visible part of a groundswell …
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Steve Ganz / The LinkedIn Blog:
Who Owns Your Data? (hint: you do) — Data portability is on a lot of people's minds right now. You don't need to be an A-list blogger trying to export your massive friend list to know that your address book is your own, nor to recognize that toting around your network can be cumbersome.
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Wall Street Journal:
Wsj.com/opinion — Everyone knows that Joseph Schumpeter's “creative destruction” is roiling the newspaper world, and today we'd like to announce something on the creative side. We're rolling out a new Web site for the Journal editorial page offering free access to all of our editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:WSJ.com Merges OpinionJournal With Subscription Content For Free …
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Fred Vogelstein / Wired News:
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry — The demo was not going well. — Again. — It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple's top engineers with creating the iPhone.
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Variety:
Blu-ray could win high-def battle — HD DVD backers could switch sides soon — The two remaining studios backing HD DVD could switch sides soon, ending the high-def format war instantly. — Daily Variety has confirmed that Universal's commitment to backing HD DVD exclusively has ended.
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
FACEBOOK TOPS ONE LIST OF ‘SLOW AND INACCESSIBLE’ SOCIAL NETWORKS — On Thursday, Web site-monitoring firm WatchMouse released the results of a study about the performance of 104 social-media sites—social networks, blogging communities, bookmarking sites, and the like—and boldly deemed them to be overall “slow and inaccessible.”
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
3 Important Facebook Updates Coming Soon — Here's a quick look at some important Facebook updates that are expected to launch in 1Q 08: — 1) Friend Lists Privacy Controls — A few weeks ago, Facebook took the first step toward enabling more efficient friend management with the release of Friend Lists.
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
MICROSOFT DEAL KING TO LAUNCH OWN FIRM — One of Microsoft's chief deal architects is leaving the software giant to start his own firm. — Bruce Jaffe - currently vice president of corporate development for Microsoft - plans to vacate his post at the end of February.
DealBook:
Logitech Shares Jump on Microsoft Bid Rumors — Shares in the Swiss-based computer peripherals maker Logitech International rose more than 12 percent on Thursday amid speculation Microsoft would make a takeover bid, traders told Reuters. Spokesmen for Logitech, the world's largest maker of computer mice …
AboutUs.org Weblog:
We're Launching Three New Services! — We're excited to announce the availability this afternoon of three new services for the AboutUs community. You may have noticed already that there are three new tabs up in the top right corner of each page on the wiki.
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Google Neglects Jaiku So Users Switch to Twitter — Over at ars technica, there's talk of Jaiku users fleeing to Twitter due to the lack of any innovation since being acquired by Google. … I can attest to the poor performance of Jaiku. After the acquisition, I remembered that I had signed up for Jaiku many months before.
