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The Incredibly Poor Timing of Tesla Motors (836 diggs) Tesla Motors said in September that it would build a factory in San Jose, CA to produce its new sedan. It was a milestone for both the business and the green-tech industry on which Silicon Valley has pinned so many of its hopes. Unfortunately, the announcement landed in the midst of a firestorm burning through the financial world.

Facebook Ban on Breast-Feeding Photos Spark Protest (1,556 diggs) Are photographs of a mother breast-feeding her child indecent? The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate -- and protests -- after removing photos.

Biggest Tech Stories Of The Year 2008 (417 diggs) Turbulent as the last 12 months have felt, 2008 may go on record as the year when the most important events in technology news were those that didn't happen.

Techies will re-energize with new gadgets in 2009 (487 diggs) A silver lining found within today's financial storm is that more businesses are embracing cloud computing. The economic and environmental advancements of storing and delivering more corporate information via the Internet (aka "the cloud") will be the technology story of 2009.

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Report: Music companies mull YouTube rival (465 diggs) Major music companies are reportedly considering plans to launch a video site that would compete with Google Inc.’s YouTube.

Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy (409 diggs) This online business model has Americans happily toiling for attention on for-profit sites that don't pay them money. Yahoo even hired microeconomists and sociologists from Harvard and Columbia to maximize Yahoo's ability to exploit free labor.

Private, Government, or Military? Seeking Obama's Cyber Czar (393 diggs) Should the head of cybersecurity in the new administration come from private industry, government or the military?

Top 10 people in technology (978 diggs) Some obvious ones, not sure if I had chosen Elon Musk, though. However, running SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity at age 37 is rather impressive. Looks like I have wasted a lot of time in my life.

Pew survey shows online news overtaking print in the US (587 diggs) People who have followed the development of the Internet are probably well aware of the Pew Charitable Trust, which has tracked the growth of the web through its Internet & American Life Project. According to the group's latest survey, performed in early December, the use of Internet news sources has passed that of newspapers for the first time.

DMFail: Why you shouldn't send private messages on twitter (1,084 diggs) If you are the kind of person who can ’t help but look when you drive by an accident scene, DMFail is for you. The site, which has been all the rage on Twitter for the last few days, shows direct (private) messages that were sent improperly on Twitter and are therefore public.

The Crunchies Finalists 2008 - Vote For Your Favorite Sites (287 diggs) Nearly 180,000 total nominations were made across the various categories. Voting will continue until end of day on January 5, and the winners will be announced at the award ceremony and party on Friday, January 9 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco.

Vaporware 2008: Crushing Disappointments, False Promises, BS (601 diggs) This year, handset makers were exhaling more vapor than anyone - eager to compete with the iPhone and to cash in on the excitement around Android and GPS-enabled services, the mobile sector was ripe with empty vows. Gamers had it rough again this year, too, as several key titles failed to ship on time. Bet you can guess what #1 will be.

The Tubes Are Clogged (1,003 diggs) If you've been having trouble accessing some of the web's most popular sites this morning, you aren't alone.

Website age ratings May Be Applied to Protect Children (379 diggs) Film-style age ratings could be applied to websites to protect children from harmful and offensive material, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has said.

Room 214 (1,176 diggs) A teacher is bullied to give up his Twitter name -- Kevin Rose responds.

2009 DMCA Rulemaking (iPhones, YouTube, Videos) (544 diggs) For the 2009 rulemaking, EFF filed three exemption requests with the Copyright Office today aimed at protecting the important work of video remix artists, iPhone owners, and cell phone recyclers from legal threats under the DMCA.

Everything I Know About Business I Learned From Poker (1,207 diggs) Great insight from Zappos CEO.

Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2008 (1,646 diggs) 2008 is nearing its end, time to make a list of the top 10 BitTorrent sites that got the most traffic this year. The Pirate Bay is out in the lead followed by Mininova and isoHunt. TorrentSpy shut down earlier this year and is the most notable absentee.

Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom (789 diggs) Remember the ill-fated Google-killer Cuil? Named ‘Cuill’ and very much in stealth mode for the first part of the year, they finally emerged end of July 2008 with a ‘massive’ search engine that would rival the most popular search engines of our time with an enormous index, an innovative interface and some nifty features.

First look at Windows 7 beta 1 (1,865 diggs) Adrian Kingsley-Hughes got 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 he reports that it’s a good one.

What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting (3,052 diggs) 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 margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.

2009: Year of mergers, platform changes and conservation (353 diggs) 2009 is shaping up to be a nasty year, in fact it looks like 2009 and 2010 will be years we'll want to look back on as briefly as possible. But these years will also clear out of lot of the dead and dying companies that have been clogging up the market.

Mozilla's mobile browser gets closer to prime time (717 diggs) Mozilla's mobile browser, Fennec, may well define the mobile experience for everyone, including Apple.

Just The Best Tech Lists of 2008 (377 diggs) Who doesn't love lists that neatly package the best games or coolest gadgets? That why we put together the ultimate tech-related lists of 2008.