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Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work. — Any competent developer who tries to automate the selection of news headlines will inevitably discover that this approach always comes up a bit short. Automation does indeed bring a lot to the table — humans can't possibly discover and organize news as fast as computers can.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechMeme Gives Up On Fully Automated News — 3+ year old TechMeme, an automated news site that shows breaking news clustered by topic, has always generated “headlines” by analyzing how news sites link to each other. If a lot of sites start linking to something unique, TechMeme guesses it's news.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
News aggregator Techmeme melds algorithms and humans — News aggregator Techmeme is perhaps the fastest way to find interesting tech news - it takes minutes to find and link to breaking stories, as opposed to the hours or days that rivals like Digg or Google News take.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Adobe lays off 600 workers, CS4 demand weaker than expected — Adobe said Wednesday that it will eliminate 600 full-time positions, or roughly 8 percent of its workforce, amid weaker than expected fourth quarter earnings. — The company said in a statement that it will deliver fourth …
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Business Wire:
Adobe Provides Preliminary Q4 Fiscal 2008 Results — Company Announces Restructuring to Reduce Expenses; Provides Q1 FY2009 Targets — Adobe Systems Incorporated (ADBE: , , ) today provided preliminary financial results for its fourth quarter ended Nov. 28, 2008.
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Apple Tells Court It Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar; Adds New Claims, Including DMCA Violation — Apple has filed a motion to amend its complaint [PDF] to add a claim of violation of the DMCA, among other new and enlarged claims. Here's the proposed Amended Complaint [PDF].
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:Who are the John Does that Apple is looking for?
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TG Daily
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook — For now, a marriage between Twitter and Facebook is not meant to be — but the courtship between the two Web 2.0 companies could be rekindled in the future. That was one message from Ev Williams, the chief executive and co-founder of Twitter …
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BloggingStocks, Reflections of a Newsosaur, WebProNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Tech Ticker and broadstuff
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:Twitter CEO: The revenue's coming soon, but I won't tell you how
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TomsTechBlog.com, Global Neighbourhoods, Silicon Alley Insider, Portfolio, Contentinople, broadstuff and Mark Evans
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple's iPod Problem — With fewer iPod users upgrading, the days of explosive growth are over. And that leaves iPhones and Macs picking up the slack — William Thomas Cain/Getty Images — Chris Wysopal is the head of a four-iPod family. His wife and two kids all carry …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Analyst: iPod shortage spreading — An iPod shortage at Amazon.com appears to have spread to other distribution channels, according to an analyst. — Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros. reports that after checking in with his retail sources, he believes that Apple is experiencing an iPod shortage …
Nate Raymond / amlawdaily.typepad.com:
Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo — Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. called off their joint advertising agreement just three hours before the Department of Justice planned to file antitrust charges to block the pact, according to the lawyer who would have been lead counsel for the government.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
588 Kleiner Perkins iFund Applications Accidentally Published To Web — Kleiner Perkins's iFund is a $100 million fund to invest in startups building applications for the iPhone. — Startups that wish to apply for funding can fill out an online application here.
Brad Stone / Bits:
Amazon.com Invades the Apple App Store — Amazon.com will join the iPhone frenzy on Wednesday with a new application available free for download through Apple's App Store. — The software is relatively straightforward, offering a way for iPhone or iPod Touch owners to browse through …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:Amazon iPhone App Lets You Buy Anything You Take a Picture Of
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Gear Diary, Gadget Lab, The iPhone Blog, The Apple Core, iLounge, Electricpig.co.uk and SmoothSpan Blog
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into illegal free-for-all — A new Firefox extension called Pirates of the Amazon lets users download movies, games, TV shows, and MP3s free of charge by cross referencing Amazon's product pages with torrent files from the Pirate Bay.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Stores Clueless About Mobile Barcode Scanning Applications? — With the rise of app-laden smartphones like the iPhone and Google's Android OS, now on T-Mobile's G1, many penny-pinching shoppers have downloaded barcode scanning applications onto their mobile devices.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
DNS Problems Hit Yahoo — Updated: Yahoo, one of the largest web sites on the planet, is being plagued by series of problems related to Domain Name System (DNS). A test using Gomez's testing service shows error messages in certain cities such as Chicago. Others are experiencing slower access …
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Apple: Our Ads Don't Lie, But You're a Fool if You Believe Them — Apple doesn't want you to believe what it says, even though the company claims it's not lying. — That's the gist of the Cupertino company's legal response to a lawsuit regarding allegedly misleading advertising for the iPhone 3G.
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AppleInsider, DailyTech, LAPTOP Magazine, Neowin.net, Hardware 2.0, TG Daily, The Toybox, GottaBeMobile.com, Gizmodo, DSLreports, TechSpot, Techdirt and CrunchGear
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Cost Cuts Take The Company Away From Its Engineers (GOOG) — Google was never quite the engineer company its public relations and human resources teams made it out to be, but as Google gets serious about cutting costs, that myth of a decentralized company run by its engineers …
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PC World, CNET News, Computerworld Blogs, TECH.BLORGE.com, Search Engine Land, eWeek, Lockergnome Blog Network, Valleywag and Windows Connected
comScore:
E-Commerce Spending Jumps 15 Percent on Cyber Monday to $846 Million, the Second Heaviest Online Spending Day on Record — Eclipsed Only by Green Monday 2007 with $881 Million in Online Spending — comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking …
Joseph Tartakoff / The Microsoft Blog:
Debut of new Windows Live hits a snag — The debut of the new Windows Live, which introduces a set of social networking-like features to Microsoft's suite of online services, has not gone exactly as planned. — On the Windows Live team blog this afternoon, the team writes that some users have had trouble accessing the services:
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Adobe will not exhibit at Macworld Expo 2009 — Adobe, a major player in the Mac software market, will not be among the developers exhibiting on the show floor at next month's Macworld Conference & Expo. The company confirmed its Expo plans to Macworld on Tuesday.
Tim Westergren / Pandora:
2,000,000 Pandora iPhone users!!! — At 10:04am this morning we hit 2,000,000 registered iPhone Pandora users! — We're hearing all sorts of wonderful feedback from listeners who are using it on their commute, jogging with it, plugging it into home audio systems...you name it.
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mocoNews.net, iLounge, bub.blicio.us, Guardian, All Facebook, TechFlash, VentureBeat and Local Mobile Search
Vanessa / Nine By Blue:
Google Blog Search Changes How It Indexes Posts — Historically, Google Blog Search has indexed primarily via RSS feeds, which meant that for blogs that published partial feeds, Google Blog Search only indexed that partial portion. Any links or text in the rest of the post weren't available through Blog Search.
