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Friendster Wins Patent — After emerging from debt, Friendster wins a patent on social networking. — Friendster said Thursday that it has received a patent that covers online social networks, one the company had applied for long before its decline and recent recapitalization.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Friendster awarded patent on social networking — Sagging social network Friendster was awarded a patent on some pretty fundamental qualities of online social networking late last month. The patent covers the determining and display of relationships between individuals who have entered personal information …
huffingtonpost.com:
BREAKING: New Rocketboom Girl Chosen, Looks Strangely Like Old One — HuffPo's "Eat The Press" has learned that Rocketboom executive producer Andrew Baron has tapped former MTV Europe VJ Joanna Colan to take the anchor chair vacated by Amanda Congdon earlier this week.
MediaPost Publications:
ABC Looks Beyond Upfront To DVR, Commercial Ratings Issues — ABC HAS HELD DISCUSSIONS ON the use of technology that would disable the fast-forward button on DVRs, according to ABC President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw, with the primary goal to allow TV commercials to run as intended.
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Thomas Hawk / Official Zooomr Blog:
DO WE LOVE BLOGGERS? YES WE DO! — One of things that we hope Zooomr will become in the months ahead is the photo sharing site of choice for bloggers to host their images on. Since we're new though and need to get the word out we thought the best way to get bloggers to use our site …
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Mashable*, the j. botter weblog, Geek News Central …, eirikso.com, iBloggedThis and John Tokash's Blog
Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Lawsuits Fly Over Google Founders' Big Private Plane — Even billionaires have disputes with their contractors. — Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the low-key co-founders of Google Inc., set tongues wagging last year when they bought a used Boeing 767 widebody as an unusually large private jet.
PingMag:
Web 2.0 in Japan — Japan is a country renowned for it's technological prowess - being on the cutting edge of robotics, hybrid car research, video game entertainment and countless other areas. Strange then, that whilst the rest of the world has seen a huge boom in "Web 2.0″-style services …
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Most Progressive 'Incumbent' YP Up for Sale — Though public (or quasi public) knowledge for several months, Verizon has formally filed to sell its yellow pages print and online directory product units, Verizon Information Services/SuperPages.com. Here's more detail from MarketWatch.
heise-security.co.uk:
Copy protection hole in Blu-ray and HD DVD movies — The Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD are new data carriers for high-resolution motion pictures. For fear of piracy, Hollywood had the developers install a cornucopia of copy prevention mechanisms on them. For instance, the film data on the disks …
Joshua Jaffe / VC Ratings:
Google preparing health portal; pitching WebMD and Intuit as partners — Google is planning a product that it hopes will overhaul the way patients, doctors, vendors and pharmaceutical companies manage their medical information online. Dubbed the Google Health Scrapbook …
Stephanie Mehta / CNNMoney.com:
AOL as Yahoo wannabe — If AOL greenlights a plan to give away e-mail, it will be taking yet another page from the Yahoo playbook. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) — AOL has a serious case of Yahoo envy. — First, AOL last year built a Yahoo-like Internet portal, putting all its content …
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Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:AOL May Speed Shift Away From Subscribers
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Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Sprint PCS Vision Phone Katana By Sanyo — Sprint's new Sanyo Katana may look exactly like a plastic RAZR, but it's no disposable. It's a reasonable midrange phone designed to help Sprint customers scratch their itch for the nation's most popular form factor.
USA Today:
Five-second ads try to counter TiVo — It may take longer to read this sentence than to watch one of Honda's recent mini-commercials. — In just five seconds, the TV ad shows features of its new Fit hatchback, followed by a computer-type voice saying: "The Fit is Go."
Mike / Techdirt:
Bono Needs To Play More Socially Conscious Video Games — from the leave-the-man-alone dept — It seems that U2 lead singer Bono just can't get out of the tech related news world lately. Last week there was talk about "drafting" him into the fight against the recording industry's stupidity …
Michael Sciannamea / The Wireless Report:
A wireless network in NYC's future? — It's about time! New York City's Economic Development Corporation announced it will be conducting a feasibility study to determine whether a citywide wireless network can be effectively developed and deployed within the city.
Ross Miller / Joystiq:
Apple cameos on PS3 website ... wtf? [update 4] — Load up the US PlayStation 3 website, and watch carefully on the PS3 unit just above the controller. [You will see a quick, subliminal blip.] It has been fixed. You can view the original page here. — Did you catch what it was?
