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10:45 AM ET, March 27, 2008

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Tracy Chan / Official Google Blog:
Insight into YouTube videos  —  I remember the first time a video I posted to YouTube cracked 100 views.  I wasn't so much surprised as curious: Who were these people?  How did they find this video?  Where did they come from?  —  Today we're taking our first step towards answering …
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YouTube :: Blog:
YouTube Reveals Video Analytics Tool for All Users  —  Whether a YouTube video has 10 views or 10,000,000, people always want to know the same thing: who's watching this?  Where do viewers come from?  How did they find my video?  —  Finally, we have some answers.
Discussion: Podcasting News
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
YouTube Launches Video Stats Package
Discussion: CenterNetworks
Lori Grunin / Webware.com:
Review: Adobe Photoshop Express  —  Adobe's VP of Hosted and Consumer Services refers to Photoshop Express as “the on-ramp to the Adobe digital-imaging franchise.”  Next exit Photoshop Elements?  Construction delays?  Slippery pavement ahead?  The mind reels with metaphorical possibilities.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Adobe Unveils Webtop Version of Photoshop.  Picnik Is Not Scared.  —  As I alluded to in an earlier post, online photo-editing applications keep getting better as the competition heats up between startups like Picnik and FotoFlexer.  Today, a very large competitor, Adobe …
Discussion: Ajaxian
Adobe:
Adobe Launches Photoshop Express Public Beta
Discussion: p2pnet and Insanely Great Mac
J .D. Biersdorfer / New York Times:
A One-Stop Site Offers All the Photo Functions, From Posting Online …
Discussion: SurfBits
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Adobe opens shop on Web-based Photoshop Express
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Adobe's Photoshop Express First Of Many Hosted Apps
Discussion: Data Center Knowledge
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality  —  Comcast has announced that it will lift the ban on BitTorrent traffic, which prevented its users from sharing files using the popular protocol.  The ISP and BitTorrent Inc. will work together on finding customer friendly solutions …
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PR Newswire:
Comcast and BitTorrent Form Collaboration to Address Network Management, Network Architecture and Content Distribution  —  Comcast Corporation and BitTorrent, Inc. announced today that they will undertake a collaborative effort with one another and with the broader Internet and ISP community …
Discussion: DSLreports and Slyck
Vishesh Kumar / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast, BitTorrent To Work Together On Network Traffic  —  Long at loggerheads, cable provider Comcast Corp. and popular file-sharing company BitTorrent Inc. now are working together.  —  The deal comes as BitTorrent, which became known for developing software technology widely used …
Maciej Stachowiak / Surfin' Safari:
WebKit achieves Acid3 100/100 in public build  —  UPDATE We now believe we have a full rendering pass (but not necessarily an animation smoothness pass yet).  See the bottom of the post for details.  —  UPDATE The Windows nightly is now available for download.  See below for details.
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dfes.gov.uk:
Safer Children in a Digital World: the report of the Byron Review  —  On 6th September the Prime Minister asked me to conduct an independent review, looking at the risks to children from exposure to potentially harmful or inappropriate material on the internet and in video games.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project  —  Chris Pirillo has announced a new, large scale open source CMS project that aims to “de-geekify” website tools (announcement video above).  —  The project will be built on the open source Drupal framework: … I chatted with Pirillo after the announcement.
Discussion: TeleRead, Mashable! and broadstuff
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Chris Pirillo:
We're Taking an Open Direction with Web Communities: Are You In?
Discussion: Adam Kalsey and B. Mann Consulting
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google February Paid Clicks Lousy (Again)*  —  A source says Comscore has finally released its February “US paid clicks” report for Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), et al.  We have not seen the report, but our source relays the following:  —  Google had 515mm US paid clicks in February, which is up only 3% year over year.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Google Feb. Paid Clicks Up 3% Year-Over-Year
Discussion: WebProNews
Zero Day Initiative / DVLabs:
Day One: CanSecWest PWN to OWN Results  —  Today's first day of CansecWest's PWN to OWN contest is now officially over, and we can report that all three laptops are still standing without having been compromised.  At 2:45pm local time today, to much fanfare, Aaron made the official announcement …
Discussion: InfoWorld and Engadget
Matt McAlister:
My new gig at the Guardian in London  —  At the end of April I will be joining the Guardian in London to build a new developer program there.  —  This is a fantastic opportunity in many ways.  Perhaps what's most appealing to me is the direction the Guardian is going …
Discussion: paidContent
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:   GNM hires Yahoo developer
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
What I learned from OSBC 2008  —  Having had a day to ruminate about the Open Source Business Conference 2008, a few key takeaways suggest themselves.  It was by far the best OSBC yet, with a far more diverse audience and speaking faculty that we've had before.
Discussion: InformationWeek and VentureBeat
Michael Geist Blog:
The Bell Wake-Up Call  —  For months, I've been asked repeatedly why net neutrality has not taken off as a Canadian political and regulatory issue.  While there has been some press coverage, several high-profile incidents, and a few instances of political or regulatory discussion …
Discussion: DSLreports
 
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Tony Smith / The Register:
Boffin seeks US Blu-ray, mobile phone import ban
Discussion: TGDaily.com
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA doesn't want to pay for a fair defense, says victor
Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:
Rumor: Apple Orders 10 Million 3-G iPhones
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
A content suggestion engine for blogging? That could work...
NTT DoCoMo Global Site:
NTT DoCoMo Demonstrates Molecular Delivery System for Molecular Communication
Discussion: Engadget and TechRadar.com
Michael Calore / Compiler:
Mozilla: Final Version of Firefox 3 Will Ship in June
Amazon Web Services Blog:
New EC2 Features: Static IP Addresses, Availability Zones …
Reuters:
Maoists shun gun for mobiles in Nepal poll campaign
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Steve Jobs Apple Collage Looks Impressive
Discussion: Cult of Mac and Tech Blog
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
AMD releases Quad and Triple core Phenom processors
Seth Finkelstein / Guardian:
Wikipedia's school for scandal has plenty more secrets to reveal
Discussion: Infothought
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Dash's Car Navigator Gives Smart Directions, If Others Participate
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AT&T Is Working on Its Own 3D Browser (Pogo). What Are They Thinking?
Discussion: CrunchGear
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP UMPC 2133 specs revealed, street date of April 7th?
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Email Consumes Us
Harrison Hoffman / CNET News.com:
Facebook quietly launches “People You May Know”
 

 
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Sinclair ousts Ken Solomon, CEO of the Tennis Channel since 2005, citing his time spent advising Dr. Phil McGraw's company as a growing distraction

Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
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