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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
View Wall Street Journal Online articles from Digg — The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire site, and you'll now have full (free) access to the articles submitted to Digg. The Digg buttons have started appearing on WSJ.com articles tonight. — Digg on.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
'The Wall Street Journal' digs Digg. Should we read into this? — Kevin Rose, founder of social news aggregator Digg, posted a quick blog entry on Tuesday night about his site's new relationship with Rupert Murdoch's latest accessory, The Wall Street Journal.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times: Murdoch Said to Stress Free Access to Wall St. Journal's Web Site
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network — Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Redefines the Clickable AdSense Area — Similar to what Google has been doing with ads in search results, they also now restricted the clickable area in AdSense (the kind of Google ads webmasters can include on their pages). Instead of allowing a click to be triggered …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Automattic Founders To Take Big Money Off The Table — It didn't make a lot of sense when we heard that Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, turned down a $200 million buyout offer.
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PRWeb:
Bebo Launches 'Open Media' A New Vision for Social Media and Entertainment — Bebo, the global social network, opens its doors to media brands, deepening user engagement with popular entertainment. Launch partners include global media brands CBS, MTV Networks, BBC, Turner, ESPN, Yahoo!, Next New Networks, Crackle and more.
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HipMojo.com, paidContent.org, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, paidContent, GigaOM, SocialTimes.com, How To Split An Atom, Snipperoo and Mashable!
USA Today:
Marvel Comics shows its marvelous colors in online archive — The comic book industry makes a long-delayed step into cyberspace today when Marvel Comics unveils the industry's first online archive of more than 2,500 back issues, including the first appearances of Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Bank intern busted by Facebook [Your Privacy Is An Illusion] — Who says Facebook is the province of the young? Increasingly, the 30something bosses of naive recent college grads are proving adept at turning the social network against its earliest adopters.
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mathewingram.com/work, TECH.BLORGE.com, TechWag, geeksugar, Business Technology, WebProNews, Adrants, Switched, Connected Internet and Tech_Space
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800 [Hack Attack] — If the high price tag for Apple hardware has kept you from buying a Mac but you're willing to roll up your sleeves and get adventurous, you can build your own "Hackintosh"—a PC that runs a patched version of OS X Leopard. What?!, you say.
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Russia Casts A Selective Net in Piracy Crackdown — Political Bias Alleged In Pursuit of Groups Using Illicit Software — The newspaper Novaya Gazeta, one of the last outposts of critical journalism in Russia, suspended publication of its regional edition in the southern city of Samara …
Janet Morrissey / New York Times:
AT&T to Sell Equipment to Monitor Workplaces — AT&T plans to introduce a nationwide program today that gives owners of small- and medium-size businesses some of the same tools big security companies offer for monitoring employees, customers and operations from remote locations.
Oracle:
Daily Agenda — Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Jonathan Schwartz — Oracle OpenWorld Appreciation Event - Cow Palace — Social Networking, Web 2.0, and Flexibility Point the Way to Fusion Applications — The future of Oracle applications is centered on a deceptively simple strategy …
Stefano Mazzocchi / Stefano's Linotype:
Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME — Sun released their "free java" source code under the GPLv2 to both win the free software crowd and capture peripheral innovation and bug fixing from the community. For the java standard edition (aka …
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CNET News.com, JD on EP, Tom Hume, mocoNews.net, Platform Wars, Cloudy Thinking and Alec Saunders .LOG
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
eSnips Takes Hint from Online Dating, Debuts "Social DNA" — Looks like tonight's theme is social discovery. Israel-based eSnips, a media-centric social network we reviewed over a year ago, is releasing a new feature called "Social DNA" meant to help you discover people similar to yourself.
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Kevin J. Martin / New York Times:
The Daily Show — IN many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those newspapers that have survived are struggling financially. Newspaper circulation has declined steadily for more than 10 years.
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Ars Technica, Business Week, Silicon Alley Insider, The Last Podcast, Smalltalk Tidbits … and robhyndman.com
