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1:25 AM ET, June 1, 2006

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Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense:
Introducing the AdSense API beta  —  If you're a web developer or host, now you can generate more revenue and improve your service with the new AdSense API.  The AdSense API is a free beta service that allows you to integrate AdSense into your website offerings.  —  What can I do with the AdSense API?
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Launches AdSense API
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Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Vonage Customers Irked as Stock Deal Hits a Snag  —  Firm Says It Won't Charge Buyers for Botched Trades  —  Vonage Holdings Inc. hoped to show its Internet telephone customers how much it valued them by making many eligible to buy shares in the company's public offering last week.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Vonage IPO and Very Angry Customers  —  The Vonage IPO and post IPO saga is getting stranger by the day - in a way that could get them a direct nomination for Business 2.0's Dumbest 101 Things list that comes out at the end of the calendar year.  On paper it seemed like such a good idea …
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:   Hello, you've reached Vonage Investor Relations; please leave …
Alan Stafford / PC World:
The 100 Best Products of the Year  —  Powerful computers, handy services, tiny utilities, mammoth HDTVs—our editors' top picks include all these and a whole lot more.  Plus: the worst products of all time.  —  You know how many new-product pitches we get every year?
Maya Roney / Forbes:
AMD-ATI Merger Looks Likely  —  Advanced Micro Devices may be looking to buy graphics company ATI Technologies, a move that would benefit the overall graphics industry, according to RBC Capital Markets.  —  "The synergies of this seem consistent with the recent announcements by AMD …
Thomas Mennecke / slyck.com:
ThePirateBay.org Raided - Servers Seized  —  In their native Sweden, ThePirateBay.org enjoyed a level of immunity from copyright prosecution rarely seen in the file-sharing world.  Often defiant in the face of those wishing to enforce their intellectual property rights …
Tim Lee / The Technology Liberation Front:
Astro-Spam  —  The Abstract Factory flags something I've begun to notice when I periodically go through our comments to weed out spam: our posts about network neutrality have begun to get a steady stream of highly generic supportive comments: see here, here, here, and here, for example.
Discussion: IP Democracy
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Mike / Techdirt:
Forget Astroturf, Fake Net Neutrality Commenters Popping Up Like Weeds
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Negroponte's now $130 PC due in April 2007  —  Nicholas Negroponte showed off the latest prototypes of the fabled $100 PC.  It's not longer a $100 PC, however.  The ruggedized, two pound Linux desktop (Fedora) system, with mesh networking will sell for about $130 to $140 (san shipping) to governments starting in April 2007.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Finally!  Bloglines Blog Search  —  Ask.com, which owns the most popular stand alone web based feed reader, Bloglines, has just rolled out its long awaited new blog search engine.  —  Ask/Bloglines has been the subject of a considerable number of jokes over the last year, after promising a blog search engine last summer.
Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Microsoft launches security for Windows  —  SEATTLE - Security software makers, the 800-pound gorilla has landed.  Microsoft Corp. was to announce Wednesday that it is releasing software that aims to better protect people who use its Windows operating system from Internet attacks.
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Microsoft:   Microsoft Offers All-in-One PC Care for Consumers With Windows Live OneCare
symantec.com:
Symantec Names Genesis "Norton 360"  —  New All-in-One Consumer Security Service Builds Toward Security 2.0 Vision  —  CUPERTINO, Calif. - May 31, 2006 - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that its upcoming consumer PC security service will be branded Norton 360.
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mcafee.com:
McAfee Set to Deliver Next-Generation Consumer Security Service
Discussion: Neowin.net and Today @ PC World
James Temperton / cubed3.com:
Cubed⊃3; Exclusive |  Nintendo Wii to Launch on November 6th in USA  —  Rest of world to see console during surrounding weeks...  According to an industry source speaking to Cubed⊃3;, the Nintendo Wii is set to launch in the "Thanksgiving period in the USA" (Thanksgiving falls …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LogoWorks Redesign and Discount Code  —  Utah-based Logoworks, which just relaunched a major new user interface, has an innovative and inexpensive way of creating corporate and other logos for customers.  They outsource the project to interested and pre-approved designers who come up with design concepts.
Cynthia Brumfield / ipdemocracy.com:
Ed Whitacre: No Packet Prioritization for Us  —  AT&T Chairman Ed Whitacre spoke this morning at Sanford C. Bernstein and Company's Strategic Decisions Conference and raised more questions than he answered.  Along with the usual optimistic assessment of the company's future, Whitacre addressed two hot-button topics for AT&T.
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Yahoo reprograms online video service  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) is reprogramming its online video service so it's more like YouTube.com, an Internet upstart that has amassed a large audience during the past year with a free Web service that encourages people to post and share homemade clips.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Reuters:
CNN, Cartoon Network sue Cablevision over DVR plan  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. networks CNN and Cartoon Network have sued Cablevision Systems Corp. in an attempt to block the cable operator's plans to roll out a network-based digital video recorder service.
Discussion: Engadget and IP Democracy
Chris Pirillo:
Web 2.0: I Told You So  —  I love to say it: I told you so.  Many moons ago, I exclaimed that "Web 2.0″ was nothing more than a conference.  Today, I've been proven right to a fault.  It was just a matter of time before this came and bit all the "Web 2.0″ evangelists in the ass.
 
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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Ram Mounts holds a trio for your trike
Discussion: Gizmodo and OhGizmo!
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
So What Does Web 2.0 in the Enterprise Look Like?
John Borland / CNET News.com:
How Sony failed to Connect, again
Discussion: Kotaku
Fred / A VC:
Replicating Silicon Valley
Stephen Lawson / PC World:
Fancy Features Don't Sell Cell Phones
Discussion: Gizmodo
SLHamlet / New World Notes:
GOD GAME  —  From Molyneux to a new view— a functioning ecosystem in SL
Discussion: Raph's Website and Kotaku
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Yahoo's Semel: We aggregate, we don't have a point of view
Discussion: paidContent.org
 Earlier Items: 
business-standard.com:
TutorVista get $ 2 mn funding from Sequoia
Discussion: SiliconBeat and VC Ratings
Christopher Hogg / digitaljournal.com:
Microsoft Considering eBay Takeover?
Dean Bubley / Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless:
Voda data revenues
Shel / a shel of my former self:
Relationships as a PR goal
Michael Grebb / Wired News:
Neutral Net? Who Are You Kidding?
Discussion: Mary's Blog
Dan Milmo / Guardian:
Net advertising 'to overtake national newspapers'
David H. Holtzman / Business Week:
The DVD War Against Consumers
Discussion: Gearlog and Techdirt
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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