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Tariq Krim / Netvibes.com Blog:
Facebook Meet Netvibes: Netvibes Introduces the Facebook Widget — Well you've all been asking for it, and it's finally here. — The new Netvibes Facebook Widget will allow users to view their Facebook notifications and friends. You can now access your Facebook info on Netvibes, and keep up to date on what your friends are doing!
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:Netvibes Launches Facebook Widget, Challenges Lock-In
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
HandHeld To Acquire eBaum's World For $15 Million Cash; Other Payouts Possible — Another deal from HandHeld Entertainment, which continues to roll up traffic and content. This time the company is picking up user-gen site eBaum'sWorld for $15 million in cash at closing and a possible total …
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The Technology Chronicles, Mashable!, Contentinople, Valleywag, HipMojo.com and Silicon Alley Insider
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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Out of the Theater, Into the Courtroom — Jhannet Sejas and her boyfriend were celebrating her 19th birthday by taking in a matinee showing of the hit movie "Transformers" at the theater at Ballston Common mall. — Sejas was enjoying the movie so much that she decided to film a short clip …
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p2pnet, CyberNet Technology News, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Public Knowledge, TIME: Nerd World, TorrentFreak and digg
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Uses Crowdsourcing To Create Maps In India — Google has been sending GPS kits to India that enable locals to make more detailed maps of their area. After the data has been uploaded and then verified against other participant's data it becomes a part of the map.
CraigE / Mac Mojo:
Office 2008 Coming January 2008 — We announced today that Office 2008 for Mac will be released to manufacturing ("RTM") this December, which will allow for retail availability in the US in mid-January (planning for Macworld), and allow us to deliver Office 2008 to our volume license customers …
sony.net:
Public Notice to Owners of Sony "Cyber-shot" DSC-T5 Digital Still Cameras — Thank you for your continued interest in Sony Products. — Sony has recently discovered that, with certain units of its Digital Still Camera "Cyber-shot" DSC-T5 released on the market in September 2005 …
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Dan Browning / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Web's 'drug kingpin' gets 30 years — Prosecutors got their wish: A long sentence for Christopher Smith, who illegally sold $24 million worth of prescription drugs. — A federal judge sentenced internationally known e-mail spammer Christopher William Smith on Wednesday to 30 years in prison …
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MikeG / Mike Grehan says:
A guaranteed number one listing at Google! — I've been burning up my keyboard for the past two weeks none stop writing. So I've had little time to read any of the latest news around the various other blogs, forums etc. So, maybe this has been covered in great detail elsewhere.
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Search Engine Land, Google Blogoscoped, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog and Google Operating System
Ben Ames / Computerworld:
Report: Google shows phone prototype to vendors — Analysts disagree about its potential for success — Google Inc. has developed a prototype cell phone that could reach markets within a year, and plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advertisements with its search engine …
BBC:
Microsoft tries free office suite — Free copies of some of Microsoft's office software will soon be available. — The software giant said it would make ad-supported copies of the Works package available within "months". — The programs will not run in a web browser but will be installed …
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Read/WriteWeb, Insider Chatter, Ars Technica, Software as Services, The Tech Report, UNEASYsilence, Slashdot and All about Microsoft
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yelp API Released — Local review site Yelp quietly released an API today to allow third parties to access much of the content and features of the service. — The API allows a number of input requests. Applications can retrieve business review and rating information …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org — The Pirate Bay crew has been working on this secret project for quite some time now. Back in April they wrote a cryptic post on their blog announcing that something was coming. In a response to this announcement TPB admin Brokep told TorrentFreak …
Anita Hamilton / Time:
Online Snooping Gets Creepy — When Nazira Sacasa sent me a press release for a new clothing boutique late last month, she didn't know that I would launch a full-scale web search to learn everything I could about her. But I needed a victim to test out the new breed of people-search services on the web …
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
070829: viral campaign for new mobile phone? Update: looks like Nokia's N81 8GB phone — I'll admit I have no idea what this is. I started to notice contextual Google Ads on our site for 070829 and since the ads are contextual, this likely has to do with mobile tech.
ir.take2games.com:
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Provides Financial Update — Launch of Grand Theft Auto IV Now Planned for Fiscal 2008 — Conference Call Set for 5:30 pm ET Today — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) today announced revised revenue and earnings guidance for fiscal 2007.
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Kotaku, Joystiq, DigitalBattle, Xbox 360 Fanboy, MTV, Forever Geek and Game | Life
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Is this Federated Media's new conversation? — Over the past few months, we have debated the campaigns that Federated Media has run. Most recently the heated debate was over the "conversations" that FM and Microsoft partnered on. I applauded the efforts by FM to try new advertising mediums.
