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3:30 AM ET, September 15, 2008

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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
WSJ.Com's Redesign Sneak Peek: See Tuesday's Paper Today  —  We don't know what Tuesday's Wall Street Journal will tell us (we're guessing there may be some Wall Street news) but we do know Tuesday's WSJ.com will look like: A lot like Monday's WSJ.com, but easier to look at.
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Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Social networking coming to revamped Journal site  —  NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal is borrowing elements from popular Internet hangouts like Facebook as it seeks to boost usage.  —  WSJ.com, one of the few news sites to restrict many of its stories to paying subscribers …
Discussion: CNET News, Bits and Webmetricsguru
Pallab Ghosh / BBC:
Warning sounded on web's future  —  The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web.  —  Talking to BBC News Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried about the way the web has been used to spread disinformation.
Discussion: WebGuild and The Inquisitr
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
How Dropbox ended my search for seamless sync on Linux  —  A few months ago, our own Jon Stokes bemoaned the frustration of managing and accessing data strewn across a multitude of personal computing devices.  His description of the challenges of syncing and saving resonated with many of us …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Podcaster Developer Uses Little-Known “Ad Hoc” Mode To Distribute Banned iPhone App  —  Over the weekend, a debate raged across the tech blogosphere concerning the risks involved in developing for the iPhone platform.  The discussion began with Fraser Spears, who claims he will never write another iPhone app …
Discussion: TeleRead and PalmAddicts
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Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:
JuiceCaster brings picture messaging to the iPhone  —  JuiceCaster is doing what Apple didn't.  It's giving iPhone 3G users some picture messaging love.  —  JuiceCaster is announcing the availability of Flutter, a free new application for the iPhone that allows people to take a picture and send it to another cell phone.
Discussion: GigaOM and Mashable!
Don Reisinger / TechCrunch:
iPhone App Downloads to Hit 1 Billion Mark Faster Than Songs Did  —  There may only be over 12 million iPhones in the wild, but that hasn't stopped iTunes users from downloading more than twice as many apps as songs during the store's first two months of availability, according to a report.
Discussion: Digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Music Already Has Revenue Locked, May Raise Outside Capital At $2 Billion Valuation  —  Get ready for MySpace Music, because you are going to be hearing a lot about it over the next couple of weeks as it prepares for launch.  —  The new joint venture, which tosses music rights …
Discussion: GigaOM and Portfolio
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
McDonald's, Toyota in harmony with MySpace Music
Discussion: hypebot, Listening Post and HipMojo.com
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Folks Who Brought You Slate Build a Business Site for the Facebook Set  —  The editors of The Big Money, a new business Web site by the editors of Slate, had their work cut out for them Sunday: it was the day before their site opened, and Wall Street seemed to be in free fall.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Seagate elbowing its way further into consumer backup market  —  Seagate is elbowing its way further into the consumer tech market with new backup products that it will launch with a broad consumer-oriented ad campaign.  —  The devices, being introduced today, fall under Seagate's FreeAgent brand.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Crave
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn To Launch Its Own Ad Network  —  At a time when most social networks are still trying to figure out how to make money from advertising, one social network is bucking the trend.  LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals, has so much demand from advertisers that it will be launching its own ad network on Monday.
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:   Content Partnerships Set, Linkedin Now Readies Ad Network
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
Spore #1 Game - on BitTorrent Indexers  —  In a DRM firestorm not seen since the Sony rootkit fiasco, EA Games finds itself in the middle of public relations hell.  Since the release of the highly anticipated PC game Spore on Wednesday, fans of the game have derided the cumbersome DRM …
Discussion: Blue's News
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Spore And The Great DRM Backlash
Seeking Alpha:
CE Spending Looks Dismal - But Macs Set to Hit New All-Time High  —  The latest ChangeWave consumer survey points to still further declines in consumer spending going forward despite a slight improvement in consumer confidence.  But how is the decline in spending affecting key sectors like consumer electronics and PCs?
Joe Kraus / The Official Google Blog:
The social web: All about the small stuff  —  The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding.  It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of.
 
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
YouTube, the RIAA, and SAG-AFTRA express support for the reintroduced NO FAKES Act, which standardizes rules around making AI copies of a person's likeness

Alex Mahadevan / Poynter:
A survey of 1,128 US adults: 49% have no interest in using an AI chatbot to get info from news outlets, and 27% believe outlets often use AI to write articles

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Media and tech stocks jump after Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause, with WBD closing up 17%+, Netflix up 8%+, Disney up 12%+, and Meta up 14%+

 
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