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Think Secret:
Eve of Expo: Rumor recap  —  January 9, 2006 - With Macworld Expo San Francisco 2006 set to kick off Tuesday, Think Secret presents a compilation of information we have received and reported over the last number of months concerning Apple's anticipated announcements.  —  Intel and New iBooks
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
How Apple Could Mess Up, Again  —  The Innovator's Dilemma author Clayton Christensen outlines his case for why Apple's propietary strategy will soon fail, just as it did before … These days it's hard to find a pundit willing to question Apple Computer's (AAPL) long-term prospects or the calls of its famous CEO, Steve Jobs.
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
At Macworld, All Eyes Are on Steve Jobs
Discussion: IP Democracy
USA Today:   Macworld's turn: Apple may unveil retooled laptops
CNN:   Rumors fly on upcoming Apple gadgets
John Markoff / New York Times:
U.S. Office Joins an Effort to Improve Software Patents  —  The United States Patent and Trademark Office plans to announce today that it will cooperate with open-source software developers on three initiatives that it says will improve the quality of software patents.
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
IBM taps open source to improve patent quality
Discussion: Techdirt
Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
Digging The Madness of Crowds  —  Earlier today, O'Reilly found itself at the center of a controversy on the popular news site, digg.com.  Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story, of stealing Digg's CSS pages.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Search Engines As Leeches, The Difference Between Paid & Free Listings & Keyword Price Rises  —  Jakob Nielsen's just posted a Search Engines as Leeches on the Web article that makes a good point, don't be too search engine dependent.  However, he muddles his point by confusing the issue …
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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Two new WMF bugs found  —  Security experts say latest vulerabilities less serious than the one Microsoft patched last week  —  Just days after Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. patched a critical vulnerability in the way the Windows operating system renders certain types of graphics files …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:   Microsoft to hunt for new species of Windows bug
USA Today:
Teens hang out at MySpace  —  Shanda Edstrom can't stop herself.  Every day — pretty much no matter where she is — she's just gotta go to MySpace.  —  Her friends are there.  Her former high school classmates hang out there.  Heck, these days it seems like every teen and twentysomething in the USA is there.
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Duncan Riley / The Blog Herald:
MySpace now at [45.5 million users] 47.3 million users
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb and ben barren
Munjal / Recognizing Deven:
Going to the Moon  —  At Riya we have a dream to completely change how people search photos.  One day, Riya will help you search and find every digital photo in the world.  That day is far off, but today we got the investment we need to get there.  —  I'm announcing first here on my blog …
Shelleyp / Burningbird:
Debate on DRM  —  Doc Searls points to a weblog post by the Guardian Unlimited's Lloyd Sheperd on DRM and says it's one of the most depressing things he's read.  Sheperd wrote: … Doc points to others making arguments in refutation of Sheperd's thesis (Tom Coates and Julian Bond), and ends his post with:
Mike / Techdirt:
We Sat Around Waiting For Google Video And All We Got Was This?  —  from the needs-a-bit-of-work-it-appears dept.  —  Remember the good old days when Google used to "wow" people with their new products?  AdSense.  Gmail.  Google Maps.  These were products that took what was apparently …
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
TOP TEN BLOGGER LIES  —  1. I don't consider myself an A-Lister.  —  No, but I turn up for speaking gigs at all the big conferences anyway.  Uh-huh.  —  2. I don't care about traffic.  —  Of course I don't.  Even though I'm a freelance consultant, and my blog is my primary way of marketing myself.
Nancy Hass / New York Times:
In Your Facebook.com  —  AS far as Kyle Stoneman is concerned, the campus police were the ones who started the Facebook wars.  "We were just being, well, college students, and they used it against us," says Mr. Stoneman, a senior at George Washington University in Washington.
Discussion: Tech_Space and Visible Path
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Fiber-optics cut affects Sprint service  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless, long-distance and Internet customers along the West Coast were without service for several hours Monday after a fiber-optic cable was cut west of Phoenix.  —  The problem was compounded …
Discussion: Engadget, Tech_Space and Boing Boing
Edward Jay Epstein / Slate:
Hollywood's New Zombie  —  The last days of Blockbuster.  —  In 1998, at the dawn of the age of the DVD, Blockbuster made a decision that would change the future of Hollywood.  Warren Lieberfarb, who then headed the home-video division of Warner Bros., offered Blockbuster CEO John Antioco …
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Apple to Sell S.N.L. Skits for iPod Use  —  "Saturday Night Live" fans looking to watch classic skits from the show may not have to depend on reruns and DVD compilations for long.  —  Apple is set to announce today that it will sell a limited number of archived "Saturday Night" …
tbray.org:
Don't Invent XML Languages  —  The X in XML stands for "Extensible"; one big selling point is that you can invent your own XML languages to help you solve your own problems.  But I've become convinced, over the last couple of years, that you shouldn't.  Unless you really have to.  This piece explains why.
Discussion: Raw and microformats

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