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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 …
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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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Rudd-O.com:Spread this number — 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
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Gizmodo:Geeks Will Not Be Silenced: Breaking: Digg Riot in Full Effect …
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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.
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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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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 …
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Nikhil Pahwa / contentSutra.com:
Social Networking Site Minglebox Receives $7 Million In Funding Fron Sequoia Capital — You're reading it here first: Indian social networking site Minglebox has received $7 million in funding from Sequoia Capital India. Minglebox was started by three IIT Delhi alumni - Kavita Iyer …
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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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 …
Teresa Fausti / clearwire.com:
FCC Approves First WIMAX-CLASS Laptop Card to be Offered by Clearwire — Approval Marks Major Milestone for Release of Product Later this Year that Facilitates Greater Portability and Mobility on Clearwire's U.S. Network — Helen.Chung@clearwire.com — Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ …
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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. …
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.
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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...!
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 …
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Boo.com given a new lease of life — Boo.com, the one-time fashion website that became a symbol of the dotcom meltdown when it burned through £100m in 18 months, is being resuscitated for the Web 2.0 era. — Seven years after the collapse of the original boo. com …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
