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9:05 AM ET, March 3, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
When Will We Have Our First Valleywag Suicide?  —  Today I read all the sordid details about the alleged sexual encounter between a notable technology visionary and a woman who appears to be looking for as much publicity as possible.  Where did I read it?  On the Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag.
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
After Suicide, Blog Insults Are Debated  —  Advertising blogs churn out some of the Web's more scathing, and personal, vitriol.  Last week, the bloggers absorbed some body blows of their own.  —  Visitors to AgencySpy and AdScam, two sharp-tongued blogs written by advertising industry insiders …
Discussion: IP Democracy, MediaVidea and Gawker
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites  —  Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download.  The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on websites and play it on podcasts
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Todd Martens / Los Angeles Times:
Extended Play by Todd Martens  —  « Is Gnarls Barkley seizure-inducing?  Main  —  Nine Inch Nails album released to Web  —  At about 6 p.m. PST on Sunday night, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor released a 36-song instrumental collection, “Ghosts I-IV,” direct to the Internet via his official Web site.
Discussion: Techdirt and TECH.BLORGE.com
Microsoft:
Microsoft to Expand Microsoft Online Services for Businesses of All Sizes  —  Exchange Online and SharePoint Online enter beta.  —  Monday from the annual Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., will announce that the company will offer Microsoft Online Services to businesses of all sizes.
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Microsoft Raises Stakes In Online Services  —  Still no Office though  —  The company's Exchange and SharePoint products up the stakes in the competition for businesses and their employees, to serve their technology needs with hosted services.  —  Microsoft's response to the launch of Google Sites …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
I Really Hope Microsoft Has More Than This  —  Excitement rose …
Discussion: p2pnet
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
MacBook Air aflutter: demand stays strong, sold out often  —  It might not be the iPhone, but the MacBook Air is selling much stronger than many of us would have guessed.  After a full month of being on the market, the Macbook Air is still a difficult commodity to obtain in some markets …
Rachael King / Business Week:
Building a Brand with Widgets  —  The customizable bits of software on Facebook and other social networking sites are the latest trend in viral marketing.  But are widgets here to stay?  —  The cards were stacked against A&E Television Network as it tried to generate positive buzz about its new series, Parking Wars.
wickedpsyched.net:
Torrent P2P torrent on the iPhone, a sad tale of woe, misery, abject failure... and then eventually success!  —  NOTE: PLEASE!  What ever you do, don't attempt this on EDGE kids!  —  tcp4 0 0 10.146.247.xxx.50278 dsl51B7DBDF.fixi.11653 ESTABLISHED
Discussion: IntoMobile
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone gets native P2P torrent software
Discussion: Gizmodo and Digg
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write Unfiltered Blog  —  Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart's biggest suppliers.  But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft's newest operating system, Vista.  —  “Is it really all that and a bag of chips?” he wrote on his blog.
Discussion: The Stalwart
John Hagel / Edge Perspectives with John Hagel:
Shift Happens - The Future of Advertising  —  In a world of rapid change, shift piles upon shift.  One can get thoroughly confused and draw the wrong conclusions by focusing on one change while losing sight of the shifts that are coming up.  —  Advertising is a case in point.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards  —  GALWAY, Ireland—PortoMedia is probably the only start-up in the world inspired by the movie Carlito's Way.  —  Company founder Chris Armstrong explains: Four years ago, he set out to his local DVD store to rent a movie.  First, he stopped at the ATM to get cash.
Discussion: The Raw Feed
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
ASUS busts out 7-inch R70 UMPC at CeBIT  —  It's big, thick, lacking any sort of keyboard and not all that pretty.  But if you're aching for ASUS' next gen UMPC to cut loose from the product chute then the R70a is it.  Besides toting a 7-inch display with Vista tucked inside a 120GB disk …
Discussion: Gadgetell and Technology Questions
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Enterprise Community Provider Mzinga Swallows Propsero  —  Burlington, MA-based Mzinga, which provides social networking, community, and e-learning solutions for the enterprise, is today announcing that it has acquired Prospero.  Prospero is itself a provider of enterprise community solutions …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
More Consolidation in the White Label Social Networking Space …
Discussion: Mashable! and chrisbrogan.com
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Actual Performance, Perceived Performance  —  If you've used Windows Vista, you've probably noticed that Vista's file copy performance is noticeably worse than Windows XP.  I know it's one of the first things I noticed.  Here's the irony— Vista's file copy is based on an improved algorithm …
Nick / Rough Type:
Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push  —  I've received a few more hints about the big cloud-computing initiative Microsoft may be about to announce, perhaps during the company's Mix08 conference in Las Vegas this coming week.  One of the cornerstones of the strategy, I've heard …
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Dan Farber / CNET News.com:   Microsoft's supersize data center plans
 
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New York Times:
Diebold Receives a Takeover Offer
Discussion: Techdirt
Reuters:
Facebook lets its users translate site into German
Discussion: PDA
Dan Harrelson / Adaptive Path:
The Death of Mobile Applications?
Discussion: Mobile Opportunity
Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Faux Facebook fatigue
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books
 Earlier Items: 
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
First spam felony conviction upheld: no free speech to spam
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA plays both sides of the street in music royalty debate
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
After Hijacking Site, Scammers Move to Seize Shareaza Trademark
Discussion: Digg
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T? It's a Deal
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The verdict is in: The Pownce API kicks Twitter's ass
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb