Attack of the interns: recommendations and drag-and-drop  —  One of the great things about Reader, and feed readers in general, is that they let you follow sites much more efficiently than you could just by visiting them directly.  This means that once you get into the flow of it …

Source:   Official Google Reader Blog
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Breaking: Facebook Updates Beacon  —  Facebook has just announced that they will be updating their Beacon system.  Stories will no longer be published “without a user proactively consenting.”  According to Facebook here is how the Beacon changes work:

Source:   All Facebook
Author:   Nick O’Neill
Link:   http://www.allfacebook.com/2007/11/breaking-facebook…

Facebook To Cry Uncle Over Beacon  —  Sources say Facebook is near to announcing changes to its Beacon marketing platform after pressure from privacy advocates over the last week.  —  MoveOn launched its campaign the Monday before Thanksgiving and has since signed up 50,000 Facebook members incensed …

Source:   WebProNews - Breaking eBusiness News
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AdBrite Raises $23 Million  —  Online advertising company AdBrite has raised $23 million in third-round funding, according to a regulatory filing discovered by peHUB.  Return backers include Sequoia Capital and hedge fund Artis Management (which often gloms onto Sequoia for hot VC deals).

Source:   PE HUB
Author:   Dan Primack
Link:   http://www.pehub.com/wordpress/?p=1766

NETFLIX AND NBC UNIVERSAL ANNOUNCE ONLINE DEAL FOR ‘HEROES’ AND OTHER POPULAR SERIES  —  by Netflix Subscribers the Day After its Network Airing  —  UNIVERSAL CITY and LOS GATOS, Calif., November 26, 2007 - Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the world’s largest online movie rental service …

Source:   Netflix
Link:   http://www.netflix.com/MediaCenter?id=6429

Warner Music: We’re totally screwed  —  I’m paraphrasing a little, but that seems to be the general thrust of Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s comments about the company’s latest financial results.  In a nutshell, Warner — which Edgar Jr. maintains is not a record company at all, but a …

Source:   mathewingram.com/work
Author:   Mathew
Link:   http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/29/warner…

Amazon’s Kindle Makes Buying E-Books Easy, Reading Them Hard  —  Companies have failed for many years to produce a successful electronic reader, a dedicated device that would do for books what Apple’s iPod has done for music — allow you to carry around large numbers of titles and enjoy them in a convenient way.

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.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)  —  Last week we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.  This release is a big one for .NET, and delivers a ton of new capabilities and improvements for web, client, office and mobile development.  —  Over the next few months we’ll …

Source:   ScottGu’s Blog
Author:   Scott […]

Why You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Wii  —  Brace yourself for another cranky Christmas, when hopeful children get up early only to discover there’s no Wii under the tree.  —  The Nintendo console’s broad appeal — and a maxed-out supply chain that can’t be ramped up to meet holiday demands …

Source:   Wired […]

‘Bot Roast II’ Nets 8 Individuals  —  Second Phase of Ongoing Cyber Investigation Reveals More Than $20 Million in Economic Loss and More Than One Million Victimized Computers.  Public Urged To Take Precaution.  —  The FBI today announced the results of the second phase of its continuing investigation …

Source:   Federal Bureau of Investigation
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