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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5- 63-56-88-c0 — Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts... In building and shaping the site I've always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We've always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community.
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Jay Adelson / Digg the Blog:
What's Happening with HD-DVD Stories? — I just wanted to explain what some of you have been noticing around some stories that have been submitted to Digg on the HD DVD encryption key being cracked. — This has all come up in the past 24 hours, mostly connected to the HD-DVD hack …
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Rudd-O.com:
Spread this number — 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. Wanna know what's so important about it? … The movie industry is threatening Spooky Action at a Distance for publishing that number, specifically with copyright infringement. — I had no idea a number could be copyrighted.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Surrenders to Mob — To say what happened today on Digg was a "user revolt" is an understatement. The Digg team deleted a story that linked to the decryption key for HD DVDs after receiving a take down demand and all hell broke loose. More stories appeared and were deleted, and users posting the stories were suspended.
Gizmodo:
Geeks Will Not Be Silenced: Breaking: Digg Riot in Full Effect Over Pulled HD-DVD Key Story — The power of Web 2. is in full effect over at Digg, where users are revolting over Digg's decision to pull a story (that netted over 15,000 diggs) and reportedly boot a user for posting …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Digg Gives Into User Revolt; Are Those DMCA Takedown Notices Even Valid? — After a grassroots revolt by Digg users, Digg has decided to stop censoring posts about an HD-DVD decryption number used by the industry-backed Advanced Access Content System to protect HD-DVDs.
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Texyt:
Digg fights user revolt over HD-DVD ban - Digg founders took HD-DVD sponsorship. — The founders of Digg.com - which has been rocked by an unprecedented user revolt over the release of an HD-DVD decryption code - accepted sponsorship from the organization behind HD-DVD last year.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:Kevin Rose Hands Over Digg Control
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Vonage requests retrial in Verizon patent dispute — A pivotal U.S. Supreme Court ruling designed to make it easier to challenge obvious patents prompted Vonage on Tuesday to ask for a new trial in an ongoing dispute with Verizon. — One day after the high court released …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:That Didn't Take Long: Vonage Asks Court To Review Verizon Patents …
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Microsoft:
Robbie Bach: Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2007 — Keynote Remarks by Robbie Bach, President, Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division — Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2007 — ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome President, Entertainment and Devices Division, Microsoft Corporation, Robbie Bach.
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Bloomberg:
Dow Jones Holders Say Murdoch Bid May Trigger Auction (Update2) — Dow Jones & Co. shareholders say Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion takeover bid will spark an auction of the 125-year-old newspaper publisher. — ``We're in the first inning,'' said Lawrence J. Haverty Jr. …
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Fred / A VC:
The Mid Life Entrepreneur Crisis — I have two meetings this week with guys in their early to mid 40s that are two of the best entrepreneurs I've ever worked with. Both are asking me the same thing - "what should I do next?" — There are questions of motivations, work/life balance …
Steve Jobs / Apple:
Removing Toxic Chemicals … Cadmium — Hexavalent Chromium — Decabromodiphenyl Ether … Arsenic — Mercury … Polyvinyl Chloride — Brominated flame retardants … In one environmental group's recent scorecard, Dell, HP and Lenovo all scored higher than Apple because of their plans …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Yang & Filo Sumo Each Other To Save The World — Will wrestle for climate change from Yahoo's Yodel Anecdotal blog covers that the co-founders of Yahoo put on sumo suits to wrestle each other. Jerry Yang and David Filo agreed to this match after Yahoos did their part to their impact on the environment.
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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Eisner's Prom Queen Seeing Success on Web — Less than halfway through its 80-day run, Prom Queen, the daily teen-aimed online soap opera launched by Michael Eisner's new production firm, is showing signs of becoming a modest hit, if short of an Internet sensation thus far.
Noah Shachtman / Wired News:
Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death — The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Apple plugs QuickTime zero-day flaw — Apple on Tuesday released a QuickTime update to fix a security flaw that was used to breach a MacBook Pro at a recent security conference. — The media player vulnerability lies in QuickTime for Java, Apple said in a security alert.
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