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Mike Farrell / multichannel.com:
News Corp. May Launch YouTube Rival — News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin told investors at an industry conference Tuesday that the media giant was considering creating a video component to its MySpace social-networking Web site that could rival the wildly popular YouTube.
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A VC, TechCrunch, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, The Post Money Value, CNNMoney.com, robhyndman.com, Mathew Ingram and Virtual Economics
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MySpace: We'll Crush YouTube — As if we needed more proof of MySpace's intolerance of outside development, News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin told investors at an industry conference today that since much of YouTube's traffic comes from MySpace, it's time to cut out the middle man.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
WhoseSpace is MySpace — Peter Chernin, Chief Operating Officer of News Corp., according to Multichannel News dropped the proverbial hammer on those who he sees are leaching off the MySpace ecosystem. … There is a good chance, a lot he said was left on the cutting floor, but if (and only if) …
Nick / Rough Type:
Open and shut — At the heart of the commerical internet is a conflict between technological structure and economic interest. The net's technological structure, developed without regard to the possible profit-making interest of any future commercial site owner, is one of openness …
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New York Times:
Well, It Turns Out That Lonelygirl Really Wasn't — A nearly four-month-old Internet drama in which the cryptic video musings of a fresh-faced teenager became the obsession of millions of devotees — themselves divided over the very authenticity of the videos, or who was behind them or why — appears to be in its final act.
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Google:
Google Introduces Featured Content for Google Earth — Pilot partners include United Nations Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, and National Park Service — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today released Featured Content for Google Earth, a new showcase of multimedia overlays in Google Earth …
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Google Earth Blog, All Points Blog, Ogle Earth, Google Operating System and Search Engine Watch Blog
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
NBC and Its Stations Venture Into Online Video Market — Hoping to profit from the fragmented market for video on the Internet, NBC Universal has created a new company that will distribute video programming to various Internet sites. — The new venture, called the National Broadband Company …
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About Skype:
Skype Introduces Video Calling for Macintosh Users — Cross Platform Support lets Mac and Windows Users see each other with free video calls — Skype, the global Internet communications company, has released the beta version of its popular communications software, Skype for Mac 2.0 …
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Leander Kahney / Wired News:
New UI Showdown: Apple vs. TiVo — Although movie downloads and the iTV set-top box are hugely significant for Apple, an announcement of similar import has been largely overlooked — the new navigation scheme in iTunes. — As Steve Jobs demonstrated Tuesday, users of iTunes 7 can now flip through …
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Traci / blogs.feedburner.com:
A Peek Inside TechCrunch's 100k Subscriber Milestone — Seems like just yesterday we welcomed TechCrunch to the FeedBurner family (now 242,062 publishers strong). Quite a bit has happened since June 15, 2005 when founder Michael Arrington was writing the first profiles of such companies as Flickr, Del.icio.us, Digg and Bloglines.
CNET News.com:
O2 Xda Stealth — DESCRIPTION: — Author: Asher Moses, CNET.com.au pda | STEALTH | smartphone | xda — Scheduled for release in Australia towards the end of September, the O2 Xda Stealth is so new that, at the time of writing this story, the product is nowhere to be found on O2's global website …
Josh / Bokardo:
Digg's Design Dilemma — This past week's Digg controversy is one in a growing number of incidents that suggest that a small group of users are having an undue influence on the promotion of stories. In response, Digg is changing the way that it handles votes by adding complexity to its ranking algorithm.
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Cingular bans the word "engadget" from its customer forums — Oh, Cingular. We know you're pissed at us — you stopped returning our phone calls a while ago after we posted that product roadmap we got our hands on — but banning all mention of our name, as well as our URL …
AnandTech:
What about Quad Core? — Later this year Intel will be introducing pin compatible upgrades to its Core 2 and Xeon lines, except instead of two cores these processors will feature four. Codenamed Kenstfield (Core 2) and Clovertown (Xeon), Intel's new quad-core processors will dramatically increase …
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Reuters:
Fox, Tribune to auction some ad space on Web sites — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fox Interactive Media, Tribune and LookSmart are among major media owners who will auction non-premium advertising space to generate more revenue from existing Web pages. — The publishers will use …
Jeff / Venture Chronicles:
My Last Day at SAP — In case anyone noticed, I have been 1) blogging less these last few weeks, and 2) increasingly difficult to get in touch with. The reason is that I resigned from SAP a couple of weeks ago and Thursday will be my last official day as an employee of the company …
Jimmy Hsu / DigiTimes:
Microsoft to offer Xbox 360 with built-in HD-DVD drive, say makers — Microsoft has started designing a new-generation of Xbox 360's equipped with an internal HD-DVD drive and is selecting manufacturers in Taiwan to build the drive, according to sources in Taiwan's optical disc drive (ODD) industry.
Luke Smith / 1up.com:
Sony's Answer to Xbox Live Revealed — How does Sony intend to compete with Xbox Live? Here's how. — UPDATE II: Sony Computer Entertainment America responded to the below report with the following statement: "We can confirm that Sony Online Entertainment is in talks with Viacom and Xfire for a single, specific PS3 game.
