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3:40 AM ET, September 16, 2007

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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Assumptions That Yahoo Mash And Other Social Networks Make About You  —  Every application needs to make assumptions about its users, and for some people those assumptions will inevitably be wrong.  Why is it, though, that so many social networks and other social applications assume …
Discussion: Joe Duck, TechCrunch and CNET News.com
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Invites Us Into Mash, Its New Social Network  —  A little more than two months after we first reported rumors about Yahoo's new social network Mosh, the company has given us a preview of a social network with a slightly different name: Mash.  —  The service includes features common to Facebook, MySpace, and My Yahoo.
Lauren Weinstein / Lauren Weinstein's Blog:
Are You Being Cheated by Digital Cable?  —  Greetings.  If you pay for digital cable television tiers, is the service as "digital" as it's supposed to be?  Don't be too sure.  As it turns out, cable companies can easily cut corners and "cheat" on some aspects of digital tiers in many cases …
Discussion: Slashdot
Randall Stross / New York Times:
A Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close  —  IF you're the owner of a Windows PC who is looking for a replacement computer, the choices are grim.  You can step into the world of hurt that is Vista, the latest version of Microsoft Windows that was released in January.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Will / ipodminusitunes:
Apple cuts us off  —  So, it's finally happened.  Unhappy with other media players being better than iTunes, Apple have apparently decided to stop them from working with the new range of iPods.  —  Who does this affect?  —  This affects Linux users - there's no iTunes for Linux …
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux  —  The latest iPods have a cryptographic "checksum" in their song databases that prevents third-party applications from synching with the portable music players.  This means that iPods can no longer be used with operating systems where iTunes …
Discussion: CrunchGear, Jeremy's Blog and Digg
Valleywag:
Rumormonger: Adam Bosworth going to Facebook?  —  Adam Bosworth going to Facebook?  —  We're hearing whispers that Adam Bosworth, ex-Google and Microsoft engineer who created XML and the Access database, will soon join hot social network Facebook.  Not 100% on this yet …
Discussion: InsideGoogle
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
iPod touch having display issues?  —  No rest for the weary on the Apple LCD front — hot the heels of reports that the 20-inch iMac's screen is less than impressive, word on the street (and Apple's support forums) is the iPod touch is having trouble displaying blacks correctly.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Eric / Web Analytics Demystified:
EXCLUSIVE Microsoft Gatineau presentation and screen shots!  —  UPDATED: Apologies to Ian Thomas but I forgot to indicate where BETA 1 screen shots stopped and where future releases began as he related this information during his presentation.  Please see the note inline below and again, apologies to Ian!
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Robin Wauters / blognation Belgium:
First Look at Microsoft's Free Web Analytics Tool 'Gatineau' (With Slides)
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
AMD prepares three-core processors  —  Tri and tri again  —  THERE HAVE BEEN back channel stories floating around for weeks about tri-core AMD CPUs, but nothing solid.  The rumours have been picking up more steam, and now they are finally solid: AMD is doing a three-core chip.
Discussion: ParisLemon and Gizmodo
Associated Press:
The $100 laptop now the $188 laptop  —  CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — The vaunted "$100 laptop" that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept.  —  Leaders of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child …
Discussion: Gadget Lab, Neowin.net, Gizmodo and Slashdot
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Is Microsoft Office 2007 outselling Windows Vista?  —  Might sales of Office 2007 be outpacing sales of Windows Vista?  —  Since early this year, Microsoft has been issuing periodic sales updates on Windows Vista.  The most recent Vista sales pronouncement (released by the company at the end of July) …
Todd Zeigler / The Bivings Report:
Wordpress vs Drupal  —  At this point, nearly all of the websites we build at The Bivings Group are either in Wordpress or Drupal.  Sure, we build custom applications on occasion and sometimes do Flash work that really doesn't fit in a Content Management System.  But mostly we use Wordpress and Drupal.
TorrentFreak:
The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public  —  When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and, as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would, we checked and double checked our sources.
 
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David Noland / Popular Mechanics:
5 Reasons Nobody Will Win the Google Lunar X Prize: Analysis
Discussion: InsideGoogle
Hindustan Times:
Is Gmail getting offline?
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Geek To Live: Transform Your Classic Xbox into a Killer Media Center
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Subscriber stats and more  —  We're unrolling some exciting …
 Earlier Items: 
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft has changed (some of) its monopolistic ways
Discussion: Channel 9 and AccMan Pro
Electronista:
SCO declares bankruptcy after failed patent suits
Discussion: Digg
BBC:
Google calls for web privacy laws
Scott Woolley / Forbes:
The iFlop  —  Steve Jobs tried to design —and dictate—the future of television.