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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Is Google a Good Candidate for Rational Exuberance? — IS the dot-com bubble reinflating? — Last week, a relatively obscure Wall Street analyst named Safa Rashtchy, from Piper Jaffray, became an overnight sensation among the Internet faithful. He predicted that Google's stock price …
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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
$500. $600. $2,000. Do I Hear $10,000? $0? — Yes, the Google price target brouhaha is reminiscent of the 90s—and not just with respect to dotcom stocks. The Dow, too, was the subject of a few heroic hypotheses in those days (Dow 36,000, Dow 100,000), utterances that, in hindsight …
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Linking a Device to a Gadget That's Wired to a Gizmo — At the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Panasonic introduced a 103-inch plasma screen television. The company also announced a set-top box deal with Comcast. — THE average American household now owns …
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Loren / Incremental Blogger:
Tablet/Blogger Gathering at CES — The CES Tablet Gathering was amazing. I can't believe how many people showed up. Despite the fact that the gathering was organized at the last minute, there was a strong group of Tablet owners and influential bloggers. The best count we have is 47.
CNET News.com:
Best in Show — Creative Zen Vision:M — iPod killer? With a brighter screen, better battery life, and more features, the Creative Zen Vision:M certainly has the goods to give the iPod a run for its money. In addition to a voice recorder and an FM tuner, the $330 …
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Black and White and Dead All Over — Somewhere in the forest, a tree is cut down. It is loaded onto a giant truck and hauled a vast distance to a factory, where the trees is turned into huge rolls of paper. These rolls are loaded onto another truck and hauled another vast distance to another factory …
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informit.com:
1. Dock Items Bounce Indefinitely — Items bounce up and down in the Dock to alert you to situations that supposedly require your attention. My gripe is that the "problem" is usually not urgent. The icon bounces indefinitely, like a needy child demanding your attention, endlessly screaming, "Look at me, Mom, look at me!"
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Tom Bridge / Adventures in Troubleshooting:
Understanding Mac Geeks: The Week Before Keynote — This is the first of an occasional series that tries to explain just why it is Mac Geeks are like we are. I know that some people Just Don't Get people like us, but I figure if you're trying to understand a certain Mac person in your life, this might be a place to start.
Paul Boutin / Engadget:
Backstage at the Google press conference — The realaction was in the green room last night. Onstage, Robin Williams had zapped audience members who challenged LarryPage with questions at the company's keynote. But Larry and GoogleCEO Eric Schmidt faced the world's toughest tech journos …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Vee see it our vay — So VC Guy Kawasaki has a blog now. What amuses me is that it fits the mold of so many other VCs' blogs — many of which I read and enjoy — for they are filled with abstracted rules of venture life, like these from Kawasaki: "missions vs. mantras," "the art of intrapreneurship …
Washington Monthly:
Let There Be Wi-Fi — Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century—and much of America is being left in the dark. — Two decades ago, the chattering classes fretted about economic upheaval rising from Japan and the Asian Tigers. They feared an invasion of cars, microchips …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The word-of-mouth killer product of CES — VIC GUNDOTRA GADGET ALERT!!! — I asked dozens of people "what did you see at CES that you'd spend your own money on?" I also asked "what was the coolest thing you saw?" — Most people stammered on both answers, but yesterday I started hearing …
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Earthlink blogs at Earthling — Earthlink, the internet service provider has started a corporate blog, mostly talking about issues such as network neutrality and how consumers can protect themselves online. I am surprised why the blog hasn't been publicized, as yet.
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Jfurrier / Podtech.net:
PodTech News: Naked Conversations Authors at CES — Download to MP3: Exclusive Podcast: Naked Conversations with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel — The PodCast: — Here is the exclusive podcast (40 mins) with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel the authors of "Naked Conversations".
