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12:50 PM ET, December 13, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Joie De Vivre: The Europeans Are Out To Lunch  —  I write this from a hotel room at Newark airport in New Jersey.  I'm half way home from a wonderful week in Paris at the Le Web conference where I mingled with 1,700 or so attendees.  My mood: jetlagged, sated and cranky.  —  My week was spent in luxury.
Discussion: broadstuff and Susan Mernit's Blog
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Google exec Marissa Mayer engaged  —  It's Silicon Valley's fairytale romance: Girly-girl nerd worth hundreds of millions meets fellow with a job who looks good in a tux.  And now Marissa Mayer and Zack Bogue are getting married, a tipster says.  —  Talk at the Googleplex has it that Bogue …
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
Should Michael Arrington Be Invited Back At LeWeb Next Year?  —  Should Michael Arrington be invited again at LeWeb next year?  —  yes  —  No  —  View Results  —  Polldaddy.com  —  I have received many emails and comments from European friends asking me why I invite Michael Arrington …
Discussion: MYBLOG by Ouriel and Slashdot
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
MIT students build mobile applications in 13 weeks  —  MIT professor Hal Abelson started today's final presentation for the school's “Building Mobile Applications” class by saying, “A course like this couldn't have existed ten years ago... maybe not even a year ago.
Discussion: The Gong Show and Open Gardens
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ex-Yahoos Weigh in on Their Choices for New Yahoo CEO  —  With so many more ex-Yahoos out there now that the most recent layoffs have taken place, BoomTown put out feelers to a range of them to ask whom they would like to run the company they no longer work for.  —  After all, who better than to pick a new CEO than an ex?
Marc Miller / Gmail Blog:
Fast PDF viewing right in your browser  —  When I get sent a PDF, sometimes I just want to view it — I don't always need to download and save it right then.  So starting today, you'll see a new “View” link next to PDF attachments you get in Gmail:  —  Clicking “View” quickly opens …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Estonia to allow citizens to vote via cellphone by 2011  —  Brutal honesty here: on election day this past November, the entire Engadget staff (well, those of us with US passports) collectively agreed that casting our vote via SMS or some other incredibly simple method would be infinitely …
Discussion: PalmAddicts
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple: “the iPhone is a gaming console”  —  According to extremely reliable and embarrassingly handsome Engadget sources, at an iPhone event held today, John Geleynse (AKA Director of Technology Evangelism at Apple) made some statements regarding the iPhone platform that should seriously raise a few eyebrows.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Pastebud: It Seemed Like a Good Idea!  —  Yesterday, I waxed enthusiastic about Pastebud, a new copy-and-paste service for the iPhone that gets around Apple's lack of support for such a feature via a clever end-run that involves transferring text back and forth between Safari and Mail via an online clipboard.
Discussion: The iPhone Blog and Gizmodo
Chris Heilmann / Ajaxian:
YQL - converting the web to JSON with mock SQL  —  I like getting data from the web and I love JSON - as it is easy to use.  The issue is that not many things on the web come as JSON from the get-go.  Hence we need converters.  You can use cURL and beautiful soup or roll your own hell of regular expressions.
Jack Davis / Bloomberg:
Tech Ticker  —  Google won an appeals court ruling against a closely held Kentucky company that sought to shut down Google Notebook while a patent-infringement suit was pending.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday upheld a ruling that rejected a request by iLor …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Testing Enhanced Listings, “Pagelinks” & Auto-Spelling Correction  —  Google is testing a number of changes to its search results, including a way for select publishers to enhance their page descriptions, a way for searchers to jump to sub-sections of a web page and automatically correcting misspelled queries, to some degree.
 
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Shiv Singh / Going Social Now:
Razorfish files Patent to measure Social Media. What do you think?
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Yapta raises $2.7 million to develop new airfare tracking features
internetnews.com:
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla Battle to Disagree
Kim Dixon / Reuters:
Lawmakers urge FCC to delay contentious actions
Blog of helios:
Character-Assasinations-Ain't- Us
Discussion: Slashdot and Boing Boing
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Uh-oh: Gossip site buys up moguls' dot-com names
Discussion: Cityfile
 Earlier Items: 
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Tech Layoffs Surge Past 100,000
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Yahoo offers severance with a soft landing
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Doug Coleman / Jobwire:
Lessig Leaves Stanford, Rejoins Harvard Law
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Profitable Until Deemed Illegal
Lynne D. Johnson / Fast Company:
Most Popular Android Applications For November 2008
Discussion: Lifehacker, Gizmodo and Big in Japan
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
I'm taking my phone off “the grid”, who's with me?
Discussion: Gear Diary
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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