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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg 3.0 To Launch Monday: Exclusive Screenshots and Stats — Digg 3.0 will launch Monday, June 26, in the morning PST. The launch is being announced this evening, and Digg has made a number of screen shots available to me which are included in this post.
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Read/WriteWeb:
Digg 3.0 expands beyond tech — This Monday Digg will release the next version of the enormously popular community news site digg.com. Mike Arrington and I did a TalkCrunch podcast with Digg's co-founder and Chief Architect Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson, in which we discussed Digg's evolution …
Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
Online News With a New Angle — To see who will create the Internet newscast of the future, look into a mirror. — You and millions of other readers are being cast as Internet news anchors by a fresh crop of Web sites that may well represent the future of news.
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Scott Beale / Laughing Squid:
Digg v3 Party Photos — On Monday Digg will be releasing version 3 of their website, so tonight they had a small party at Anu in San Francisco to celebrate the occasion. Here are a few photos, including some screenshots from v3. For more on the Digg v3 launch, check out TechCrunch.
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Nik Cubrilovic / TalkCrunch:
Episode 10: Digg 3.0 Launches - Interview With Founders Kevin Rose & Jay Adelson — Digg 3.0 is set to launch on Monday, June 26, 2006. Screen shots and a feature overview are available on TechCrunch and Read/Write Web. Here on TalkCrunch, Richard MacManus and Michael Arrington interview …
ZDNet:
Novell ditches top execs … Jack Messman has been sacked as Novell chief executive, as the company looks to speed up its Linux strategy — The board of Novell has dismissed two top executives, including chief executive Jack Messman,as part of a management shake-up at the software and networking firm.
Jo Best / CNET News.com:
Next Nokia minitablet to get Webcam, WiMax? — After the success of its original Linux tablet, the 770, Nokia is looking at the next generation of Internet-only devices. — The original tablet device debuted last year and caught the attention of gadget fans wondering why Nokia was making a device that had no cellular connectivity.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Torrentspy names alleged MPAA hacker — A month after accusing the Motion Picture Association of America of conspiring to commit data theft, the operators of a file search engine presented more details regarding the alleged relationship between the MPAA and a man who admits hacking the small company's network.
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Lakshmi Sandhana / Wired News:
Next Game Controller: Your Phone — Researchers are turning cell phones into motion-detection game controllers similar to Nintendo's new Wii device. — In a recent demonstration, the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand used a pair of Nokia Series 60 phones in a game of AR Tennis.
Lee Hollaar / ipi.org:
A Bad Trade: Will Congress Unwittingly Repeal the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Violate Our Trade Treaties? — Synopsis — In his recent IPI Ideas paper "Will Congress Circumvent the DMCA?," Richard Epstein notes how the "other purposes" of Rep. Boucher's (D-VA) H.R. 1201 …
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
I know you are , but what am I... I think I have been called more names by more people in the last week than even I thought possible. The beauty is in the irony of it all. — In the first year I owned the team, I was called the same names and media wrote the exact same things they are writing today.
Chris Pirillo:
Users vs. Developers — In prepping for my talk at BloggerCon tomorrow, I thought I'd incite a riot tonight. Most of the world won't be there, but you can tune into the live stream at some point right after lunch (when I'll be leading the discussion). I put all of this in tonight's Lockergnome report …
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Maxthon: China's hip browser — Web surfers in China frustrated by censorship in search engines are increasingly turning to a little-known Internet browser with a big following in the Middle Kingdom. — Maxthon, a browser made by a tiny Beijing company of the same name …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Photobucket vs. Flickr in Alexa and Technorati — One of the top stories in the blogosphere today is a new Hitwise chart finding that Photobucket has a 46% leading market share in online photosharing and that Flickr is in 6th place with only 6%. — This was a big surprise for parts of the blogosphere where Flickr is a hot topic.
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LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:PhotoBucket Leads Photo Sharing Sites; Flickr at #6
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Roundup — the Silicon Valley beat continues with YouthNoise, more — Here's the latest action: — YouthNoise, a social network for social change, raises $1.5 million — The San Francisco non-profit start-up will target users aged 16-22, and organize their profiles according to their cause and issue preference.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
PostApp launches WidgetBox, a marketplace for widgets — Stealth start-up PostApp announced at Thursday's SuperNova Connected Innovators session the launch tomorrow of WidgetBox, its new beta marketplace for managed web based widgets, and $1.5 million in funding from Hummer Winblad.
