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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Who is getting bought next? YouTube, Facebook? — Another day in Silly-con valley. WSJ reports Yahoo is looking at Facebook, for somewhere around $1 billion. Yahoo-Facebook reports and rumors have been circling for a while now. The other Web 2.0 darling, YouTube is also for sale, for $1.5 billion.
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Sam Gustin / New York Post:
YOUTUBE'S GOT A FAT IDEA OF ITSELF — INTERNET upstart YouTube, the bane-du-jour of copyright holders everywhere, won't sell itself for anything less than $1.5 billion, The Post has learned. — But that number far exceeds the price top media execs appear willing to pay for a company many believe lacks a sustainable business model.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:YouTube's Magic Number - $1.5 Billion
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Microsoft Media Player shreds your rights — Comment No more backups, or Tivo — THINK DRM WAS bad already? Think I was joking when I said the plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then turn the thumbscrews? Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and the rights get chipped away a lot more.
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microsoft.com:
Backing up and restoring licenses — Windows Media Player 11 does not permit you to back up your media usage rights (previously known as licenses). However, depending upon where your protected files came from, you might be able to restore your rights over the Internet.
socialtext.com:
Socialtext 2.0 — Today I gave a keynote at Networld/Interop on Enterprise 2.0 alongside Andrew McAfee — and launched Socialtext 2.0 — the most simple to adopt, use and extend wiki. Techcrunch has the details. — Two big changes come with Socialtext2.0.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
SocialText aims for wiki 2.0 — Enterprise wiki vendor SocialText rolled out version 2.0 of its software this morning and made a couple of changes that are important for people beyond its existing customer base. The changes include a drastic overhaul to the standard wiki interface …
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Apple updates strengthen wireless security — Apple on Thursday released a Security and AirPort update for Mac OS X that fixes vulnerabilities found in the company's wireless drivers. Apple said the issues found were the result of an internal audit of the software drivers …
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Stephanie.Quilao / Back in skinny jeans:
How to explain RSS the Oprah way — Today, I'm going to explain how RSS can help you live your best life online. — We all have busy lives with very little time. Web surfing is fun but can take hours going to visit every single website and blog you enjoy.
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Geez, it's not like we had anyone killed. ... We didn't, did we? — "Go far, keep your secrets close." That's the message of Hewlett-Packard's ad campaign for its business notebooks, but it might make a better company slogan. With new disclosures each day about HP's ill-starred leak investigation …
Lifehacker:
Visualize size differences with Sizeasy — Web site Sizeasy is a really cool visualization tool designed to give you an idea how big something is. — For example, the screenshot to the right compares the dimensions of a 2nd generation iPod Shuffle to a matchbox and credit card.
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Reuters:
Microsoft mulls free Web-based business software — SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it may offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic word processing and spreadsheet software, in an apparent bid to fend off a nascent challenge from Google Inc. in the business software market.
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Duncan / duncanriley.com:
Is Mike Arrington and TechCrunch taking legal action against Techcrush? — Interesting post at Techcrush, a Web 2.0 review site: … Legal issues? we'll the only possible person who could have legal issues with the site would be Mike Arrington, and it would be related to the name of the site …
Gizmodo:
Remember Ring Gives You a Burning Reminder — The Remember Ring has a special nagging feature, using its "Hot Spot" technology that warms up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 seconds, every hour, on the hour, beginning 24 hours before that "special day," apparently honoring the anniversary of your voluntary servitude.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype backer takes on ETrade with free trades — Morten Lund, the guy who was the earliest backers of Skype is at it again. He has financed Zecco, a start-up that will allow consumers to trade stocks for zero commissions, versus $10 to $20 that many online brokers charge today.
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Kurt Eichenwald / New York Times:
Effort to Combat Child Pornography Would Close Web Sites — As part of the battle against the spread of child pornography on the Internet, an initiative has begun allowing for the shutdown or blocking of sites offering illicit images of minors, even in cases where no criminal investigation is being conducted.
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Guy Kawasaki / Signum sine tinnitu:
The Art of Distribution — One of the important insights that the Startups 2006 panel hammered home was the importance of distribution for consumer-facing startups. (By the way, an astounding 13,000 people watched this video during the first week.) Many people use the word "distribution" …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
MeeVee beefs up TV/IPTV search, saying there's too much clutter — With the proliferation of Internet television and other places for video, MeeVee, a Burlingame start-up, says it wants to use its "neutral" player status to sort through the clutter, and today releases new features to help.
