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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Warner to send videos through YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO - Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to distribute and license its copyrighted songs and other material through online video trendsetter YouTube Inc., marking another significant step in the entertainment industry's migration to the Internet.
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IP Democracy, Mashable!, paidContent.org, Dead2.0, The 463, Mathew Ingram and Mark Evans
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The Coming Dramatic Decline of Youtube — What is it about youtube.com that has made it so successful so quickly ? Is it the amazing quality of user generated content ? Is it a broadband fueled obsession with watching short videos ? — No & No. — Youtube's rapid ascension to the top …
MSNBC:
Warner opens video library to YouTube — By Joshua Chaffin in New York and Kevin Allison in San Francisco — Warner Music has agreed to make its library of music videos available to YouTube, marking the first time that an established record company has agreed to make its content library available to the user-generated media company.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Warner to license music in YouTube videos — YouTube and Warner Music Group Corp. will announce a deal Monday that will put thousands of Warner music videos on the video sharing site and allow user created videos to legally use Warner owned music, according to a story tonight from the Associated Press.
Wall Street Journal:
IPod, TheyPod: Rivals Imitate Apple's Success — After years of watching Apple Computer Inc.'s success in digital music, rivals are ripping a page from the company's playbook. — RealNetworks Inc. today plans to announce a deal with SanDisk Corp. to sell a digital music device that's specifically designed …
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Newsweek Columnists:
Make Room on the Couch for Steve — Our computers have become great media devices for songs, pictures and now TV and movies. — Newsweek — Steve Jobs's talk last week was nearing an end and coming dangerously close to a letdown. The stuff he introduced—a freshening-up of the iPod line …
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Not in the Real World Anymore — At MTV, reality has always been a moving target. Sixteen years ago, the network heralded the era of reality television with "The Real World." Three years ago, it pushed the genre further with "Laguna Beach: The Real OC," in which the mundane lives of a clique …
Steven Schwankert / LinuxWorld News:
Google Losing Users In China: Study — Fewer Chinese users are seeking out Google for its search services, according to a new report by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC). — According to the survey by China's official Internet number cruncher, 62.1 percent …
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Hewlett Review Is Said to Detail Deeper Spying — A secret investigation of news leaks at Hewlett-Packard was more elaborate than previously reported, and almost from the start involved the illicit gathering of private phone records and direct surveillance of board members and journalists …
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Silicon Valley Watcher, robhyndman.com, SharkJumping, GrokLaw, TechBlog, Paul Kedrosky's … and Slashdot
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Welcome to the new Engadget! It's taken us a ridiculously long time to get to this point (could everyone please stop having keynotes we have to liveblog?), but we're finally ready to introduce the latest version of Engadget. We haven't just refreshed the design, either …
Adobe:
Product Line Goes Beyond Simple PDF Creation and Frees Knowledge Workers to Communicate and Collaborate with Confidence — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced Adobe® Acrobat® 8 software to provide knowledge workers innovative tools for communicating and collaborating …
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Reuters:
Belgian newspapers win court action against Google —Text+BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian court has ordered Google Inc. to stop reproducing articles from French-speaking newspapers in the news section of one of its Belgian websites, a local press organisation said.
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Paul Stamatiou / PaulStamatiou.com:
First Impressions: 24-inch iMac — Today I bring to you my first impressions (a pseudo-review) of the Apple 24-inch iMac, joining my first impressions of the Intel Mac Mini and MacBook. Apple is known for taking bold steps and setting the pace for other computer manufacturers every time it unleashes an "out there" product.
Brian Heater / laptopmag.com:
Attack of the 20-inch Notebook — Making the rounds in Manhattan with Dell's 18-pound monster. — Technology has a long history of growing smaller, with portability and convenience as two of its major selling points. From time to time, however, it occurs to manufacturers that sometimes bigger …
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
Nickelodeon Web Site Is Seeking Loyalty of a Parent Generation — It has been 27 years since Nickelodeon first charmed children with its sassy style of TV programming, and those early viewers are now grown and having children of their own. Nickelodeon, not content just to court their offspring …
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Authenticated and private feeds — Some syndication feeds are not meant to be displayed for the world to see. Our everyday lives contain private and confidential data we wouldn't want anyone else to see, and especially not search. There are a few options for trying to keep things private …
