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Rafat / paidContent.org:
UK-Heavy Social Network Bebo Gets $15 Million Funding — You're reading it here first: Bebo, an SF-based social networking site which is in the middle-ground between MySpace and Facebook, and among the biggest in UK, Ireland and New Zealand, has received $15 million in venture funding from Benchmark Capital.
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Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:
Another day, another social network gets $15M: this time it is Bebo — A couple of weeks ago, this BusinessWeek piece provided a good background on the recent hyperactivity around social networks - especially when it comes to VC investments. Another large player, Bebo …
Wired News:
Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut — Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges that AT&T cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic surveillance program.
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Evan Hansen / Wired News:
Why We Published the AT&T Docs — A file detailing aspects of AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic wiretap operation is sitting in a San Francisco courthouse. But the public cannot see it because, at AT&T's insistence, it remains under seal in court records.
Justin Berton / San Francisco Chronicle:The age of privacy — Gen Y not shy sharing online — but worries about spying
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Mark Peters / Lets Go Digital:
Samsung Digimax L70 — Samsung Digimax L70 : At the Korean Photo & Imaging 2006 event Samsung Techwin showcased their new Samsung Digimax L70 digital camera. The Samsung L70, the Korean name is Samsung Kenox X70, is a new model of the L-series of Samsung digital cameras.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Voice Encryption May Draw U.S. Scrutiny — SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 — Philip R. Zimmermann wants to protect online privacy. Who could object to that? — He has found out once already. Trained as a computer scientist, he developed a program in 1991 called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, for scrambling and unscrambling e-mail messages.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
University server in hackers' hands for a year — An unprecedented string of electronic intrusions has prompted Ohio University to place at least one technician on paid administrative leave and begin a sweeping reorganization of the university's computer services department.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Working with Technorati to Listen to the Global Conversation — Earlier this month in his State of the Blogosphere update David Sifry posted that two thirds of the global blog conversation is in non-English languages. For example, 15% of the discussion is in Chinese.
Chris Gaither / Los Angeles Times:
The One Bit of Info Google Withholds: How It Works — Advertisers, competitors and Wall Street analysts are frustrated by the company's secrecy. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. evolved from a tiny start-up to the shining star of American enterprise in less than a decade by bringing knowledge to billions of people.
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Jessica Guynn / Contra Costa Times:
Call them equal opportunity bloggers — Word to the wired: Don't ask the founders of BlogHer where the women bloggers are. — You see, a hyperbolic debate is raging in the blogosphere: Why is this supposedly democratic medium recreating real-world inequality?
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Read/WriteWeb:
Coming to terms with Web 2.0 — You know when Gartner and IBM pontificate on Web 2.0, that we've reached a point where the term has become generally acceptable - mainstream even. Well-known research firm Gartner has drunk the kool aid: … ...and David Boloker, CTO of IBM's emerging …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Everybody's a network — In the future of media, which is now, everybody is a network. In the past, networks were defined by control of content or distribution. But now, you can't own all distribution and content is controlled where it's created. So, I wonder, where's the value and where's the money in the fully networked world?
Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
Vista's Make Or Break Moment — Testers of Microsoft's latest operating system say the next build, which they're betting will hit this week, better be good. — It's the hour of reckoning for Windows Vista. — After five years of course changes, false starts and a host of beta …
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Dennis Fraederich / MSBLOG:Final Prices for All Vista Editions?
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Back to the Future... for Broadcast TV — Back in the 1970's, the television industry began a long period of market realignment that was caused by the introduction of a disruptive innovation called cable TV. After decades of market incursion, cable's impact on the TV landscape is now complete …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mytago: A Real/Online World Bridge — Like Mozes, Mytago is trying to find an easy way for people to tag real world stuff for interaction online. — The idea is to create a visual tag (see image) that can be included on a website or, more usefully, somewhere offline like a poster.
Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
New Media Player: Nice Features, but It's No ITunes — Microsoft has spent the last few years getting smacked around by Apple in the digital-music market, and it must be getting tired of this treatment. So it's doing something drastic: It's throwing its own MSN Music store under the bus …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
How to compete with FeedBurner — If I were going to launch a competitor to FeedBurner, here's how I'd do it. — First, I'd either do a deal with a registrar, become a registrar, or merge or partner with one. It's absolutely essential that the user own the domain that their feed is hosted at …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Feedpass Does Absolutely Nothing — There has been a lot of debate about a new service called Feedpass over the last couple of days. — Feedpass, like Feedburner, will take any RSS feed URL and convert it into something more manageable. For example, I created a TechCrunch feed at Feedpass …
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