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Los Angeles Times:
Mystery Fuels Huge Popularity of Web's Lonelygirl15 — The videos are a hit on YouTube, but some wonder if the teen's posts are real or a marketing ploy. — Lonelygirl15 appears to be an innocent, home-schooled 16-year-old, pouring her heart out for her video camera in the privacy of her bedroom.
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Zephoria / apophenia:
lonelygirl15 — Over the last week, i've gotten innumerable emails about lonelygirl15. Folks were wondering if i was behind it or if i knew who was. They wanted to know my opinion, if i thought it was fake. — I did. I thought it was fake but i expected that it was a TV or movie organization.
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Elizabeth M. Gillespie / Associated Press:
Amazon.com Launches TV, Movie Service — SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon.com Inc. launched a digital video downloading service Thursday, ending months of speculation that the Internet retailer would be getting into the online TV and movie business. — The service, dubbed Amazon Unbox …
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Waxy.org:
Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds — Recently, a blogger named Simon Owens ran a social experiment on Craigslist. He wandered into the "Casual Encounters" section of the personal ads where countless men and women were soliticing for no-strings-attached sex and wondered, Is it really that easy?
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Hewlett-Packard Spied on Writers in Leaks — The California attorney general's investigation into the purloining of private phone records by agents of Hewlett-Packard has revealed that the monitoring effort began earlier than previously indicated and included journalists as targets.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, Scobleizer, Mark Evans, IR Daily, John Furrier, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, GrokLaw and SharkJumping
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Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia to baptize phones by name rather than number — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's top handset maker, said on Thursday it will give new phone models a name rather than a number, following the success of rivals with model names like RAZR and "chocolate."
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Mark Evans, CrunchGear, Engadget, 21talks, SMS Text News, MobileTracker and textually.org
Business Wire:
The New York Times Launches New Mobile Site — Full Daily Contents of NYTimes.com Now Accessible on Mobile Phones — The New York Times Company announced today the launch of a new mobile site, http://mobile.nytimes.com, which provides access to news and information from NYTimes.com via …
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jkOnTheRun, TeleRead, MocoNews.net, Mobility Site, CrunchGear, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and rexblog
Kotaku:
Wii Rumble Not Dead After All — Another Non Wii Story — Hmmm, either MCV is jumping the gun with this lede or just didn't do a good job of conveying what they do or don't know through sources: … Wow, it sounds like MCV has the scoop, but two paragraphs in they use the choice word …
Jason Dowdell / Marketing Blog Bent …:
Digg Algorithm For Scoring Stories — Here is a condensed version of what Kevin Rose & Jay Adelson confirmed as being some of the core elements used in determining the ranking (could substitute relevance here) for a story on digg. Again, these are my personal notes from our meeting …
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John Blau / Network World:
PC hard disk system warns of tsunamis — Governments seeking inexpensive technology to warn of tsunamis could be interested in a free software application that monitors vibrations in the hard disks of computers in an attempt to detect the undersea earthquakes that cause tsunamis.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Sitelinks: New Name For Those Links Under The Top Listings — Last year, people started to notice that Google began showing "subtopic" or "subcategory" links below their listing, if they were the first in a Google search. Now, Google's finally confirmed the change as a permanent feature and given it a name: sitelinks.
Associated Press:
Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system — PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has famously called high schools "obsolete" and warned about their effect on U.S. competitiveness. Now, his company has a chance to prove that it can help fix the woes of public education.
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
SanDisk MP3 seizure order overturned — A seizure order that would have barred SanDisk from showing its MP3 devices at a German trade show was overturned this week, allowing the company to display its digital audio players after all. — A German prosecutor issued the seizure order for the MP3 players on Friday, Sept. 1.
AlwaysOn Feed:
The Next Step In Social Networking — That's what Fox Interactive president Ross Levinsohn is hoping to achieve with his company's MySpace acquisition. — AlwaysOn: What do you think of the phenomenon of being seen and seeing others on the Web? I think this passion to express yourself on …
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Read/WriteWeb
Mike / Techdirt:
Has The Free Market Failed The US When It Comes To Broadband? — from the something-to-think-about dept — As the network neutrality debate has gone on and on, there are some aspects that are very troubling. The tech world is notorious for having what's basically a libertarian/free market approach …
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broadbandreports.com
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Zango Spyware Suit Dismissed — A lawsuit seeking class action status filed against Zango, formerly 180solutions, has been dismissed by a Chicago court after plaintiffs voluntarily dropped the case. In a separate spyware case, the Federal Trade Commission won a settlement against Enternet Media.
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
RH Donnelley Buys Search Firm LocalLaunch — In an effort to build out its search capabilities, yellow pages publisher RH Donnelley Corporation has grabbed local search marketing consulting firm LocalLaunch. The buy, announced yesterday, augments RH Donnelley's search marketing staff …
