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11:20 AM ET, March 8, 2007

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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
1 Miiiiiillion Users  —  It's now been more than two years since the first story was submitted and dugg on Digg.  Since then you guys have helped Digg move from a personal project amongst a group of friends to a huge online community.  Now, your contributions in submitting, digging …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Hits 1 Million Registered Users
Discussion: live
Steven Zeitchik / Variety:
News Corp. in Web video bid  —  Media company logs talks with rivals  —  News Corp. is forging ahead on talks with a number of congloms to create a video platform that could compete with YouTube.  —  "We're in very active negotiations with all of the media companies to create …
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft's top search executive leaving company  —  The Microsoft Corp. executive who led the company's challenge to Google is leaving the company.  —  Christopher Payne, the corporate vice president for Microsoft's Live Search initiative, plans to launch a Seattle-based technology firm unrelated …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Federated Media Raising More Money, Looking to Sell  —  There's a ton of interesting data included in a new MergerMarket interview with Federated Media Publishing COO Jason Weisberger.  The report itself is proprietary research, although a copy was forwarded to us.
Jaanus / Skype Blogs:
Skype Prime™ Beta — introducing the global expertise marketplace  —  Today, we put out an update of Skype 3.1 beta for Windows.  Download here.  It contains the typical bugfixes and such from the previous release — thanks to everyone who's been helping us with the reports.  Keep them coming.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Playstation Crushes Second Life with Superior Platform  —  Sony is launching a social network for PS3 users called Playstation Home, according to news coming out of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today.  The network is a 3D virtual world similar to Second Life, says Engadget, except that it's much, much better.
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Gizmodo:
PlayStation Home Combines the Best of Nintendo's Miis, a few Xbox …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Can Sony get anything right?
Discussion: reBang weblog and Joystiq
Frank Taylor / Google Earth Blog:
Berlin in 3D Released for Google Earth  —  [UPDATE 0800 ET: On Mac OS X you get a "file not found" error when loading the Berlin 3D file.  Also, see video below provided by the publishers of the collection.]  —  Several German readers have sent me E-mail this morning alerting me to the release …
Discussion: Ogle Earth and Google Blogoscoped
Ken Grobe / The Ask.com Blog:
The New Shape of Local Search  —  What, you think we'd launch an incomparable, doors-blowing product like AskCity and just leave it out there?  We've been whipping up a fresh batch of upgrades, and are ready to announce the latest: search-enabled drawing tools.
Terry Sullivan / PC Magazine:
Sony Announces Its First Wireless Digicam  —  Although some big names have banked on wireless digital cameras going mainstream—namely, Kodak, Nikon, and Canon—Sony has opted to stay disconnected from the trend, at least until today.  —  Sony launched its first wireless digital point …
Discussion: CrunchGear, Engadget and Gadgetell
Gregory Heller / DefectiveByDesign.org:
An Open Letter to Steve Jobs  —  Introduction: … Dear Steve Jobs,  —  We would like to thank you for your public statements about Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), and your pledge to drop DRM from iTunes if the four major record labels—EMI, Warner, Universal and Sony—let you.
Valleywag:
APPLE: 42 Reasons Normal People Can Switch to Macs  —  NICK DOUGLAS — Are Macs just for hipster designers?  Not at all!  Maybe you've wanted to switch to a Mac, but you were afraid it wouldn't work with your Office files.  Maybe you can't convince your parents they won't lose their vacation photos.
Philliptorrone / MAKE Magazine:
5.5g iPods can now run Linux  —  The Linux on iPod developer blog says the 5.5g iPods can now run Linux - … Linux on iPod » Blog Archive » 5.5g iPods are working! … More:  —  Linux on iPod projects @ MAKE - Link.
Discussion: CrunchGear
Randy Dotinga / Wired News:
Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries  —  A suite of photo-authentication tools under development by Adobe Systems could make it possible to match a digital photo to the camera that shot it, and to detect some improper manipulation of images, Wired News has learned.
Discussion: Slashdot and Ministry of Tech
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Online Ad Spending Hits $4.8 Billion in Q4 2006  —  Online ad revenues continued to grow at a quick pace in Q4 2006, reaching nearly $4.8 billion, according to numbers released today by The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and its independent research partner PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Fred / A VC:
How To Widget?  —  Being a publisher ain't so easy these days.  I know a little bit about it now that I have this thing called a blog that I feel compelled to keep fresh and build (whatever that means, my audience has been flat for the past year - maybe because of the very subject of this post).
Discussion: Clickinfluence
Mike / Techdirt:
Verizon Claims Vonage Owes It $197 Million For Patent Infringement  —  from the nice-work-if-you-can-get-it dept  —  If you want a good example of the backwardness of the patent system these days, just check out the lawsuit where Verizon claims Vonage infringed on its patents.
Discussion: broadbandreports.com
 
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Consumerist:
Comcast Tech Bullies Customer for Cash, Breaks His Hard Drive …
Discussion: broadbandreports.com and digg
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Updated: The First Decade of Internet Advertising
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Internet Start-Up to Take a Hybrid Media Approach
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
The Hard Drive as Eye Candy
ChannelWeb News:
HP Sees Huge Linux Desktop Deals
Discussion: TechSpot News, Slashdot and digg
Alice / Wonderland:
GDC: MMOs, past, present and future
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Omidyar Network appoints new leader, to double in size
Discussion: PaidContent
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Macrovision copy protection coming to a download near you
Discussion: digg
 Earlier Items: 
Lore Sjöberg / Wired News:
You, Too, Can Be a Fanboy  —  If you read video game message boards …
Discussion: CrunchGear, Joystiq and digg
Nick / Rough Type:
Customer value and the network effect
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
MTV Networks embraces Web chaos to regain viewers
Erik Dafforn / ClickZ:
Search Traffic and Web Analytics: Easy Answers, Hard Lessons
Mike / Techdirt:
Hands Off The Truth; Why It's Hard To Take Hands Off The Internet Seriously
Discussion: Global Nerdy
MediaShift:
DIGGING DEEPER  —  Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff
Discussion: Global Nerdy and Holovaty.com
BBC:
Turkish court bans YouTube access
Valleywag:
ADVERTISING: Facebook 'consistently the worst performing site'
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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