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10:15 PM ET, May 2, 2007

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Steve Jobs / Apple:
A Greener Apple  —  Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products.  Upon investigating Apple's current practices and progress towards these goals …
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Introducing Robots-Nocontent for Page Sections  —  We recently returned from our annual rendezvous at SES New York and, like always, learned a lot from our webmasters.  The 'Robots.txt Summit' generated some healthy discussions and support for adding a tag to parts of a page that do not relate …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Supports New Robots-Nocontent Tag To Block Indexing Within A Page  —  For over a decade, search engines have supported standards allowing you to prevent pages from being spidered or included within a search index.  Today, Yahoo now supports a new twist — a way to flag that part of your page shouldn't be included in an index.
Discussion: johnon.com and digg
Business Wire:
Time Warner Inc. Reports First Quarter 2007 Results  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - News) today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2007.  —  In making the announcement, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dick Parsons said: "Time Warner is off to a strong start this year.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:   AOL's advertising alive and kicking
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Contrary View on AOL — Key Stats Trending Down
Discussion: GigaOM
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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dive into mark:
Silly season  —  Springtime means conference time, which means it's silly season on the web again.  Adobe introduced Apollo, their latest attempt to recreate the web in their own image.  Apollo is based on Adobe's own markup language, Adobe's own runtime, Adobe's own graphics and animation framework …
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 …
Brad Hawkes / Official Google Reader Blog:
There are people who don't use feed readers?  —  It's fun to share interesting items with your friends and coworkers.  Google Reader has a "Share" button and a public page to go along with it, and some people have been putting that to great use.  Once you start sharing …
Discussion: Googlified and Download Squad
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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Nicki Dugan / Yodel Anecdotal:
Will wrestle for climate change
Discussion: Valleywag and InsideGoogle
Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
First WiMax laptop card approved by FCC  —  San Francisco (IDGNS) - Regulators have approved the first WiMax wireless broadband laptop PC card to be offered by Clearwire, and it should be available to users later this year, the company said Tuesday.  —  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved …
Discussion: Gadget Lab
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
New Net radio fee collections delayed  —  The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board has pushed back the date on which a contentious fee hike for Internet radio broadcasters takes effect.  —  In a 32-page final rule (PDF) formally published Monday, the three-judge panel within the Library …
Discussion: TechSpot News
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.
xkcd.com:
Online Communities (click for full version)  —  Comics I enjoy:  —  Dinosaur Comics, A Softer World, Perry Bible Fellowship, Copper, Questionable Content, Achewood, Wondermark, Indexed,  —  Buttercup Festival  —  Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language …
Newlaunches.com:
Business 2.0-the Business magazine should practice what it preaches  —  You remember the time when mom used to tell not to talk on the phone while ironing clothes lest you make a mistake and burn yourself.  And then one day she forgot to practice what she was preaching and...!
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. …
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Microsoft drops hints about Internet Explorer 8  —  At the Mix'07 conference in Las Vegas—Microsoft's annual event for web designers and developers—the spotlight has largely been on Microsoft's Silverlight platform, formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere.
Valleywag:
The Chart: Reality check on online video  —  Reality check on online video  —  In an interview with Doubleclick's chief executive, in today's Wall Street Journal, there's some interesting data.  David Rosenblatt, in the process of selling the online advertising broker to Google …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and alex.moskalyuk
Manoj Jasra / Web Analytics World:
Blogging Contest at Web Analytics World  —  Bloggers get your creative minds ready because on Wednesday May 9th I will be hosting my first ever blogging contest.  I am looking for new posts on the topic specified below, I will be posting all the submissions on my blog and the post which receives …
 
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Launches Browser Version of Messenger
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Disney's Vista Gadget Points To Future Of Marketing Widgets
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
The Lobby — are you on the list?
Discussion: Valleywag and Zoli's Blog
David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:
Oxymoronic wireless headphones for Apple's iPod Shuffle II
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Lifehacker:
Geek To Live: Getting Things Done with Google Notebook
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Peter Gabriel Tries Ad-Supported Music Downloads; Launches We7
Discussion: Profy.Com
Ben Ames / InfoWorld:
Intel cutting up to 1,000 jobs in New Mexico
Discussion: Gizmodo and Neowin.net
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Citysearch Gets New Look And Video
 Earlier Items: 
Nikhil Pahwa / contentSutra.com:
Social Networking Site Minglebox Receives $7 Million In Funding Fron Sequoia Capital
MediaShift:
DIGGING DEEPER 'Mr. Magazine' Believes We'll Always Crave Ink on Paper
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
10 Awesome Things Built on the Facebook API
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Boo.com given a new lease of life
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Media Companies Still Seeking Double Standard On Consolidation
Discussion: TBO.com
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows Live Calendar, Presence coming soon to a dev platform near you
Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:
The Battle to Control Obama's Myspace
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
CAN GATSB BE GREAT?
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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