U2 previews unreleased track on Facebook, snubs MySpace?  —  Bono has given the creators of Facebook app iLike a sneak preview of U2’s upcoming re-release of the Joshua Tree, which will feature previously unreleased tracks.  —  Wearing his trademark sunglasses Bono, the lead singer of U2 …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Brendon Chase
Link:   http://www.cnet.com.au/mp3players/0,239028967…

Amazon PR: Neither Open Nor Social  —  Is Amazon supporting Open Social?  If they are, that would be big news.  If they have decided not to, that would be big news too.  We reported last night that Amazon was announcing support for the Google-led protocol, along with a number of other smaller announcements.

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
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The Man Behind the TheFunded.com’s VC Slagfest Reveals Himself to Wired  —  The door swings open before I have a chance to knock, and I get my first glimpse of the man known to thousands only as Ted.  At 6′5″ in socks, he is squeezed into the door frame of his midtown Manhattan loft.

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Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader Monday  —  Amazon is betting that e-books aren’t a total e-bust.  —  On Monday, the online retail giant will unveil its Kindle e-book reader at a high-profile event in New York, an industry source told CNET News.com Thursday.

Source:   CNET News.com
Link:   http://www.news.com/2100-1025_3-6218828.html

WebKit 3’s ten new tricks  —  As Apple’s core rendering engine for Safari (and many third-party apps), WebKit has come quite a ways since its early days at Apple.  Open sourced in 2005, its development has remained sure and steady, thanks to a reliable increase in Safari’s adoption …

Source:   Infinite Loop
Author:   David Chartier
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Amazon ‘Customers Vote’ deals are outstanding  —  How’d you like a Wii for $79?  Unbelievable.  See this is why you can’t get a Wii anywhere.  Amazon’s been hoarding them all for this very event.  Up for grabs is your choice of 1000 Wii consoles at $79 each, 1000 40GB PS3 consoles at $139 each …

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Facebook: Who Else Wants to Invest at $15B?  No One?  —  It’s been three weeks since Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg took a desperate Microsoft to the cleaners with a $15 billion valuation.  It’s been 2.9 weeks since Forbes reported that Facebook had raised an additional $500 million from …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Henry Blodget
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Leopard 10.5.1 is now available  —  Leopard bugs got you down?  Apple just pushed out its first update for the new OS, 10.5.1.  It looks like it cures a whole laundry list of niggles with Leopard, including that nasty “potential data loss” issue with partitions in Finder.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Paul Miller
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/leopard-10-5-1-is…

Revenue: one search Google won’t answer  —  Karim Temsamani … expecting a surge in online advertising to be sustained for two years.  —  GOOGLE’s new Australasian boss has predicted a surging online advertising market for the next two years, challenging recent industry predictions of a slowdown in the booming sector for 2008.

Source:   Sydney Morning […]

Is email dead?  No, but it’s not well  —  After I wrote a post yesterday about Google and Yahoo’s plans to turn email into a Facebook-style social hub, someone commented and included a link to a Slate piece about the “death of email.”  As Zoli Erdos notes in his response …

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Author:   Mathew
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