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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Removes Blog Showing Leaked Facebook Code — FacebookSecrets, the blog that posted the accidentally released source code for the Facebook main index page, has been taken down. The blog was hosted on the Google-owned Blogger blog network and was removed pursuant to a DMCA take down notice from Facebook.
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Soso Sazesh / Techomical:
Facebook Secrets Blog Shutdown By Google? — The anonymous blog Facebook Secrets, that posted Facebook source code not once, but twice, has been shut down, either by author or by Google. But one would have to assume it was by Google since the anonymous author had no method of contact on the blog …
Joosep / Heartbeat:
Problems with Skype login — UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it's a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon …
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Ars Technica, TechCrunch, The Register, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, VoIP Watch and Skype-watch.com …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Online Video Site Bolt.com Shuts Down — We just received a tipoff that Bolt.com, the online video site that settled a lawsuit with Universal in March, has ceased operations and closed its website. More on this as it develops, but for now this is the message on Bolt's website:
Tai Adelaja / The Moscow Times:
AllofMP3 Survives First Test In Court — Moscow's Cheremushkin District Court cited poor work by prosecutors Wednesday in finding Denis Kvasov, the former owner of digital music site AllofMP3.com, not guilty of violating intellectual property laws. — Kvasov was the general director …
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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
The Great Advertising Share Shift: Google Sucks Life Out Of Old Media — [From Silicon Alley Insider] Everyone talks about advertising dollars shifting online, but when you're fighting all day in the trenches it's tough to get a handle on what this really means. Here's what it means:
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
AWESOME: Meebo on the iPhone — Meebo will announce the official launch tonight of its service for the iPhone. If this sounds a bit familiar, it's because Meebo's existing site was already compatible with the iPhone, but now it has the slick, sliding interface that sets apart cool new tools like Facebook's iPhone edition.
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Truveo Finds Its Video Destination — Until today, AOL's December 2005 acquisition of video search startup Truveo has been a white-label technology behind the video capabilities of many of the Web's biggest sites. With its relaunch as a destination portal, Truveo became the top contender for best video search site in the world.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
USAToday's Social Network Experiment May Not Be Paying Off — When USAToday relaunched its site in March as a social network around news, I and others thought it was big news. — They integrated Pluck's new Social Media Suite, a group of social networking products that a number of high profile news sites have adopted.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
Three of i-mate's five Ultimate devices canceled? — We wish we could say we were surprised about this, we really do. It seems that i-mate has canceled arguably the three most interesting versions of its Ultimate line: the 5150 slider, 7150 QWERTY flip, and 9150 numeric flip.
Marc Graser / Variety:
Industry pair to dish help on website — Tercek, Edelman set to launch PeopleJam — Dr. Phil's about to face some serious competition online: Hollywood execs Robert Tercek and Matt Edelman are prepping to launch PeopleJam, a website set on helping people improve their lives.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
OMG! Study finds iPhone texting 2x slower than QWERTY — A study has determined that iPhone's touchscreen is two times slower than QWERTY phones when it comes to texting. — OMG! — This study was conducted by User Centric, a Chicago-based usability consultant. User Centric concludes:
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
New robots.txt feature and REP Meta Tags — We've improved Webmaster Central's robots.txt analysis tool to recognize sitemap declarations and relative urls. Earlier versions weren't aware of sitemaps at all, and understood only absolute URLs; anything else was reported as Syntax not understood.
David Weiss:
Numbers — One of the great benefits of working at Microsoft is that when you add a new little one to your family, you get 1 month of paid paternity leave. Recently, we've had the opportunity to take advantage of this benefit. Since our little baby was born, I've been home working as Mr. Mom.
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Sun and IBM promise operating system surprise — Sun Microsystems and IBM look set to hold a whopper of a press conference tomorrow with CEO Jonathan Schwartz and IBM's systems chief Bill Zeitler all geared up to talk. — What exactly will be the topic of discussion? Who knows?
