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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook Traffic Tanks - This can't be real? — comScore is about to issue September 2007 user engagement and page views data, and it seems like the SVFurby, I mean Facebook unique visitors took a little dip. See the little decline on the red line. I can't exactly tell how many and how accurate the data is, but it looks like a dip.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Facebook Funding: A Yahoo Bovine Update? — "Why," said a sharp Silicon Valley figure to me last night, "would Facebook give away the cow for a price of quart of milk?" — Why, indeed, although it would be a $15 billion quart of milk. — But it was an interesting point he was making …
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Facebook Traffic Declines - Abandon Ship or Deja Vu? — We have good news for Om Malik. The new media guru is a little concerned about Facebook's recent decline in traffic. … Here's Malik's chart... Scary, huh? — But fear not Om! The same thing happened last year and Facebook went on to recover quite nicely.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Facebook's $15B Moment: Will Zuckerberg Blow It?
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Amin Charaniya / Google LatLong:
Now Playing: YouTube videos in Google Earth — I love watching videos on YouTube. Every once in a while I'll see something so good that it makes me stop and wonder where it was recorded or how I can find more videos from that particular location. For instance, just the other day I stumbled upon …
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Madonna Heads for Virgin Territory — In the latest seismic shift to rock the music industry, pop superstar Madonna is close to leaving Warner Music Group Corp.'s Warner Bros. Records for a $120 million deal with concert-promotion giant Live Nation Inc., according to people familiar with the deal.
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Fred / A VC:
In Rainbows — I knew I was going to buy this new Radiohead record. Just for the experience of buying music at whatever price you want to pay was enough to do it. But beyond that, I've listened this morning and I am happy to have bought it because it's wonderful music too.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Madonna Dumps Record Industry
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Founders Pick Up Another Big Plane — Google's billionaire founders, owners of a Boeing 767 that has been the talk of Silicon Valley, are apparently adding another unusually large private jet to their fleet: a Boeing 757. — Like the Boeing 767, and two other jets operated …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Hard times for hard drives: US may ban popular imports — The International Trade Commission (ITC) has announced that it plans to begin an investigation into several companies that either make or use certain hard drives. In a statement issued yesterday, the ITC said that the hard drives …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPod touch now running Mail, Google Maps, and more — We're not looking at general availability yet, but those happy hacking cats unravelling the iPod touch have decrypted the ramdisk and are now busy installing applications. Already, Mail, Maps, and other 3rd party apps are up and running on their jailbreaked touches.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / FORTUNE: Apple 2.0:
Report: Apple Gains 29% Share of $$$ Notebooks — Drilling down into Apple's (AAPL) recent string of boffo quarterly reports, analyst Toni Sacconaghi Jr. of Bernstein Research finds both strength and vulnerability in Steve Jobs' relentless pursuit of high-margin computer sales.
Anna Lagerkvist / Tech.co.uk:
Internet ads? Sure. Mobile ads? No way! — 92% say mobile advertising would be irritating — We don't mind being hit with ads when searching for stuff online, but we don't fancy the idea of having ads sent to our mobile phones. That's the conclusion of a new survey …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone unbricking now available from IPhoneSimFree — Hacked your iPhone did ya? Now, after the 1.1.1 update, you're looking at a non-functioning paperweight? Well, we've got good news for you just as long as you're willing to pay. Not only does the 1.1.1 iPhoneSimFree unlock released …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
NY Spotlight: UpNext - The Future of Local is Here Now! Yelp who? — It's rare that I actually instantly love what a service/product offers. But UpNext is one of those "damn" type applications. This morning I met with the CEO Danny Moon and Lead Engineer Raj Advani of a new startup called UpNext.
Tony Smith / The Register:
Korea IPTV deal recasts Sony PS3 as set-top box — Korea Telecom will next month connect its IPTV service that will feed shows to Sony's PlayStation 3 games console. — Mega TV launched in June - the same month the PS3 officially went on sale in Korea - this year as a HD-capable revamp of KT's earlier …
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Would Reuters (RTRSY) Or Yahoo! (YHOO) Buy SeekingAlpha? — SeekingAlpha, the big financial commentary and blog site, syndicates its content at a number of other large web properties with Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance and Reuters.com (RTRSY) probably being the largest.
Nick / Rough Type:
Storage: too cheap to meter? — At a recent conference, I saw Chris Anderson make a presentation in which he quoted the famous 1954 prediction by Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, that "our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter."
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Wikipedia: an online encyclopedia torn apart — Tireless volunteer effort has turned Wikipedia into the world's most popular information source. But increasingly acrimonious arguments about what it should include threaten to split the online encyclopedia in two. Ian Douglas reports
