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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
WIRED journo won't do email interviews—ironic. — A WIRED journalist pinged me for some comments on Michael Arrington and his A-list blogger status. I told the journalist to send me the questions by email and he refused. He said Dave Winer did the same thing.
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Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
Calacanis Won't Do Phone Interview — Cowardly — Jason McCabe Calacanis is complaining about a Wired reporter who wants to do an interview with him, but refuses to do it via email. He says it's "ironic" that a magazine covering the digital age refuses to use email for its interviews. — Ironic?
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Center for Citizen Media
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, Mashable!, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Todd Watson, Data Center Knowledge 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 …
Business Wire:
Attorney for Fred Anderson Issues Statement Regarding Settlement of Claims with the SEC — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The following statement is attributed to Mr. Fred Anderson's attorney Jerome Roth, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco.
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Howard Mintz / Mercury News:SEC closes in on ex-Apple lawyer
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Associated Press, Infinite Loop, Silicon Valley Watcher, Cult of Mac, Apple 2.0, BARRONS.com, Between the Lines and The Apple Core
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.
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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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.
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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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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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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Apple sued over vague user interface patent — The patent holding company IP Innovation, LLC, has filed a lawsuit against Apple, Inc., that alleges the Cupertino-based company has engaged in "willful and deliberate" violations of US Patent #5,072,412. The patent describes …
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 …
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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Digital Markets, Ars Technica, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, A VC and SEL
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Checkbox News — Yesterday's piece got the most positive and enthusiastic response of any technology I've proposed in the 10-plus years I've been blogging. I love it when an idea takes root like that. Perhaps it's a measure of how fed up we are with what passes for news on television.
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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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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Karen / Official Google Blog:
New 3-D layers from AIA on Google Earth — Posted by RK Stewart, FAIA, President 2007, American Institute of Architects — Architects are pretty passionate about architecture — no surprise there. However, we've come to find that the American public is too.
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.
