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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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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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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mozilla vs. Apple on Safari flap: It's about the Google search box — 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. But what this spat really comes …
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Larry Dignan / Zero Day:
Microsoft confirms Word attacks — Microsoft has confirmed reports of vulnerability in Word that allows an attacker to exploit a system via the Microsoft Jet Database Engine, which shares data with Access, Visual Basic and third party applications. — Microsoft in its advisory said the potential for attack is “very limited.”
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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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Quotably: The Perfect Tool To Make Sense Of Twitter — A new service called Quotably may be the best third party Twitter-related service so far. That's because it reformats Twitter messages into threaded conversations, making it significantly easier to follow actual discussions that are occurring on Twitter.
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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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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.
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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Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
The inevitability of the iPhone — I walked into my local AT&T Wireless store on Saturday fully expecting and prepared to get a Blackberry 8820. My Blackberry 8800 died while I was in London last week, and both Visa and American Express tried to protect me from fraud by disallowing my attempts to order a new phone over the web.
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 …
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Blist Socializes, Opens Public Beta — WebProNews interviewed Blist ahead of the update — New social networking features complement the opening of the public beta of Blist, a site that wants to make the database as easy to use as any kind of list. — Today marked the debut of Blist …
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
A New Tool From Google Alarms Sites — Retailers and publishers have fought hard to work their way up in the ranking of Google's search results and refine the search features of their own Web sites to help users once they arrive. Now, Google is taking a greater role in helping users search within particular sites.
Geoff Livingston / The Buzz Bin:
Marketing Departments Become Two-Way — Part III of Social Media's Role within Global Businesses — As socialized feedback becomes increasing prevalent across a wide variety of business functions, enterprises will need to better absorb external information.
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).
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