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6:30 PM ET, October 4, 2007

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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Techmeme is officially a cesspool  —  It was intriguing for a day or two, but now it's clear that the Leaderboard was the dumbest idea ever, because now more than ever, people are gaming Techmeme so they can climb the list.  —  Reminds me of something Ted Turner once said about how the Forbes list …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Disincentives For Gaming The TechMeme Leaderboard  —  Every ranking system is at risk for gaming, and the TechMeme Leaderboard is no different, as Dave Winer points out regarding today's pile on to Jason Calacanis Web 3.0 meme.  (Ironically, Jason himself anticipated the problem when the Leaderboard debuted.)
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Web 3.0, the official definition.  —  Some folks have been asking me for the clear definition of the term Web 3.0.  — Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Who Spams Digg the Most  —  On the heels of the recently …
Discussion: How To Split An Atom
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft Rolls Out Personal Health Records  —  Microsoft is starting its long-anticipated drive into the consumer health care market by offering free personal health records on the Web and pursuing a strategy that borrows from the company's successful formula in personal computer software.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:   Microsoft Beats Google To Online Health Records With HealthVault
Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:   Microsoft's HealthVault lets you manage your health records — badly
IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 7 Update  —  Almost a year ago, we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP.  Since then, IE7 is well on its way to becoming the most used browser in the world, and we've seen lots of evidence that IE7 makes it safer and easier to accomplish everyday tasks online.
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Microsoft: download IE7 without WGA validation
Discussion: InfoWorld
AppleInsider:
Apple announcements brewing for late October [updated]  —  Apple Inc. has begun preparatory measures for significant announcements to take place during the last full week of October, AppleInsider has been told.  —  While sources have requested that we not go into detail regarding …
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Think Secret:
Leopard poised to leap last weekend in October  —  Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard remains on track for an October release on or around October 26, sources report.  —  That date, the last Friday of the month, is similar to the release date of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which had been said would debut …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA trial verdict is in: jury finds Thomas liable for infringement  —  Duluth, Minnesota — After just four hours of deliberation and two days of testimony, a jury found that Jammie Thomas was liable for infringing the record labels' copyrights on all 24 the 24 recordings at issue in the case of Capitol Records v. Jammie Thomas.
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:   Sleeper hit of the fall season: "Law & Order: MP3″
Tom Corelis / DailyTech:
Judge Bars RIAA President Sherman from Testifying
Discussion: Neowin.net
Nick Breckon / Shacknews:
Gears of War PC Release Date Set; Details and Exclusive Screenshots  —  Have you been holding out to play Epic's latest Xbox 360 "exclusive" on the PC?  Get out your calendar: Gears of War for Windows makes its way to stores on November 6th.  —  The game will feature five new singleplayer chapters …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Report: 10 percent of September iPhones sold to unlocking teams  —  Analysts for investment bank Piper Jaffray recently spent more time tracking unit sales at Apple Inc.'s retail stores and reported Thursday that their observations indicate that as many as 10 percent of the iPhones sold …
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Will Facebook's Developers Defect to Other Platforms?  —  Today I wrote about the rush of developers to write for the Facebook platform, and their inflated hopes of dot.com riches.  —  Facebook is sure to have competition in the business of allowing third parties to participate, and make money, on its service.
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Market Wire:
Research In Motion Reports Second Quarter Results  —  Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NasdaqGS:RIMM - News)(Toronto:RIM.TO - News), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported second quarter results for the three months ended September 1, 2007 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP).
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
RIM ups third quarter outlook
Fred / A VC:
The Fiction of 20%  —  It's a "given" in the venture business that in order to compensate a venture firm for all the time and energy they are going to put into a particular investment, they need to own at least 20% of the company and ideally 30%.  —  I hear it all the time.
Light Reading:
Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices  —  Level 3 Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT - message board) is lowering prices for content delivery network (CDN) services to match the same price customers pay for high-speed IP transport.  —  By matching transport prices, Level 3 is doing away with any premium …
Larry Magid / New York Times:
The Next Leap for Linux  —  LINUX runs the Google servers that manage billions of searches each day.  It also runs the TiVo digital video recorder, the Motorola Razr cellphone and countless other electronic devices.  —  But why would anyone want to use Linux, an open-source operating system, to run a PC?
Discussion: yelvington.com, Valleywag, Slashdot and Digg
 
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Dionne Searcey / Wall Street Journal:
How 2 Guys' Iowa Connection Took Big Telecoms for a Ride
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
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Howard Owens:
Let's stop putting the entire newspaper online
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
More Legit 3rd Party iPhone Applications on the Way?
Linda Rosencrance / Computerworld:
Wal-Mart tells online customers: We don't want to talk to you
Discussion: WebProNews
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
A Flood of Mashups Coming? OAuth 1.0 Released
Discussion: Digg
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Industry Moves Roundup: AOL; Adify; Starcom
 Earlier Items: 
Addy Dugdale / Gizmodo:
Waterproof Dock: Music Tube iPod Speaker Looks Like a Tube of Shower Gel
Discussion: Crave, CrunchGear and Gadgetell
Rob Taylor / Reuters:
iPod cheap in Hong Kong, but a Brazil bank-breaker
Discussion: iLounge, Gadget Lab and Gizmodo
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Google attacks Verizon's attempt to water down 700MHz "open access" rules
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
JEFF ZUCKER IS AN AT&T PUPPET
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free
Financial Times:
News Corp warns Google over copyright
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