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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Dear Clown Co.: Name This Thing Fast Before Its Too Late — For the last twenty-four hours we've been reporting a nearly non-stop stream of facts (and some speculation) about the new, unamed News Corp./NBC Universal joint venture to launch later this year. First the rumor, then the confirmation …
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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
News Corp. and NBC in Web Deal — In a long-anticipated challenge to YouTube and other online video sites, two big media companies yesterday announced a new venture to showcase their own programming across the Internet's biggest Web sites, as well as a new jointly owned Web destination.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:NBC Universal/News Corp Online Video Deal Demonstrates That The …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
DMCA takedown backlash: EFF sues Viacom over Colbert parody clip — Viacom's DMCA takedown notices continue to generate controversy. The media giant fired off more than 100,000 notices to YouTube earlier this year, but it appears to have caught numerous legitimate videos in the crossfire.
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Brandon Badger / Google Maps API Official Blog:
KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API — Posted by Nigel Tao, Software Engineer, Google Maps Team — One of the things I love most about Google Maps and Google Earth is that it's easy for anyone to create and display new geographically referenced content.
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PlayStation 3 launched in Europe — Sony has launched its PlayStation 3 (PS3) console in Europe and Australia, hoping to retake its gaming crown. — The company trails Microsoft and Nintendo in sales of next generation consoles and the launch has been beset with problems in the last year.
David Young / Joyeur:
Joyent Slingshot [22] — Joyent Slingshot allows developers to deploy Rails applications that work the same online and offline (with synchronization) and with drag into and out of the application just like a standard desktop application. We have Joyent Connector and a select group …
Jon Murchinson / Google:
Michael Moritz Will Not Seek Re-Election to Google's Board of Directors — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that Michael Moritz has informed the company that he will not seek re-election to its board of directors at the 2007 stockholder meeting. Moritz, who has been a director since May 1999 …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Microsoft temporarily closes video site — Microsoft is closing its video-sharing site, Soapbox, to new users for up to two months so it can create better safeguards against pirated content. — The software giant, which agreed earlier Thursday to distribute movies and TV shows for big media companies …
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Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:Microsoft Takes Soapbox Private Again; Will Add Copyright Filtering
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Matthew L. Wald / New York Times:
Chief Says F.C.C. Is Against Cellphone Use on Airliners — The Federal Communications Commission will give up on the idea of allowing cellphone use on airplanes, the chairman said on Thursday, because it is not clear whether the network on the ground can handle the calls.
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One — The "wisdom of crowds" is a popular web 2.0 buzzword, popularized by James Surowiecki's book of the same name. At its most basic, the term means that two heads are better than one, and that still more heads will yield even better results.
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Stephane Dion / ClicZune:
Pink Zune on May 1st! Confirmed! — You heard it! We just confirmed the news with ebgames.com. According to the customer support, the new version of the Zune player is going to be available on May 1st at $249.99. — The same player, same 30Gb capacity. Hopefully with firmware 1.3!
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Podcasting News:
Podcasting Audience Up 18% Since Last Year — The audience for podcasts has grown 18% in the last year, according to an upcoming report from Edison Media Research. Awareness of podcasting has grown even more, jumping from 22% in 2006 to 37% in 2007. — At the Corporate Podcasting Summit …
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Leopard not ready for April—"Barely beta, not final or Gold Master" — There have been a lot of rumors lately from "unconfirmed" sources about Leopard's expected ship date. For a while, everyone was sure it was going to ship mid-to-late March. Then mysteriously, the ship date …
Business Wire:
Palm Reports Q3 FY07 Results — Treo Smartphone Sell-through and Revenue Hit Record Highs — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM - News) today reported revenue of $410.5 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2007, ended March 2.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
When is a TV not a TV? — As I predicted here last week ("The $7 TV Network," it's in this week's links), Neokast was the hit of the Video on the Net conference in San Jose. The prospect of high-quality streaming (not downloading) with almost no bandwidth cost whatsoever and no YouTube ads …
Inside AdSense:
Referrals, now with Google Checkout — Today we're excited to announce that in addition to AdSense, AdWords, Firefox with Google Toolbar, and Google Pack, you can now refer your users to Google Checkout through AdSense. — Checkout gives your users a faster, safer, and more convenient way to shop online.
