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Blog.Photobucket.com:
Breaking news: Posting from Photobucket to MySpace — Breaking news: Posting from Photobucket to MySpace — A Message to our Customers — Today MySpace made the decision to prevent Photobucket users from posting their videos and remixes to their MySpace pages.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
PhotoBucket Videos Blocked on MySpace — Sometime around 10:30 pm PST tonight, MySpace began blocking videos embedded on MySpace pages that originate from Photobucket. This is a major blackout, affecting millions of embedded videos. Photobucket images and slideshows are not affected.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
MySpace'ers learn harsh reality — When you host your stuff on a Web site that's free and that you don't control some nasty crap can happen. Yesterday MySpace started blocking Photobucket stuff. — My blog is hosted on Wordpress.com and I have the same issues the MySpace folks are seeing …
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Todd Watson
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
MySpace & Photobucket - Free services come with strings attached — MySpace has blocked Photobucket content again. Robert Scoble reminds us when you host your content on free services nasty crap can happen. TechMeme is flooded with blogs angrily protesting MySpace's actions.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Photobucket vs MySpace, Round Two — Updated: FIM just sent in this statement on why they are blocking Photobucket. … For second time this year, Photobucket is saying MySpace is blocking photos and videos hosted by Photobucket. Back in January 2007, when the first such incident happened, it ended up amounting to saber rattling.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
5 lessons of Photobucket Fiasco — Photobucket, which started out as a plain-vanilla hosting service, cried wolf last night when it claimed that MySpace was blocking its videos. The truth came out this morning: because Photobucket is selling ads on videos that get shown on MySpace via widgets …
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Chuqui 3.0
CNET News.com:
MySpace blocks Photobucket videos and slideshows — Social-networking giant MySpace.com on Wednesday blocked Photobucket videos and photo slideshows from being uploaded to its pages. — MySpace will no longer let users post such content from Photobucket in their profiles, blogs or comments section.
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Ken Grobe / The Ask.com Blog:
Sitemaps Autodiscovery — Today, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! together are announcing support of "autodiscovery" of Sitemaps. The new open-format autodiscovery allows webmasters to specify the location of their Sitemaps within their robots.txt file …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Big Round For Aggregate Knowledge — As previously rumored, Aggregate Knowledge closed a second round of financing earlier this year - $20 million to add to their previous $5 million round from Kleiner Perkins and First Round Capital. DAG Ventures led this new round, and Kleiner also participated.
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Derick Mains / Apple:
Award-Winning MGM Films Now on the iTunes Store — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Apple® today announced that MGM is now offering titles from its prestigious catalog of feature films for purchase and download on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com).
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Code of Conduct: Lessons Learned So Far — Rather than responding in detail to the many comments on my Draft of a Bloggers' Code of Conduct or the earlier Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct, as well as some of the thoughtful discussion on other blogs, I thought I'd summarize some of my chief takeaways from the discussion so far.
Mark / Doomlaser:
Kernel Panic Screensaver! — So awhile back I was thinking, "You know what would be funny? A screensaver that fakes a kernel panic!" — For those of you who might never have seen one, a kernel panic is basically the most shocking crash that you can get on a Mac.
Tom Simonite / NewScientistTech:
Chilled oil bath may cool hot processors — Submerging computer chips in oil could make them more energy efficient, according to a UK company that hopes to start selling such systems within a year. — The microprocessors inside servers and desktop computers are normally cooled using fans that blow air across the components.
SearchViews:
The Next Chapter for Reprise Media — We are proud to announce that as of today, Reprise Media has officially joined the Interpublic group of companies. — Anyone familiar with Reprise Media knows that we've always been proud of our independence and our entrepreneurial spirit.
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Reprise Media, Clickety Clack, Search Engine Land, paidContent.org and This is going to be BIG.
Gizmodo:
Rumor: First Zune 2.0 Photo? — In light of yesterday's rumors about Zune 2.0, I'd remembered an anon tip that came in two weeks ago along with this puzzling photograph of a Zune with an approximate 16:9 wide screen. (Compare that to ye old Zune 1.0's screen) I dismissed it then, but now …
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Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
Google - The Ultimate Money Making Machine — We learned the fundamental law of Supply and Demand in Economics 101. The textbooks explain that shifts in demand cause corresponding changes in supply. No matter what the changes are, the point where the curves intersect sets the price of the good or a service.
