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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
The State of Technorati, April 2007 — I typically issue the State of the Blogosphere report each quarter to give a glimpse into our data and what that may tell us about the global social media phenomenon. As many of you have pointed out, it's been nearly six months since the last report. Yow!
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Mark Evans:
Talking Up Technorati — If Technorati is looking for a suitor or more venture capital, the latest State of Technorati report is a dead giveaway. CEO David Sifry talks about how Technorati has evolved into a new media company, how tags have really exploded, and how it's still …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Mirror mirror on the wall, which blog search is best of them all? — Last Friday I visited the famous South Park area in San Francisco. It's a small park south of Market street where a number of cool Web 2.0 startups are located (Twitter's parent, Obvious Corp, is located in a building on one end of the park).
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-017 — Vulnerabilities in GDI Could Allow Remote Code Execution (925902) — Version: 1.0 — Who Should Read this Document: Customers who use Microsoft Windows — Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution — Maximum Severity Rating: Critical
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Google:
Google Announces TV Ads Trial — At Google, we are constantly looking for ways to improve user experience and bring value to advertisers, publishers and partners. Users spend a lot of time watching TV so improving the relevance of advertising information on that medium is important.
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Somasegar / Somasegar's WebLog:
Listening to your feedback - Expression and MSDN — When we announced Expression Studio last December, we saw great excitement from both the design and development community - excitement that is clearly reflected in the hundreds of thousands of CTP and trial downloads we've already seen.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Vonage hangs up on Verizon patent infringement with new agreement — Vonage has signed an agreement with a VoIP network services provider to carry calls placed by Vonage customers, giving the troubled VoIP provider an out on two of the three Verizon patents it was found to have infringed.
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
EMI to Drop Digital Locks in Web Sales — EMI Group, the British music giant, broke ranks with the music industry's biggest corporations yesterday by announcing a deal to sell songs online through Apple's music service without copy protection. — The move by EMI, which ranks last among …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
ClickTale Heatmaps Launching Now — ClickTale, a user tracking service for websites similar to CrazyEgg, will announce the launch of ClickTale Heatmaps in the next few minutes. — ClickTale provides a multi-colored overlay for your website that shows where visitors look, which parts of the page they focus on and how far they scroll.
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft sued over Windows Vista marketing — A lawsuit alleges that Microsoft Corp. engaged in deceptive practices by letting PC makers promote computers as "Windows Vista Capable" even if they couldn't run the new operating system's "signature" features.
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WebProNews, CrunchGear, Microsoft News Tracker, The Raw Feed, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus and Slashdot
Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
PlayStation 3 hardware sales plummet 82 per cent — Sales down dramatically on second week of release — Sales of the PlayStation 3 have dropped dramatically on the second week of release in the UK, with official Chart Track figures revealing a fall of 82 per cent.
Insurgent / JoshWolf.net:
Watch the Unedited Video — During the course of this saga I have repeatedly offered to allow a judge to be the arbiter over whether or not my video material has any evidentiary value. Today, you the public have the opportunity to be the judge and I am confident you will see, as I do …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Drinks with Dell — When I blogged that I was headed down to Austin and the University of Texas last week, I got email out of the blue from Dell's chief blogger, Lionel Menchaca, inviting me to meet him and his colleagues over drinks or out at Dell HQ. I said I hadn't been planning to pack …
Business Week:
A Happier Tune for Napster — Investors bid the shares higher Tuesday after the online music service's quarterly revenue forecast beat Wall Street expectations — Napster (NAPS) continues battling for survival against tough rivals like Apple (AAPL), which dominates the online music market …
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
SATELLITE STATIC — CARMEL GROUP THROWS WRENCH INTO SIRIUS/XM MERGER — The Carmel Group, the influential research firm whose analysis helped kill the 2003 merger of EchoStar and DirecTV, will release a new report today that outlines the strongest arguments yet against merging satellite …
