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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point) — I've had a very odd weekend. — First, I've taken a dozen or so phone calls from concerned relatives and friends over this NYTimes article. But a bigger issue is that the Internet was down in the house starting late Friday night, so I haven't been online much.
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Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
For some reason, Twitter hasn't yet taken the journalist community by storm — After the derision which greeted the New York Times' blogging will kill you story on Sunday, I'm probably not going to do much for the reputation of the mainstream media with hard-core bloggers. So it goes.
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Smart Mobs
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo Reveals Details of Its New Ad Sales System — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo is beginning to pull the wraps off an online advertising system that the company said would help it and its partners drive sales of graphical and other premium ads. — Yahoo said the system …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Amazon Accelerates Its Move to Digital — SEATTLE — Over the last 14 years, Amazon.com has mastered the art of getting physical copies of books, music and movies to customers through the mail. Now it is trying to add to its repertoire in a hurry. — The overall market for entertainment and information is inexorably going digital.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Internet Irony: Amazon Getting Disrupted By Apple, BitTorrent, Pirate Bay, et al — Barnes & Noble? Tower Records? Buggy-whip makers? Amazon (AMZN) feels your pain. — A decade after Amazon's explosive entrance into book and music retailing dented big media retailers and put smaller ones …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Major Google Announcement Monday Evening: Is It BigTable? — Google is hosting the second of their developer events, called “Campfire One,” on Monday (April 7) evening. Multiple people have forwarded email invitations to me for the event, where Google promises they'll be …
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Reuters:
Yahoo not opposed to Microsoft deal: source — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo is not opposed to a deal with Microsoft but Microsoft should pay more than $31 a share if it wants to buy the company, Yahoo plans to say in a letter to Microsoft, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Yahoo set to dig in against Microsoft — Yahoo's directors were in discussions late on Sunday about Microsoft's latest gambit in its unsolicited takeover approach, amid signs that the embattled internet company was preparing to dig in deeper against its suitor.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Collaborative software company Jive acquires Jotlet, gets better project management — We're already pretty impressed with Jive Software, a startup that integrates collaborative tools like blogging, wikis and forums into office applications through a single interface, and the Portland, Ore.-based company is still building momentum.
Heather Timmons / New York Times:
Scrabble Tries to Fight a Popular Impostor at Its Own Game — RealNetworks is quietly introducing a version of Scrabble on Facebook, despite pledging to save Scrabulous, the wildly popular, unauthorized online version of the board game. — In recent weeks, Gamehouse, a division of RealNetworks …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Chat Launches - Tour & First Impressions — Facebook has just turned on Chat in a “few networks” (including mine) this morning and I think it's a great implementation. While Facebook hasn't announced an official rollout schedule, Chat will be gradually rolling out over the coming days.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Loren Feldman vs. Shel Israel — I find it kind of interesting that not many people — or at least not many mainstream bloggers — are writing about Shel Israel and his ongoing battle with video-blogger Loren Feldman of 1938media. Matt Craven from The Blog Herald has just done so in a post …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Visivo Communication raises $3M round to expand Qik? — If you use short-form Internet messaging service Twitter a lot, you probably follow blogger Robert Scoble. If you follow Robert Scoble, you've probably read the following at least a few hundred times: “I'm streaming live right now, come chat! http://qik.com/video/xxxx.”
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Bitchmeme Til You Drop — There was a lot of early hype that it might be about Fav.or.it, but I think this week's Bitchmeme has to be bloggers' commentary revolving around the ‘Writers Blog Till They Drop’ article The New York Times wrote today. — Nearly everyone has weighed in on the topic …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Relax, Chill and maybe Blog
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