Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Windows 7 beta 1 review  —  I’ve now had my hands on Windows 7 beta 1 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 (the build that is widely expected to be made available to beta testers by Microsoft early in January) and have had some time to compose my thoughts and feelings about this latest […]

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Thanks Mike Arrington for taking us off the rails into Twitter idiot land  —  Yesterday Mike Arrington took us off the rails and into the idiot land.  —  Listen, I’m as egotistical as the rest of them.  I can say “follow me” along with the best of them.  According to Loic […]

Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
Twitority Made It.  —  Folks first, excuse my french, I was just asking for a simple feature nothing else, yeah okay using the word authority was… my french.  Oh and yeah, you are right number of followers are in no way a measure of any authority.  I […]

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
First look at Windows 7 beta 1 (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400)  —  I have to thank Santa for leaving me a copy of Windows 7 beta 1 in my stocking for Christmas Day.  This beta (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400) should be the first and only beta from Microsoft of Windows 7, and I’m pleased […]

Gina Bianchini / New York Times:
The Benefits of a Network  —  I’M a child of Silicon Valley.  I grew up in Cupertino, Calif., in the 1970s and ’80s, just as the area was transitioning from an agricultural center to a technological one.  —  My dad taught high school history and my mom was a […]

Buckpost / Twitterrati:
Tweetree: Twitter.com on Steroids  —  Although I’m a big Twitter fan, the company has its shortcomings.  Fortunately, there’s no lack of third-parties more than happy to step into the fray.  —  Case in point is Tweetree, which has developed a better and more user-friendly online interface than Twitter.com.

Randall Stross / New York Times:
What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting  —  TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year.  The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit […]

Tim O’Reilly / O’Reilly Radar:
Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com: The Power of the Real Time Enterprise  —  What do Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com have in common, besides their extraordinary success?  They are organizations that are infused with IT in such a way that it leads to a qualitative change in their entire business.