Believe it or not, Mahalo is Growing  —  Human-built search engine Mahalo appears to be shooting past the traffic numbers it got when it launched, according to Heather Hopkins at traffic analyst firm Hitwise.  —  Mahalo pages are collections of the most useful links regarding a wide variety of timely topics in popular niches.

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Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES  —  CES has no shortage of displays.  And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the show, we pretty much couldn’t help ourselves.  We shut off a TV.  And then another.  And then a wall of TVs.  And we just couldn’t stop.

Source:   Gizmodo
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Microsoft Announces Retirement and Transition Plan for Jeff Raikes, President of the Microsoft Business Division  —  Company announces it has hired Stephen Elop from Juniper Networks; Raikes will continue at Microsoft through September 2008.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced that …

Source:   Microsoft
Link:   http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jan08…

BLOGGERS BEHAVING BADLY: GIZMODO MESSES WITH CES FLAT SCREENS  —  The Gizmodo kids pulled a good stunt at CES: they fired TV-B-Gone remotes at walls of shiny new monitors on display and during press conferences, much to the displeasure of booth staffers.  —  The video is funny.

Source:   Webware.com
Author:   Rafe Needleman
Link:   http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9848317-2.html

Wikia Launch & Mahalo Growth  —  This week’s launch of Wikia Search is the latest example of a human powered search engine.  Mahalo and Cha-Cha are two other recent entrants.  This week we’ve seen a spike in daily visits to Wikia Search, as you’d expect.  In my digging the thing that stood as interesting to […]

Amazon Completes DRM-Free Roster With Sony-BMG  —  For anyone who was bummed about the hoops they were going to have to jump through to get DRM-free songs from Sony-BMG artists, by the end of the month you will be able to download those songs at Amazon’s MP3 store.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/10/amazon-completes…

FACEBOOK TOPS ONE LIST OF ‘SLOW AND INACCESSIBLE’ SOCIAL NETWORKS  —  On Thursday, Web site-monitoring firm WatchMouse released the results of a study about the performance of 104 social-media sites—social networks, blogging communities, bookmarking sites, and the like—and boldly deemed them to be overall “slow and inaccessible.”

Source:   Webware.com
Author:   Caroline McCarthy
Link:   http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9847968-2.html

LinkedIn, SixApart and Flickr People Join DataPortability.org: Is This Stuff For Real?  —  The Data Portability Working Group is announcing today that key people from LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter are joining the group.  These new names are just the most visible part of a groundswell …

Source:   ReadWriteWeb
Author:   Marshall Kirkpatrick
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…

Trent Reznor: Why won’t people pay $5?  —  UPDATE at 8:55 a.m.: The headline of the story was changed to reflect more broadly what Trent Reznor said during the interview.  As some readers noted, the original headline put too much emphasis on one of Reznor’s statements.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Greg Sandoval
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9847788-7.html

Steal This Wi-Fi  —  Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people — and attracts the most criticism — is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home.  There’s no password.  There’s no encryption.  Anyone with wireless capability …

Source:   Wired News
Author:   Bruce […]