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mike Shields / Mediaweek:
ESPN Turns Off Ad Nets — Moves to protect brand, content; other publishers mull — Top Web publishers are planning a revolt. Even as more prominent sites experiment with selling remnant inventory through online ad networks, and in some cases ad exchanges, ESPN.com is saying thanks, but no thanks.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Are ad networks for loser/weak publishers? — I've never liked the ad network business. They're a very short term solution and they are very damaging to high-end publishers because they create massive channel conflicts (i.e. many people selling your inventory confusing advertisers) …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
ESPN Pulls The Plug On Ad Network; Millard Warns About Treating Ads Like Pork Bellies — With nearly every media company getting in the ad network game—the latest entrant being Forbes—one major player is bucking the trend. ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has ended its arrangement with Specific Media …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
How I Blew My Google Interview — Another form of web literature is emerging: stories of job applicants rejected by Google (GOOG). Google makes all applicants sign NDAs, of course—can't have future applicants boning up!—but unlike the standard Googleplex NDAs, these apparently don't bar tales …
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Corey Trager / Bug Tracker Blog:Google interview … Last summer I was interviewed …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Report: MySpace nears deal with Sony BMG, Warner Music — MySpace.com is rolling toward closing deals with two of the four top music labels, according to a report published Monday. — Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group are nearing deals with the social network, The New York Post reported, citing unnamed sources.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Google's White Space Proposal — Google has issued to the FCC its plan for what it would like to do with the airwaves freed up by the upcoming conversion from analog to digital television, and it's pretty optimistic. You may recall the 700 MHz auction that decided the fate of licensed spectrum …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Google: $300 Million DoubleClick Revs; Must Leverage Buy And Sell Relationships To Succeed: Analyst — A year ago, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) shares were only moving upwards, and its planned acquisition of DoubleClick was a step ahead of the subsequent online ad buys of its rivals.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is OpenID Being Exploited By The Big Internet Companies? — OpenID, a distributed single sign on solution that allows people to sign into different services with the same login credentials, gained significant momentum over the last year as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL all pledged their support for the initiative.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mozilla vs. Apple on Safari flap: It's about the Google search box — Updated: Apple pushes Safari to you when you update iTunes. Mozilla CEO John Lilly blasted the move. Meanwhile, there's enough hubbub to last a few weeks over these dueling point of views.
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Digital Daily, Compiler, CNET News.com, Search Engine Journal, WebProNews, CyberNet, BloggingStocks and John's Blog
Sam / Go Big Always:
Media execs are asleep at their own wheel — Why media execs still don't get social media is beyond me. — Yes, I get their business model: serve as many pages as possible so they can have enough media “inventory” to sell lots of ads. And then there is subscription.
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Evelyn Nussenbaum / New York Times:
The '80s Video That Pops Up, Online and Off — SAN FRANCISCO — The women's basketball game at Eastern Washington University on March 8 started out like any other, as the Eagles of E.W.U. faced off against the Montana State Bobcats. — But a routine timeout turned into a 1980s flashback …
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Grace Won / AVING:
All-in-one device ‘Hybrid Dual Portable Computer’ — SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — <Visual News> MIU(www.miubit.com) introduced its new wireless IP-based hybrid portable device dubbed ‘HDPC (Hybrid Dual Portable Computer)’ in Korea market, which is equipped with dual OS(Windows XP/Windows CE 5.0 or Linux Qplus).
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The Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, Engadget, CrunchGear, Gearlog, GottaBeMobile, Gear Diary and Electronista
Jason Snyder / InfoWorld:
Roundtable: The state of open source — 11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead — Any endeavor rooted in community is bound to spark passionate debate.
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, CNET News.com, Open Sources, InfoWorld and Socialized Software
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Justin.TV's Birthday Stats—57 Years Worth of Video and Counting. — It's been a whole year since the launch of live video streaming site Justin.TV , and there is no shortage of competitors (Ustream, BlogTV, Kyte, Stickam, Mogulus, Yahoo Live, LiveVideo). (See more of our coverage here).
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Heavens! Professor Imperils Blu-Ray's Future — The latest outrage circulating in the blogosphere is over the US International Trade Commission's (ITC) announcement Thursday that it is investigating numerous companies involved in the development of Blu-ray disc players …
