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blog.memeorandum.com:
Notes on Techmeme's new sponsorship model — There's a new area on the right side of Techmeme labelled "Techmeme Sponsor Posts". It shows the latest blog posts from three companies who have chosen to sponsor Techmeme for the next 30 days. — This is the first sponsored material of any kind on Techmeme.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
A new kind of advertising — Gabe Rivera has created a new kind of advertising for TechMeme, which he explains here and here. — Simply put: He takes feeds of the latest posts from sponsors' blogs and puts that in an ad box on Techmeme. That's their ad.
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
TechMeme Pioneers New Ad Model for Blogs — After well over a year of running TechMeme (and some other impressive, addictive blog/news aggregation sites) with no source of revenue, Gabe Rivera is now accepting advertising. Gabe's ad model befits the nature of TechMeme …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechMeme Invents New Kind of Advertisment — TechMeme (formerly tech.memeorandum) is a site that bloggers and others check frequently for news. It is an entirely automated web service that looks at what bloggers are talking about, and linking to, and decides what is news based on that analysis.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Young Internet Producers, Bankrolled, Are Seeking Act II — Silicon Valley is awash in serial entrepreneurs, those who start a company, run it for a while, and then after success, failure or something in between, move on and start again. — Jay Adelson, 36, and Kevin Rose, 29 …
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IP Democracy, Ideas are Worthless …, B2Day, John Furrier, Screenwerk, Jeffrey McManus and Off On A Tangent
MarketWatch:
Google complies with court, posts ruling on Belgian sites — LONDON (MarketWatch) — Google Inc. (GOOG) Saturday posted a court ruling on its Belgian Web site home page, complying with an order to publish a judgment stopping it displaying content from newspapers without asking for permission.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
The Engadget Interview: Viodentia, creator of FairUse4WM — Instead of our usual run of interviews with industry luminaries and the like, today we're aiming the camera a different direction. We had a few things to ask the person whom we've identified as Viodentia, the creator of FairUse4WM …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
VideoEgg Lays on Ad Network — Startup VideoEgg is launching a video advertising network today. The release reflects a change in strategy for the young company, which started out as a toolmaker but has transitioned to a media delivery network. — VideoEgg isn't a CDN itself (it uses Akamai) …
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David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
HP's Hurd not doing enough — Hurd admits approving questionable activities, even as board Chairman Dunn resigns and the HP imbroglio moves into a new phase. Fortune's David Kirkpatrick asks, where is the real transparency? — Palo Alto, Calif. (Fortune) — The HP spying scandal got a little bit more complex on Friday.
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
Samsung Q1-SSD reviewed — We've just come across a complete review of Samsung's Q1-SSD UMPC, the first device in its class with a solid state NAND flash drive. Sammy's had some ups and downs with its Q1 devices over the last few months, giving us all the more reason to wonder what Riyad Emeran of TrustedReviews had to say about it.
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GottaBeMobile.com
Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
93,754,333 Examples of Data Nonchalance — Less than two years into the great cultural awakening to the vulnerability of personal data, companies and institutions of every shape and size — like the data broker ChoicePoint, the credit card processor CardSystems Solutions …
Julio Franco / TechSpot:
Vista Build 5728 available to the public — During the weekend Microsoft released a new build of Windows Vista to the public. While initially only available to registered testers, the new post-RC1 build can now be downloaded by the general public for a limited time.
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
At Hewlett-Packard, a Chief Wounded by Divided Attention — Mark V. Hurd sat at the head of the table in the Hewlett-Packard boardroom, the room that had been the source of leaks and the starting point of a misguided and ultimately embarrassing attempt to plug them.
Andy Hagans / Link Building Blog:
Secrets to Beating the Sandbox 2.0 REVEALED: The Ultimate Guide — By Andy "Organic-Is-My-Middle-Name" Hagans — The sandbox is no longer the pink elephant in the room. As webmasters, together we've cried about it, argued about it, and fretted over it.
Constance Loizos / Mercury News:
VC'S NEW FRONTIER — You may not have heard of Jaxtr or Jajah, but valley venture capitalists have. — The local start-ups are among a growing number of so-called mobile lifestyle companies that promise to dramatically change the way we use our phones — and VCs are flocking to them in droves.
