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6:40 PM ET, November 13, 2006

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Valleywag:
Valleywag Release Candidate 2  —  Some changes, today, on Valleywag, in design, personnel, and mission.  Obviously, there's a new design.  Nick Douglas, editor since launch earlier this year, is leaving.  And we're going to change the mix of stories, slightly.  —  1. Design.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Valleywag guy Nick Douglas gone — Will Wired snag him?  —  We were wondering why Valleywag, the Silicon Valley gossip site some people hate and others love, wasn't reading as witty as usual.  We saw author Nick Douglas (pictured here) at Web 2.0 last week — suggesting he was back from vacation …
Discussion: Tech Beat and ALLIED
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Nick Douglas Leaving Valleywag  —  Was Semel booed?  - Valleywag Wow, popped up Valleywag this morning to see some kind of crazy scary green new logo staring back at me and then read the most recent article to learn that it's more than just the logo that's changed.
Discussion: The Blogging Times and Newsome.Org
Bambi Francisco / Bambi Franciso:
Nick Denton on ValleyWag
Discussion: Federated Media …
Kevin J. O'Brien / TechNewsWorld:
Gates: Internet Bubble Is Back  —  "We're back kind of in Internet-bubble era in terms of people thinking: 'O.K., traffic.  We want traffic.  We want traffic,'" Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said.  "There are still some areas where it is unclear what's going to come out of that."
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:   Bill Gates says we're back in a bubble — kind of
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Bill Gates, 1; Scoble, 0
Discussion: Howard Lindzon
Cary Sherman / CNET News.com:
Perspective: The farce behind 'Digital Freedom'  —  perspective Last month, the Consumer Electronics Association and other groups announced a "Digital Freedom" campaign that latches onto the concept of fair use—supposedly to benefit consumers.  —  Seems like a worthwhile effort.
Discussion: IPcentral Weblog and Slashdot
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Carlo / Techdirt:
When The RIAA Hates You This Much, You Must Be On The Right Track
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Confabb: Find, Track and Review Conferences  —  Confabb is a new service launching today that offers a centralized place to find information about all kinds of conferences.  The site offers everything from speaker and event reviews to photos of the events after the fact through integration with Flickr.
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Robert Scoble / ScobleShow:
Behind the scenes of "zero cost" new startup: Confabb
Discussion: Scobleizer
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Pre-Roll Not the Answer for Online Video  —  The growth of online video this year has been staggering, but marketers are still struggling to find ways to effectively monetize the channel.  According to a new report from eMarketer, as well as comments of several speakers at the Ad:tech …
Discussion: Clickety Clack and Lost Remote
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Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
Pre-Roll May Be Easiest Online Video Ad Option But It's Not The Best
Washington Post:
For Ted Leonsis, a Quest to Find Himself Faster Online  —  For a man who's often in the public eye, Ted Leonsis didn't like what he saw when he Googled himself last year.  —  Leonsis — vice chairman of AOL, majority owner of the Washington Capitals hockey team and the Mystics of women's basketball …
Dan / .:UNEASYsilence:.:
Hacking the XBox 360's HD-DVD for the PC  —  Double Double toil and trouble, well more accurately it's Torx 5 Torx 7 toil and lots trouble.  Enticed by the $199 price, we set ourselves on a mission to find out if the Microsoft's XBox 360 HD-DVD player could work on a normal PC.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Xbox 360's HD DVD drive already functioning on PCs
Discussion: The Tech Report and PaidContent
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Merge Historical Maps With Current World In Google Earth  —  Google Earth in 4D from Googling Google is a very nice catch about how Google Earth now allows you to view historical maps within the software.  Want to see how people thought the world used to look, before all those satellites were taking pictures?
Google Blogoscoped:
Popular Blog Posts  —  I asked several bloggers about their most popular, or one of their most popular, blog posts - the kind that made an impact on people, had skyrocketing traffic numbers, or triggered a meme or changes.  Here are their answers (please note that I adjusted case for some answers …
Michel Marriott / New York Times:
Microsoft Counting on a Twist to Make Zune Shine in Shadow of iPod  —  The hoopla was still swelling around last November's debut of the Xbox 360, Microsoft's latest entry in the game-console wars, when some on its development team began turning their attention to conceiving a new product.
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats  —  A rising tide lifts all boats.  If there were ever a philosophy that guided our decision making at Sun, it's that - the notion that an internet connected by freely available standards is more valuable, to Sun and our customers, than one defined by dependencies on proprietary technologies.
Valleywag:
Battelle gets Farked  —  Federated Media Publishing, the ad network run by John Battelle, has lost one of the most popular sites it repped, and another may also leave the stable.  Fark, the heavily-trafficked humor site run by Drew Curtis, has appointed Maxim, the men's internet and magazine title, to sell its inventory.
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Lycos seeks rebirth as "virtual living room"  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lycos Inc., a U.S. Internet portal that survived the bursting of the late 1990s dot-com bubble, plans to resurrect itself as a teen broadband video channel with a built-in text chat room.  —  Having missed much of the …
 
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Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
TalkPlus demo : Call to echo123 from a mobile without a Skype client
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Just Say No To UMG  —  If you are a music device owner, it is time to tell UMG to shut up.
Newlaunches.com:
Toshiba Gigabeat P20K and P10K
Discussion: Gizmodo and Anything But iPod
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Every wanna-be rocker's fantasy comes true
Andy Merrett / Tech Digest:
TVonics DVR-150 eco-friendly PVR
Discussion: Gizmodo and PVR Wire
Elaine Thompson / Newsweek:
Tune Into Zune?  —  Microsoft takes aim at the iPod and misses-for now.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Microsoft says Gmail is a virus
Discussion: Download Squad
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Akamai in talks to acquire Nine Systems
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Google's video service faces suit
Discussion: The Utube Blog
James Brightman / Business Week:
Predatory Packaging  —  Are expensive bundles of next-gen consoles …
Discussion: Techdirt and digg
Mark Anderson / Wired News:
A Sneak Peek at a Fractured Web
SeekingAlpha CE Stocks:
Apple's $7 Billion Christmas Quarter To Be Paced by iPod Sales
Discussion: Blogging Stocks and digg
Nick Bradbury:
Web 3.0 Does Not Validate
Matthew Klam / New York Times:
The Online Auteurs  —  1. Some people were clowns at the kitchen table …
news.samba.org:
Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider
Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Start me up: The sound of Vista