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3:24 AM ET, March 29, 2008

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Dancho Danchev / Dancho Danchev's Blog:
Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing  —  Last week's massive IFRAME injection attack is slowly turning into a what looks like a large scale web application vulnerabilities audit of high profile sites.  Following the timely news coverage, Symantec's rating for the attack as medium risk …
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InfoWorld:
Major Web sites hit with growing Web attack  —  A blossoming Web attack, first reported by security researcher Dancho Danchev earlier this month, has expanded to hit more than a million Web pages, including many well-known sites.  —  “The number and importance of the sites has increased,” …
Discussion: WebProNews and WebGuild
Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years  —  NEW YORK The newspaper industry has experienced the worst drop in advertising revenue in more than 50 years.  —  According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Decline Of US Newspapers Accelerating  —  Figures released by the Newspaper Association of America show that the decline of newspapers is more rapid than previously thought, with total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunging 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006, the biggest drop in revenue since 1950 …
Discussion: The Real McCrea and WebMetricsGuru
Reuters:
3G iPhone launch seen in 2nd quarter  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is expected to launch a high-speed wireless version of iPhone in the second quarter and produce as many as 8 million of the devices in the third quarter, according to Bank of America.
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Scott Moritz / Fortune:   Countdown to iPhone 2.0  —  Citing ambitious production plans …
Reggie / Internet Tablet Talk:
The Nokia N810 - WiMAX Edition  —  Ok, there's no official announcement yet but Nokia has again let the cat out of the bag a bit too early — four days too early to be exact as we can probably guess that the new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet - WiMAX Edition will be announced at CTIA at Las Vegas on April 1.
Daniel Emerson / Sydney Morning Herald:
Facebook friends not real friends: judge  —  A British judge has made official what many of us have long suspected - that being “Facebook friends” with someone doesn't necessarily make you their friend.  —  The magistrate was presiding over a harassment case in which a woman accused …
Josh / Redeye VC:
I Don't Know...  I don't know.  —  Why is it so hard for people (including both entrepreneurs and VCs) to say these three words?  —  This past week I had two distinctly different meetings with entrepreneurs.  They both were successful serial entrepreneurs.  Both were exceptionally smart.
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily:
Friendfeed Frenzy - Why it continues  —  I think we can all comfortably credit Louis Gray with carving out a neat niche and bringing the so-called numerous lifestreaming apps to the ‘significant awareness’ pool.  —  Friendfeed was very smart over the past week and they really should be congratulated.
Discussion: Online Media Cultist
Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips:
20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider  —  When you use WordPress you're given the choice when publishing between doing it as a ‘post’ or as a ‘page’.  Posts go up on your blog while ‘pages’ are static pages that you can publish without it having to go up on your blog.
Discussion: Search Engine Guide
Saul Hansell / Bits:
PaidContent vs. TechCrunch: Two Visions of Blogging's Future  —  Michael Arrington and Rafat Ali are both forceful, sharp-tongued, quick-tempered and plugged in, and both have built successful technology blogging ventures.  So it's no surprise that there is more than a little sparring between them.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Adobe to remove Photoshop pic pimping clause  —  $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected?  —  After complaints from freetards everywhere, Adobe has agreed to revise the photo pimping clause that accompanies its new freetard-friendly Photoshop Express service.
Discussion: The Apple Core and Compiler
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Liberty Media Loses Court Bid To Block IAC Split Up Plan  —  A Delaware court has ruled against Liberty Media (LCAPA) in its effort to block IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) Chairman Barry Diller from advancing a plan to split IAC into five public companies, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Diller Wins a Court's Approval to Advance With Plan to Split Up IAC
Discussion: paidContent.org and Valleywag
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer  —  Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users.  —  The nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation …
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
HD DVD ceases to exist  —  Last one out, turn off the lights.  —  That was essentially the tone of the note that the HD DVD Promotional Group sent to its members Friday.  The obituary for the format was short and to the point: … It was also a bit late.
Chris Richman / The LinkedIn Blog:
Your Network Updates' Personal RSS Feed  —  Many users have asked us for a RSS feed of Network Updates and as I'd commented over two weeks ago, we now allow you to subscribe to your network updates via RSS!  Find the ubiquitous orange RSS logo right next to the Network Updates sign on LinkedIn's homepage …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Musical interlude: virtual mixtapes
Discussion: Robin Good's and No Man's Blog
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Rep. Berman: Pro-IP bill will become law in 2008
Discussion: Techdirt
Wall Street Journal:
Phones Will Soon Tell Where You Are
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
VeriSign ups cost of .com, .net domains second year in a row
Discussion: Slashdot
John Lancaster / Guardian:
Dork Talk  —  Part of the problem with smartphones is the term “smartphone”.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google's Asian Homepages
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
 Earlier Items: 
Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Hannaford says malware planted on its store servers stole card data
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
BlackBerry 9000 in the wild
Paul Mutton / Netcraft:
TRUSTe “Verified by haxors”
Discussion: Security Watch
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
10 Reasons Why You're Going to Love Toluu
Discussion: Maple Leaf 2.0
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Music Tax Details From Source: “Pay Us Not To Sue You”
AppleInsider:
Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser
Discussion: TGDaily.com, DailyTech and Slashdot
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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