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5:30 AM ET, September 26, 2006

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PR Newswire:
VideoEgg Launches the Eggnetwork Helping Marketers Reach Millions within Leading Social Networks  —  Network Enables Advertisers to Tap Into User-Generated Video  —  SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ — VideoEgg, Inc., an online video-enabling platform …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
VideoEgg Lays on Ad Network
Discussion: Beet.TV and Screenwerk
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:   VideoEgg Launches Ad Network
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Suit filed against AOL; seeks to block search history storage  —  A class action lawsuit was filed in California today against AOL for last month's disclosure of thousands of users' search results.  The suit seeks no less than $1000 in damages per user effected and $4000 more per user in California.
Discussion: The 360
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biz.yahoo.com:   AOL Members Sue AOL LLC for Privacy Violations, Berman DeValerio …
iab.net:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES CONTINUE TO ACCELERATE AT AN UNPRECEDENTED RATE WITH A 36% INCREASE FOR FIRST HALF OF '06  —  First Six Months of '06 hit $7.9 Billion and Q2 Exceeds $4 Billion  —  Today, during the MIXX Conference and Expo, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) …
Juan Carlos Perez / PC Advisor:
Refined searches in time for Christmas  —  Google plans to extend the product search capabilities on its main Google.com search engine in the fourth quarter, in time for the holiday shopping season.  —  A Google official shared the news with attendees of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance …
Discussion: Micro Persuasion and Slashdot
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Google's Structured Data Search Play
Michel Marriott / New York Times:
For One Publisher, the Life of Every Comic Book Starts on the Web  —  Scott Rosenberg, left, and Dylan Squires intend to make the Web the first outlet for Platinum Studios' comic books.  Print versions may come later.  —  For generations of Americans, comic books were the first real page-turners.
electricsistahood.com:
Do the Math: Will Sony Go Broke?  —  For video game players, the competition among the three game console manufacturers must seem like a Dead or Alive tournament.  There's always a winner and a loser, but someone else is always lined up for another bout with the winner.
Discussion: Neowin.net, Brandon Live!, Slashdot and digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Spinoff Wallop Launches  —  Wallop, previously a semi-forgotton Microsoft Research "sandbox" social network and photo sharing project, was spun off into a new, independent, venture backed business earlier this year (details here).  Tonight at 9 pm California time, Wallop is launching a semi-public beta.
Derek / 5ThirtyOne:
Breathe new life into OS X Front Row  —  Continuing the "Breathe new life into OS X" series including Breathe new life into OS X Safari & Breathe new life into OS X iChat, our focus will be on Apple's Front Row application.  Out of the box, Front Row taps into your current media library composed …
Discussion: Lifehacker and PaulStamatiou.com
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Veeker Buys ThumbJive, & Other Mobile Deals  —  Recently we've been noticing more friends using video messaging via cell phones — a three-second video message sent to party-goers trying to find a beach bonfire, or a midmorning clip snapped in a cubicle to say "I'm bored."
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Toward a new relation ship  —  Techmeme has a new advertising system that's simple and straightforward and bringing in customers.  That is, advertisers.  Because advertisers are the customers of Gabe's new system.  Readers are the consumers.  Unless they pay Gabe for something, and I don't think they do yet.
Tom Braithwaite / Financial Times:
Arrival of 'dotmobi' domain raises concerns  —  New "dotmobi" internet domain names will go on general sale on Tuesday in an attempt to drive the use of mobile devices as platforms to surf the web.  —  More than 13,000 names have been registered in an initial period reserved for trademark holders …
Discussion: IR Daily, Lost Remote and MocoNews.net
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Howard Stern's Ad Rates on Sirius Slump to Low of $5,000  —  Audience Measurement Issues Cited as Barrier to Buyers  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Eight months into his reign at Sirius Satellite Radio, the King of All Media's advertising rates are a fraction of what they were on terrestrial radio.
Discussion: Techdirt, Orbitcast and AdJab
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Symbol Technologies WT4000 series wearable computer  —  We wouldn't exactly call this wearable computer svelte, in fact, calling it a strap-on is more apropos wouldn't you say?  Still, it's pretty much what we'd expect from a company that specializes in ruggedized handhelds.
Discussion: 21talks and digg
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
BuzzLogic calculates social media influence  —  BuzzLogic hopes to solve one of the riddles of the Web-who is influential within the millions of conversations taking place in social Web, especially blogs.  I have been following the progress of BuzzLogic for a few years.
Discussion: blackrimglasses.com
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
The Mythical 40-Hour Gamer  —  I call it "the myth of the 40-hour gamer."  Whenever you pick up a narrative adventure game these days, it always comes with this guarantee: This game offers about 40 hours of play.  —  This is precisely what I was told by Eidos — and countless game reviewers …
Discussion: Cathode Tan and Joystiq
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Number of browser vulnerabilities rising  —  According to the most recent update to security-firm Symantec's biannual Internet Security Threat Report, the last six months saw a significant uptick in the number of security vulnerabilities found in web browsers.  Leading the way was Firefox, with 47 bugs discovered.
 
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Reg Hardware / The Register:
Man saves laptop from battery blaze
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
World's most easily misplaced cellphone?
Phil Wainewright / Software as services:
Billion dollar SaaS sectors
American Venture Magazine News Feed:
Ecast Secures $20M Financing Round
Charles / Channel 9:
Rory Blyth: The Exit Interview
Gizmodo:
Netgear Announces EVA700 Digital Entertainer, Beats Apple's iTV to Market
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Vodafone's Treo 750v gets an actual launch date
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Cross-site Request Forgery
 Earlier Items: 
Valleywag:
Someone's jealous: A college pal writes an open letter to Facebook's founder
Discussion: Mashable!
Ellen Lee / The Technology Chronicles:
Steve on Stephen: Wozniak to appear on the Colbert Report
Discussion: Infinite Loop
Renald Ebert / Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared:
Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared
Discussion: Monkey Bites and digg
Mike / The Raw Feed:
VR Gear Makes RC Airplane the Coolest Toy Ever
Discussion: reBang weblog, Gizmodo and digg
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
The Financial Case for SF WiFi
Pew Internet:
The Future of the Internet II
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
National World, one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, gets a £56.2M buyout offer from shareholder Media Concierge, a 40% premium to its Nov. 21 stock price

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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