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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MySpace Goes Offline — Hear that? That's the sound of 80 million people hitting the refresh button. — MySpace, one of the world's most popular sites (perhaps the most popular), has suffered a major outage today - the URL fails to load at all. At 6:40pm last night …
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Rich Miller / Netcraft:
Power Outage Knocks MySpace.com Offline — Social networking site MySpace.com is offline tonight, and attributing the downtime to a power outage in its data center. The site is among the most popular on the Internet, with some services estimating that it is now the most visited destination on the Web, surpassing Google and Yahoo.
Dave Sifry / The Technorati Weblog:
Technorati turns 3, rolls out a major update — After months of work and weeks of testing, we just released an updated version of technorati.com. I hope after spending some time with the updated service, you'll join me in celebrating its release. — For those of you with ADD …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
In the Race With Google, It's Consistency vs. 'Wow' — When Google introduced its mapping service last year, it did something that made its competitors look antiquated. Users could click on a map and drag it to see an adjacent area, a much faster approach than those offered by rival mapping services.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Gotuit Furthers Television's Demise — Boston based Gotuit Media launched Gotuit late Sunday evening. Gotuit offers users on-demand free premium content like music videos, sports clips and short films (the stuff that gets deleted from YouTube). Find what you want, click it and watch it immediately.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Gotuit Launches Broadband Video Portal — Gotuit Media, an established player in on-demand video, today announced the launch of its new broadband video portal - Gotuit.com. I got a sneak peak of the new portal and spoke with Mark Pascarella (president of Gotuit Media) and David Laubner …
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Kazaa, Skype, and now "The Venice Project" — Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net — Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created the pioneering Web applications Kazaa and Skype …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Releases Public Betas of Exchange Server 2007 and Forefront Security for Exchange Server — Customers can immediately evaluate both products and begin the migration to an advanced secure messaging solution. — REDMOND, Wash. — July 24, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced availability …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The Movie Business Challenge — This is an open challenge. You come up with a solution, you get a job. Seriously. — This is the problem that consumes me more than what Free Agent we are going to sign. How to get the NBA to get their act together. Which 7-11 Im going to run by to get a sandwich.
Nic Fulton / Reuters Newsblogs:
High-tech cloning — Updated with comment from VeriChip spokesman: — With the debate over genetic cloning in full swing, hackers could not have cared less at a conference in New York City, where two presenters demonstrated the electronic equivalent of making a copy of an implanted RFID or radio frequency ID chip.
Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily:
AMD drops desktop processor prices by 47% — Sunnyvale (CA) - As expected, AMD rings in the next round of the processor price battle with Intel. In an effort to remain competitive, the company today slashed the prices of all desktop processors. In the strategically important field of socket AM2 CPUs …
John Siracusa / FatBits:
WWDC keynote bingo — As established earlier, I won't be at WWDC this year, but I'm definitely looking forward to the keynote. I have high hopes for the first demonstration of Leopard and the new hardware announcements—assuming there are any, that is. Of course, guessing what Steve will reveal is half the fun.
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Do Google Ads belong on a company desktop? — A start-up called Spiceworks is testing whether Google Ads—commonly seen on blogs and other public Web sites—can finance a software company that sells to businesses. — On Monday, Spiceworks is expected to launch a beta of its namesake software …
Kotaku:
Xbox 360 Messenger Bag Makes You Look Puffy — My 360 doesn't get much. In fact, it doesn't get out at all. Like me, the console lives out its daily existence at home. Gear maker A.L.S. Industries has released a green ring 360 messenger bag for those that actually go out in the world and take their consoles with them.
Darragh Johnson / Washington Post:
A Tough Call: Invisible Phone Or Invisible Friend — Crazy? — Or cellphone? — It's the latest sidewalk game in the urban canyon: — On K Street, a guy in a tie screams at the air: "Who do you think you are?" — In Dupont Circle, a woman downing dainty bites of a muffin ponders …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Microsoft IPod 'Killer' Is Doomed — Details are still light about Microsoft's "Zune" iPod killer but if the rumor mill is right, the device will have some or all of the following features: Wi-Fi connectivity, video playback, Xbox integration and some sort of community feature for letting music lovers interact with each other.
