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CBS News:
Facebook Founder Says “Beacon” Needs Work — Also Tells 60 Minutes It's Unlikely Company Will Go Public in 2008 — (CBS) The controversial advertising device many accused of invading the privacy of Facebook users will eventually be a good tool, says Facebook founder and chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg.
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Search Engine Land, Between the Lines, Digital Daily, Todd Watson, BoomTown, Mark Evans and Facebook Applications …
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Charlene Li / Groundswell:
Facebook (and me) on 60 Minutes — In December, I received a call from the producers of 60 Minutes, the longest running news program on broadcast TV. They were doing a segment on Facebook and wanted to know if I could provide background for the story. — Wow.
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Silicon Alley Insider
Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES — CES has no shortage of displays. And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the show, we pretty much couldn't help ourselves. We shut off a TV. And then another. And then a wall of TVs. And we just couldn't stop.
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Between the Lines, Today @ PC World, GottaBeMobile, 901am, CenterNetworks, Valleywag, GeekBrief.TV, Letters From Exile, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Silicon Alley Insider, Phil's Blogservations, Mobility Site, The Next Web, Technovia, Gadget Lab, Joe Duck, Loic Le Meur Blog, FISTFULAYEN, PE HUB, mathewingram.com/work and Techmamas
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Shel / Global Neighbourhoods:
Gizmodo Prank at CES. Victims may be bloggers — The clever hacks at Gizmodo pulled a prank at CES making all those TV screens go blank all at once, then filming and posting it, I assume very much to their own sophomoric satisfaction. As Webware Rafe Needleman put it:
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Judie Lipsett / Gear Diary: Total and Utter Crap: Gizmodo's Stupid CES Prank on Motorola and Us Bloggers
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:BLOGGERS BEHAVING BADLY: GIZMODO MESSES WITH CES FLAT SCREENS
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Ewan Spence's All New Musings
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Benchmark Bets on Ruby on Rails With $3.5 Million Investment in Engine Yard — Is Ruby on Rails the next Java? Benchmark Capital thinks so. It just invested $3.5 million in Engine Yard, taking its entire series A round. Ruby on Rails is an increasingly popular Web application programming environment …
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Business Week:
Steve Jobs' Video Dreams — His magic has not extended to visual entertainment. Hollywood and cable companies aim to keep it that way — At last year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, most of the 140,000 attendees were buzzing about the future of the cell phone—and how Apple Inc. …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Juniper Networks exec to succeed Microsoft Business Division President Raikes — In what I consider surprising timing, Microsoft announced on January 10 that one of its three corporate presidents, Jeff Raikes, is retiring in September 2008. — Raikes will be succeeded by Stephen Elop …
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Business Week, Microsoft Watch, Forbes, Voices, eWeek, WinBeta, The Register and Tech Trader Daily
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Unlike Trent Reznor, Saul Williams isn't disheartened — Saul Williams chuckles when asked about the word “disheartening." — That's the word Trent Reznor chose to describe the sales generated by William's new album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust, which the two men collaborated on.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:The Music Industry's Last Stand Will Be A Music Tax
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broadstuff, CNET News.com, larry borsato, mathewingram.com/work, Podcasting News and Digg
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Believe it or not, Mahalo is Growing — Human-built search engine Mahalo appears to be shooting past the traffic numbers it got when it launched, according to Heather Hopkins at traffic analyst firm Hitwise. — Mahalo pages are collections of the most useful links regarding a wide variety of timely topics in popular niches.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
MicroHoo? YaBay? No Deal! — Look, I love a good takeover rumor as much as the next gossipy reporter. — But all the incessant rumblings of Microsoft sniffing around to buy Yahoo or Yahoo merging with eBay are getting a tad ridiculous. — So, Deal or No Deal? Um, no deal, Howie!
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Bebo's Platform Now Open for All Developers — Almost a month ago to the day, social network Bebo announced its developer platform. Or rather, a clone of Facebook's developer platform. The idea was to copy Facebook's platform so that developers wouldn't have to relearn a new one and rebuild …
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The Social Times, ReadWriteWeb, Kwiqq Blog, paidContent, ProgrammableWeb, Lonely CEO Media, All Facebook, Snipperoo, DLD and Mashable!
Tameka Kee / MediaPost Publications:
Print Yellow Pages Likely To Bleed More Dollars Online — THIS YEAR WILL BE PIVOTAL for the global Yellow Pages industry, according to a new report by The Kelsey Group. — Much like newspapers, print Yellow Pages will continue to bleed dollars to their various digital counterparts …
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Checkout Trends — Google Trends allows you to enter keywords and phrases to compare what users have been searching for over a specified time period. Now, the Official Google Checkout Blog has just announced that they've launched their own version which lets you see what people have been buying using Google Checkout:
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost Publications:
New Trademark Lawsuit Could Impact Search Marketing — IN THE LATEST EXAMPLE OF a marketer suing about search ads, 1-800-Contacts this week filed a lawsuit in federal court against LensWorld for purchasing search links triggered by the term “1-800-contacts.”
Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
Motion Picture Storytelling Gets Interactive — Ever since NASA faked the moon landing, motion pictures have played a leading role in bolstering the believability of hoaxes, practical jokes and, most recently, alternate reality games (ARGs). Thanks to the success of I Love Bees …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Facebook disables UK entrepreneur's account — UK entrepreneur Raj Anand, founded of kwiqq, has had his Facebook account disabled after he individually emailed all his friends and members of a Facebook group he runs. Anand recently launched an independent social network for Salsa dancers …
Richard S. Chang / Wheels:
Tata Nano: The World's Cheapest Car — (Photo by Money Sharma/European Pressphoto Association) — Tata Motors today took the covers off the world's cheapest car — the Nano. — Over the past year, Tata has been building hype for a car that would cost a mere 100,000 rupees (roughly $2,500) …
