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Archive for May, 2008

Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too  —  Lately Twitter has been cleaning house, raising money, doing interviews and actually talking to users.  In a blog post last week they did a Q&A session, directly answering questions about Twitter’s architecture.  —  So I have a couple of questions …

Clearing the air with Twitter (Robert Scoble/Scobleizer)

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Clearing the air with Twitter  —  Yesterday Evan Williams (co-founder of Twitter, his Twitter account is here) wrote me an email telling me he wasn’t blaming me and trying to clear the air.  I said “can I come over?” to talk more about these issues face-to-face.

From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch’s Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All (Kim Zetter/Wired News)

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Kim Zetter / Wired News:
From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch’s Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All  —  SAN DIEGO — Christopher Tarnovsky feels vindicated.  The software engineer and former satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murdoch company …

Billboards That Look Back - In advertising these days … (Stephanie Clifford/New York Times)

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Billboards That Look Back  —  In advertising these days, the brass ring goes to those who can measure everything — how many people see a particular advertisement, when they see it, who they are.  All of that is easy on the Internet, and getting easier in television and print.  […]

Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies (Dr. Jim Anderson/The Business Of IT)

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Dr. Jim Anderson / The Business Of IT:
Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies  —  The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years:  — Multicore and hybrid processors  — Virtualization and fabric computing  — Social networks and social […]

Phoenix to Earthlings: I’ve Landed! Awesome! (Kenneth Chang/New York Times)

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Phoenix to Earthlings: I’ve Landed!  Awesome!  —  @infoholic Yup, I can dig into frozen ground as hard as concrete.  The scoop has special blades and a powered “rasp” to scrape ice.  Cool!  —  Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and Web 2.0?

Is there a management exodus at Bebo? (Greg Sandoval/CNET News.com)

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Is there a management exodus at Bebo?  —  Angel Gambino, the Bebo executive in charge of attracting record labels and musicians to the site, has resigned and she appears to be part of an executive exodus at the company following its $850 million acquisition by AOL.

Dish/EchoStar sues TiVo over DVR patent (Erica Ogg/CNET News.com)

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Dish/EchoStar sues TiVo over DVR patent  —  A month after an appeals court confirmed that Dish Network’s DVR software had indeed violated a TiVo patent, Dish is retaliating with a lawsuit of its own.  —  The Colorado-based satellite TV provider filed suit in Delaware Friday …

Microsoft Security Advisory (953818) (Microsoft)

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (953818)  —  Blended Threat from Combined Attack Using Apple’s Safari on the Windows Platform  —  Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a blended threat that allows remote code execution on all supported versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista when Apple’s Safari for Windows has been installed.

Into the wild: AdSense for feeds (Steve/Burning Questions)

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Steve / Burning Questions:
Into the wild: AdSense for feeds  —  We’ve been hinting at this for awhile, but it’s finally time to spill the beans: Starting next week, we’ll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers “coming […]