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Paul Bond / Reuters:
YouTube eyes ad money with Paris Hilton channel — LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - YouTube, the online sensation that facilitates the viewing of 100 million amateur videos a day, is introducing a couple of new ways for advertisers to tap into the Web site's popularity while preserving its decidedly noncommercial attitude.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, Techdirt, Frank Barnako, InterMedia, loadedpun, i-boy and Micro Persuasion
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Financial Times:
YouTube in push to link with advertisers — YouTube, the fast-growing internet video site, will on Tuesday unveil its most ambitious attempt yet to make money from advertisers by allowing them to promote their brands through customised channels on its site.
Business 2.0:
Blogging for Dollars — It's not just a hobby — some small sites are making big money. Here's how to turn your passion into an online empire. — (Business 2.0) — Michael Arrington is a partying kind of guy. While showing off his home in Atherton, Calif., he boasts about how he crammed 500 people …
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GigaOM, Valleywag, Mathew Ingram, Blogging Stocks, The Paradigm Shift, Joe Duck, blackrimglasses.com, Joseph Scott's Blog and dailywireless.org
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Facebook adds blog-like notes feature — A week after winning applause across the blogosphere for taking the big step of opening up its API, social networking site Facebook today launched a new feature called notes - essentially a blogging tool. — The best thing about the new notes tool …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
VC funding for individual blogs? — Several high profile blogs have taken VC money recently. Om Malik, formerly of Business 2.0 and writer of Giga Om, has struck off on his own with VC money from a startup VC, True Ventures. SoftBank Capital invested $5 million in HuffingtonPost.com, a blog written by Arianna Huffington.
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Matt Mondok / M-Dollar:
Microsoft invites Firefox development team to Redmond — Microsoft wants to help aid in the development of Firefox. It sounds pretty scary, doesn't it? If you're still here, let me tell you that it's not as bad as it seems. Sam Ramjii, Director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab …
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Valleywag, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Scobleizer, TechBlog, jkOnTheRun, Download Squad, Open Culture and Guardian Unlimited
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Qwest calls for mandatory data retention laws — ASPEN, Colo.—Broadband company Qwest Communications International on Tuesday strongly endorsed federal legislation requiring Internet providers to keep records of their customers' behavior, a move that could accelerate efforts in Congress to enact new laws.
Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
Hello hullo! — Over the last few weeks I've been playing with the beta of a promising new free service called hullo. Now you can try it too. — hullo bills itself as a personal call manager. The promise is that it will help you stay in touch better than ever before.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Spamigation: automated litigation — Brad Templeton has coined "Spamigation" for spam litigation, lawsuits that are automated by computers, noting that while suing people can be readily automated so that it's possible to sue millions, legal defenses are much harder to automate.
SecurityFocus:
Microsoft patch opens users to attack — Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-08-22 — UPDATE: Microsoft continued to work on a fix on Tuesday for an exploitable flaw introduced by the company's latest security update to Internet Explorer. — The flaw, initially thought to only crash Internet Explorer …
Jessi Hempel / Business Week:
Friendster: Poised for a Comeback — With $10 million in new funds and a second patent, the social networking pioneer has big plans for an improved site to rival MySpace — Comebacks can be hard to stage—though not impossible. Just ask George Foreman, Bill Clinton, or the folks at Volkswagen who resurrected the Rabbit.
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Google MP3 Player found in GMail — A new GMail feature lets you play MP3 files right inside the GMail interface without having to download the MP3 or open an external media player. — When you receive an audio file as an email attachment, click the play button and Google will play the audio file for you in a popup window.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Kevin Mitnick Web site hacked — Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker's Web site on Sunday displayed a vulgar message. — Online vandals, apparently operating from Pakistan, broke into the computer hosting Mitnick's Web site …
Declan Kennedy / apc:
How Vista screws dual-booting nirvana — The other day I found myself staring out the window next to my desk. It was around 6.30 in the evening, and the lights had just gone on over Hyde Park. — The whole scene was one of winter serenity, aided considerably by the window sill …
Oliver / MobileCrunch:
Nimbuzz Could Change the Face of Mobile Communications: a MobileCrunch Exclusive! — I've had the good fortune to have been given access to Nimbuzz for the last few weeks. My testing has convinced me that once widely deployed, this application has the potential to shake mobile communication service providers to their very core.
