An Open Letter to the Twitter Guys  —  To: Evan Williams & Biz Stone  —  I am a huge fan.  You are two good guys.  Twitter is the most addictive thing I’ve experienced since I quit smoking in 1987, and it’s so much better for my health.  I have built a multinational circle of friends […]

MacBook Air review  —  It fits in a manila folder, you can slide it under a door, and if you threw it hard enough you could probably chop someone in half with the thing.  It’s the thinnest, and if we may say so, the sexiest laptop around today: the MacBook Air.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan […]

Super Panel At Davos: The Future Of Mobile Technology  —  Fortune Senior Editor David Kirkpatrick led a power-packed session at Davos this afternoon called The Future of Mobile Technology.  Panelists included Google CEO Eric Schmidt, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/25/super-panel-at…

Google Reader Shows the Published Date  —  Besides a new favicon and a confirmation dialog displayed when you mark all the posts as read, Google Reader now shows the published date of a post in a tooltip.  Next to the snippet, Google Reader displays the date when the post was indexed by Google, not the […]

Latest Test for DMCA Safe Harbors: Warner Sues SeeqPod  —  Warner Music Group has sued SeeqPod (complaint, 500k PDF), a “Web 2.0” music search engine (combined with embedable playlists, etc, etc) that has been gaining in popularity in recent months.  —  This is the latest in a string of lawsuits against Web 2.0 companies.

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Warner Music Sues Seeqpod  —  Warner Music has filed suit against music search engine Seeqpod for copyright infringement.  —  Seeqpod offers a music search engine that allows users to play music they find directly on the site.  According to comScore the service had over 6 million page views in December 2007.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan […]

Double amputee walks again due to Bluetooth  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006.  He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together.

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Usability Disaster Story  —  In December, someone asked me about how many Mono downloads we had per month to estimate the size of Mono users.  With software like Mono the download numbers do not mean much, because most of our users get their software through their distribution, package channels or as a bundled executable.

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Gates’ “creative capitalism”: profits plus philanthropy  —  At a high-profile speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday, Bill Gates urged business leaders to focus on finding new ways to turn a profit while benefiting the world’s poorest residents.

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Timothy B. Lee
Link:   http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080125-gates…

Spectrum auction starts, draws over $2.7 billion in first-day bids  —  Auction 73, the long-awaited 700MHz spectrum sell-off, got under way yesterday as the Federal Communications Commission conducted two rounds of bidding by the 214 qualified bidders.  Action was brisk, although none …

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Eric Bangeman
Link:   http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080125…