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USA Today:
MacBook Air: The sexy kind of skinny but with some flaws — Apple has earned a sterling reputation designing beautiful products that usually perform as splendidly as they look. — The MacBook Air laptop that CEO Steve Jobs unveiled last week turns heads.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Apple's MacBook Air Is Beautiful and Thin, but Omits Features — Apple finally has entered the subnotebook market, introducing a lightweight laptop meant to please road warriors. But, typical of Apple, the company took a different approach from its competitors.
Steven Levy / Newsweek:
The Skinny on the MacBook Air — Size matters, but has Apple gone too far? — Early in my writing career, I had an assignment to follow around a mohel—the guy who does ritual circumcisions in the Jewish tradition. My subject learned the trade by watching his dad, a renowned figure in the field.
Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Digg: New Algorithm Changes — Just wanted to give everyone some insight into some of the changes we've been making this week. As we've talked about in the past, Digg's promotional algorithm ensures that the most popular content dugg by a diverse, unique group of diggers reaches the home page.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:Digg Changes Algorithm: No More Group Voting Up Stories
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DigiDave / revoltnation:Digg is a Game - Let's Play For Real This Time
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ParisLemon, Soshable, VentureBeat, Valleywag, Mashable!, Brent Csutoras, P2P Foundation, The Last Podcast and Digg
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Health Login Page — Want to get a first live glimpse of Google Health, which Google's Marissa Mayer announced will be rolled out in early 2008? Point your browser to: — www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?se rvice= health — However, I didn't get past the login screen, so all we see at the moment is the intro page.
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WebProNews, ParisLemon, TechCrunch, Between the Lines, Googlified, bytes|genes, Search Engine Land and The Last Podcast
The EveryBlock Blog:
Introducing EveryBlock — “What's happening in my neighborhood?" — For a long time, that's been a tough question to answer. In dense, bustling cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco, the number of daily media reports, government proceedings and local Internet conversations is staggering.
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A VC, Compiler, David Dalka, Download Squad, Technology Evangelist, Laughing Squid, Lost Remote and Online News Squared
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Henry Work / TechCrunch:EveryBlock Launches as Local News Aggregator for SF, NYC, and Chicago
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Journalistopia, VentureBeat, Al's Morning Meeting, WebMetricsGuru and Kelsey Group Blogs
Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Gates Calls for Kind Capitalism — Famously Competitive, Billionaire Now Urges Business to Aid the Poor — Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But later today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism. — In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
AT&T boosts DSL speeds; still playing tortoise to FiOS hare — AT&T has announced a much-needed speed boost for its U-Verse DSL service. Beginning in February, the telecom will begin offering AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet Max, which will top out at 10Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up.
InfoWorld:
Sources: Vista SP1 due out in next few weeks — The wait is nearly over for the first service pack for Windows Vista, according to sources close to Microsoft. — Microsoft has said the highly anticipated service pack would be out in the first quarter of this year, but some say it could be available …
Electronista:
Canon unveils 12-megapixel EOS Rebel XSi — Canon helped inaugurate next week's PMA show tonight by upgrading its entry digital SLR. Now dropping “Digital” from the camera name, the EOS Rebel XSi jumps from 10.1 to 12.2 megapixels while also using the same DIGIC III image processor as higher-end cameras such as the 1D Mark III.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Growing Online, BBC Is to Join With MySpace — The commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation is expected to announce a partnership with MySpace on Thursday to make some of its content available on MySpace, the popular social networking Web site.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Netflix to Offer Mac Video Streaming in 2008 — AlleyInsider reports that during their Q4 financial results, Netflix confirmed that they were hoping to have a Mac web-streaming video solution available in 2008. An earlier Netflix blog entry from August had reported the same expectation.
Seth Finkelstein / Guardian:
You say you've never considered the politics of search engines? — Searching the web is harder than it looks and more political than it seems. Those are some of the lessons being learned from the alpha launch of Wikia Search (alpha.search.wikia.com), a so-called social search engine.
Tony Smith / The Register:
Linux-less Eee PC launched in Japan — Asus has formally launched its bonsai laptop, the Eee PC, in Japan, pre-installing the machine with Windows XP Home Edition rather than Linux. — The machine's specifications proved to be those of the standard 4GB solid-state disc model - the Eee PC 701 …
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