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Om Malik / GigaOM:
On Twitter, Followers Aren't Really Friends — This past weekend, we had yet another tempest in a teapot here in the blogosphere, this time over what, exactly, determines the authority of a tweet on Twitter. Some argued that the number of followers is the best yardstick with which to measure …
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
Twitority Made It. — Folks first, excuse my french, I was just asking for a simple feature nothing else, yeah okay using the word authority was... my french. Oh and yeah, you are right number of followers is in no way a measure of any authority. I find it interesting to search through …
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Windows 7 beta 1 review — I've now had my hands on Windows 7 beta 1 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 (the build that is widely expected to be made available to beta testers by Microsoft early in January) and have had some time to compose my thoughts and feelings about this latest release.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Massive Christmas iPod Touch Sales Boost App Store Downloads — Apple's new iPod Touch appears to have been a huge hit this holiday season with evidence that the high end iPod has seen massive gains in marketshare. — The first impact was seen in early sales numbers for App Store applications on Christmas day.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Future Of Social Search (Or Why Google Should Buy Facebook) — If you could search your friends' thoughts, interests, and activities, would that be a better search experience? In many cases, it would be. Searching for restaurants, books, or movies, would turn up recommendations from people you actually know.
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
HP MediaSmart EX487 Server Has Remote MP3 Streaming, Time Machine Compatibility — HP's EX485/7 iteration of their MediaSmart Server is official, and now comes with a revamped UI, remote music and photo streaming capability, and is the first non-apple NAS product to support Time Machine.
Buckpost / Twitterrati:
Tweetree: Twitter.com on Steroids — Although I'm a big Twitter fan, the company has its shortcomings. Fortunately, there's no lack of third-parties more than happy to step into the fray. — Case in point is Tweetree, which has developed a better and more user-friendly online interface than Twitter.com.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Actual Conversations On Twitter Not Possible Until Twitter Lets Us
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Fred / A VC:
Correspondence Is Making A Comeback — I was thinking of making a broader point in my “quill pen” post yesterday but ran out of time so I decided to do that with today's post. — Before the telephone came along, correspondence mostly consisted of letter writing, like the Adams/Jefferson letters I mentioned in yesterday's post.
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Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
Downturn will slow Mozilla's growth — (12-28) 14:34 PST — John Lilly glimpsed the World Wide Web as a graduate student back in 1992, when he saw a demonstration at Stanford University by Tim Berners-Lee, the English computer scientist who had recently invented it.
Jay Hathaway / Download Squad:
Weightbot: simple weight tracker for iPhone and iTouch — I love apps that make a very specific task as easy as it ought to be. That's why I love Weightbot, an iPhone/iPod Touch weight tracking app developed by Tapbots. I confess that I used to keep track of my weight in a Numbers document.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Avoid Downloading Fake Torrents and Spam with Vertor — It is no secret that badly moderated sites are often filled with spam, spyware and worse. The true power behind the best torrent sites are the moderators, since they are the ones who monitor all uploads and remove the bad apples by hand.
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Sony struggles with creation of its virtual world — Michael Marsh, an 18-year-old gamer from Norwalk, Conn., wanted to set up a gay/straight alliance club in PlayStation Home, Sony's new free 3-D virtual world component for the PlayStation 3. — The problem was that the words he was using …
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Joe Leahy / Financial Times:
Satyam is seen as possible deal target — India's embattled Satyam Computer Services could become the country's first large outsourcing company to merge or be taken over amid increasing doubts over whether its founding family still controls the company. — India's fourth-largest software outsourcer …
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy:
XDBE Project Promises to Present Global Social Graph in Early January — A reader has recently suggested that I review a new open-source project that is promised to completely change the way social networks work once it is actually launched. The name of the project is XdbE and I thought …
