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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google News Hypocrisy: Walled Off Content — TechMeme founder Gabe Rivera makes an interesting observation on the Google News story all over the blogosphere today. … Google crawls news sites and grabs their content for republishing on Google News. They rely on the willingness of those news sites to get distribution on Google.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google News Announces Limited Comments. Everyone Needs To Calm Down. — Google made an announcement of an "experimental new feature - they will soon be allowing comments on Google News stories. Comments will only be accepted from a "special subset of readers," which includes people and organizations who are part of the story.
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Inquirer, mathewingram.com/work, Techdirt, TechWeb, unstruc chitchatting …, Read/WriteWeb, AccMan, Googlified, CNET News.com and Scripting News
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Q&A On The New Google News Comments
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MediaVidea, SEO Book.com, Screenwerk, Ars Technica, Online Media Cultist, Natural Search Blog and Google Blogoscoped
Wall Street Journal:
Blockbuster Adds Film Downloading With Movielink Deal — Movie-rental chain Blockbuster Inc. secured a foothold in the small but potentially significant online movie downloading business by acquiring Movielink LLC, a downloading service owned by the major Hollywood studios.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Blockbuster Buys Movielink, As Expected — So the deal is done, after long and hard months of negotiation and trying to get the studios on board: Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) has an online strategy on the cheap: it has bought online movie service Movielink. The price was not disclosed …
Greg Stolz / NEWS.com.au:
Microsoft spices up the IT image — Decrease Increase - — Submit comment: — SHE doesn't have any IT qualifications - in fact she's a university drop-out - but that hasn't stopped software giant Microsoft hiring former Miss Australia Erin McNaught to sex up the computer industry's geeky image.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Scripps Buys Photo/Video Sharing Service Pickle For $4.7 Million; Keyword Competition Hurting — Scripps Networks (NYSE: SSP) is serious about its online buys...last month it announced buying of Recipezaar for around $25 million. Now it announced that it is buying audio …
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Josef Adalian / Variety:
NBC Universal launches Didja — Ad friendly video site to combat YouTube — NBC Universal is expanding its battle against YouTube and other viral video sites, using the weight of its top-rated USA cable network to launch an all-advertising website called Didja.com.
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TechCrunch, The Utility Belt, Mashable!, Podcasting News, Contentinople, Profy.Com, HipMojo.com, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab and NewTeeVee
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Brad Stone / New York Times:Equity Firm Invests in NBC Universal-News Corp. Online Venture
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David Cassel / TECH.BLORGE.com:
Schoolboards: net dangers over-rated; bring social networks to school — The internet isn't as dangerous as people think, and teachers should let students use social networks at school. — That's the surprising new recommendation from the National School Boards Association …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Did AT&T Censor Pearl Jam's Lollapalooza WebCast? — Ma Bell seems to be acting like the big brother. Apparently, AT&T censored parts of Pearl Jam's performance over the weekend. Rock band was performing as part of Lollapalooza. On their website, Pearl Jam writes:
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The Huffington Post, ParisLemon, Brier Dudley's blog, Bit Player, Salon: Machinist, dslreports.com, TechFold and IP Democracy
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
BitTorrent Addresses Closed Source Issues — BitTorrent gained prominence in the file-sharing community largely due to its open source nature. What began as an unknown file-sharing client quickly diversified into a vast collection of applications. Developers were able …
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Google Mistakes Own Blog for Spam, Deletes it — Readers of Google Inc.'s Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company. — The problem?
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Infinite Loop:
On treating your laptop, iPod, and iPhone batteries right — Although progress in battery capacity is snail-like compared to the progress in energy consumption of the devices powered by batteries, rechargeable batteries have come a long way the past decade or two.
James Bannan / APC:
Too much security can be overbearing: Microsoft — TECH.ED | When does too much security become, well, too much? According to Steve Riley, senior security strategist at Microsoft, it becomes too much when the cost of mitigating the risk outweighs the cost of that which you are trying to protect.
Carlos Bergfeld / Shacknews:
Microsoft Confirms HDMI Port on X360 Premium Model, Not Core (Updated) — Update: Microsoft has confirmed the addition of HDMI ports to all newly manufactured Xbox 360 premium consoles. "Yes, we are offering an HDMI port for Xbox 360 simply as another choice in Xbox 360 ownersÂ' games …
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Kotaku, Engadget, Game | Life, DailyTech, Xbox 360 Fanboy, I4U News, Joystiq, PC World, DigitalBattle and digg
Paula Rooney / Open Source:
Novell CEO Calls For New Linux Distro ISV Standard, Praises FSF — Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said the Linux industry must create a vendor neutral standard for application development or face the same fragmentation that killed Unix. — Speaking before a packed audience at LinuxWorld …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Fox Interactive turns annual profit; MySpace revenue to top $800 million in fiscal 2008 — News Corp. said its Fox Interactive unit, which largely consists of MySpace, turned a profit of $10 million on revenue of $550 million for the fiscal year ending June 30.
