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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting — A group of Facebook engineers - Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford - have created a small project called Palantir at a Facebook Hackathon event. The project is named after The palantír of Orthanc …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
YouTube's Big Live Debut: Pretty Small — Did you watch YouTube Live last night? Odds are you didn't. The video site's first attempt at a live-streamed event — a sort of awards show + concert - seems to have drawn a peak audience of about 700,000 people, if the folks at Mogulus are interpreting Akamai's data correctly.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers
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Guardian, Google Blogoscoped, Mogulus Blog, YouTube Blog, CNET News, Online Video Watch, NewTeeVee and Mashable!
Fred / A VC:
My Techmeme Obsession — Just over a year ago, I wrote a post explaining that Techmeme was moving from highlighting the work of individual tech bloggers to the work of professionally produced tech blogs. In that post, I bemoaned the fact that I had been knocked off of the techmeme leaderboard along …
RyeBrye / RyeBlog:
G1 Multitouch Proof-of-Concept Video — Last night, I hacked together a quick proof-of-concept video to show those who aren't inclined to read the debug logs the multitouch capabilities of the G1. — Rather than go the proper route, where the multiple finger events would get pushed …
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IntoMobile, Engadget Mobile, Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, AndroidGuys and TmoNews
Will Park / IntoMobile:
iPhone and iPhone 3G jailbreak guide - Pwnage Tool 2.2 jailbreaks iPhone 2.2 OS! — The iPhone 2.2 OS has been jailbroken via PwnageTool 2.2 and QuickPWN 2.2! But, you have to update your iPhone 3G using Pwnage Tool if you plan to someday unlock your iPhone 3G.
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Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:iPhone Firmware 2.2 Jailbroken, QuickPwn 2.2 Released
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TUAW, Distorted-Loop.com, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, CNET News, Boy Genius Report, IntoMobile and iPhone Savior
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Live in Air: 10 Things You Need To Know About In Flight Wi-Fi — I'm live from Virgin America's Beta run of their Wi-Fi service, over San Francisco, and there are a few things you should know about how its going to work when most airlines go live in 2009. And yes, I am posting this live from 15k feet over the Pacific Ocean.
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Wi-Fi Networking News, Laughing Squid, DSLreports, Engadget, VoIP Watch, Crave, dailywireless.org and digg.com
Chris / LiveSide:
Microsoft takes control of Kumo.com domain - watch out for the Live Search rebrand — A few months ago Mary Jo Foley got a tip about some new brand names that were being considered for Live Search. One of these, Kumo, jumped out at us due to the sheer scale of TLDs that had been acquired during 2008 …
Fred / A VC:
A Lost Decade - But Not For Everyone — One of the best posts I read this week was from Fortune's Andy Serwer. In it, he noted: … I've been thinking about that since I read it midweek. A lost decade in which if you owned the Dow, you'd have lost money on stocks.
Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
Tough times in Silicon Valley, but some hiring — The good times are rolling to a halt in Silicon Valley, at least for awhile. — Since the stock market crashed, many of the area's biggest employers - including Cisco, Intel, Applied Materials, AMD, Microsoft, Intuit, Sun Microsystems …
Brandon / Geek Condition:
Gmail Security Flaw Proof of Concept — Is it possible for someone to create a malicious filter without having access to your Gmail username and password? No, however, they can force you to create the filter without your knowledge. — The blogosphere is buzzing about a Gmail Security Flaw …
Tim Arango / New York Times:
After Disney, Eisner Finds a Home Online — ON a Friday morning in September, Michael D. Eisner was in a television studio on the East Side of Manhattan, asking Robert L. Nardelli, the chairman of Chrysler, whether he nursed a grudge against Jack Welch for passing him over for the top job at General Electric eight years ago.
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
It's Not Over: We are “the change we need.” — Like a lot of people, I was feeling a bit of post-partum letdown after the election. Those of us who were really engaged, following the polls, making calls to undecided voters, arguing out the merits of the candidates, experienced a bit of a vacuum after the election.
