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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.
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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 …
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.
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.
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GigaOM
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.
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Sydney Morning Herald, Scobleizer, Loic Le Meur Blog, Venture Chronicles and RexBlog.com
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 …
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 …
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.
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
The Year of the Simpler Gadget — THE National Bureau of Economic Research hardly stunned the nation this month when it announced that the United States had been in recession since December 2007. — And, as it turns out, the buyers of consumer electronics could very well have been a leading economic indicator.
