Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Rumor: Apple’s iMovie to receive significant (Cloud) update at Macworld  —  I’ve heard from reliable sources that Apple will offer a significant update to iMovie at next week’s Macworld.  It will largely focus on Internet video in the Cloud for the YouTube generation.

Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
TWPLY - From Alleged Spammer to Sold on Sitepoint in Less Than 24 Hours  —  Earlier today, ultra Twitter master Robert Scoble called Twply a spammer.  Twply basically takes any “@” reply messages on Twitter and sends them to your email.  It’s hard for me to call Twply a spammer … […]

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple’s Internet share registered strong gains in Dec.  —  Apple’s (AAPL) presence on the Web expanded to record levels in December, according to preliminary data released early New Year’s day by Net Applications.  —  Mac OS X’s percentage of Web hits reached a record 9.63% …

If you’re like me, you’re not happy at all about 2009.
As of this evening,
no signs of economic recovery have yet emerged,
and it feels like people haven’t even gone back to work.
2008 in contrast was a year in which
we lived like there was no recession.
Because we didn’t yet know we were in one.
At least until our […]

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Twitter spam, effective or idiotic?  —  This morning the replies kept crossing my screen.  They look like this: … Aaarrrrrggggghhhhh.  —  To me this marks this company forever that it’s a spammer.  I will never try this tool just because of this.  It is why I am increasingly finding …

John Biggs / CrunchGear:
How to unlock your 3G iPhone  —  YellowSn0w is out and it’s ready to rock.  Here’s how to become SIM-independent.  —  NB: Install the latest 2.2 firmware before beginning this process.  —  1. First, download quickpwn and jailbreak your phone.  —  Pick your device.  We want the iP3G, obviously.

Louis Gray:
10 Predictions for 2009 In the World of Tech  —  Following on to last year’s 10 Predictions for 2008 In the World of Tech and the recent results: My 2008 Tech Predictions Look Bad As Year Nears a Close.  —  1) The Real-Time Web Will Become Critical for News and Information Discovery

Stephen H. Wildstrom / Business Week:
Hollywood’s Digital Dawdling  —  Many great old films are unavailable on DVD or online thanks to movie studios’ 20th century thinking  —  On Feb. 3, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SNE) is going to make an honest man of me.  Finally I will be able to buy a legal DVD […]

Michael Calore / Wired News:
6 New Web Technologies of 2008 You Need to Use Now  —  Every year, we see scores of innovations trickle onto the web — everything from new browser features to cool web apps to entire programming languages.  Some of these concepts just make us smile, then we move on.

Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Rumor: Microsoft to lay off 17% of staff on January 15, 2009  —  Last week, Mini-Microsoft reported on a rumor regarding Microsoft layoffs expected to start on January 15, 2009 (a week before Microsoft’s Q2 earnings report).  I brushed the news aside then, but now it’s worth quoting, just […]