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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Viacom Admits Error — Takes Steps to Protect Fair Use on YouTube — MoveOn.org, Brave New Films Dismiss Lawsuit Over Colbert Parody — Viacom Endorses Excerpting Video for "Creative, Newsworthy or Transformative Use" — San Francisco - Responding to Viacom's willingness to take steps …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Viacom: we goofed on Colbert parody takedown notice; case dismissed — The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Viacom have agreed to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Viacom of misusing the DMCA after the entertainment company admitted it erred in issuing a takedown notice to YouTube.
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Honey, there's a guy in the yard using our Wi-Fi and he wants a decaf latte — While most Internet service providers don't allow users to share access on their wireless networks, Time Warner Cable, in cooperation with Spanish start-up Fon, is encouraging customers to set up their own residential hotspots.
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Gemma Simpson / CNET News.com:
Google beats Microsoft, Coke in brand stakes — Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007 in a recently published ranking. — It's the second year in a row a tech brand has beaten household names such as Coca-Cola, Marlboro and Toyota.
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Pronet Advertising, Scripting News, point being, Neowin.net and Resonance Partnership Blog
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Millions of MySpacers Rejoice: Photobucket Videos are Back — Aww, ain't that sweet - Photobucket and MySpace have gotten together and sorted out their problems. Video embeds are working once more on MySpace pages, and I'm sure Photobucket will be much more careful in future when it comes to rolling out sponsored content.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Participation Ladder and Its Impact on Marketing and PR — I'm back from a brief blogging hiatus. This was my first extended break since I started this blog (Micro Persuasion turned three years old on April 19). I read a lot and thought about where I want to take this site in the next two years.
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Charlene Li / The Groundswell:Forrester's new Social Technographics report
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Resonance Partnership Blog
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Does London Have a Reason to Mesh? — London is officially jumping on the mesh Wi-Fi bandwagon today with operator The Cloud switching on the 127-node network built with BelAir Networks gear. With some of the large-scale Wi-Fi networks like Taipei's slow to bring in a significant amount of users …
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Anil Dash:
Cats Can Has Grammar — If you spend any time at all observing net culture, then you'll have been unable to miss the recent explosion in popularity of lolcats. This relatively recent phenomenon is the convention of taking pictures of cute animals, most frequently cats, and overlaying absurdist captions on the images.
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Merlin Mann / 43 Folders:
Some handy Mail.app Smart Mailboxes — It took me a while, but ever since I've gotten my head around Smart Folders (and Smart Playlists and Smart Groups, etc.), I've started to think about the way I use my Mac a bit differently. — Clearly iTunes is the winner in this regard …
Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme:
Dojo Toolkit Now Works Offline … Less than a month ago Adobe launched Apollo, enabling developers to create web applications that work seamlessly irrespective of whether a user is connected to Internet or not. Apollo was soon challenged by Dekoh, which was pretty much offering …
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Niall Kennedy's Weblog, StartupSquad.com, Paul Kedrosky's …, Ajaxian and Adnans Sysadmin/Dev Blog
Free Press:
U.S. Drops Further in World Broadband Rankings — America Needs a National Broadband Policy, Not More Excuses — WASHINGTON — New broadband data released today by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shows that the United States now ranks 15th out of the 30 member nations …
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GigaOM, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, IP Democracy, dailywireless.org, WebProNews and broadbandreports.com
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Russinovich: Malware will thrive, even with Vista's UAC — Despite all the anti-malware roadblocks built into Windows Vista, a senior Microsoft official is lowering the security expectations, warning that viruses, password-stealing Trojans and rootkits will continue to thrive as malware authors adapt to the new operating system.
~stevenf:
Announcing Coda 1.0 — Finally, after a year and half of wanting to tell you, I can now actually tell you... Coda 1.0 is officially released today! — What is Coda? — The easiest way to sum it up is this: One Window Web Development. — There are a lot of great products out there already …
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Compiler, MacUser, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, house of warwick, Infinite Loop, 43 Folders and Macsimum News
Paul Gillin / AdAge:
Feeling Anti-Social Media? Relax! It's Really Nothing New — Paul Gillin Says Marketers Shouldn't Fear Bottom-up Publicity — For marketers panicked by the prospect of managing social media, here are two words: calm down. — Social media are expanding the universe of people …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Newspaper Earnings Show Slowdown In Online Ad Growth — In reporting their respective Q1 earnings, newspaper companies have been able to point to at least one general bright spot over the past few quarters: online ad revenue increases, mostly from online classifieds.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
TV news of the future? — Here's a mockup of how TV news may work in the future. — How I came up with this view... I was drinking coffee, watching the morning news when a story about Virginia Tech came on MSNBC. I really wanted to begin this week without more stories about how they're coping.
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Incremental Blogger, Podcasting News, rexblog.com, Life On the Wicked Stage, The Last Podcast and Licence to Roam
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Bring it on, iTunes: Amazon readying DRM-free music service — Amazon could be the next major name to dive into the world of unprotected music sales. Various rumors have been picking up over the past couple of weeks that the online retailer was readying itself to launch an MP3 download store in May …
