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Archive for January 21st, 2008

The Significance of the MyBlogLog API (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

The Significance of the MyBlogLog API  —  If you could capture and use the names, ages, genders and demonstrated interests of the specific people who visited your website - would you?  A whole lot of people providing services online would.  While we’ve covered the movement …

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

Pownce Opens To Public Tonight At Midnight; Early Screen Shots Of New Features (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Pownce Opens To Public Tonight At Midnight; Early Screen Shots Of New Features  —  Pownce, a service that lets users send messages, files, links, and events to friends, first launched into private beta over six months ago.  It was founded by Leah Culver, Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka (Rose and Burka of Digg fame).

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WordPress Boosts Free Storage to 3GB. Leaves Blogger, TypePad in the Dust. (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

WordPress Boosts Free Storage to 3GB.  Leaves Blogger, TypePad in the Dust.  —  In a move that will no doubt put pressure on competing blog platforms TypePad (from Six Apart) and Blogger (from Google), WordPress (from Automattic) is boosting free storage for all the blogs it hosts from 50 MB to 3 GB.

Source:   TechCrunch
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Humans Interupting Algorithms: Wales v. Calacanis on Human Powered Search (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Humans Interupting Algorithms: Wales v. Calacanis on Human Powered Search  —  A large group of international tech rock stars are at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich today and friend of RWW Martin Källström of pre-launch search startup Twingly sent us a rough transcript …

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

Hundreds of Layoffs Expected at Yahoo (Miguel Helft/New York Times)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Hundreds of Layoffs Expected at Yahoo  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is planning to lay off hundreds of employees in an effort to increase its profitability, prop up its deflated stock price and narrow the focus of its sprawling Internet portal to a smaller number of key areas, people close to the company said Monday.

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Microsoft makes deal to buy virtualization company (Todd Bishop/Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Microsoft makes deal to buy virtualization company  —  Microsoft plans to acquire San Jose-based Calista Technologies Inc. as part of a larger effort to catch up in a growing area of the corporate technology market.  —  Calista’s specialty is making networks run smoothly for virtualized computer desktops …

Source:   Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog
Author:   Todd […]

MacBook Air Unboxing Photos and Wireless Booting (Arn/MacRumors)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

MacBook Air Unboxing Photos and Wireless Booting  —  The first unboxing photos for the MacBook Air come from what appears to be a remote Macworld Expo presentation in Japan.  The pictures show that they received their demonstration MacBook Air in the retail packaging.  Unboxing sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Source:   MacRumors : Mac News […]

Microsoft (finally) broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules (Mary Jo Foley/All about Microsoft)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Microsoft (finally) broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules  —  Microsoft has lifted its ban on enabling Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium in virtual machine environments.  —  The company announced on January 21 its decision to add the two new SKUs and planned to update its end-user license agreement to reflect the change.

Source:   All […]

HBO to Go - Home Box Office, the premium television programmer … (Michael/DVD Dossier Blog)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

HBO to Go  —  Home Box Office, the premium television programmer, is set to launch a new broadband service tomorrow.  —  Available initially only to cable customers served by the Wisconsin Division of Time Warner Cable, the new service - called HBO on Broadband - will make over 600 HBO movies …

Source:   DVD Dossier […]

LinkedIn Founder Has Golden Touch (Michael Liedtke/Associated Press)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

LinkedIn Founder Has Golden Touch  —  LinkedIn Founder’s Road to Riches Paved With Golden Connections in Silicon Valley  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Few Internet entrepreneurs practice what they preach as devoutly as LinkedIn Corp. co-founder Reid Hoffman, whose business revolves around …

Source:   Associated Press
Author:   Michael Liedtke
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080121/mr_linkedin.html