1. A new workout for the Wii  permalink

News.cnet.com

Ubisoft's upcoming fitness game, YourShape, promises an experience a step up from Wii Fit. In the process, can it help revitalize the Nintendo console?

2. Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web  permalink

Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web . This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, ...

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Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web Android Developer Challenge 2 Finalists Posted, Final Judging Begins   —  Early this morning, 200 Android developers woke up to one hell of an e-mail: they’d made it into the final round of the second Android Developer Challenge, and were thus one giant step closer to as much as $250,000.

3. To zwink or not?  permalink

To zwink or not?
Mark pincus / Mark Pincus Blog

michael arrington posted a clip today of a bar-side chat I did with Berkeley entrepreneurs in which I stressed how we were laser focused from the beginning on finding revenue opportunities that would scale. The primary reason I pointed to is that entrepreneurs should push to control their own destinies, and being profitable was the best path. In ...

4. The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch  permalink

The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won'

5. The 19 bloggers Inc. thinks you should read  permalink

The 19 bloggers Inc. thinks you should read
GuyKawasaki / How to Change the World

Inc. named 19 bloggers that you should read. We’ve aggregated them all in one place: Inc19.alltop .

6. EMI to offer instant concert recordings  permalink

EMI to offer instant concert recordings
News.cnet.com

The name of the initiative, Abbey Road Live, is a bit misleading--it doesn't have anything to do with the Beatles album or the recording studio after which it was named.

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EMI launches ‘Abbey Road Live’   —  EMI has announced that it has launched 'Abbey Road Live', a new live music recording and production service. 'Abbey Road Live' offers fans the opportunity to purchase high quality recordings of music events, instantly, at concert venues that they have just attended.

7. Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love  permalink

Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love
News.cnet.com

Bert and Ernie shared space on Google's home page on Friday with an ad for Motorola's Droid, the Verizon Wireless smartphone that went on sale on Friday.

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Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love My Not-So-Epic Quest To Find The Elusive Verizon Droid Line   —  Today is Droid day — an event that I, like many tech bloggers, have been looking forward to for quite some time. Unlike some people, I wasn't graced with a test Droid last week, so I was forced to go out and get one the old fashioned way: by getting to the store as early as possible, before the precious devices sold out. And while I was ...

Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher
PRWatch: Press Releases Must Be Labelled Says Google News   —  Some PR people love Google News because it often distributes their press releases as if they are real news articles written by independent journalists. "This gets past the gate-keepers!" has been their gleeful mantra. However, studies have shown that nearly one in five people can confuse press releases with real news stories. That's all the ...

8. Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app stores  permalink

Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app stores
Www.cnet.com

This week on the Roundtable: the App Store revolution. Something funny has happened to software. While the model we all grew up with for the distribution of software was mostly to buy it through retail channels or other resellers, or maybe direct from manufacturers, another model emerged and has proven successful by Apple: the App Store. In this ...

9. Grant Thornton Study: Scary Numbers On The Decline Of US IPOs  permalink

Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher

The lack of IPOs is harming the cycle of innovation in Silicon Valley but if you look beyond our region, it's effect is much larger. Grant Thornton, a large accounting firm, has published a study that shows the connection between IPOs and the health of the US economy. And it shows how new listings in Asia are helping to shift wealth and ...

10. A Religion for Atheists  permalink

Www.standpointmag.co.uk

The most boring question to ask about religion is whether or not the whole thing is “true”. It’s a measure of the banality of recent discussions on theological matters that it is precisely this matter which has hogged the limelight, pitting a hardcore group of fanatical believers against an equally small band of fanatical atheists.

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11. Microsoft launching health tech video show  permalink

Microsoft launching health tech video show
News.cnet.com

Aiming to reinforce its medical pedigree, Microsoft next week is launching a video show on developments in the health care technology arena. Microsoft senior director Bill Crounse, who is hosting the show, is a veteran of both broadcasting and medicine, being both a broadcaster and practicing physician before joining Microsoft. In a chat on Friday,

12. Exclusive video of the Litl Webbook  permalink

Www.crunchgear.com

When news of the Litl Webbook broke out on Wednesday, I was pleased to learn that the company is located here in Boston, since there aren’t nearly as many people in this area making actual hardware devices, as opposed to software and web companies.

13. Rich Carriers Got Richer in Q3  permalink

Rich Carriers Got Richer in Q3
Colin Gibbs / GigaOM

The rich mobile carriers got a little richer in the third quarter, as the nation’s top two operators increased their leads over the rest of the field. Verizon Wireless added a million subscribers and posted revenue of $15.8 billion, up 24.4 percent year-over-year, while AT&T reported 2 million net adds — thanks largely to [...]

14. Employment Situation  permalink

Employment Situation
Www.bls.gov

Table B-2. Average weekly hours of production and nonsupervisory workers (1) on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail

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15. Opera Mobile 10 beta browser: First Look video  permalink

Opera Mobile 10 beta browser: First Look video
Download.cnet.com

It's been a few days since Opera unwrapped its latest beta browser for mobile phones, and we've had some more time to get acquainted. Opera Mobile 10 beta (download), which runs on certain Symbian Series 60 smartphones, adds some improvements to its password manager and has made a few tweaks under the hood. Its most significant alterations, ...

16. Steps for creating a true lead nurturing program  permalink

Steps for creating a true lead nurturing program
Brian Carroll / B2B Lead Generation Blog

Sometimes in an attempt to vamp up lead nurturing efforts, misguided and well-meaning organizations simply start sending out more emails. When email is misused in this manner, companies are really just training prospects to ignore or delete their messages. See...

17. Breakfast of Champions: Toothpaste and Deodorant  permalink

Breakfast of Champions: Toothpaste and Deodorant
Dave Pell / Davenetics

For many months, I’ve been thinking, Damn, my wife’s underarm cleanser container looks way too much like a toothpaste dispenser. And this morning, that similarity took its toll. Yuck. Not recommended.

18. TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch – A Realtime Holiday  permalink

TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch – A Realtime Holiday
TechCrunch Europe / TechCrunch

It is time for the second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch ! Yes folks it's our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Holiday party, in one handy package. This year we're taking a different tack - basing it around one of the the hottest themes right now, namely the rise of realtime streams. We've seen the emergence of Twitter, ...

19. Not enough hours in the day? There's a personal assistant for that  permalink

Not enough hours in the day? There's a personal assistant for that
Podcast / Between the Lines

For the time-crunched and cash-strapped, Handmark is launching a personal assistant service that could help people actually hammer through their to-do lists.

20. Everyone is clueless  permalink

Everyone is clueless
Seth Godin / Seth

The problem with "everyone" is that in order to reach everyone or teach everyone or sell to everyone, you need to so water down what you've got you end up with almost nothing. Everyone doesn't go to the chiropractor, everyone doesn't give to charity, everyone has never been to Starbucks. Everyone, in fact, lives a decade behind the times and ...