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Brandon Holley / Yodel Anecdotal:
Hear us roar — This isn't exactly a secret, but we've unveiled a new website for women today, called Yahoo! Shine. — When our editorial team — which includes editors that hail from Lucky to Jane to the Wall Street Journal — sat down to conceive it, we wanted to avoid all of the buckets …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo targets women with new ‘Shine’ site — Yahoo on Monday will launch a new Web site aimed at women. The site, called “Shine,” will feature original blogs and content from major publishing partners including Conde Nast, Hearst, and Time. — The site is Yahoo's latest foray into vertical sites …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
What Yahoo could bring to Microsoft: Some media sense — Yahoo launched Shine, a fashion and beauty site targeted at women, and the move illustrates one of the biggest assets the portal could bring to Microsoft-some media sense and the ability to target demographics.
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Juliette Garside / Telegraph:
Virgin Media takes fight to illegal downloaders — Virgin Media looks set to become the first British internet company to crack down on customers who download music illegally. — Record labels are lobbying for a “three strikes” regime that would see those who collect pirated material disconnected …
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:ISP To Voluntarily Disconnect File-Sharers, Offers Free Usenet
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
News Aggregation Service Publish2 Gets $2.75 Million Funding — Publish2, an as-yet unlaunched news aggregation service aimed for journalists and media companies, has received $2.75 million in its first round of funding from Velocity Interactive Group, the very-prolific VC firm which includes Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn.
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mathewingram.com/work:
The blogosphere as high school, part XVII — My friend Mark Evans has a post about the lack of original thought in the blogosphere — or at least the pressures that tend to keep original thought from appearing — and as the closest thing to what MG Siegler calls a “bitchmeme” this weekend, it has grabbed a bunch of links.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones in 2009 — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate of 45 million a year by 2009.
Doc Searls Weblog:
Getting airports and hotels out of the pay toilet business — I upload a lot of photos. It's almost always an ordeal unless I'm at home or work. That's because I get fast upload speeds in both places. At home I have a fiber connection to the Net with 20Mb symmetrical service — a rare and good thing.
Richard Thurston / The Register:
Apple ‘most successful world brand’ — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — Apple is the most successful brand in the world, according to an international online poll of marketers. — The Mac maker topped the majority of categories in the poll, which asked marketers …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why would Google Web Services cost $0? — Google Web Services, or GWS, is the hypothetical competitor to Amazon Web Services that I wrote about yesterday. — The first question that comes up is how can they afford to give it away? That came up in yesterday's comments and the answer is important enough to deserve its own blog post.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
vTap Wants to Be Your Personal Online Video Curator — It can be hard to find good video content on the web, especially when you're on a mobile phone. vTap wants to make things easier for you. — The service, which launched last fall, aggregates video from across the web …
Denise Howell / Lawgarithms:
Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit — The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should function are as divergent as ever.
Charles Knight / Alt Search Engines:
APRIL 1st IS THE ANNUAL DAY WITHOUT GOOGLE! — Editor's note: This blog is not anti-Google. — All we're asking is that for One Day you try one of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines to be posted here tomorrow for One Day - April 1, 2008. And no, it's not a joke, we're very serious.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Stats Junkies Get Another Fix: Woopra — Want to talk to the people visiting your blog in real time via a chat request? That's just one of the features of new stats/analytics startup Woopra. Think Google Analytics or Nuconomy, but in real time. — The product includes real time statistics …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Adobe brings AIR to Linux, joins Linux Foundation — Adobe Systems on Monday is expected to release an alpha version of AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) and announce that it is joining the Linux Foundation. — AIR is Adobe's Web browser plug-in for running and creating Web applications that run both online and offline.
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