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Mozilla is looking for guinea pigs to try out the new version of its browser, Firefox 3 Beta 1. Mozilla calls itself a “foundation” and its slogan is “Good for the Web. Good for the World.” But you know better than that. Mozilla topper Mitchell Baker makes $500,000-plus a year and Mozilla’s for-profit wing brought in $56 million in revenues last year. In other words, no one should feel obligated by a sense of charity to download the new beta software. Baker & Co. could afford to pay for some actual QA engineers.

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LinkedIn will launch a developer program similar to Facebook’s platform on December 10. According to the company’s PR firm, the new program will allow “select” third-party developers to build “business applications for the Web.” We’re just glad that In the details that follow, the words “social graph” are nowhere to be seen.

Several applications will be available the day LinkedIn’s platform launches. The social network also introduce several new apps of its own on that will “enable them to draw on the wisdom, knowledge, experience, resources, and inspiration of their networks.”

It’s not good news for Google’s OpenSocial initiative, in which LinkedIn is a theoretical partner. Why would LinkedIn need its own platform — if, that is, OpenSocial were anything more than a PR scam?

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San Franciscans may remember EarthLink CEO Rolla Huff leaving them in the lurch when he abruptly backed out of the city’s municipal Wi-Fi project. Well, it turns out Huff, like any sensible CEO, doesn’t want to lose money on a venture that probably will minimize shareholder value. The Internet service provider is cutting its losses and abandoning all plans to build citywide Wi-Fi networks. A shame. We thought it was just San Francisco’s toxic stew of entitlement, anticapitalism, and government dysfunction that drove EarthLink away.

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