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8:05 PM ET, March 8, 2007

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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
My Yahoo! Gets Web 2.0 Makeover  —  Hot on the heels of My.Netscape's personalized homepage makeover, Yahoo has announced a new version of its own long-running personalized homepage, My Yahoo.  It will at first be a private beta, with a limited number of users being offered a beta account at http://cm.my.yahoo.com/upgrade.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
All New My Yahoo  —  There's an all new My Yahoo launching today at 11 am PST.  This is the web's most popular customizable home page by far, with 50 milliion or so worldwide users and half of the total market (the other half is controlled by Netvibes, GoogleIG, Pageflakes, Live.com and others).
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
MY YAHOO IS GETTING A FACELIFT
Discussion: A Feed Is Born
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Hits 1 Million Registered Users  —  Congratulations to Digg, which announced that they've had a million accounts registered at at the site (at least ten of which are mine ).  This is a 5x increase year over year - In March 2006 they had just 200,000 registered users.  In March 2005, less than 50,000.
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QuadsZilla / SEO BlackHat:
Digg Hits 750,000 Sock Puppets  —  Digg recently announced that they passed the 1,000,000 Mark for number of registered users.  But as Michael Arrington points out, everyone who uses Digg is spamming it by creating multiple "sock puppet" accounts: … More than 10 are his …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Is Digg the future or just a feature?
Discussion: franticindustries
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Kevin Rose Fanclub Signs Up 1 Millionth Member
Discussion: GigaOM
Yahoo! Answers Team Blog:
What is the Answers Network (Beta)?  —  We've received a lot of feedback regarding the quality of content on Yahoo! Answers.  While we are continuing to find ways to attack trolls, fight spam, and filter and delete abuse on the site, we've also learned that a large portion …
Discussion: TechCrunch, Joe Duck and Clickinfluence
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Who's in your knowledge network?  —  You've got a burning question and you know someone out there has got the answer.  We've all been in this situation and for over 90 million people worldwide, spanning 20 countries, and 9 languages, Yahoo! Answers has been the answer.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Answers Adds Social Networking  —  Yahoo Answers, the question & answer social media exchange, has become a success for Yahoo, bringing the phenomena of social knowledge sharing to over 90 million worldwide Yahoo Answers users.  —  Now Yahoo has taken Yahoo Answers to the next level …
Discussion: Yodel Anecdotal
Jerry Useem / Fortune:
Apple: America's best retailer  —  The high-tech wundercompany has landed - not only on our street corners and in our malls, but also for the first time, on the top 10 of Fortune's Most Admired Companies.  —  (Fortune Magazine) — "Sorry Steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work," BusinessWeek wrote with great certainty in 2001.
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
The Economics of Online Advertising  —  Mark Jacobsen pointed to a sobering post by Jeremy Lieuw on the lightspeed venture blog about the economics of online advertising.  Entitled Three ways to build an online media business to $50m in revenue, the article does the math:
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Sony's Home: Singapore, Sodom, or something else?  —  As we know, nation building in a foreign territory has its pitfalls, especially if that territory already has a well-established set of competing factions.  But those challenges will not deter Sony from planting the PlayStation 3 flag …
Discussion: Joystiq
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches  —  IN FOCUS » See more posts on: Daylight Saving Time  —  Thousands of Microsoft customers are running into problems understanding and applying the myriad Microsoft Daylight Saving Time (DST) patches required in order …
Discussion: WebProNews, AccMan and Business Filter
Eric Wilson / New York Times:
How to Bottle a Generation  —  IN 1994, Calvin Klein designed a fragrance that embodied, in its flat little screw-top bottle, the disaffected, sexually ambivalent grunge youth of the moment.  CK One, with its unconventional black and white advertisements filled with moping, androgynous models …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Skype: Now you, too, can run a phone sex line (or even tech support!)  —  Skype's new beta for Windows (3.1 beta) comes with an interesting feature: the ability to charge people who are calling you.  Dubbed Skype Prime, the new beta service allows customers to charge incoming callers by the minute or assess a one-time fee.
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Not trapping users' data = GOOD  —  When users get what they want from you quickly and easily, they're more likely to come back next time.  (Shh.  Don't tell anyone else this vital secret.)  Part of that is feeling that they aren't "trapped"-that they can leave you behind if they want.
Kevin Cho / Bloomberg:
Apple May Introduce Laptops That Store Data on Chips (Update3)  —  Apple Inc., maker of the iPod music players and Macintosh personal computers, may introduce a new laptop this year that will save data on flash memory chips instead of a hard drive, American Technology Research said.
Reuters:
Wikipedia founder says to challenge Google, Yahoo  —  TOKYO (Reuters) - The online collaboration responsible for Wikipedia plans to build a search engine to rival those of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), the founder of the popular Internet encyclopaedia said on Thursday.
 
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Stowe Boyd / Message:
Overload, Shmoverload  —  I gave a talk at the recent Etel conference …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is Clearwire worth $4 billion?
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Users report major problems with Blockbuster Online
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Gizmodo:
Random House Sending Books Via SMS
Discussion: SMS Text News and Gadget Lab
Google Blogoscoped:
Tips for Using Images in Blogs
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Developers aim to lure women to adult games
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 Earlier Items: 
Christine Churchill / Search Engine Land:
Survival of the Nimble
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification
Ludwig Kietzmann / Joystiq:
Joystiq and Engadget live at Nintendo's 2007 GDC keynote
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
AT&T's QWERTY-equipped SMT5700 drops by FCC
Discussion: Crave and CrunchGear
Mark Hachman / ExtremeTech:
Samsung Samples First Hybrid Hard Drive to OEMs; Retail 'Soon'
Discussion: TechSpot News, Gearlog and Slashdot
Digital Chosunilbo:
Wife of Chinese Cyber Dissident to Sue Yahoo
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Internet Start-Up to Take a Hybrid Media Approach
Randy Dotinga / Wired News:
Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's ITV News appoints Channel 4 News executive Laura Wilshaw as editor, succeeding Andrew Dagnell, who will become director of news and current affairs

 
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