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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The shy Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook — Yesterday morning I woke up early. Was sitting in the hotel lobby at 7 a.m. trying to check email when someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, which now has 68 million active users (people who've signed on in the past 30 days).
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Super-Awesome YouTube Room At Davos — The World Economic Forum at Davos: 3,000 or so world leaders, celebrities and top CEOs (and a couple of bloggers) gather to discuss the major issues of the day. — At one end of the Congress Center is the main meeting hall. At another, private meeting rooms for the super-VIPs.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Belt-Tightening, but No Collapse, Is Forecast in Technology Spending — In the consumer economy, the Main Street shopper leads the way. In the corporate economy, big technology buyers like Monte Ford will determine the arc of business spending in the coming months.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Belt-Tightening In Corporate IT Spending Will be Good For Web 2.0 — The outlook for corporate IT spending is gloomy, with growth expected to slow from 7 percent last year to 4 percent this year. The $500 billion that U.S. corporations spend every year on hardware and software accounts for about half of all capital outlays.
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Anonymous Hackers Shoot For Scientologists, Hit Dutch School Kids — Dutch schoolchildren may be the first collateral damage of an online war being waged against the Church of Scientology by a motley crew of internet troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Media: Still grasping for a clue — We can all debate the wisdom of the Wall Street Journal maintaining a pay wall (or at least part of one — see my recent post), and even the wisdom of newspapers and media sites having registration walls. But surely we've gotten beyond the point where anyone …
Erik Schwiebert / Office for Mac Product Forums:
Security issue in Mac Office 2008 Installer — You may have seen recent reports on the web of a security issue in the installer for Mac Office 2008. The issue is that our installer is incorrectly granting ownership of the files to a particular local user as it installs them …
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Extends Platform to the Web — I surely did not see this coming anytime soon but Facebook just released their JavaScript client library than enables developers to extend their applications to their own websites. Rather than building your applications strictly within Facebook …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter — from the free-speech? dept — Back in October, we wrote about a law firm that was claiming a copyright on the cease-and-desist letters it sent out, and insisting that it was a violation to repost them.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Are we in a recession? — It's interesting to hear different people's opinions at the World Economic Forum about what the economy is going to do this year. Most people here believe we're in the midst of a recession, which technically is two quarters of negative growth.
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Reuters:
Google CEO bullish on mobile Web advertising — DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - The arrival of a truly mobile Web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a “huge revolution,” Google Inc (GOOG.O) Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday.
Shel / Global Neighbourhoods:
An Open Letter to the Twitter Guys — To: Evan Williams & Biz Stone — I am a huge fan. You are two good guys. Twitter is the most addictive thing I've experienced since I quit smoking in 1987, and it's so much better for my health. I have built a multinational circle of friends because of Twitter.
Timothy Lee / Techdirt:
Is IPv6 A Solution In Search Of A Problem? — A few weeks ago, David Siegel of Global Crossing looked at some high-profile websites and found that none of them have made the switch to IPv6, the supposed replacement for today's 32-bit Internet addressing scheme.
New York Times:
Hedge Fund Seeks Board Seats at Times Co. — An Alabama-based hedge fund gave notice Friday that it would try to elect directors to The New York Times Company board, a day after the same hedge fund gave similar notice to another newspaper company, Media General.
