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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How Much Is A Facebook User Worth? At Least $0.30 — People aren't wasting any time trying to figure out how to monetize all those thousands of Facebook apps that have sprung up over the last couple of months. At least three advertising experiments have launched - the most promising, by far, is RockYou.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
RockYou launches Facebook ad network — RockYou, one of the world's two most popular online photo and video widget makers, is introducing an ad network that will allow advertisers exploit RockYou's reach across Facebook. — RockYou, like other large Web sites offering photo and video sharing …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Facebook Bankruptcy — Today I'm declaring Facebook Bankruptcy in addition to comment bankruptcy. — I can't keep up with the friend requests, the requests to confirm how we know each other, the requests to tell you I like you, the requests to tell you I want your to tell me what movies you want to tell me about, etc.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Breaking: First iPhone Class-Action Suit Against Apple and AT&T — It was bound to happen. It seems that a guy called Trujillo has been the first to file a class-action suit against Apple and AT&T because of the iPhone. The reason? You guessed it—it's the battery.
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Brandon Hill / DailyTech:iPhone Customer Files Class-action Lawsuit Against Apple
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Tims / Tim Sneath:
SILVERLIGHT 1.0 RC1 IS HERE! — As indicated in a previous post, we're homing in on the launch of Silverlight 1.0, and today marks another milestone with the launch of the first release candidate. Since the beta we released at MIX, we've fixed approximately 2000 bugs and work items and we're …
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David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
Monkcast #10: One day, they'll grow fruit with bar codes on the skin & Yeah! Socialtext — In this week's Monkcast, our 10th joint production between the research outfit Redmonk and ZDNet, we ponder worldly topics such as the idea of cows making skim milk.
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Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
Google plans YouTube Antipiracy Tool for September — Long-awaited and much-promised technology to combat piracy in Google's YouTube video sharing site should be ready by September. — Recommend this story? — Google Inc. aims to deliver in September a long-awaited and much-promised technology …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Dear Podtech: I'm Not Your VP Marketing — So Podtech is apparently unhappy with the post I wrote last evening - What's Really Going On With Podtech? First Podtech subsequeCEO John Furrier emailed me repeatedly this morning asking for changes, then later Robert Scoble wrote on Twitter that much of my post was incorrect.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
How Microsoft Clubs to Search Gains — Kevin Johnson, President of Microsoft's Platforms & Services Division in his keynote at Microsoft's financial analyst meeting boasted about Microsoft's search gains and how they were going to pummel competition, including Yahoo.
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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Video Game Matches to Be Televised on CBS — The magic of television has already transformed everything from motorcycle acrobatics to poker into living-room spectator sports, not to mention turning competitive singing into a national obsession. Next on the list: video games.
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CodePlex:
Vista Battery Saver — Project Description — This tinny program will save up to 70% of your battery by disabling those nice, but greedy Vista features. Running in task bar with private workset of 5.5M and 0% CPU it will do all work for you, by enabling and disabling customizable features …
Bill Tancer / Hitwise US:
Xbox overtakes Wii As Most Searched for Console — The Xbox 360 has overtaken the Nintendo Wii as the most searched for gaming console based on share of US Internet searches for the first time since the Wii's launch in November 2006. The Xbox 360 is #1 console based on sales volume but the Wii …
europa.eu:
Competition: Commission confirms sending of Statement of Objections to Intel — HTML: — EN — PDF: — EN — DOC: — EN — MEMO/07/314 — Competition: Commission confirms sending of Statement of Objections to Intel … In the SO, the Commission outlines its preliminary conclusion …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Rodale's Options: Strategic Money For Digital Bulk — That's the import of the speculative stories in both NYP and Folio this week: the lifestyle books and magazine publisher Rodale (publisher of Runner's World, Men's Health and Prevention) has retained JPMorgan to explore strategic options …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
MediaWhiz Buys Another Ad Startup, AuctionAds — Performance marketing company MediaWhiz has snatched up eBay affiliate marketing service AuctionAds, which launched back in March. The price was not disclosed. AuctionAds is an advertising widget that serves contextually relevant eBay auctions based on tags supplied by the publisher.
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
California report slams e-voting system security — Every tested machine had problems... yes, every single one — Researchers commissioned by the State of California have found security issues in every electronic voting system they tested, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen said Friday.
