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Anil Dash:
The Twitter API is Finished. Now What? — Update: We've got some results already! Joseph Scott at Automattic mentions in the comments that he's added RSD support for the Twitter API to WordPress.com. I should also make clear that I am very confident that we'll be building apps on top …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Twitter's own account caused blackout, says DNS provider — Twitter's authorized account made changes to DNS records, shunting users to hacker site, says Dyn Inc. — Computerworld - Hackers redirected Twitter.com's traffic to a rogue Web site for more than an hour early today by accessing …
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Biz / Twitter Blog:
Update on Last Night's DNS Disruption — Domain Name System or DNS is an Internet protocol used to translate IP addresses into domain names so instead of typing in a long string of numbers we can enter urls like www.twitter.com into a browser to visit our favorite web sites.
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NASDAQ.com:
Mac Clone Computer Maker Psystar To Shutter — SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Psystar Corp. is in the process of closing down its operations, a move that follows a court decision earlier in the week barring it from selling products already found to have violated Apple Inc. (AAPL) copyrights.
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Mia / YouTube Blog:
Facebook Feeds Begin Showing Up on YouTube's Homepage — You might have noticed that YouTube's been getting a lot more social lately. We've launched several features in the last few months that let you better connect with the platforms that matter most to you (and discover new videos you're likely to love in the process).
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
AT&T survives Operation Chokehold — Ma Bell's wireless network is still standing after Friday's grassroots iPhone attack — The appointed hour — Friday, from 12 noon to 1 p.m. PST — came and went and AT&T's (T) wireless had not been brought to its knees, despite the best efforts of thousands of Apple (AAPL) iPhone users.
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:Some last-minute thoughts
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again. — Another day, another Rackspace outage. The hosting company had a complete and total failure today that took down a number of big sites on the Internet, including ours. This has been happening all too often in recent months, including downtime just last month.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Open House? Google Has Also Been Eying Trulia in Real Estate Search Play. — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — According to sources close to the situation, along with its pending bid for Yelp, Google has been in on-again, off-again acquisition talks with Trulia, the real estate search engine.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Experimenting With Browser Login For Chrome OS — Google has made a change to Chrome OS to move the user login from the machine to the browser. Our guess is Google is, or will eventually use, Google Friend Connect to facilitate login. — The feature was first mentioned on October 13 …
Zee / The Next Web Network:
Wordpress 2.9 is out. — It's out. The world's most popular blogging engine has released it's latest update and there's a little something for everyone. — Along with a mass of bug and security fixes, Wordpress highlights the following as the major geek candy:
Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts:
Score Two Wins Against Software Patents — I have to keep reminding myself that some things just take a long time. My rampage against software patents continues and, while my efforts around the StartupVisa have dominated my “government time” in the past quarter, I've still got my eye …
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Verizon Responds To FCC Inquiry On ETFs, Erroneous $1.99 Fee — And the excuses are just as lame as you thought they'd be... · fcc · business · wireless — As we've been covering, the FCC recently sent a latter to Verizon asking them to explain why they just doubled …
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Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Sex, porn, Jacko top kids' searches in 2009 — Sex, porn, and Michael Jackson were among the most popular items kids searched for online in 2009, as tracked by Symantec's OnlineFamily.Norton. — Symantec on Thursday revealed the top 100 favorite search terms among children 18 and under found …
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon Kindle DX out of stock — Amazon.com yesterday trumpeted that December is already its best sales month ever for its Kindle electronic readers, and tried to further juice sales with a free shipping offer on its $259 basic Kindle. But the company has also quietly run out of its other reader, the large-screen Kindle DX.
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Amazon Won't Be The Only One Selling Kindle Books Next Year (AMZN) — Scribd, the YouTube for print, is working on a new way to get e-books onto your Kindle without buying them from Amazon. — Right now, to get one of the tens of millions of documents Scribd has — books, papers …
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Tnkgrl / tnkgrl Mobile:
Exclusive: Google Nexus One hands on — I just played with the Google Nexus One for a few minutes, Here's my report: — It's extremely thin — It's much nicer looking in person than in pictures — There's a 4 GB micro-SD card installed — The battery capacity is 1400 mAh
Joab Jackson / PC World:
Mozilla Rolls out Latest Firefox Beta — The Mozilla development community has rolled out the latest beta of its Firefox 3.6 browser. — In addition to the usual round of bug fixes, Firefox 3.6 beta version 5, comes with a number of new features and performance enhancements.
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Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Verizon Prepares for the iPhone — Verizon Wireless is buttressing its network in the event Apple drops AT&T as the exclusive carrier of its popular smartphone — There's no telling yet whether or when AT&T (T) might lose its position as the sole U.S. carrier of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone.
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Brian Wheeler / BBC:
Chinese plan to meter net traffic — China wants to meter all internet traffic that passes through its borders, it has emerged. — The move would require international agreement - but it is being discussed by the United Nations body in charge of internet standards.
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Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Trident Gum Turns Fan Tweets into Full-Page USA Today Ad — To prove that real people really do like their new gum, Trident's decided to try something unconventional with their latest ad in USA Today. The full-page color spread, headlined “The People have Tweeted,” highlights tweets …
