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Marla Nitke / Interactive Advertising Bureau:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES SURPASS $4 BILLION FOR Q3 — Latest IAB/PwC Survey Finds 2006 Record Industry Growth and Largest Quarter Ever — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached an estimated …
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Mark Evans, HipMojo.com, Don Dodge on The Next …, Blackfriars' Marketing, PaidContent and Screenwerk
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The real story of Web 2.0: Advertising 2.0 — The real story of Web 2.0 has little to do with the bells and whistles and everything to do with the stunning growth of online advertising. If you look there is a valley between the dotcom spending days (99/2000) and today …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Huh? YouTube Sends TechCrunch A Cease & Desist — Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We've been accused of a number of things: violating YouTube's Terms of Use, of …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy — Groups of Second Life content creators were gathering digitally Tuesday to protest the dissemination of a program they worry could badly damage the virtual world's nascent economy. — The controversy gathered steam Monday when Linden Lab …
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Corylinden / Official Linden Blog:
Use of CopyBot and Similar Tools a ToS Violation — Second Life needs features to provide more information about assets and the results of copying them. Unfortunately, these are not yet in place. Until they are, the use of CopyBot or any other external application to make unauthorized …
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Rough Type, Second Life Herald, JD on EP, Clickable Culture, New World Notes and Second Life Insider
Robin Linden / Official Linden Blog:
Copyrights and Content Creation in Second Life — Today I met with a large group of Residents, members of the Sellers Guild, to talk about the implications of a recently-developed LibSL product called CopyBot. CopyBot allows the user to create a replication of an object, including textures, that is fully permissive.
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theory.isthereason, CNNMoney.com, The Trademark Blog, Second Life Insider and Second Life Herald
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Physics promises wire-less power — The tangle of cables and plugs needed to recharge today's electronic gadgets could soon be a thing of the past. — US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players without wires.
New York Times:
NBC Official Is Expected to Join AOL — Randy Falco, the president of the NBC Universal Television Group, is in talks to leave his position as the No. 2 executive at the television group to take a senior operating role at AOL, Time Warner's Internet subsidiary, according to executives briefed on the move.
Carlo / Techdirt:
Is News Corp. Looking To Sell MySpace? — from the buy-low-sell-high dept — News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch told investors in Australia yesterday that the company could sell MySpace for $6 billion now, a more than tenfold premium over the $580 million it paid for the social-networking site last July.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Slide gets big VC round for its slideshow product — Slide, the San Francisco start-up that lets you create slide shows from your photos or other content, has raised a large third round of funding from Khosla Ventures and Mayfield Fund. — The amount remains undisclosed …
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Ten people create 80 per cent of spam — Kill the terrorists now — TEN WELL AIMED silver bullets would take care of 80 per cent of the world's spam, according to the anti-spam organisation Spamhaus. — According to Security Pro News, Spamhaus thinks that there are only ten people …
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google holds back stock in YouTube deal — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. has set aside more than $200 million in its just-completed takeover of YouTube Inc. as a financial cushion to cover losses or possible legal bills for the frequent copyright violations on YouTube's video-sharing site.
Samc / dailywireless.org:
Clearwire Launches in Seattle — Clearwire is hosting a laser light show from the top of Seattle's Space Needle tonight around 7:15 p.m. to mark the launch of WiMAX service in Seattle. — The Kirkland company, with more than 1,000 employees worldwide, is the brainchild of Craig McCaw …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
It's true: The Zune is incompatible with Vista — I really couldn't believe the tip a reader sent in earlier this month that Microsoft's Zune MP3 player would be incompatible with Windows Vista. — I had heard the Windows Media Player DRM and the Zune DRM were not going to be compatible.
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GigaOM, CNNMoney.com, Monkey Bites, 21talks, Microsoft News Tracker, I4U News, TechSpot, Life On the Wicked Stage and Global Nerdy
Reuters:
Reuters to syndicate blogs — Reuters Group has taken a stake in Web media-syndication site Pluck and has agreed to distribute blogs worldwide as part of a new media strategy. — Reuters, a news and information company, has invested $7 million in the Austin, Texas-based company in return …
DesktopLinux.com:
OLPC nears low-cost Linux laptop production — The One Laptop Per Child project's onsite supervisor, Mark Foster, reported from Shanghai on Sunday that the first 10 prototypes of the Linux-powered OLPC XO-1 are up and running. This marks a key milestone toward an upcoming build of 900 units.
Alan Sipress / Washington Post:
Internet Firms Seek Rollback of Quote Fees — Coalition to Ask SEC to Reconsider Charges for Posting Real-Time Stock Prices — A coalition of leading Internet companies, including Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and IAC/Interactive Corp., plans today to petition the Securities and Exchange Commission …
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Gizmodo:
Confirmed: Microsoft To Reward Zune Song Sharing — When we last left off, the consensus was that Microsoft was still planning on rewarding song sharing with the Zune. Now we've got pretty much confirmation—unofficial, that is—that Microsoft is planning this feature.
