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10:50 AM ET, March 31, 2008

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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.
Discussion: BoomTown
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Shines A Light On Women 25 To 54
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Launches Its Woman's Site Shine; Deals With Conde Nast, Hearst And Others
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 …
Discussion: DSLreports and paidContent
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
ISP To Voluntarily Disconnect File-Sharers, Offers Free Usenet
Discussion: The Register
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.
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.
Discussion: VentureBeat and TechCrunch
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Scott Karp / Publish2 Blog:
Publish2 Gets Funded By Velocity Interactive Group
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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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.
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.
Discussion: Quintura blog
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 …
Discussion: CNET News.com and eWeek
Bonnie Cha / Crave: The gadget blog:
Lime-green Motorola Q9c adds twist to Alltel and U.S. Cellular  —  CTIA 2008 is still one day away from its official start, but the news is already starting to trickle in.  Motorola got a jump start as it, as well as Alltel and U.S. Cellular, announced the addition of the Motorola Q9c …
Discussion: Engadget Mobile
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.
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.
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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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
vTap Wants to Be Your Personal Online Video Curator
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Opening Up the Open-Source List
Egan Orion / Inquirer:
Sony sued for nicking software
Discussion: p2pnet
Andrew Wallenstein / Reuters:
Sony films headed to mobile phones
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
LegalTorrents Reopens as Community Driven Portal
Discussion: NewTeeVee and Mashable!
Sean Ammirati / ReadWriteWeb:
Picking a Platform: 5 Issues to Consider
Ellen Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Social gaming picks up momentum
Discussion: FaceReviews
Telegraph:
Wake up and smell the new dotcom brew
 Earlier Items: 
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Blue Dasher joins the street visualization fray
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Adobe brings AIR to Linux, joins Linux Foundation
Paul Buchheit:
Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain
Discussion: STARTUP CHATTER
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Citizen Huff  —  “Ari Emanuel called me last night with an idea …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Online Chat, as Inspired by Real Chat
Discussion: VentureBeat
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
The tech world's lesson for newspapers, traditional media
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Windows Search 4.0 vs. Google Desktop 5.5
 

 
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
James Harding says the Tortoise-Observer deal could create a profitable media group and there isn't a guaranteed future for the Observer with the Guardian

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

 
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