Top Items:
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
Slide: The $500 Million Widget — After cashing in big with PayPal, Max Levchin could be at it again with his social network tool. The latest funding values Slide at a half-billion — When Max Levchin started Slide, the popular tool that lets users create slide shows and other bling …
RELATED:
Brad Stone / Bits:
Slide Slides Into Some Cash — Slide, the maker of applications for social networks, has raised another round of funding - $50 million from the private equity funds at Fidelity and T-Rowe Price, two major Wall Street investment houses. The firms have taken a 9 percent stake in the three-year-old …
Discussion:
GigaOM, BoomTown, mathewingram.com/work, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Reuters, paidContent.org, Venture Capital Update and Mashable!
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
The “Google generation” not so hot at Googling, after all — A new UK report on the habits of the “Google Generation” finds that kids born since 1993 aren't quite the Internet super-sleuths they're sometimes made out to be. For instance, are teens better with technology than older adults?
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Big Picture — Up or down? That's what this week's Macworld show came down to for most news organizations. Would the new Apple products make the company's shares go up or down? They went down. Macworld was a bust, we were told repeatedly, as if it really mattered.
RELATED:
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Sources: MacBook Air battery replacements take only minutes — Due to its ultra-thin profile, Apple's new MacBook Air was designed with an integrated 37-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery that is not user-replaceable. Though this has caused some initial concern amongst potential adopters …
RELATED:
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Jupiter: Local Online Advertising Will Be Worth $8.9 Billion In 2012 — There are now a range of local forecasts in the market, some more bullish and some more conservative. But all agree that locally targeted ads in search, display (including video) and classifieds are growing at rates faster than overall online ad growth.
RELATED:
Chris Vallance / BBC:
Facebook faces privacy questions — Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner's Office. — The investigation follows a complaint by a user of the social network who was unable to fully delete their profile even after terminating their account.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Counting to (Windows) 7 — I've gotten lots of questions from Windows users this week about TG Daily's story that Microsoft is running early with Windows 7 and has delivered an early build to unnamed parties outside of the company. — Here's what I know and don't.
Glenn Chapman / Agence France Presse:
US video game sales soar to record 17.9 billion dollars — SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US video game industry sales rocketed to a record high 17.9 billion dollars in 2007, with Nintendo reigning as champion of the console battle with Microsoft and Sony, according to research group NPD.
Discussion:
Lost Remote
RELATED:
USA Today:
Social, work lives collide on networking websites — Just after her honeymoon last March, Wadooah Wali took the de rigueur next step these days: She changed her status on the networking websites Facebook and MySpace from “in a relationship” to “married” and posted pictures of her partner — another woman.
Sean Fallon / Gizmodo:
Ultralight Lenovo X300 Series Thinkpad Leaked — It appears that Lenovo have themselves a new ultralight X300 series Thinkpad—and outside of the price and release date, we have all of the specs that you need to know. At a glance, some of the major features include: a 13.3-inch LED backlit 1440X900 screen …
Discussion:
DailyTech
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LIV: Jobs calls Robbie Bach a drunk — Proving once again that the truth is stranger (and more entertaining) than fiction, Steve Jobs himself delivers one of the finest Oh no he didn't moments ever. Apparently riding high on the thrill of introducing the MacBook Air …
Garrett M. Graff / Washingtonian.com:
A Night Out: Google Opens a DC Office — Photos by Liz Gorman — Capitol Hill staffers, lobbyists, techies, and media folks braved the weather Thursday night to celebrate Google's official arrival in Washington, a moment marked by the presence of Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
RELATED:
USA Today:
‘Rock Band’ pumps up music sales — The success of the video game Rock Band is drumming up revenue for the music industry. — Virtual rockers downloaded roughly 2.5 million songs in the eight weeks since the game launched on the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 systems.
Gamerscore Blog:
Undertow Free of Charge Next Week on Xbox LIVE Arcade — Recently, Xbox.com posted a letter from Marc Whitten, General Manager of Xbox LIVE, thanking subscribers for their patience with the service. We've implemented several improvements to the service, to help ensure ongoing reliability and performance.
Discussion:
DailyTech, Opposable Thumbs, Gizmodo, Xbox 360 Fanboy, Joystiq, CrunchGear and TechSpot News
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Bug Labs going live on Monday — Here are the first shots of the BUGBase Hiro P model that goes on sale this Monday when the store opens up. This is the final production model, but is, sadly, sans Wi-Fi. Yeah, seems that open source Wi-Fi drivers were causing some issues and Bug Labs decided …
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Sites Closer to Launch? — Since October 2006 when Google announced they had acquired Jotspot - the wiki hosting service which allows you to create “rich web-based spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries” by using their wiki applications - people have been waiting for Google to do something with it.
