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10:35 AM ET, March 2, 2007

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Tim Weber / BBC:

BBC strikes Google-YouTube deal — The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube, the web's most popular video sharing website, owned by Google. — Three YouTube channels - one for news and two for entertainment - will showcase short clips of BBC content.

Discussion: The Social Web, PaidContent, Gadget Lab, Ben Metcalfe Blog, The Browser, Licence to Roam, WebProNews, Search Engine Land, CrunchGear, Beth's Blog and Slashdot

Miguel Helft / New York Times:

Google Courts Small YouTube Deals — Google has been frustrated in its efforts to reach comprehensive deals with major studios and networks to put their video on YouTube. Meanwhile, it is forming partnerships with hundreds of smaller media companies that see value — or at least a valuable experiment — in contributing to the site.

Discussion: Internet Outsider and PaidContent

Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:

Viacom hails fight against YouTube — Viacom said on Thursday that traffic to its MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon websites rose sharply over the past month, validating its decision to force YouTube, the video sharing site bought by Google, to remove all Viacom video clips.

Discussion: mathewingram.com/work, HipMojo.com and Guardian Unlimited

Kotaku:

Sony and Kotaku Make-Up — Silent Hill Movie Sequel Confirmed? — Ain't It Cool News reporter Quint got a chance to speak with actress Laurie Holden—she played police officer Cybil Bennett in the original film—who revealed that producers were "going forward with a sequel" …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Game | Life and digg

Gizmodo:
12 Microsoft Patents That Paint a Zune Phone Picture

Discussion: Game | Life and digg

Kotaku:
Sony Blackballs Kotaku

Discussion: Gizmodo, 901am, Geek News Central, Cathode Tan, Brandon Live!, Joystiq, GameSetWatch and digg

Kotaku:
Rumor: Sony To Unveil PlayStation Home

Discussion: GamePolitics.com, You NEWB, CrunchGear, Go Nintendo, I4U News, Gizmodo, Slashdot, DigitalBattle, Crave and digg

Windows portal:

Vista Brute Force Keygen — Thanks to Computer User to report this way and to Snooza to prepare the pack! This method is a brute force attempt at determining a usable key. — This has been reported to work!......look at the following user comments!!! — zapp2 wrote: This WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS

Discussion: Gizmodo, Hardware 2.0, CrunchGear and Guardian Unlimited

Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:

Vista activation cracked by brute force — Sledgehammered — IT LOOKS LIKE Microsoft's unhackable OS activation malware has been hacked. — There is an active thread at the Keznews forums (account needed), and a summary on its main page about the crack.

Discussion: Neowin.net

John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:

$11B IN LIQUID ASSETS AND GROWING — Google filed a K-1 this week (thanks Gary) and there were a few tidbits in there. If you're a Google geek, it's worth a read. — Google had more than 10,00 employees at the end of 2006, for example, and spent nearly $2B in capex in 06.

Discussion: ben barren and pc4media

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Last desktop app standing: IM Client — Google Apps, Zoho Suite, Buzzword, and even Adobe PhotoShop - it seems nothing stands in the way of the web monster that is gobbling up desktop applications, chewing them up and spitting them out as a web applications.

Discussion: Watching, Testing, Digesting and Between the Lines

Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:

On Buries and Blocking — Hi All - — Just wanted to post real quick about some stories I've seen in the blogosphere regarding an alleged 'bury brigade' on Digg and on the Digg site blocking process. — For the same reason that we don't expose all of our back-end methodologies …

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Deep Jive Interests and WebProNews

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Should Sue Wired

Stan Schroeder / franticindustries:
Wired is going too far against Digg

Discussion: WebProNews and digg

Ted Leung / Ted Leung on the Air:

Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web — I suppose this will be the one "technical" post about the whole Adobe Engage thing. — Background — For several years, I worked on Chandler, a cross platform desktop app which uses the open source wxWidgets toolkit to hide platform differences from an application.

Tim Gaden / Hawk Wings:

A faster way to speed up Mail.app — UPDATE: A number of posters in the comments have pointed out that it is possible to run this command on just one line in the Terminal and to leave some of it out. See the comments if you are interested in more fancy ways to get the job done.

Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog and digg

Google Blogoscoped:

Google Censorship FAQ — Does Google censor search results? — Yes, they sometimes do, in different countries, like Germany, France or China. Sometimes, specific content is censored globally (including US results, e.g. in the case of certain censored newsgroup messages). — Do other search engines censor too?

James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:

Wizzard Media acquires Libsyn — An announcement was made by Wizzard Media that will impact thousands of podcasters like us MobileTechRoundupers. The company announced it has acquired Liberated Syndication, known to podcasters as Libsyn. The Wizzard announcement states their intent …

Discussion: Mashable! and Podcasting News

Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:

What to Do with Apple's Cash — Launching a venture capital fund would allow Apple to fund its vision for the future without making awkward acquisitions — What would you do with $12 billion? — You might have two ideas in mind, neither of which is necessarily exclusive of the other …

Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

PR Newswire:

Novell Reports Preliminary Financial Results for First Fiscal Quarter 2007 — Linux Platform Products recognized revenue grows 46% year-over-year, invoicing revenue grows 659% — WALTHAM, Mass., March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL - News) today announced preliminary …

Discussion: SeekingAlpha Software Stocks, Between the Lines and Tech Trader Daily

Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:

The Attention Economy: An Overview — Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — It is no secret that we live in an information overload age. The explosion of new types of information online is a double-edged sword. We both enjoy and drown in news, blogs, podcasts, photos, videos and cool MySpace pages.

Discussion: Adotas

Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:

YouTube Videos Reveal Google Adsense Clicks Data — As you probably know, Google is testing a new Adsense Ad format that streams video directly from YouTube.com. The first such campaign is for GMail Theater Videos run by Google itself. — If Google is planning to roll-out such ads to a bigger audience …

Discussion: MIT Advertising Lab

Kevin Newcomb / Search Engine Watch Blog: Test of YouTube AdSense Unit Reveals Clickthroughs

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