CNET News Daily Podcast: Nokia's layoffs and Skype's eBay adieu Nokia is cutting its R&D workforce, while eBay says goodbye to Skype. Hear more about these stories and others in today's episode. [Source: CNET.com News] Windows 8 in 2012? It's not clear what Microsoft's desktop plans are, but the Windows Server team included slides at PDC suggesting a new major release coming around 2012. [Source: CNET.com News] Gameloft to cut back on Android development Mobile games developer Gameloft has announced it's cutting back on development for the Android, citing a lack of revenue.
 [Source: Playlist News] Google Chrome OS: Why should people switch? Will you be using Chrome OS a year from now?
At the Web-based operating system's coming-out party at Google headquarters on Thursday, Google presented its vision of Chrome, and a huge amount of information on what the browser and operating system are based on, how they run, and the safeguards in ...
 [Source: Christian Science Monitor | Sci/Tech]An open letter to Google I had an interesting but somewhat disturbing exchange with a Google guy on Twitter today. It reveals a bunch of disconnects, that I'm going to try, in this post, to address.
1. Please take these statements at face value.
2. I am just a person, I am not in competition with Google.
3. I am a Google user. My primary email account is on GMail. I just bought a Droid, and started a Droid blog to help other people get started. I like it primarily because it connects so well with Google services.
4. I am a former Google shareholder. I made a shitload of money from my Google investment. Thank you. 
5. I think Google is a big company. I think the people at Google, like most people everywhere, mean well. Like every big organization there are some who don't mean well. But I judge each individual as a person. I don't assume because a person works at Google that they are good or bad or otherwise.
6. I don't have the first clue what it's like to be inside Google, and honestly I don't care.
7. Now about PubSubHubBub. When I first looked at it I saw Atom all over it. I quickly hit the Back button.
8. There was a time when I seriously considered implementing it. But it required me to understand concepts I didn't understand and had no interest in investing in. It seemed to me that I would have to reimplement a lot of stuff I already had working. This is something big companies ask you to do a lot of.
9. One of the reasons I revitalized rssCloud was to influence Google to support RSS better in PSHB.
10. One of the clues that PSHB needs to be reconstructed is that it's so hard to describe. What's needed here is easy to explain: Instant updates for RSS. If you think RSS is a bad choice of terms, do some research. The world sees it that way. If you make that more general, you lose people. They get confused. PSHB is very very confusing to people. That hinders adoption.
11. Fostering adoption of complex technologies is something I know a lot about. I'm very good at it. You can ignore me if you want, but I usually am right about this stuff.
12. Switching gears, I like the Internet because it means I can ignore big companies and still create meaningful software.
13. I think Google doesn't like RSS. I see that in a lot of things Google does.
14. I wish Google would give up on fighting RSS. I think it's pointless. I don't think defeating or blunting or obviating RSS has anything to do with Google's business.
15. You can argue with me on any of these points, but remember #2. If you convince me I'm wrong (which is unlikely, btw, I'm no different than anyone else in that regard), you still have just convinced one person.
16. All this disclaimed, we have a common interest, I think. I don't want to pretend to speak for Google, so I don't want to try to say what that is.
[Source: Scripting News] [$] Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation Fedora 12 was released on
November 17 with the usual pile of new packages and features. By the
sounds, it is a solid, well-received release. But one
feature—unpublicized, undocumented, and turned on by
default—has a number of Fedora users up in arms, leading to a huge
thread on fedora-devel, in the bugzilla
entry, and here at LWN.
Subscribers can click below for a look at this issue from next week's edition. [Source: Linux Weekly News] Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE Ricky writes "Many wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer nightly builds of Internet Explorer — or at least something more frequent than months-to-years. Ars talks with Microsoft's general manager for IE, who says the IE9 development cycle will look much the same as previous versions. Not a great idea." 
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
 [Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines]Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday." 
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
 [Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines]Electric carmaker Tesla preparing IPO An IPO filing for the electric car start-up is expected any day, according to sources. [Source: CNET.com News] LUNCHTIME POLL: What’s Your Favorite Video Sharing Service? It’s Friday, people, which means that not only is it Follow Friday, it’s also time for the Lunchtime Poll! Last week we wanted to know about your favorite news reader (or whether you use RSS at all). We’ll have the results for you later today, but let’s get a head start on the new poll: what’s your favorite video sharing service?
We’ll start off with some responses from the staff here at Mashable, and let you fine folks have at it in the comments. Be sure to let us know along with your vote why you chose it as your favorite. We’ll post the results next week to show the zeitgeist from Mashable readers.
Are you in? Let’s roll the question!
What’s your favorite video sharing service?
Mashable Faves
Adam Ostrow: YouTube or Ustream. It’s all about the content.
Pete Cashmore: YouTube.
Sharon Feder: I’m not a power user, but Vimeo is definitely my favorite.
Ben Parr: Viddler, YouTube, and Ustream, depending on the situation.
Christina Warren: Vimeo, because it has the best quality.
Barb Dybwad: I like Qik for mobile, Flickr for short visually-interesting clips, and YouTube for an endless stream of distractions punctuated by hilarious cats.
Tamar Weinberg: YouTube because it actually can process Kodak Zi6 videos (Flickr and Vimeo cannot), but Vimeo has a really awesome GUI.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, ericsphotography
Reviews: Flickr, Mashable, Vimeo, YouTube, iStockphoto, ustream
Tags: flickr, lunchtime poll, qik, ustream, viddler, video, video sharing, youtube
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