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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,” …
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.
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 …
Scott Moritz / Fortune:
Countdown to iPhone 2.0 — Citing ambitious production plans, observers eye a big June debut of Apple's next generation iPhone. — (Fortune) — Apple is gearing up for a big bump in sales of the next generation iPhone, if new production plans are any guide.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Apple picks trusted supplier to assemble 3G iPhone
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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 …
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.
Rain Anderson / That VideoGame Blog:
Consoles to “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years … The man who set up and ran the European Xbox business for Microsoft, Sandy Duncan, believes that consoles as we know them today will “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years. — “The industry is fundamentally driven by technology.
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.
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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 …
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.
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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
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is VON Creator PulverMedia Dot Gone? — Pulver Media, the New York-based company well known for VON, the trade shows for the VoIP industry and a magazine with the same name might be shutting down, joining the dot.gone club, according to sources. — The rumors of the shutdown of Pulver Media …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Musical interlude: virtual mixtapes — Maybe it was all the posts about the ISP music tax, but I started thinking about how one of the most important things about music is that we enjoy listening to it and want to share it with others — and that the Web is one of the best ways of doing that.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Music Tax Details From Source: “Pay Us Not To Sue You”
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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.
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.
