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FT Alphaville:
Vodafone's extraordinary $160bn Verizon plan — Mobile phone group Vodafone has been considering a $160bn takeover bid for its American peer and partner, Verizon Communications — a deal that, if consummated, would rival AOL's takeover of Time Warner and Vodafone's earlier acquisition …
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Qblogger / Windows Home Server Blog:
Ship it! — Woo-hoo! We did it. Today we are announcing that Windows Home Server has been released to manufacturing (RTM). We have finalized the software and now handing it off to our OEM partners. The evaluation version (with 120 day evaluation period) and the system builder version …
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Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
Backfence: Lessons Learned — There has been a lot of speculation about what went wrong at Backfence. To date, the company's investors and I have tried to stay out of the second-guessing in the blogosphere and the trade press, largely because there are private business matters involved that we've chosen not to discuss.
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Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
Citizen Media: A Progress Report — In my keynote at last month's OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters' Forum in Seoul, I was asked to offer a year-on-year progress report on the state of citizen journalism. To sum up: — We've come a long way. There's a growing recognition and appreciation of why citizen journalism matters.
Jeff Howe / Wired News:Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons Learned
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
A Sony Web Site to Offer Videos by Aspiring Filmmakers — Sony is trying to edge into Internet videos with a Web site to be introduced today called Crackle that will feature short segments by aspiring filmmakers, many of whom Sony paid for their productions.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
The Ghost Of Zuckerberg's Past May Haunt Facebook IPO — A long-standing dispute over the origin of Facebook looks set to haunt the growingly popular social networking service as it heads towards an IPO. — A lawsuit due to come before the US Federal Court later this month alleges …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
The Facebook lawsuit that hasn't gone away — Before he launched Facebook at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg worked for two brothers on a project called HarvardConnect.com that also wanted to connect students and alumni. — Zuckerberg later left that project, and showed up with Facebook.
Louise Story / New York Times:
The Washington Post to Trade in Hyperlocal News on the Web — The Washington Post, well known for its detailed coverage of the White House and global affairs, will introduce a Web site today with news and other information for a rarefied group: people who live in Loudoun County, Va., population 272,000.
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:In Push for Local Readers, Post Unleashes LoudounExtra.com
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Katie Fehrenbacher / Earth2Tech:
Hello from Earth2Tech — So we're all aware that green-focused web sites are getting about as trendy as celebutante DUIs. There's been more than enough great new reads launched in the last few months, most of them focused on helping consumers live more ecofriendly lives - something we could all do a little better.
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The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Goodbye LinkedIn. Hello Facebook. — This morning I made the decision to focus all of my professional business social networking contacts to be on Facebook. That means that I am no longer going to accept new LinkedIn requests. After spending the past few months using Facebook, I no longer see the value of LinkedIn.
Antony Savvas / CNET News.com:
London gets free Wi-Fi — A free metropolitan Wi-Fi network has been launched in London, continuing the gradual trend toward free public wireless Internet access in Europe and the United States. — The group behind Free-hotspot.com, which serves as a resource for those looking for Wi-Fi hot spots …
New York Times:
The Hand That Controls the Sock Puppet Could Get Slapped — On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog — or the chief executive of a Fortune 500 company. — Or so thought John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods Market, who used a fictional identity on the Yahoo message boards …
Age of Conversation:
Age of Conversation Launches — Sydney, Australia; Des Moines, Iowa, USA, July 16, 2007 — In what may be a first-of-its-kind collaboration via the internet, more than 100 marketing professionals have joined together online to write The Age of Conversation, a book that will be published July 16.
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Logic+Emotion, 901am, Moda di Magno Blog …, Annansi Chronicles, Flooring The Consumer, ChaosScenario, Jim Kukral, Servant of Chaos, Marketing Hipster, Bringing Brands to Life!, Talent imitates …, The Marketing Minute, The Happy Burro, Transmission Content …, everydotconnects.com, Strategic Design, Advercation = Advertising …, my 2 cents, Influx Insights Weblog, Uwe's blog, ModernMagellans, brand dna and gumpdesign.blogspot.com
Tim Donnelly Smith / Truphone press office:
Truphone wins court injunction against T-Mobile blocking tactics — Judge instructs mobile operator to stop blocking calls to Truphone — Competition in the mobile telephony sector intensified today when a judge granted a mandatory injunction forcing T-Mobile (UK) Ltd to interconnect with Truphone …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Inside Facebook, NFO (News Feed Optimization) is the new SEO — Everybody with a website knows that Google owns two of their most important marketing channels: organic search (SEO) and paid search (SEM). In fact, entire cottage industries have developed around them:
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Wall Street Journal:
Networks Try 'Twittering' To Spread Their Message — Web Community's Users — Are Seen as Ideal Group — To Help Promote Shows — TV networks are all a-Twitter about the latest marketing play for their new TV shows. — NBC, CBS, ABC Family and MTV are among several networks experimenting …
