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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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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 …
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.
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.
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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Nick / Rough Type:
The sharecroppers' tools — MySpace has restricted its members' ability to stream on their pages videos hosted at Photobucket. A clear violation of the spirit of Web 2.0 - the sixties got free love; we get free widgets - the move has set off an outcry in the blogosphere.
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.
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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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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MacRumors, MacUser, The Technology Chronicles, Epicenter, Byte of the Apple, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Engadget and Listening Post
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Ryan / Skype for Mac:
Skype 2.6 Beta is here — Today we released Skype 2.6 for Mac Beta. Although our main focus was on quality, we've also added a few new features. One of them so new it's released first on Mac and only later on other platforms. — Download Skype 2.6 for Mac Beta now
PR Newswire:
Comcast Reaches Agreement to Acquire Fandango and Announces Plan to Launch Fancast.com, New National Online Destination — Comcast Interactive Media Makes Strategic Addition with Fandango, One of Web's Top Movie and Entertainment Sites — PHILADELPHIA and LOS ANGELES, April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall …
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paidContent.org, StartupSquad.com, Between the Lines, TechCrunch, Lost Remote, Todd Chanko, Valleywag and Mashable!
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.
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.
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.
