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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money — Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to make a living. — One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos …
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Search Engine Roundtable, Podcasting News, The Toybox, paidContent.org, Social Media and WatchingTV Online
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail — Finally, someone has conceived a way to copy and paste text from Safari to Mail, and between web pages. And this time, it doesn't require any software installation and it's legal: … In fact, it doesn't require anything to be installed …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who Said Web 2.0 Was R.I.P.? Microblog Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million, Expectations — Tumblr is exactly the kind of start-up that's supposed to be gasping for air in today's dismal economy: A trendy but niche Web service with a prominent founder and exactly zero revenue.
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TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, paidContent.org, Mashable!, CenterNetworks and Gawker
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Exploring 3D Desktop and Application Interfaces — Dozens of Apple patent applications were published today revealing research that Apple had done in 2007 on many topics encompassing future versions of Mac OS X. The most intriguing is a series of patent applications which describe a “Multidimensional” user interface.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Screw The Downturn. Accel Raises A Cool Billion In New Funds — Twenty five year old venture capital firm Accel Partners is announcing two new funds today that add more than $1 billion to their war chest: Accel Growth Fund at $480 million and Accel London III at $525 million.
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
YouTube is not so wild anymore — Tanya Derveaux's cleavage may not be suitable for minors. (image via iPower) — On some bright, parched morning back in the Old West, folks must have heard grumbling as a boy nailed a list of new town laws to the wall of the saloon.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
The 10 best IT certifications — Guest post from TechRepublic's 10 Things blog: IT pros tend to have strong opinions when debating the value of professional certification — and views become even more polarized when it comes down to a discussion of which certs are meaningful.
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Matt / WordPress:
WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” — The first thing you'll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we've listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that's just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (961051) — Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Our investigation so far has shown that these attacks …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Marissa Mayer At Le Web: The (Almost) Complete Interview — The video above shows twenty two minutes of my and Loic Le Meur's half hour interview with Google's Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer at the Le Web conference in Paris on Wednesday afternoon.
Leo Dirac / Gmail Blog:
Really new in Labs this time: SMS Text Messaging for chat — How often do you try to chat with somebody and they don't respond because they just walked away from their computer? Or maybe you're in the middle of chatting with them just as they need to leave.
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PC World, Google Blogoscoped, Boy Genius Report, mocoNews.net, FierceMobileContent, WebProNews, Webware.com, InformationWeek, Local Mobile Search, PalmAddicts, Lifehacker, Google Operating System, Google Watch, TechCrunch, Search Engine Journal, VentureBeat, Epicenter, Gear Diary, Mashable! and digg.com
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Why the Yahoo feeding frenzy? — With camera crews staking out space outside Yahoo's Sunnyvale headquarters, some employees are striking back, uploading photos of the TV reporters to Flickr before the sluggish old media can get their broadcasts together. And that's part of the big story.
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Mac firmware upgrades do NOT fix the 4 GB RAM problem — The appearance of the Apple firmware upgrades released yesterday for late 2008 MacBooks, MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs was welcome news to me and other owners and many applied the upgrades immediately.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:Apple stabilizes new Mac notebooks
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Tony Smith / The Register:
BBC, ITV propose ‘open’ TV-over-net platform — Project Kangaroo alternative jump-started — Having had their plan to combine their broadband TV services kyboshed by the Competition Commmission, the BBC and ITV today said they plan to do it anyway - but this time to open up the infrastructure to all comers.
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Microsoft Live Labs:
Introducing Thumbtack — People have always had a need to make sense of the world around them. We want to identify, classify and clarify things. Lately that need has become even greater, since we're being bombarded with information wherever we look. Now there's a new tool to help you organize all that information: Thumbtack.
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Lifehacker, GottaBeMobile.com, TECH.BLORGE.com, LiveSide, PC World, ReadWriteWeb, Bink.nu, Webware.com, Mashable!, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Cade Metz / The Register:
The Mother of All Demos - 150 years ahead of its time — It's not the mouse. It's what you do with it — Sometime in the late sixties, as Douglas Engelbart was preparing what would one day be called The Mother of All Demos, his boss flew to Washington to meet with the money man.
Paul Carr / Guardian:
Freezing cold, no internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference! — Want to know how Britain should spend that billion pounds it has earmarked for internet startups? On a vodka-fuelled conference in a sauna in London. It would sure put LeWeb into the shade. Though almost anything would.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google anticipates a bright and shiny future for Chrome — When Google first began to expand beyond search, the company pioneered a new release management strategy that—to put it diplomatically—challenges the conventional definition of “beta.” Although some of Google's most prominent …
Lets Japan:
Cellphone Blocker Stops Swindles at ATM — Mobile phone signal-blocking at cash dispensers is the newest effort to fight fraud in Japan. — In October Japan police made a major nationwide effort to prevent citizens - especially the elderly - from becoming victims of various telephone scams.
Don Reisinger / Webware.com:
How Twitter's competitors do what it doesn't — Twitter may be the leader in the micro-blogging space, but it's missing key features—features its competitors offer. Will Twitter pick up on these omissions? We know groups are coming to Twitter, but we're not so sure about some of these other useful features...
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Market Wire:
Ericsson collaborates with Intel to bring theft protection to Mobile Broadband notebooks — Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) announced today that it is collaborating with Intel to ensure that Ericsson's Mobile Broadband Modules are interoperable with Intel® Anti-Theft PC Protection Technology …
Wall Street Journal:
Nortel Faces Tough Choices — As Sales Slump and Cash Dwindles, Fallen Telecom Star Seeks to Restructure and Sell Assets, but Buyers Are Scarce — Nortel Networks Corp.'s contemplation of a bankruptcy filing comes after years of strategic missteps, accounting scandals and failed restructurings …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
CBS Interactive To Merge CBSNews.com and CNET Newsrooms; Some Layoffs — CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), under pressure to cut costs after what now seems like an even more costly acquisition of CNET, is announcing some more restructuring tomorrow, we have learned from reliable sources late tonight …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Will There Ever Be Another Tech IPO? — It's been a long, long time since there has been an IPO year as bad as this one. — According to Renaissance Capital, there have been just 43 U.S. IPOs this year which raised at least $50 million, down from 272 in 2007, and the slowest year since 1979.
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Microsoft Prepared For the Winter of Our Economic Discontent — Microsoft may not be looking at further price cuts for their console as the country tip-toes through this recession, but they're looking at ways to make their console attractive to thrift-minded families.
Martha Graybow / Reuters:
U.S. sues Sony Music over children's online privacy — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony BMG, which is changing its name to Sony Music Entertainment, was sued on Wednesday by the U.S. government, which accused the music company of violating federal rules aimed at protecting the online privacy of children.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm's New-ness, coming to CES — You know, we see a lot (a lot) of PR for CES meetings, press events, booth tours, and even the occasional Jeopardy! contest. Rarely, if ever, do we get that geeky little skip in our hearts. We did, however, get one of those skips today when Palm mailed …
