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Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Veoh Hosts $26 Million Round — Updated Veoh may no longer host popular adult videos, but that hasn't stopped venture capitalists from backing up the Brink's truck. peHUB has learned that the San Diego-based company recently raised around $26 million in Series C funding …
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John's Blog:
A Picture's Worth 100M Users??? — Steve Job's keynote at WWDC this year inspired some and was disappointing to others — but, as usual, it was interesting & entertaining. I've always liked Apple's products, and spend an embarrassing amount of my own money on them. So I'm interested in what he's got to say.
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MacUser, Cult of Mac, metacool, Colin Devroe, The Mac Observer, Macworld, The Browser and digg
Kent German / CNET News.com:
Sony Ericsson answers Apple — Sony Ericsson showed off a slew of sparkling new cell phones today including a Cybershot model for the North American market and a Walkman handset that could challenge the iPhone at is own game. We don't have pricing for any of the new phones just yet …
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Valleywag:
Housekeeping: Owen Thomas is the Valleywag — Owen Thomas, the Business 2.0 editor whom we've lured to run Valleywag, is all smiles. But don't be deceived. This Silicon Valley gossip rag, after he takes over in July as managing editor, will remain as obnoxious as ever.
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mathewingram.com/work, The Next Net, Business 2.0 Beta, Laughing Squid, Insider Chatter, Paul Kedrosky's …, GigaOM, bub.blicio.us and Gawker
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BBC:
The Tech Lab: Dave Winer — Dave Winer, considered by many to be the father of blogging and a pioneer of RSS feeds, offers his personal view on technologies he would like to see in existence one day. — I'm a blogger, therefore I like to write short two or three paragraph essays on things I care about.
Apple:
Safari for Windows Public Beta Downloads Top 1 Million in First 48 Hours — Apple® today announced that more than 1 million copies of Safari™ for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday.
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Sparkplug 9, Podcasting News, Apple Gazette, Forever Geek, Macsimum News, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Manthan and MacSlash
Karen / Official Google Blog:
The state of our video ID tools — Recent speculation and stories like this Wall Street Journal article or this Reuters report on YouTube's use of video identification tools made us think it would be useful to clarify what we're doing. — We've been developing improved content identification for months …
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Search Engine Journal
Karen / Official Google Blog:
The CNN/YouTube debates — Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube — Back in March we kicked off our You Choose '08 program, a hub of political channels on YouTube designed to educate, empower, and connect voters and presidential candidates through the power of online video.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Seduction of AT&T — This week was Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), the biggest news from which seemed to be the beta version of Safari (Apple's web browser) for Windows. Why the heck would Apple even produce such a product? Readers and pundits alike have been wondering ad nauseam.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Future of Media Video: Google takes over the world by 2050 — Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media. It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses at how the Web and media will evolve over the next 40-50 years.
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Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Sony chief ponders cut for PS3 price — Sir Howard Stringer, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Corp, said the electronics and entertainment company was trying to "refine" how much it could afford to cut the price of PlayStation 3 gaming consoles, saying there was "no question" consumers wanted the price to be lower.
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone sighting? — Looks like they're out there, and no, we don't just mean in Walt and David's hands...we mean out there. Check out this flick of someone using what almost definitely appears to be an iPhone. He's all listening to Journey probably, reminiscing about The Sopranos season finale.
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Engadget, Cult of Mac, IntoMobile, Valleywag, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband and Epicenter
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Taking a detailed look at Windows Vista DVD hologram — An astute Windows user was intrigued by the holographic image on the face of the Windows Vista Business DVD and decided to take a much closer look, discovering in the margin a microscopic photograph of three men. Just who they could be?
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Exclusive: How Justin.TV's Live Video System Was Born — Like most great ideas, the concept behind Justin.tv is simple: a video stream, anytime, anywhere. But the hardware behind it all wasn't so easy to make, so Justin called up a friend, Kyle Vogt, to hand build version 1.0 from some off the shelf parts …
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Wall Street Journal:
FTC Launches More Reviews Of Web Ad Deals — The Federal Trade Commission is investigating two more mergers in the fast-growing online-advertising industry. — The FTC is conducting antitrust reviews of Microsoft Corp.'s $6 billion bid for aQuantive Inc. and Yahoo Inc.'s $680 million deal …
