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Claire Osborn / Austin American-Statesman:
Teen, mom sue MySpace.com for $30 million — Suit filed in Travis County claims popular Internet site fails to protect children from adult sexual predators. — A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a Buda man she met on MySpace.com sued …
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Researchers Say New Chip Breaks Speed Record — Researchers at I.B.M. and the Georgia Institute of Technology are set to announce today that they have broken the speed record for silicon-based chips with a semiconductor that operates 250 times faster than chips commonly used today.
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datinganyone.com:
Welcome to DatingAnyone.com — It was fun while it lasted... Myspace has asked that we fold up shop. (I only emailed them 4 times asking them what I should do.) The Cease and Desist letter is below. DatingAnyone.com started back in April 2006 as a cool idea and a challenging development project.
Discussion:
Mashable*
CNNMoney.com:
The coming Web video shakeout — The number of YouTube-like services now stands at a staggering 173 - and in April alone 3 outfits got $30 million in funding. Who will survive? — (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Too many dotcom startups, not enough seats at the party.
Wall Street Journal:
'DRM' Protects Downloads, But Does It Stifle Innovation? — Consumers now have the ability to buy digital versions of music and movies from a vast (and growing) online catalog. But that convenience has come at a price: Most of the digital content is packaged with technology called digital rights management …
Discussion:
The Technology Liberation …, Democracy in Media, Copyfight, Wendy's Blog, Boing Boing and Joho the Blog
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
As the Internet Grows Up, the News Industry Is Forever Changed — The news industry, congenitally nervous about its future, looks at the Web this spring and sees cause for panic. — Advertisers are rushing to the Internet. Readers, even of the best newspapers and magazines …
Discussion:
InterMedia, Sadagopan's weblog …, Socialtwister 2.0, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web and dailywireless.org
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down the avenue:
CTC on Social Media & Collaboration — I'm at the CTC (collaboration conference) in Boston this week, where client KnowNow is exhibiting. There are tons of fabulous tracks and hallway conversations that focus around people's issues inside and outside the enterprise.
Jon's Radio:
A takedown request from This American Life — A couple of weeks ago, in The network is the network: public radio on the web, I noted in passing that NPR PRI's This American Life had converted from RealAudio streams to MP3s. That meant it was now possible to bypass this tedious procedure …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to embed Live services in Windows — BOSTON—Microsoft's Live-branded online services don't end at the Web browser. They extend deep into Windows. — The company last week quietly showed off software for embedding its Web-based Windows Live ID authentication services within Windows applications.
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Laura Foy / 10:Windows Live Messenger for your viewing pleasure.
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Chris Pirillo, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, Don Dodge on The Next …, AMCP Tech Blog and The Insider
Seth Stevenson / Slate:
Mac Attack — Apple's mean-spirited new ad campaign. … (Click here to see the ads.) — When I write about ads, I often face an obstacle: I'm not in the target demographic. Am I really in a position to judge whether, say, a Lexus ad is on the mark? The chances that I …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
ROBBIE THE ROBOT — I've got some advice for Microsoft: Rent movie "I, Robot," and study up on Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics (His collection of stories, I, Robot was the first book I purchased with my own money). — Today, Microsoft unveiled Robotics Studio, for creating robotic applications.
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
Sun CEO will announce thousands of layoffs this Thursday — Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will announce on Thursday a large round of layoffs in a bid to cut about one-half billion dollars in annual costs as it transforms itself into a broad based computer software and services company.
Mike / Techdirt:
Can Mesh WiFi Solve The Net Neutrality Issue? — from the not-likely dept — We've pointed to two separate, but equally insightful, pieces on the real issues concerning network neutrality (which is, basically, that network neutrality isn't the issue — a lack of competition is).
Discussion:
The Wireless Report
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Jennifer Netherby / Variety:
Netflix thinks inside the box — Netco to introduce set-top box with Internet connection — Netflix VP of original programming Eric Besner revealed on Friday some of the online rental service's thinking on the movie download biz, saying Netflix is planning to introduce a proprietary set-top box …
New York Times:
A Coming Attraction: Movies on iTunes — Consumers have been willing to spend 99 cents to buy Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" or $1.99 for an episode of "Desperate Housewives" from iTunes. — Now Steven P. Jobs is betting they will also pay $9.99 to download "The Godfather" to play on their iPods.
Discussion:
B2Day
Jon's Radio:
User-generated content vs. reader-created context — For an internal IDG newsletter I was asked to pick the industry buzzword that most annoys me and write a brief essay explaining why. I chose user-generated content and wrote the following: … It's not enough to merely be annoyed …
Discussion:
Scobleizer, Socialtwister 2.0, Off the Top, Ted's Radio Weblog and Center for Citizen Media
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why did Bill Gates step down? — When the top executive of a major company steps down, even gradually, we are too easily distracted by the emotional arguments, and Microsoft plays this sleight of hand better than almost anyone, but come on, do you think Bill would be stepping aside if the graph were inverted?
