1. Facebook Now Worth More Than Yahoo And eBay 1 hour ago permalinkFacebook’s latest round of financing from Goldman Sachs at a $50 billion valuation, which is about the same valuation its shares are trading on SecondMarket, clearly puts it in the pantheon of the most valuable Internet companies. At $50 billion, Facebook is now worth more than Yahoo (which has a $22 billion market cap) and eBay ($37 billion)
2. BitTorrent Hits 100M Active Monthly Users, 400K Client Downloads Per Day 1 hour ago permalinkBitTorrent seems to be growing like a weed – the company just announced that it’s hit 100 million monthly users of its software, the BitTorrent Mainline client and µTorrent. That’s up from 80 million monthly users most recently. 3. The Macalope Weekly: Wrong about the iPad 1 hour ago permalinkIt’s the end of another year and the time when pundits reflect on their commentary over the year and repent. Ha-ha! Just kidding! Being a technology pundit means never having to say you’re sorry. Good thing, too, or the world’s crow population would take a serious hit at the end of every year. The Macalope would hate to think what we’d do ... 4. Todd Alcott 16 minutes ago permalinkTodd Alcott is a screenwriter living in Santa Monica with his wife and kids and cats. He has written many screenplays. Some have been made into feature films. You may have seen one. 5. Watch: ‘iSPEC,’ Joseph Kosinski’s Speculative Commercial That Helped Him Land ‘Tron ... 1 hour ago permalinkThe run-up to Tron Legacy is almost over, with the film hitting theaters in ten days. One of the better pre-release pieces comes from the New York Times, which points out that Joseph Kosinski, already a veteran in the commercial world, had delivered early proof of his ability as a storyteller by making a speculative commercial for a future iPod- ... 6. MSI's Windows tablet shown ahead of CES, underwhelms 1 hour ago permalinkMSI at a Taipei preview of its CES plans had a demonstration (below) of the WindPad 100W. Despite plans to launch it in 2011, the Windows 7 slate is entirely unchanged from its May appearance at Computex and still runs a 1.66GHz Atom Z530, 2GB of RAM and a 32GB SSD. The processor is reportedly the best MSI could manage on a Windows tablet without ...
7. DealBook 12 hours ago permalinkGoldman Sachs has reached out to its wealthy private clients, offering them a chance to invest in Facebook, the hot social networking giant that is considering a possible public offering in 2012, according to people familiar with the matter.
8. A Year In, Amnesty Deal Lures Only 3 Percent of Taliban 3 hours ago permalinkThe White House says the best chance to end the Afghanistan war is to compel low-ranking insurgents to lay down their guns, one at a time. But at the rate this so-called “reintegration” project is going, it could take as long as a decade to bring the fighters in from the cold. 9. Four short links: 7 hours ago permalinkRSS is Dying and You Should Be Worried -- If RSS dies, we lose the ability to read in private. What Could Have Been Entering The Public Domain on January 1, 2011? -- a list of the works that won't be entering the public domain in the US because the copyright term was extended in 1976. Think of the movies from 1954 that would have become ...
10. Jan. 3, 1957: Electric Watch Debuts, a Space Age Marvel 6 hours ago permalinkFor blind faith in technology it's hard to top the 1950s, and Hamilton's revolutionary watch is an iconic reminder of that faith — both good and bad. 11. Vaporware 2010: The Great White Duke 6 hours ago permalinkWired's 14th annual Vaporware Awards, our yearly showcase of the games, gadgets and other nerdy tidbits pitched, promised and hyped — but never delivered. 12. AI Autos: Leave the Driving to Us 6 hours ago permalinkThe 200-mile trip from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe can be a frustrating slog in the wintertime traffic on Interstate 80. Speeds in the fast lane swing from 90 to 30 for no discernible reason. Slow, fast, faster, slow. Hit rush hour in Sacramento—or Donner Pass on a snowy day—and you’ll see the speedometer’s needle tapping ... 13. The AI Revolution Is On 6 hours ago permalinkArtificial intelligence is here. In fact, it’s all around us. But it’s nothing like we expected. 14. Mashup of the Day 10 hours ago permalinkA small IM bot that converts RSS to IM. You must use a Jabber/XMPP client. 15. LiveMap Theatres & Venues 10 hours ago permalinkA portal for the UKs leading live entertainment locations featuring traditional theaters, concert halls, night clubs, arenas etc.. Listed by county or region. Simply select your chosen area from the menu and click on "Visit Website", which will be displayed on the map. 16. Google Scribe 17 hours ago permalinkGoogle launched a very interesting tool that offers suggestions as you type: Google Scribe. It’s not exactly the service I anticipated 3 years ago, but Google Scribe works surprisingly well. For example, I started to type “This works sur” and Google suggested “This works surprisingly well”, which is exactly what I ... 17. TextWeight Tracks Your Weight Loss Progress 17 hours ago permalinkA simple service created by Kevin Morrill, textWeight holds you to your New Year’s weight loss vows by sending you a reminder text at 8am every morning, to which you reply (on the honor system) with your weight. textWeight then creates a graph of your weight loss progress, so you can measure every pound lost towards your goal over time. [From ... 18. IPhone could suffer after users sleep in 22 hours ago permalinkA glitch with Apple's iPhone alarm clock left many users sleeping in on their first day back at work in the UAE. The iPhone helped to put the name of Apple, the world's second-most valuable publicly traded company, into the spotlight. But the technical failure, the latest glitch for the smartphone, may not be well received by investors.
19. Art and design 22 hours ago permalinkZachary Weedon: Read the news and you'd think Detroit was a no-go area of crime and despair. But the music community is still thriving, thanks to the city's rock'n'roll heritage 20. URL Design 1 day ago permalinkYou should take time to design your URL structure. If there’s one thing I hope you remember after reading this article it’s to take time to design your URL structure. Don’t leave it up to your framework. Don’t leave it up to chance. Think about it and craft an experience.
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