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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
PhotoBucket Back on MySpace (I Want To Know The Backstory) — A simple blog post on Photobucket tells us that the war is over - PhotoBucket videos are now allowed on MySpace again after a two week ban. — But the interesting part of this story is what I don't know yet - who blinked first and why.
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The Next Net, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Data Center Knowledge, Todd Watson and rexduffdixon.com
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Photobucket / Blog.Photobucket.com:
Videos working on MySpace again! — Following discussions with MySpace, we're pleased to announce that all Photobucket videos and remixes are enabled once more on MySpace with immediate effect. Both our companies are committed to putting our users first. — Moving forward …
Leelefever / Common Craft:
Video: RSS in Plain English — We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people... if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English.
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Publishing 2.0, Social Media Club, Jim Kukral Online …, Geek News Central, Beth's Blog, Todd Watson, Feld Thoughts and digg
WebKnowHow News:
MySpace and Isobar Debut First Comprehensive Research Study on Social Networks and Marketing — Fox Interactive Media (FIM), a division of News Corporation, today released a series of research findings from the first comprehensive study examining both the growth and marketing power of online social networks.
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Adweek, Mashable!, rexduffdixon.com, Pronet Advertising, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and GigaOM
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Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
Big Bang For The MySpace Ad Buck — When a MySpace user talks, her friends listen. And when a MySpace user talks about your brand, your advertising dollars go far. — Those nuggets of wisdom are from a 65-page study commissioned by MySpace parent News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ) …
Andrew Lipsman / comScore:
comScore Responds to IAB Open Letter — RESTON, VA, April 23, 2007 - comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the following response to the recent IAB Open Letter: — comScore welcomes the objective outlined in the IAB Open Letter of achieving transparency …
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Ars Technica, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, A VC and SEL
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:NetRatings And Comscore Respond To IAB Critique Of Research Methods
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires? — Hugh MacLeod asks, if open source is so great, where are all the open source billionaires? … I can immediately think of one reason there aren't any open-source billionaires: — Most competition for open source software comes from other open source software.
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WebProNews
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Microsoft, Trying to Avoid a European Fine, Defends Demand for Royalties — Microsoft, seeking to avoid another multimillion-dollar fine in its antitrust battle with the European Commission, filed documents with competition officials yesterday defending its demand to be paid royalties for releasing some software code to competitors.
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Howard Mintz / Mercury News:
SEC closes in on ex-Apple lawyer — REGULATORS POISED TO ACT IN OPTIONS SCANDAL — The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected this week to bring its first legal action in the Apple backdating probe, targeting the company's former top lawyer for her alleged role in rigging options …
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Silicon Valley Watcher, Infinite Loop, Cult of Mac, Apple 2.0, BARRONS.com and Between the Lines
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Telegraph Cluelessly Attacks Google News Indexing — This time it is the UK-based Daily Telegraph that is complaining about a need to protect their content from search engines. — Which makes us wonder if they, like Copiepresse and AFP before them, are willfully clueless …
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BBC:
Wi-fi? Why worry? — Scare stories about the dangers of wireless networks lack credibility, argues Bill Thompson — Students at Canada's Lakehead University have to be careful how they connect to the internet because wi-fi is banned on large parts of the campus.
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Citizendium One Month Later — Citizendium, the Wikipedia fork (sort of) that aims to be a more credible alternative to Wikipedia, was launched into public beta on March 25th, which makes it nearly one month old. So how does it stack up to its progenitor? — First some background.
Nancy Gohring / InfoWorld:
AT&T to aim the iPhone at enterprises — The decision baffles analysts, who cite design issues and the inability to write new applications for the OS as reasons they think it's a poor choice — AT&T plans to market the iPhone to business users in addition to consumers …
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Podcasting News, rexblog.com, The All New Ewan's Musings, Epicenter and Alice Hill's Real Tech News
FilePlanet:
An Open Letter to Apple from a Lifelong Gamer — Hello, Apple! I know that everyone over there is very busy designing sexy new products that make women want to take their clothes off, but I'm hoping that you can spare a few minutes to listen to a hardcore gamer and long-time friend.
Stephanie Pettinati / corp.casttv.com:
CastTV Closes Series A Led by DFJ — Video Search Pioneer CastTV Secures $3.1 Million Series A Funding Led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson — DFJ Managing Director Warren Packard Joins Board — San Francisco, CA - April 24, 2007, CastTV Inc. (www.CastTV.com), dedicated to building …
Ian Smith / Download Squad:
9 ways ColdFusion 8 will rule web development — Ben Forta and Adobe are getting into full swing with ColdFusion 8 Scorpio Pre-Release tour. Last night Ben gave us in Seattle a taste of things to come. Here is why it will kick the tar balls out of everything else on the market.
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