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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Android on netbooks is BIG money for Google — The guys at VentureBeat succeeded (after only a couple hours) in getting Google's Android operating system to work on an Asus EEEPC 1000H. During their experiment, they stumbled across some interesting tidbits in the code that pretty much spills …
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Matthaus Krzykowski / VentureBeat:
An FAQ about those Android netbooks — Since our post yesterday about Google's Android platform running on netbooks, we've been asked a lot of questions. Here are the most frequent questions, along with our answers. — Do you think Android could run on laptops or PCs?
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Top 10 Macworld rumors for 2009 — Apple's (AAPL) last Macworld Conference and Expo opens Monday at San Francisco's Moscone Center, but the real action starts Tuesday at 9 a.m. PT (12 noon ET) with senior vice president Phil Schiller's opening remarks — the first Macworld keynote not delivered by Steve Jobs since 1997.
Timothy R. Butler / OFB.biz:
Fewer Bars in More Places: AT&T Network Upgrades Degrade Service for 2G Phones — In an act affecting owners of 2G cell phones on AT&T Mobility's network, including the highly visible, and originally highly expensive first generation iPhone, Open for Business has learned that AT&T …
Sarah Lacy:
Now for My Next Trick, I'll Turn Brand into Cash — Back in May 2008, I was on top of the world. Viewers were soaring for my newly launched Yahoo show, TechTicker, my book was about to come out and was boasting a beautifully low three-digit Amazon rank, several of my BusinessWeek columns …
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Fred / A VC:
Putting The Band Back Together — One of the great things about being in business with serial entrepreneurs is that they have a wealth of talented people they've worked with in past startups to tap into as the company grows. — Some founding teams stick together from startup to startup …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy — Spotify is a music service that gives users access to a huge library of music, through a lightweight application that looks like a mashup of the best parts of iTunes and Last.fm. Music is streamed, partly supported by P2P technology, but it plays instantly, like we've never seen before.
Louis Gray:
What FriendFeed Needs to Do To Grow and Keep New Users — That I like FriendFeed and so does Robert Scoble and so do a few thousand other Web-addicted Silicon Valley-centric people doesn't matter very much. That thousands more have signed up to the service and imported their data doesn't matter very much either.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
CatholicGoogle: Your Search Engine For All Things Catholic — CatholicGoogle, a new site based on Google's custom search, is “striving to provide an easy to use resource to anyone wanting to learn more about Catholicism and provide a safer way for good Catholics to surf the web.”
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Twitter and the Password Anti-Pattern — I've written about the password anti-pattern before, and have, with regards to Twitter, advocated for the adoption of some form of delegated authentication solution for some while. — It's not as if Twitter or lead developer Alex Payne aren't aware …
Tateru Nino / Massively:
The death of Lively and some lessons about complexity — Google's Lively presents us with an interesting scenario. It was literally a checklist of what critics have been saying that virtual environments such as Linden Lab's Second Life absolutely must have in order to make it.
Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Craigsphone brings Craigslist to the iPhone — Craigslist is one of my absolute favorite sites on the 'net — it's been around for years, but kept the same simple look and feel, perfectly fulfilling the service of classifieds without ever once going off that course.
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