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Business Wire:
Joost Closes $45 Million in Financing — Leading Venture Capital Firms and Content Owners Support Joost's Global Expansion — Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CBS Corporation and Viacom Participate in Round — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Joost&trade …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Joost Announces $45 million Funding From Sequoia, Index, CBS & Viacom — Internet TV startup Joost raised $45 million in a venture round of financing, the company will announce this evening. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CBS Corporation, Viacom and Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing.
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HipMojo.com, mathewingram.com/work, dailywireless.org, Todd Watson, WebProNews, rexduffdixon.com and digg
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Skype founders raise $45m in Joost funding — Joost, the online video site established by the founders of Skype, has raised $45m in funding from four venture capital and media groups, just a week after launching the service. — Sequioa Capital, which backed Yahoo, Google and YouTube …
PC World:
Editor in Chief Harry McCracken Returns to PC World — Had resigned in dispute with CEO Colin Crawford over editorial independence. Crawford to return to prior IDG post. — Ramon G. McLeod, Editor, PCWorld.com — In a surprise announcement, Robert Carrigan, president of IDG Communications …
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Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:PC World Brings Editor Back, Removes CEO
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paulconley, Matt McAlister, Apple 2.0, Good Morning Silicon Valley, bub.blicio.us and Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
Stace / Unwired View:
NEXT GEN IPOD AND IPHONE NANO: FULL SCREEN WITH TOUCHPANEL AT THE BOTTOM — With introduction of an iPhone, Apple opened our eyes to the possibilities of full screen touch interfaces. But such interfaces have one drawback - there's a limit how small you can make it.
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Engadget, Byte of the Apple, CyberNet Technology News, Between the Lines, Gadget Lab and TechFold
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EE Times:
Xuuk's eye-counting technology mimics Google — PORTLAND, Ore. — Xuuk Inc. has unveiled an eye-counting video camera that could enable the highly successful Google business model to be extended online to brick-and-mortar advertisers. — Using its PageRank technology, Google (Mountain View …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kevin 'Digg' Rose goes for 3rd startup — First Digg, then the online video network, Revision 3 and now another start-up! — Business Week poster boy Kevin Rose is rumored to have teamed up with Daniel Burka also of Digg, and first time entrepreneur Leah Culver and has started a new company.
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rexduffdixon.com, parislemon, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechFold, Epicenter and digg
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Widget mania run amok? — For past few days there has been an amazing amount of chatter about widgets - which are transforming themselves into advertising widgets, billboards and what not. Earlier today, for instance Mpire introduced shopping widgets that tap into say eBay and Amazon, and let you sell goods via Mpire widgets.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Zune to get wireless downloads, version 2 hardware, flash player — Sometimes you can never know for sure, but we've got some pretty convincing material from a Zune source which shows a beta build of firmware v1.4 (shown as 2.1.4, perhaps as an internal designation).
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Mobility Site, iLounge, jkOnTheRun, Podcasting News and Gadgetell
Nokia:
Nokia becomes the first phone maker to add energy saving alerts to mobiles — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has launched the first mobile phones to include alerts encouraging people to unplug the charger once the battery is full, a move that could save enough electricity to power 85,000 homes a year.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories:
Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar — In February we gave a sneak preview of our project to construct a home-built three dimensional fabricator. Our design goals were (1) a low cost design leveraging recycled components (2) large printable volume emphasized …
Mike Neil / TechNet Blogs:
Viridian features update; beta planned for Longhorn RTM — Here we are on the eve of WinHEC 2007. This show is always a fun industry event for me to engage with a broad spectrum of partners. Perhaps none better than last year, when we demo'd Windows Server virtualization (codename Viridian) …
Dale Nardozzi / previews.teamxbox.com:
First Look at Crackdown Downloadables (Xbox 360) — Crackdown began its life as an open sandbox game from former Grand Theft Auto gurus, spent its mid-life as a marketing experiment for Halo 3, and is kicking back as one of the best Xbox 360 games to date. But this critically-acclaimed sci …
Robin Linden / Official Linden Blog:
Accusations Regarding Child Pornography in Second Life — What's going on? — On Thursday May 3, we were contacted by German television network, ARD, which had captured images of two avatars, one that resembled an adult male and another that resembled a child, engaged in depicted sexual conduct.
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Clickable Culture, The Social Web, Slashdot, Second Life Insider, Second Life Herald, BBC and Digital Daily
Molly Graham / Google LatLong:
A new world unfolding — Posted by John Hanke, Director, Google Earth & Maps — Welcome to the Google "geo" blog. As web mapping (dare I say "the geoweb"?) matures, we're finding that we have a lot more to communicate about new developments in Earth, Maps, Local, and our APIs.
BBC:
Sounds bring Google Earth to life — As well as homing in on visual feasts around the globe, users of Google Earth may soon be able to listen to the sounds that accompany them. — A Californian company has created software that can layer relevant recorded sounds over locations in Google Earth, New Scientist reports.
