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4:40 AM ET, December 22, 2008

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Brad J. Ward / SquaredPeg:
There's something going down on Facebook.  Pay attention.  —  *First time to SquaredPeg?  Subscribe via Email or RSS today or follow @bradjward on twitter for more frequent updates.  *Media: Please email me, bradjward (at the) gmail.  Any phone # you find for me will likely lead you to a voicemail I won't check until mid-January.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Marketing: College Prowler Caught Using Fake Accounts and Facebook Groups to Build List  —  In what could be remembered as one of the larger exposés of aggressive viral marketing tactics on Facebook to date, a recruiter in the Butler University admissions department …
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Rumors of Upcoming Microsoft Cut-Backs  —  Rumors.  Microsoft layoff and cut-backs and Reduction In Force rumors.  That's all I have for you.  Rumors and second-hand speculation and the comments left by the fine, good-looking folks who participate in the conversation here.
Discussion: Microsoft Watch and Scobleizer
Web 2.0 Asia:
Korea's Twitter gets acquired by Naver  —  Me2day, Korea's leading microblog service, has been acquired by Naver.  Here's the ZDNet news article on the acquisition (in Korean) and here's CEO Suman Park's personal posting (also in Korean).  —  Me2day is a good service with many cool features …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and paidContent.org
Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Dev-Team Shows Live iPhone 3G Unlock ‘Yellowsn0w’ Demo  —  This video is the first public demo of the iPhone 3G unlock, named “yellowsn0w”, courtesy of Dev-Team member MuscleNerd.  With a wave of his hand, he goes from AT&T to T-Mobile, and makes a call.  —  The target release date for the official unlock is New Year's Eve.
Discussion: VentureBeat, iPhone Buzz and Engadget
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
“Holy F**king S**t I Was Just In A Plane Crash!”  —  A Continental airlines 737 slid off the runway in Denver last night.  The engine on the right side burst into flames.  Passengers escaped out the left side on slides. 38 people were hurt.  Fortunately no one was killed.
Andrew S. Ross / San Francisco Chronicle:
Good times gone till 2010  —  Mike Moritz didn't mean for the celebrated “R.I.P Good Times” slide show to become so public, and so famous.  “We had zero interest in communicating with others than our business partners,” he said, referring to a downbeat presentation he and other partners …
Financial Times:
Christmas shut-down in Silicon Valley  —  Workers at some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies will find themselves spending an uncommonly long time with their families this Christmas as the technology industry responds to the downturn with office and factory closures and enforced holidays.
Discussion: GigaOM
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Music Games for iPhone Give Artists New Spotlight  —  A start-up company called Tapulous has turned a simple game for the iPhone into an Internet-age mobile stage for musicians.  —  Tap Tap Revenge, a free game that challenges players to keep up with catchy tunes by tapping in the right spots …
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Decency group goes after YouTube users' comments  —  While reading the Parents Television Council's latest report: The “New” Tube: A Content Analysis of YouTube—the Most Popular Online Video Destination, I kept thinking of Supreme Court Justice William Brennan's eloquent dissent to Pacifica vs. FCC.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Ryan Hupfer / TechCrunch:
MySpace v. Facebook Advertising Showdown.  Which Platform Is Better?  —  The guest post below is written by Ryan Hupfer at HubPages.  A couple of weeks ago HubPages ads were blocked from MySpace's new self serve ad platform, MyAds, as being competitive to MySpace.
Google Watch:
Google, T-Mobile and The Android G2 Conspiracy  —  I don't have any inside knowledge into T-Mobile's plans for follow-ups to the Google Android mobile operating-based G1, which according to Cell Phone Signal includes a G2 smart phone ready to roll out at the end of January.
 
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA graduated response plan: Q&A with Cary Sherman
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Want Banned-From-YouTube Madonna? Try Google
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Financial Times:
Equipment makers edge towards the end of the line
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia eases access to Internet services
Discussion: GPS Obsessed and Phone Scoop
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Nvidia bids to dislodge Intel as rivalry gets ugly
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Sony teaser site says “revolutionary new VAIO” coming January 9th
Discussion: Liliputing, 9 to 5 Mac and Gizmodo
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Access Google Docs from your Desktop
Discussion: Mashable! and digg.com
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
What the recession means for the Mac
Jack Schofield / Guardian:
Twitter Venn, text snowflakes and other entertainments
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

 
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