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Red Herring:
Friendster Wins Patent — After emerging from debt, Friendster wins a patent on social networking. — Friendster said Thursday that it has received a patent that covers online social networks, one the company had applied for long before its decline and recent recapitalization.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Friendster awarded patent on social networking — Sagging social network Friendster was awarded a patent on some pretty fundamental qualities of online social networking late last month. The patent covers the determining and display of relationships between individuals who have entered personal information …
huffingtonpost.com:
BREAKING: New Rocketboom Girl Chosen, Looks Strangely Like Old One — HuffPo's "Eat The Press" has learned that Rocketboom executive producer Andrew Baron has tapped former MTV Europe VJ Joanna Colan to take the anchor chair vacated by Amanda Congdon earlier this week.
MediaPost Publications:
ABC Looks Beyond Upfront To DVR, Commercial Ratings Issues — ABC HAS HELD DISCUSSIONS ON the use of technology that would disable the fast-forward button on DVRs, according to ABC President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw, with the primary goal to allow TV commercials to run as intended.
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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Lawsuits Fly Over Google Founders' Big Private Plane — Even billionaires have disputes with their contractors. — Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the low-key co-founders of Google Inc., set tongues wagging last year when they bought a used Boeing 767 widebody as an unusually large private jet.
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B2Day, Rough Type, Gizmodo, Valleywag, Newsome.Org, GoogleRumors, ben barren, Zoli's Blog and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:Lawsuits Over The Google Party Jet; Arguments Over Bed Sizes On Board
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The Browser, SearchViews, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Internet Stocks and Threadwatch.org
Stephanie Mehta / CNNMoney.com:
AOL as Yahoo wannabe — If AOL greenlights a plan to give away e-mail, it will be taking yet another page from the Yahoo playbook. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) — AOL has a serious case of Yahoo envy. — First, AOL last year built a Yahoo-like Internet portal, putting all its content …
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Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:AOL May Speed Shift Away From Subscribers
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Joshua Jaffe / VC Ratings:
Google preparing health portal; pitching WebMD and Intuit as partners — Google is planning a product that it hopes will overhaul the way patients, doctors, vendors and pharmaceutical companies manage their medical information online. Dubbed the Google Health Scrapbook …
Thomas Hawk / Official Zooomr Blog:
DO WE LOVE BLOGGERS? YES WE DO! — One of things that we hope Zooomr will become in the months ahead is the photo sharing site of choice for bloggers to host their images on. Since we're new though and need to get the word out we thought the best way to get bloggers to use our site …
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Most Progressive 'Incumbent' YP Up for Sale — Though public (or quasi public) knowledge for several months, Verizon has formally filed to sell its yellow pages print and online directory product units, Verizon Information Services/SuperPages.com. Here's more detail from MarketWatch.
heise-security.co.uk:
Copy protection hole in Blu-ray and HD DVD movies — The Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD are new data carriers for high-resolution motion pictures. For fear of piracy, Hollywood had the developers install a cornucopia of copy prevention mechanisms on them. For instance, the film data on the disks …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Microsoft announces ODF support — Microsoft has announced support for an open source document format called ODF, Open Document Format. Microsoft will also offer its own Open XML document format with the release of Office 2007. This announcement follows an announcement of support for the popular PDF format as well.
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Nwhite / Windows Vista Team Blog:
New Windows Standard Theme in Windows Vista — How does Sidebar Geek do it? I was just putting the finishing touches on a post about the new theme when I found out that Brandon beat me to it. Well great job picking that up! I had a chance to chat with Don Lindsay on the User Experience Team …
Ross Miller / Joystiq:
Apple cameos on PS3 website ... wtf? [update 4] — Load up the US PlayStation 3 website, and watch carefully on the PS3 unit just above the controller. [You will see a quick, subliminal blip.] It has been fixed. You can view the original page here. — Did you catch what it was?
Michael Sciannamea / The Wireless Report:
A wireless network in NYC's future? — It's about time! New York City's Economic Development Corporation announced it will be conducting a feasibility study to determine whether a citywide wireless network can be effectively developed and deployed within the city.
CURRY.COM:
Unleash day 2 — Just returned to the Cottage from Rotterdam. Pretty tired from the week's events, but there's stuff to do and things to patch/fix/glue on PodShow.com. The most obvious being that external feeds should of course link to the original external feed
Brian / Popgadget:
Stylish vacuum: the Dirt Devil Kone — Designed by famed artist Karim Rashid, the Kone portable, rechargeable vacuum from Dirt Devil brings style to your chores. — This is the vacuum you'll want to leave out for everyone to see. The original white version gives off a soft glow when the handheld is placed in the charging base.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Vista's PC-rating tool gets a revamp — Microsoft has reworked the PC assessment tool in Windows Vista after fielding complaints from hardware makers—but the changes may not be enough to completely quell concerns. — In May, the software maker promised to make changes …
