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Lessig Blog:
The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal — I got off the plane from Boston to find my inbox filled with anger about an article in the Wall Street Journal. To those who were angry, I hope you will direct any anger at the Wall Street Journal after you read what follows.
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Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on Web — The celebrated openness of the Internet — network providers are not supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic — is quietly losing powerful defenders. — Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic …
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Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
Net neutrality and the benefits of caching — One of the first posts I wrote for this blog last summer tried to define what we at Google mean when we talk about the concept of net neutrality. — Broadband providers — the on-ramps to the Internet — should not be allowed to prioritize traffic based …
Apple:
About the Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update — The Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4, and 10.5.5. It includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. — Installation recommendations
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Mussie Shore / The Official Google Blog:
@Twitter: Welcome to Google Friend Connect — We know many of you enjoy using Twitter to see what people are talking about and to let others know what you've been up to, whether it's sharing a YouTube video or checking in on your friend's tweets. To help you and your Twitter network stay connected …
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Palm Pins Its Hopes on Nova — The smartphone maker debuts its new operating system, code-named Nova, at January's CES. Palm says its phones for it will bridge the BlackBerry-iPhone gap — Jon Rubinstein got the call in mid-2007 while he was living on the Pacific Coast of Mexico …
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Janna Anderson Lee Rainie / Pew Internet:
The Future of the Internet III — A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Announces Next Steps in Open Strategy — Yahoo has invited the press to an event in San Francisco today where it will announce the next steps in its open strategy (details found here). — As GigaOm speculated over the weekend, we should be hearing details about the deployment of applications on Yahoo Mail.
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone Nano Rumors Revived in Otherwise Quiet Lead-in to Macworld — Questionably reliable iDealsChina publishes information and renderings of what it claims to be an “iPhone nano”. — It is the same height as the just release Nano but wider and thicker and with the same iPhone 3G contours.
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Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google off list of 20 most trusted companies — (12-14) 16:40 PST SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Verizon and FedEx for the first time have made an annual ranking of the top 20 most trusted companies in the United States. — Google, however, dropped off the list …
Wall Street Journal:
The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World — Consumers are flocking to blogs, social-networking sites and virtual worlds. And they are leaving a lot of marketers behind. — For marketers, Web 2.0 offers a remarkable new opportunity to engage consumers. — If only they knew how to do it.
Associated Press:
Hasbro dropping suit against makers of Facebook game Scrabulous — NEW YORK — Hasbro is dropping its lawsuit against the makers of a popular online version of board game Scrabble. — According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Hasbro dropped the lawsuit Friday.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Extraordinary Happenings At BitTorrent — “I have never seen anything like this” said a corporate law partner at a large silicon valley law firm. He was referring to the undoing of a $17 million venture round at BitTorrent and subsequent recapitalization that we reported yesterday.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Why we built Mahalo Answers — For the past couple of years, I've been studying the intersection of individuals and three Internet services: search, content and knowledge exchanges (aka KEs). These three products-or processes-serve individuals by helping them solve their real-world problems …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Q: What Do You Get When You Add Karate Belts To a Q&A Service?
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Byte of the Apple:
Steve Jobs Will MAY Be At MacWorld Expo, Event Manager Says — Apple CEO Steve Jobs will give his usual keynote address at the MacWorld Expo next month, says the show's general manager. — Paul Kent, VP at IDG World Expo and the general manager of the MacWorld show, set to start on Jan. 5 …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Amazon's MP3 Store, One Year In: No iTunes Killer; Probably Won't Be — Amazon has been selling digital music from all the big music labels for nearly a year now. It's the first major challenge to Apple's hammer lock on that business. So how did it do? — If you view Amazon's MP3 store …
Sunshine / LiveSide:
Windows Live Essentials Beta Released! — I know we told you the Windows Live Essentials would be released last week, it really was planned like that, but sometimes things just don't work out as planned. You had to wait a little longer, but now it's finally here!
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Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
Google Blog Search loses its bearings — Many serious bloggers rely on Google Blog Search to provide regular reports on who's linking back to them. The blogging tool I use, Wordpress, even uses Google's blog search to feed a little window on the blog dashboard. (This is the listing it shows for this blog.)
