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What Does Lindsay Lohan Now Have in Common with Robert Scoble?December 3

lindsay-lohan-marilyn-monroe-03If you said that they both posed topless, well, you’d be correct.  The actual answer I was driving at was that they’ve both had their Facebook accounts deleted.

According to Nick O’Neill at All Facebook, there are (not surprisingly) quite a few Lindsay Lohans on Facebook.

So, what did Lindsay do as soon as she found out her account was shut down?  The same thing Robert Scoble did, she blogged about her experience, only at her MySpace profile:

okay, so i love myspace, because it is secure, and the people at myspace don’t disable your account because they think that you are a fake you.

[..]

when i typed my password and “log in” name in, a red sentence came up saying..

Account Disabled
Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here.


TechCrunch federates with FacebookDecember 3
TechCrunch: "TechCrunch readers can now use their Facebook accounts to sign in before leaving comments." Interesting. And it integrates with Facebook's news feed. I left a comment suggesting they do the same for Twitter, FriendFeed and Identi.ca. Very easy to validate a name with any of those services, though the companies didn't make a big deal about it. I'd like to see some of the smaller developers get a chance to play in league with the big guys. They could also share a pointer to your comment in the flow of any of the services, their APIs make it brain-dead simple to do. Update: There's another reason for a site like TC to federate with the three sites above. Some of us don't use Facebook, but are regular readers of TC. I do have an account on FB, of course, but I almost never check it. I get FB friendship requests from people I haven't seen in years, and care about, and it makes me sad that I don't have the bandwidth to add Facebook to my rotation, I just don't think about it. But... I recently added a connection between Disqus and Friendfeed, and I like what's happening there. I am a constant user of both software tools, so connecting them makes a lot of sense. Any time I post a comment anywhere on Discqus's network, it propogates to FriendFeed. TC is not on the Disqus net, but I would like it to be on the FF net. I think it makes sense for TC to support any site that a significant number of their readers use.
Nokia unveils flagship N97 phone [update: video!]December 2
Details are in, Nokia has a new flagship phone. The N97 packs a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel (that's a 16:9 aspect ratio) resistive touchscreen display with tactile feedback and QWERTY keyboard into this sliding communicator with an always open window to favorite internet or social networking sites. Nokia calls it the world's most advanced mobile computer. To back up the claim they've dropped in HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios, A-GPS, a 3.5-mm headjack, 32GB of onboard memory with microSD expansion (for up to 48GB total capacity), and a battery capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5-hours video. 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass and DVD quality video capture at 30fps, too. The specs are certainly impressive, let's see if the S60 5th Edition OS can support it. The N97 will launch with a retail price set at around €550 ($693) excluding subsidies and taxes, phone to ship in H1 2009.Update: Hah, Nokia just boasted on stage at Nokia World that the N97 was the scoop "Engadget didn't get." O RLY??? Sure looks like the device codenamed Eitri that we broke to the world last month.Update 2: Video demonstration after the break.Update 3: Thanks for the widget love, Nokia (pic after the break, and thanks Eric).Gallery: Nokia unveils flagship N97 phoneRead -- Press ReleaseRead -- A bit more detailRead -- Even more detailContinue reading Nokia unveils flagship N97 phone [update: video!]Filed under: CellphonesNokia unveils flagship N97 phone [update: video!] or
Nokia World 2008: Nokia N97December 2

Introducing the Nokia N97, the next generation high-end mobile phone from Nokia. Described by Nokia folks as a “handheld computer” this device is a pretty comfortable high-end phone. It has a tilting (resistive) touch-screen display, and is the first N-series phone with a QWERTY keyboard. It has 32 gigabytes of memory, expandable to 42 GB via 16 GB memory card.  It has a digital compass, a 1500 milliamp battery, and DVD quality video capture. It’s extremely comfortable to hold, easy to use, and represents a solid solid evolution of the Nokia smarthphone line.

  • Size: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm* *18.25 mm at camera area
  • Weight: Approx. 150 g
  • Memory: Up to 48GB (32 GB on-board memory, plus 16GB expansion via microSD memory card slot)
  • Display: 3.5 inch TFT with up to 16 million colors nHD 16:9 widescreen (640×360 pixels)
  • Talk time: Up to 320 min (3G), 400 min (GSM)
  • Standby t
On the legacy of Chairman Kevin MartinNovember 24
I tend to agree with Prof. Lessig more often than not, but when FCC Chairman Kevin Martin assumed the role, he wasn't the active reformer that Lessig today praises. Honestly, Martin at first seemed cut from the same cloth as former Chairman Powell.

That said, something in Martin changed in the last couple years. I like to think that he realized that in the waning years of the administration which appointed him, he realized he really was beholden to no one other than then American public. At that point, he started to make decisions in the public interest. Unfrotunately, in the grand scheme of thing, I feel it was just too little, too late.