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Kim Peterson / Seattle Times:
Rhapsody becoming visible on the Web  —  RealNetworks is moving today to increase the visibility of its Rhapsody music service, hoping to gain more paying subscribers with a greater presence on blogs and other Web sites.  —  The company is rolling out a Web-services platform …
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John Borland / CNET News.com:
RealNetworks moves Rhapsody to the Web
Discussion: PaidContent.org
Phillip Swann / tvpredictions.com:
Celebrities Looking Bad in HDTV: Silly Talk or Serious Issue?  —  Hollywood is getting increasingly concerned about how its stars look in high-def.  —  Washington D.C. (Dec. 4, 2005) — Dr. Ruth Peters, an advice columnist who often appears on NBC's Today Show, was recently asked by a mother …
Discussion: Gizmodo, digg and Things That
Newsweek:
Google: Ten Golden Rules  —  Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century.  Here's how we do it at google.  —  By By Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian  —  Issues 2006 - At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood …
Brian Smith / ComparisonEngines.com:
Froogle Spam  —  Froogle has a problem, and I assume Google Base will have the same problem.  Because there are no setup fees and no per click fees, the results on Froogle are often made up of spammy results which make for a horrible user experience.  Google might be great at general search and maps …
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Robert Hof / Business Week:
Froogle: Shopping Made Complex
Discussion: ComparisonEngines.com
David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Social Networks 3.0  —  I have received a lot of calls recently from reporters interested in discussing social networks.  It reminds me of the set of calls I got way way back in 2004.  The reporters today want to know what I think of social networking companies and if the venture capital …
Rachel Metz / Wired News:
Printing Organs on Demand  —  Need a skin graft?  A new trachea?  A heart patch?  Turn on your printer, and let it spit one out.  —  A group of researchers hope printers' whirs and buzzes will soon be saving lives.  —  Led by University of Missouri-Columbia biological physics professor Gabor Forgacs …
Reuters:
Microsoft sued over alleged Xbox 360 glitch  —  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Chicago man who bought Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 has sued the world's largest software maker, saying the new video game console has a design flaw that causes it to overheat and freeze up.
Discussion: Kotaku
Dave Girard / Ars Technica:
Aperture 1.0: the Ars review  —  Introduction  —  Aperture  —  Apple has cojones.  Let's not pretend otherwise.  Jumping headfirst into the fully mature digital imaging market requires the shameless bravado of a one-legged man at a butt-kicking contest or any number of contestants on So You Think You Can Dance?
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Sony Draws Ire With PSP Graffiti  —  Seeking to market its handheld game device to hip city dwellers, Sony has hired graffiti artists in major urban areas to spray-paint buildings with simple, totemic images of kids playing with the gadget.  But the guerrilla marketing gambit appears …
siliconvalley.com:
>>>  ENTER THE ROUNDTABLE  —  GUESTS  —  Stephen Arnold is a technology consultant and author of six books, among them "The Google Legacy: How Google's Internet Search is Transforming Application Software" and "The Enterprise Search Report."  —  John Battelle is one of the co-founders …
Daniel.Turner / Behind the Curtain at TCG:
NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox  —  A little birdie told me today that NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer.  Now, if you are an employee of NASA, every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts.
Discussion: digg, JD on and OhGizmo!
J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker:
Hidden Feature in Sony DRM Uses Open Source Code to Add Apple DRM  —  For weeks, the blogosphere has been abuzz with tales of intrigue about Sony's XCP copy protection system.  Among the strangest revelations was that XCP itself infringes on the copyrights to several open source software projects.
Discussion: Techdirt and Boing Boing
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
Monsters of Photorealism  —  My hat is off to whoever designed the new King Kong game for the Xbox 360, because they've crafted a genuinely horrific monster.  When it first lurched out of the mysterious tropical cave and fixed its cadaverous eyes on me, I could barely look at the monstrosity.
attensa.com:
Attensa Lands Series B Financing Led by RSS Investors  —  RSS Fund's First Investment Brings Total Raised by Attensa to Date to $12 Million  —  PORTLAND, Ore. - December 5, 2005 - Attensa, Inc., a leading developer of RSS network infrastructure software, today announced that it completed …
Richi / Richi'Blog:
eBay's anti-phishing desk sucks  —  I reported a phishing attack last week.  Nothing new there, I do it a lot as part of my ongoing research into spam for FixingEmail.org and others.  —  A scammer put up a fake eBay site and sent spam encouraging people to go there.
Discussion: Netcraft and eBay Strategies
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eBay's anti-phishing desk sucks
Discussion: Techdirt

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