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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Deny This, Last.fm — A couple of months ago Erick Schonfeld wrote a post titled “Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?” based on a source that has proved to be very reliable in the past. All hell broke loose shortly thereafter. — Before posting Erick reached out to the RIAA …
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Russian Investment Offer Proof Of Facebook's Desperation? — As with all things Facebook, yesterday's WSJ story about a $200 million offer from a Russian firm at a $10 billion valuation triggered a violent debate. — Some saw it was a sign of the company's desperation:
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How Facebook, MySpace and YouTube Killed eBay — Editor's note: This is a guest post by Keith Rabois, vice president of strategy and business development for Slide, the social entertainment company. Prior to Slide, Keith was a VP at LinkedIn and an EVP at PayPal in charge of among other things …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Announces Settlement of Legal Dispute with Another Former Zuckerberg Classmate — Facebook has just issued a Friday night press release announcing the settling of a trademark dispute with Think Computer Corporation, whose founder Aaron Greenspan created the houseSYSTEM student web portal …
Steven Levy / Wired News:
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability — In the midst of financial apocalypse, the gadflies and gurus of the global marketplace are gathered at the San Francisco Hilton for the annual meeting of the American Economics Association. The mood is similar to a seismologist convention in the wake of the Big One.
Jim / craigslist blog:
Turning a Blind Eye — Noteable as this news cycle winds down ( “Craigslist Pwns McMaster,” “Pandering Has Its Price,” “Craigslist 1, McMaster 0,” “McMaster's Final Humiliation” ) has been the absolute disinterest shown by reporters and politicians alike in hardcore sex ads featured in journalistic media …
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Josh Young / Networked News:
Not by Links Alone — At this unthinkably late hour, many of even the most recalcitrant journalists and newsy curmudgeons have given themselves over, painfully, to the fundamentally important fact that the economics of abundance now govern their world. — For many, of course, stemming that tide is still paramount.
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Craigslist Gets Restraining Order Against A.G. — After weeks of bluster about Craigslist, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster agreed today to a temporary order preventing him from bringing criminal charges against company executives. — “Until the court rules on the merits …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:McMaster's Final Humiliation: Federal Smack Down (Restraining Order Below)
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Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Should Facebook ‘Just Buy Yelp’? — Matt Greitzer of Avenue A pens a provocative column (How to Solve Local Search, Once And For All) in which he argues that Facebook should buy Yelp: … There's also this related piece from AdWeek on user behavior, advertising and social networks: Poll: Few Use Social Media to Guide Purchases:
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
AMD says Intel-only deal struck at Apple in 2005 — An Advanced Micro Devices executive claims that Intel and Apple cut a deal in 2005 that made Intel an exclusive supplier of processors to Apple, preventing AMD from gaining Apple business. — The claim, made in a phone interview with Tom McCoy …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Don't You Love Flock? — A few days ago, the social web browser Flock released version 2.5 of their software, integrating Facebook Chat, improving Twitter functionality, and adding a new broadcasting feature called “Flockcast.” As we evaluated the upgrade, a thought occurred to us …
Jeremy Muncy / WebProNews:
Do You know how #FollowFriday started? — Today is Friday, the most famed day of the week. Why you ask? It's the end of the workweek and the beginning of the weekend (for some). But, for the Twitterverse, it's a day where you could see your follower count substantially climb as a result …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Copyright Meets a New Worthy Foe: The Real-Time Web — Copyright law wasn't written with today's content consumption in mind. The way online video copyright functions is based on a reading of the 10-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act that equates video hosting sites with Internet service providers.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
URL for iTunes Video Downloads on the iPhone — It's 4:00 PM on the Friday before a long weekend, so I'll make this short. This URL will take you to the skeleton version of Apple's (AAPL) rumored iPhone iTunes Video store. It appears to work in iPhone 2.2 and the 3.0 beta.
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