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Reuters:
Viacom demands YouTube pull down videos — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc. (VIAb.N: Quote, Profile , Research) has demanded that Google Inc.'s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research) online video service YouTube pull down all of its video clips after they failed to reach an agreement, the company said.
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Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
Viacom Demands That Google Pull More Than 100,000 Clips From YouTube — Exasperated by the failure to reach an agreement with Google and YouTube after months of negotiations, Viacom sent Google a letter today demanding that all Viacom material on YouTube—100,000 plus clips representing 1.2 billion streams …
Elisabeth Osmeloski / Search Engine Watch Blog:MTV Networks Demands YouTube & Google Remove Unauthorized Videos
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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
A couple updates... Hey everyone - — It's been awhile since I've posted and I wanted to get the New Year underway by clearing up a couple of perceptions that have arisen around attempts to manipulate (game) the listing of home page stories on Digg. — Since the early days of the site …
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Christopher Finke / Now I Have a Blog Too:
Top Diggers list is back — Digg removed its top users list this morning. However, as I mentioned yesterday, … To prove my point, I've done exactly that: I've put together a script that displays the top 100 users at Digg, with the list being updated twice per day. You can see the list here.
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Steven Levy / Newsweek:
Finally, Vista Makes Its Debut. Now What? — Bill Gates explains why you should buy his new operating system, what he's doing next and why John Hodgeman bugs him. — Vista View: Gates at the launch of his new operating system — On the morning of the launch of the Vista operating system earlier …
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Reuters:
Piracy worked for us, Romania president tells Gates — BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Pirated Microsoft Corp software helped Romania to build a vibrant technology industry, Romanian President Traian Basescu told the company's co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday. — Basescu was meeting …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Romanian President Tells Bill Gates How Awesome Pirated Software Is For His Country — from the keep-sending-it,-please dept — Back in the old days, even Bill Gates would admit that piracy actually helped Microsoft, as it helped get people "addicted" to the software and built …
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David Kaplan / PaidContent:
Penguin Tries Group Writing Via Wiki; Six Weeks To Write A Novel — Penguin claims to be the first major publishing house to use a wiki for writing a novel from scratch. A Million Penguins went live Thursday; using wiki software it can be written, edited or read by anyone.
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The Penguin Blog:
A Million Penguins - The More the Merrier — So a couple of months ago I mentioned in this post a secret project, and now launch day is finally here! Penguin is launching its first wiki and in a project called A Million Penguins we've created a space where anyone can contribute to the writing …
New York Times:
It's 'Squawk Box' Meets 'Saturday Night Live' — A few years ago, a video on the stock performance of Jack in the Box might have involved a sit-down interview with the fast-food restaurant's chief executive, dryly discussing its fundamentals. — Today, it is just as likely to be a music video …
Gregg Keizer / InformationWeek:
Microsoft Exec Wanted To Mask Linux Report Sponsorship, E-Mails Reveal — Kevin Johnson worried adding Microsoft's moniker to IDC analysis for its "Get the Facts" publicity campaign would only fuel the fire from Linux supporters. — Microsoft executives pondered whether to remove …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft tried to muck with anti-Linux 'facts'
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MacNN:
Apple files iPhone/iTMS transactions patent — Apple Files Patent Relating to iPhone/iTMS Transactions — On February 1, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's patent application titled Configuration of a computing device in a secure manner .
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
National Pork Board Goes After Breastfeeding Search Marketer — Last year, well-known search marketer Jennifer Laycock set up the Lactivist project, where she explained step-by-step how to market a new web site on a budget. Part of the project were the funny shirts she sold to promote breastfeeding …
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CNET News.com:
Gawker Media mystery ads appear on YouTube — A YouTube subscriber with an affinity for Web sites owned by Gawker Media has for the past three months been posting copyright videos sandwiched between ads for Gawker-owned properties such as Valleywag and Gizmodo.
Google Blogoscoped:
Evolution of a Search Engine — "You don't need a satellite to see the cosmic microwave background radiation! Turn on your TV to a channel that's not broadcasting: a few percent of the snow on your screen is the Universe talking to you - or rather, whispering. What's it saying?
Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog:
Zoho's Cool Web-Based Note Taker — One of the most impressive things I saw here at the DEMO conference (which wrapped up this evening) is a Web service that's still in a private alpha version. As such, it has every right to be rough around the edges, and it is—but it's also …
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
In a Well-Worked Pattern, Amazon's Revenue Rises and Its Profit Drops — Amazon.com's profits are paying the price for higher taxes and heavy spending during the holiday months. — Its quarterly profit dropped 51 percent as the company continued to spend on technology and its discounted shipping programs …
