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12:40 PM ET, June 23, 2006

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg 3.0 To Launch Monday: Exclusive Screenshots and Stats  —  Digg 3.0 will launch Monday, June 26, in the morning PST.  The launch is being announced this evening, and Digg has made a number of screen shots available to me which are included in this post.
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Read/WriteWeb:
Digg 3.0 expands beyond tech  —  This Monday Digg will release the next version of the enormously popular community news site digg.com.  Mike Arrington and I did a TalkCrunch podcast with Digg's co-founder and Chief Architect Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson, in which we discussed Digg's evolution …
Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
Online News With a New Angle  —  To see who will create the Internet newscast of the future, look into a mirror.  —  You and millions of other readers are being cast as Internet news anchors by a fresh crop of Web sites that may well represent the future of news.
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid:
Digg v3 Party Photos  —  On Monday Digg will be releasing version 3 of their website, so tonight they had a small party at Anu in San Francisco to celebrate the occasion.  Here are a few photos, including some screenshots from v3.  For more on the Digg v3 launch, check out TechCrunch.
Discussion: Things That
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Digg vs. The New York Times
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:   Digg 3.0 Screenshots Emerge
Nik Cubrilovic / TalkCrunch:
Episode 10: Digg 3.0 Launches - Interview With Founders Kevin Rose & Jay Adelson
Discussion: TechEffect and Scobleizer
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Testing Ad Supported Premium Video  —  Google is running a test offering about 2,000 premium videos available for free streaming viewing, inserting a persistent banner-type ad at the top of the screen and showing an additional post-roll video ad once the premium content has finished streaming.
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google puts video ads on Google Video
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Is Testing Ads for Video Service
Discussion: paidContent.org
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Samsungs Backpedals on Combo HD DVD/Blu-ray Player  —  Despite Samsung middle manager Kim Du-Hyon speaking out on Tuesday about how the company is considering a universal player, now Samsung appears to be backpedaling away from embracing the idea of a high-definition disk player that will handle both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats.
Discussion: The Browser and I4U News
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Clint DeBoer / audioholics.com:
10 Reasons Why High Definition DVD Formats Have Already Failed
Discussion: HD Beat and HDBlog.net
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Torrentspy names alleged MPAA hacker  —  A month after accusing the Motion Picture Association of America of conspiring to commit data theft, the operators of a file search engine presented more details regarding the alleged relationship between the MPAA and a man who admits hacking the small company's network.
Discussion: Techdirt
Paul Briggs / MobileWhack.com:
F88 Wrist Watch Mobile Phone  —  CEC Corp in China specially made this wrist watch phone to one of the China's most famous ping pong player, the GSM F88 Watch.  It is available to the market at the price of 8,888Yuan which is about USD1,111.  F88 is a watch with built-in mobile phone capabilities which have 26K colors CSTN display.
Discussion: JD on EP, SCI FI Tech and Gizmodo
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Big, Fat and Bulky: State of the IM Nation  —  This past week, while I was away in London, there was a frenzy of activity around the "instant messaging" client.  Microsoft introduced its Microsoft Live Messenger Beta which is some rudimentary form cross talks with Yahoo Messenger.
Reuters:
Boeing evaluating outlook for in-flight Internet  —  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Boeing Co. on Thursday said it is evaluating the prospects for Connexion, its in-flight Internet venture, but declined to comment on a press report that the company may sell or close the unit.
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and GottaBeMobile.com
Lee Hollaar / ipi.org:
A Bad Trade: Will Congress Unwittingly Repeal the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Violate Our Trade Treaties?  —  Synopsis  —  In his recent IPI Ideas paper "Will Congress Circumvent the DMCA?," Richard Epstein notes how the "other purposes" of Rep. Boucher's (D-VA) H.R. 1201 …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
House panel OKs global rules for U.S. Net firms  —  update A congressional bill that would impose strict new obligations on American tech companies doing business with "Internet-restricting countries" like China cleared its first hurdle to becoming law on Thursday.
Discussion: IP Democracy and Kevin Maney
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Maxthon: China's hip browser  —  Web surfers in China frustrated by censorship in search engines are increasingly turning to a little-known Internet browser with a big following in the Middle Kingdom.  —  Maxthon, a browser made by a tiny Beijing company of the same name …
ZDNet:
Novell ditches top execs … Jack Messman has been sacked as Novell chief executive, as the company looks to speed up its Linux strategy  —  The board of Novell has dismissed two top executives, including chief executive Jack Messman,as part of a management shake-up at the software and networking firm.
Lakshmi Sandhana / Wired News:
Next Game Controller: Your Phone  —  Researchers are turning cell phones into motion-detection game controllers similar to Nintendo's new Wii device.  —  In a recent demonstration, the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand used a pair of Nokia Series 60 phones in a game of AR Tennis.
Discussion: Cathode Tan, 21talks, Joystiq and Kotaku
 
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Thomas C Greene / The Register:
Net neutrality has ruined the web
Discussion: 21talks, vinnie.net and Policy Blog
Associated Press:
NY lawmaker drops suit claiming Google profits from child porn
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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard screenshots
Peter Pachal / SCI FI Tech:
Gaze Detector records what you're looking at
Discussion: Gizmodo and Ubergizmo
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
How to tune into BloggerCon  —  Whether you're remote or local …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft swims upstream on security
Dave Zatz / Engadget:
TiVo VP Jim Denney talks Desktop 2.3
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
PostApp launches WidgetBox, a marketplace for widgets
Discussion: SiliconBeat and CrunchNotes
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Truth About (Nokia) Tablet
Discussion: 21talks and Gizmodo
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Roundup — the Silicon Valley beat continues with YouthNoise, more
Chris Pirillo:
Users vs. Developers
Discussion: Lockergnome
Gregory Daigle / english.ohmynews.com:
Printable Robots  —  Advances in inkjet technology forecast robotic origami
Ben Edelman:
Spyware Showing Unrequested Sexually-Explicit Images
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Supernova: Yahoo flexing research muscles
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Photobucket vs. Flickr in Alexa and Technorati