Since it’s that time of year, here’s (yet another) totally biased, personal list of the best and worst the world of tech had to offer my corner of the blogosphere during 2008. The Best Apple: No denying the insane-greatness of the iPhone 3G, which I ponied up for, and despite my complaints about poor battery life and shoddy reception, it’s 90% awesome - and that reception part, I can just blame ATT. The iPhone OS is growing, new development platform with tons of cool apps. Second, Apple as a company had...

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As is accustomed by now, a new year brings look back at the previous year gone by; events and memorable moments to be counted. On this note YouTube brings 2008’s top videos that have been judged by ratings, favorites and number of comments. 24 videos will be added, one per hour throughout the day today. While the party will be going on at YouTube, Hulu has an event up its sleeve as well. Hulu will go live from New York City’s Times Square bringing coverage of the night’s events. Live coverage starts at 1...

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Several reports have been coming in about music labels teaming up to counter YouTube’s supremacy, through another similar streaming channel. Hulu has been opinionated by most as being able to match up to YouTube’s service, if spiced up further - adding to that Hulu is considered better amongst advertisers. It is also possible for music labels to team up and venture into a service of their own, though I doubt that happening. ---Related Articles at Startup Meme:ClickPass embeds Google, Hotmail, Yahoo and F...

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As should be expected, the rumors are increasing in both number and nuttiness as MacWorld approaches. Here’s a round up and some thoughts about each. MacSoda: iWork 09, iLife “Magic” and iPhone 2.3 with copy and paste, push notification, and email search. I’m going with iLife updates since those products seem more overdue for a refresh. I imagine they’ll get some of these “cloud” features, but I am very skeptical they’ll go full-on, online only. iPhone 2.3 sounds like a great possibility, but coming so c...

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Theres going to be a moment in the near future where FriendFeed needs to deliver realtime search over IM. In a response to Robert Scoble yesterday, Paul Buchheit indicated track or something like it would be high on the list of things to commit to in the next round of improvements to the system. After [...]

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On this, the other Black Friday, here are a few bits of retail news worth sharing: Amazon said today that the 2008 holiday shopping season was its best ever, even though a report released on Christmas Day called the season one of the worst in decades. Amazon says very little about its success, choosing instead to release [...]

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By Andrew Liszewski It’s no secret that the iPhone’s built-in digital camera isn’t its strongest selling point. And while using some sort of lens attachment might make it a bit more useful, they usually require an extra housing for mounting the lens, which adds bulk to the phone. But USBfever is now selling a trio of add-on lenses for the iPhone (or any compact camera-equipped device like the DSi) that attach with a simple magnetic ring. Of course you have to be willing to attach the magnetic mounting ri...

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Even if your cable service wont tell you how to do it, there is a way to get its TV channels to your computer. And you wont be stealing a thing. Heres the rundown, with an assist from Lars Felber, a product marketing manager for Elgato Systems GmbH in Munich. • Rent an additional set-top box from [...]

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With every tick of the clock, 2008 is taking its final steps toward 2009, when the year starts afresh. From a broadband perspective it has been an eventful year –- one that was good, bad and ugly. Here is a rundown of 10 stories that defined the sector in 2008: 1. Optical cable cuts bookend [...]

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Two new rumors this week are different in the details but share an interesting overarching theme: TechCrunch is reporting that Apple is working on an iPhone OS-based tablet computer thats essentially a giant iPod Touch for release this fall, and VentureBeat has a fascinating post that not only shows Googles Android OS running on an [...]

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What will happen to the Internet in 2009? Standard & Poor's Internet analyst Scott Kessler has a few predictions. He says Microsoft and Yahoo will "bury the hatchet" to better compete against Google. He doubts Microsoft will buy Yahoo but...

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