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Edelman / Richard Edelman:
A Commitment — For the past several days, I have been listening to the blogging community discuss the cross-country tour that Edelman designed for Working Families for Wal-Mart. — I want to acknowledge our error in failing to be transparent about the identity of the two bloggers from the outset.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sequoia Invests in Blog Network Sugar Publishing — Blog network Sugar Publishing (the most popular blog in the network is PopSugar) has raised "around $5 million" in a Series A round investment from Sequoia Capital. Michael Moritz will join the Team Sugar board of directors.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sequoia Goes PopSugar — Mike Moritz, general partner with Sequoia Capital has a habit of investing in high growth consumer Internet properties, putting business model on the backburner and instead focusing on market share. He did it with Yahoo, and then with Google. (Okay we won't hold Plaxo against him just yet.)
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Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
MySpace Predator Caught by Code — Yaphank, NY — The computer crimes unit of New York's Suffolk County Police Department sits in a gloomy government office canopied by water-stained ceiling tiles and stuffed with battered Dell desktops. A mix of file folders, notes, mug shots and printouts form …
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Joe / Techdirt:
Could Investigating Sexual Predators Be Automated? — from the myspace-mashup dept — There's quite a bit of hysteria surrounding MySpace and the presence of sexual predators on the site. But while it's pointless to say that MySpace, by itself, is dangerous, it's true that the site does …
Adam Pasick / Scientific American:
Virtual economies attract real-world tax attention — LONDON (Reuters) - Users of online worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft transact millions of dollars worth of virtual goods and services every day, and these virtual economies are beginning to draw the attention of real-world authorities.
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Reuters:
Reuters opens virtual news bureau in 'Second Life' — Reuters is opening a news bureau in the simulation game "Second Life" this week, joining a race by corporate name brands to take part in the hottest virtual world on the Internet. — Created by Linden Lab in San Francisco, "Second Life" …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Joining the Party, Eager to Make Friends — To big-name marketers, the teeming mosh pits of social networking sites look like dangerous places for their precious brands. MySpace: Isn't that full of dirty old men picking up teenage girls? Facebook: That's where college students post pictures of bawdy frat parties.
AppleInsider:
Exclusive: Apple seeks rights to iPhone trademark — Apple Computer has filed for a trademark on the term iPhone, suggesting the company plans to use the moniker, recently popularized amongst the analyst and blogging communities, as the official name for its highly-anticipated iPod cell phone.
Official Google Blog:
Corporate solar is coming — Epic games of beach volleyball, urban indoor workspaces infused with natural light, enthusiasm for the outdoors - at Google, we've always taken advantage of the sun. And now we're ready to use the sun yet another way: to create clean electricity.
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? — It's dress-down Friday at Sunbelt Software's Clearwater, Fla., headquarters. In a bland cubicle on the 12th floor, Eric Sites stares at the screen of a "dirty box," a Microsoft Windows machine infected with the self-replicating Wootbot network worm.
Roy Mark / internetnews.com:
AT&T Makes Network Neutrality Concessions — AT&T is willing to adhere to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) network neutrality principles for 30 months after the official closing of its proposed merger with BellSouth, according to AT&T's latest filing with the FCC.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
CrackSpace - Urban YouTube/MySpace Hybrid — No, not a buttock-related social network, but a blend of MySpace and YouTube aimed at hip-hop fans, at least according to a paper copy of Billboard Magazine. Designed for the "urban youth" demographic, California-based CrackSpace will offer exclusive videos …
Antony Bruno / Reuters:
Digital rights in question as business model — SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - If the music industry truly wants to loosen Apple's iron grip on digital music sales, it should start allowing music to be sold without digital rights management protection. — That's the theory posited …
Google Blogoscoped:
Where's Google Going? — "Mystic logic, letters whirling in infinite change, is the world of bliss, it is the music of thought, but see that you proceed slowly, and with caution, because your machine may bring you delirium instead of ecstasy ..." — I've smoked some heavy (proverbial) …
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Nathan Willis / Linux.com:
The GIMP's next-generation imaging core demonstrated — GIMP developer Øyvind Kolås gave a public demonstration of the Generic Graphical Library (GEGL) on Friday at the Piksel 06 festival in Bergen, Norway. GEGL has long been slated to replace the core image processing framework of the GIMP …
