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The 6th edition of the LeWeb tech conference is being held in Paris this week, December 9th and 10th 2009 in Le cent Quatre. Brainchild of Loïc Le Meur, 
LeWeb covers a wide range of topics including industry trends, start-ups, and entrepreneurship in the field of technology. The main stage program features internet leaders and [...]

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Great news about RSSCloud from Dave Winer’s camp today. ReadWriteWeb: “All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud. There is currently only one RSS aggregator that supports RSSCloud, Dave Winer’s brand-new reader River2. That [...]

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I finally had time this weekend to catch up on a few recent podcasts. And since I truly enjoyed the following podcasts, a few recommendations for your consideration. Enjoy!

TWiG (This Week in Google): Hosts Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis have a great rapport.  Topics covered: Gmail goes down, Snow Leopard, Dropbox, Google News, Book [...]

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Global Search Market Draws More than 100 Billion Searches per Month. [Comscore]
In Defense of the Punditocracy. [Anil Dash]
It’s not AT&T. It’s not Apple. It’s just Twitter. [Stardust Global Ventures]
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. [Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle]
Wikipedia Looks Hard at Its Culture. [New York Times]
Lines are blurring in strange new world of [...]

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WikiCity aims to tap hyper-niche markets for news and information. [Neiman Journalism Lab]
FriendFeed Cofounder Paul Buchheit Discusses Facebook Acquisition. [TechCrunch]
Notes from brown bag lunch at Betaworks [Chris Dixon]
Court offers guidelines on when to unmask anonymous posters. [Ars Technica]
Patent Lawsuit Threatens to Clip Twitter’s Wings. [Wired]
Why free ebooks should be part of the plot for writers. [...]

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Google Deal With Publishers Raises Privacy Concerns. [NPR]
Some Thoughts on WebFinger and Personal Web Discovery. [25hoursaday]
How Twitter works in theory. [Epeus' Epigone]
Gatekeeping is a losing strategy. [Scripting News]
Financial Times Feels Vindicated by Web Strategy. [New York Times]
Who, really, is The Associated Press accusing of copyright infringement? [Nieman Journalism Lab]

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Facebook Takes FriendFeed To Take On Twitter. [TechCrunch]
The Problem With Facebook For Public Conversations. [Scobleizer]
Is A Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking? [R.W.W.]
Align The Interests Of: 1. Users And 2. Investors. [Dave Winer]
Delicious Creator Launches Threaded Twitter Conversations. [TechCrunch]
Chris (Anderson) And Malcolm (Gladwell) Are Both Wrong. [Brad Burnham, Union Square Ventures]
Notice Those Ads on [...]

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TechCrunch: The cost of FriendFeed? Roughly $50 million in cash and stock.
Wall Street Journal: Iran’s digital underground.
Anil Dash: What works, the web way vs. the wave way.
Technology Review: How to Build Anonymity Into the Internet.
New York Times: For (Rupert) Murdoch, it’s try, try again.
Wired: Open Source ‘Twitter’ could fend off the next Twitpocalypse.
Business Insider: King of [...]

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Following the announcement this weekend that Tr.im will shut down it’s URL shortening services, even with Bit.ly stepping in host Tr.im’s URL-mappings indefinitely, or 301works (an archive of URL mappings), there are long-term implications using URL shorteners.
According to TechCrunch, Tr.im accounted for approximately 2-3 percent of the short URLs on Twitter, with bit.ly, the default [...]

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Mashable: Twitter apps still recovering from DDoS attacks.
Blind Search: When you remove the branding from search engines. How differently will you perceive the results?
Business Week: Betting on the real-time Web.
GigaOM: News Corp. and the great not-free experiment.
New York Times: Are the glory days long gone for I.T.?
WSJ: No nore perks, coffee shops pull the plug [...]

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