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2:00 AM ET, November 7, 2006

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virtualearth.spaces.live.com:
Spaceland is Live!  —  The next major release of Virtual Earth is out the door and flowing to our production app server cluster.  It should be live as you read this, but if you try it out and it appears to be the previous version wait a minute or 2 and refresh your browser to load the latest.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Adds 3-D City Models to Live Search  —  Microsoft Virtual Earth platform powers Live Search and provides a more immersive mapping experience for consumers, enterprises and developers.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced U.S. availability of Virtual Earth™ 3D …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Live Local In 3-D  —  Tomorrow Microsoft will bring dramatic 3-D mapping to the browser window.  Windows Live is set to launch photorealistic 3-D imagery for the "urban core" of 15 U.S. cities: San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Detroit, Phoenix …
CNET News.com:
Microsoft mapping goes 3D
Discussion: LiveSide and reBang weblog
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Virtual Earth - Now in 3D and With Billboards
Discussion: Monkey Bites
Rory / Channel 9:
Duncan Lawler - Virtual Earth 3D: What. How. Why.
Discussion: Microsoft 10 and ActiveWin.com
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Microsoft's Xbox Live Video: HDTV and HD movie downloads for your 360  —  This may sound a bit familiar to those paying close attention, but on November 22nd — the year anniversary for the Xbox 360 — Microsoft is announcing something fairly momentus, not for the gaming community, but for the CE industry.
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xbox.com:
Movies and TV on your Xbox  —  Newsflash:  —  Movies and TV on your Xbox  —  Microsoft Corp. November 6 announced agreements with CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (TBS Inc.), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Warner Bros.
Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Woo Hoo! TV Shows on Xbox Live!
Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
Barnett Takes 2nd Turn vs. Google  —  NEW YORK Jim Barnett knows the perils of competing with Google.  He saw firsthand how the company's mastery of search vanquished early leaders like AltaVista (where he was CEO) and Excite.  —  Now, he's striving to take on Google in the online advertising realm …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Turn to Launch Hybrid CPA Ad Network  —  San Mateo startup Turn will unveil an interesting new advertising platform tomorrow at the Web 2.0 conference.  It combines Cost Per Action bidding with a wide range of user, site and ad performance analytics.  The company calls itself the world's …
Microsoft:
2007 Microsoft Office System Is Golden  —  2007 Office system released to manufacturers; the company looks ahead to worldwide business availability.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft® Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM).
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Office goes gold. Here come the tools
Discussion: TechBlog
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube is Time's Invention of the Year  —  Everyone has been surprised with YouTube's near-exponential growth since its launch in February 2005.  Now Time Magazine is recognizing that success, naming YouTube their "Invention of the Year".  The phenomenon that gave birth to lonelygirl15 …
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Lev Grossman / Time:
YOUTUBE  —  Meet Peter.  Peter is a 79-year-old English retiree.
Discussion: Online Marketing Blog
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Wikipedia used to spread malicious code  —  A Wikipedia page has been used by hackers in an attempt to spread malicious code.  —  The entry for the MSBlast worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false information about a new version of the Lovesan/MSBlast worm …
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Sharon Khare / Tech2.com India:
Wikipedia Hijacked to Spread Malware
tivo.com:
TiVo Package Payment Plans (Includes TiVo DVR and Service): Monthly or Prepay  — Unless otherwise stated, TiVo Package Payment Plans include an 80-Hour TiVo® Series2™ DVR, included as part of the price of the package, and a subscription to the TiVo Service for one combined fee (a "TiVo Package").
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
TiVo raises rates, limits WPA to own WiFi adaptor
Discussion: Zatz Not Funny
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Adobe partners with Mozilla by open sourcing a core part of the Flash Player  —  Adobe is announcing a very interesting partnership with the Mozilla Foundation today.  Adobe has been good about dipping its toes into the open source waters with a lot of their ActionScript 3 API releases and the free Flex 2 SDK.
CNET News.com:
NTP slaps Palm with patent infringement suit  —  NTP, the company behind the epic patent infringement lawsuit against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, is now going after Palm.  —  In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Virginia on Monday, NTP asserted that Palm's products, services …
Lee Odden / Online Marketing Blog:
Interview with Adam Lasnik of Google  —  Spotlight on Search - Interview with Google's Adam Lasnik  —  One of the fun things about being involved with the search marketing industry is getting to meet really bright and interesting people.  Whether they are long time SEO gurus …
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped and digg
Rick Broida / Lifehacker:
8 killer Windows Media Center plug-ins  —  Just as extensions make Firefox better, so do plug-ins add extra goodness to the Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system (MCE).  —  For the uninitiated, MCE provides DVR and other multimedia features wrapped in an attractive 10-foot interface.
Discussion: PVR Wire and digg
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Jeremiah headed to Podtech!  —  This is a bittersweet post, it's also a bit awkward as I'm traveling on vacation right now through Asia.  I'm currently in Hong Kong but have some important news to share...  Deployed Social Media  —  Over the last year, I've been very thankful …
Discussion: Scobleizer and Laughing Squid
 
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Topix Tries Again; Raises $15 Million Funding
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Homepage Widgets Panel at WidgetsLive: How Start Pages are Evolving
Discussion: Zoli's Blog
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
More Vloggies Vids . . .  Everybody and I mean everybody …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Workday begins its work day
Ryan Block / Engadget:
The Engadget Interview: Peter Dille, Sony Computer Entertainment's SVP of Marketing
Gizmodo:
Target Stores Wii Allocations Revealed?
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Broadlogic, Cable's Secret Weapon
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
How to run Gmail locally on a Pocket PC
Discussion: Lifehacker
Nick Selby / 451 CAOS Theory:
Red Hat: The Poland of Software Vendors (also: Shuttleworth weighs in)
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Microsoft To Enter VoIP World
Muhammad Saleem / The Blog Herald:
The Digg Economy: Socialist Bookmarking
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fox Interactive Launches Desktop/Website Widget Platform
Kenneth Li / Reuters Blogs:
CBS stages open call for tech entrepreneurs
 

 
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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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