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4:40 AM ET, August 23, 2006

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Business 2.0:
Blogging for Dollars  —  It's not just a hobby — some small sites are making big money.  Here's how to turn your passion into an online empire.  —  (Business 2.0) — Michael Arrington is a partying kind of guy.  While showing off his home in Atherton, Calif., he boasts about how he crammed 500 people …
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Valleywag:   Biz 2 pretends Mike Arrington is fun
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
YouTube's Ads Blur Lines  —  YouTube today introduced a new campaign that casts a "pro" as one of its users.  Paris Hilton, famous for being famous, has a pop album.  YouTube is giving her a "brand channel," where Hilton appears in a choppy video welcoming visitors and asking them to leave a comment.
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DealBook:
Should Apple Buy YouTube?  —  Mergers & Acquisitions, Apple Computer, YouTube  —  Like a video of exploding Coke and Mentos candies, YouTube just seems to demand attention.  —  And, in a different way, so does Paris Hilton.  —  So Tuesday's news that Ms. Hilton is using YouTube …
Michelle Quinn / Mercury News:
YouTube's new ad model  —  NO, IT'S NOT PARIS HILTON, BUT SHE'S PARTICIPATING IN THE NEW CONCEPT  —  People have wondered how YouTube, the Internet video phenomenon, would cash in on its explosive popularity.  —  Now we have an inkling — it's a first for Internet advertising, and comes with the help of Paris Hilton.
SecurityFocus:
Microsoft patch opens users to attack  —  Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-08-22  —  UPDATE: Microsoft continued to work on a fix on Tuesday for an exploitable flaw introduced by the company's latest security update to Internet Explorer.  —  The flaw, initially thought to only crash Internet Explorer …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (923762)
Discussion: InfoWorld Tech Watch and IEBlog
Declan Kennedy / apc:
How Vista screws dual-booting nirvana  —  The other day I found myself staring out the window next to my desk.  It was around 6.30 in the evening, and the lights had just gone on over Hyde Park.  —  The whole scene was one of winter serenity, aided considerably by the window sill …
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:   Hack Attack: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wow - Grouper Sells for $65 million  —  Sony Pictures is announcing the acquisition of online video startup Grouper tonight, Tuesday, at midnight EST.  The acquisition price, confirmed by Grouper, was $65 million in cash.  Our previous coverage of Grouper is here.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Microsoft to Provide and Sell Ads on Facebook, the Web Site  —  Microsoft said yesterday that it would provide advertising for Facebook, a Web site aimed primarily at college students, over the next three years.  —  The two did not disclose the terms of the deal, in which Microsoft …
Discussion: GigaOM
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Qwest calls for mandatory data retention laws  —  ASPEN, Colo.—Broadband company Qwest Communications International on Tuesday strongly endorsed federal legislation requiring Internet providers to keep records of their customers' behavior, a move that could accelerate efforts in Congress to enact new laws.
Alex Bosworth / Alex Bosworth's Weblog:
How To Provide A Web API  —  In a world where people are making interdependent webservices, API design and maintenance is pretty important.  Unfortunately despite rising use and availability of APIs, there are significant problems with the way even big API vendors are deploying and maintaining their APIs.
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
What's new for your Blackberry  —  When I got my Blackberry, at first it was culture shock, I wanted my Plain Jane Nokia back, but after a while I got used to using it as a phone, then fell in love with it because it did email so well, but I wanted more, I wanted news.
Joshua Chaffin / Financial Times:
Viacom's Redstone argues for flexible pricing  —  Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom and CBS, on Tuesday called for Hollywood to take a more flexible approach to pricing as it seeks to combat piracy and protect its intellectual property.  —  In a speech on Tuesday night …
Eric Case / Google Code:
New GData API: Google Base  —  Post by Matthias Zenger, Software Engineer  —  We're excited to announce the availability of the Google Base data API, which lets you write applications that dynamically interact with Google Base.  You can insert, edit, or delete items programmatically …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Is your blog one in a million?  If so VCs may want to talk to you  —  Paul Kedrosky nailed it!  This is exactly the point I was trying to make about VC investment in individual blogs.  See Dr. Kedrosky's comment in my previous post.  Bloggers are like Open Source projects in that there are millions …
support.microsoft.com:
Description of Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2 … This article discusses a Beta release of a Microsoft product.  The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice.  —  No formal product support is available from Microsoft for this Beta product.
Sean Alexander / Addicted to Digital Media:
SanDisk Sansa graduates, iPod Nano left behind or soon to skip a grade?  —  It's not often I make predictions here, but yesterday I had an "aha" moment spurred by sites abuzz with Reuters report that SanDisk is launching the Sansa e280, an 8GB version of their e2xxx series for $249.99.
Discussion: Shop Talk and MSTechToday
Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
Hello hullo!  —  Over the last few weeks I've been playing with the beta of a promising new free service called hullo.  Now you can try it too.  —  hullo bills itself as a personal call manager.  The promise is that it will help you stay in touch better than ever before.
 
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Web Platform Primer - what's available via API?
Tara Yingst / synaptics.com:
Synaptics and Pilotfish Collaborate to Develop Next Generation Mobile Phone Concept
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Sony:
SONY MERGES QUALITY LCD TV WITH DESKTOP PC FOR A SLEEK COMBO
Discussion: Gizmodo and CrunchGear
Seán Captain / Wired News:
3-D TV That Actually Works
Discussion: Gadgetell
Ryan Block / Engadget:
TiVo Series 3 beta box snapped in the wild!
Discussion: HD Beat
IEBlog:
Details on our CSS changes for IE7
Think Secret:
Briefly: Leopard downloads prompt Apple retail firings
Discussion: Engadget and Infinite Loop
Anything But iPod:
Swivel-Screen Newman M790 MP3 Player
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo and CrunchGear
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Fox's Digital Empire, Going Up Floor by Floor
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Spamigation: automated litigation
Jessi Hempel / Business Week:
Friendster: Poised for a Comeback
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Kids Say the Darndest Things in Their Blogs
Discussion: The Blog Herald
Oliver / MobileCrunch:
Nimbuzz Could Change the Face of Mobile Communications: a MobileCrunch Exclusive!
Red Herring:
Guba's On-Demand Experiment
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Facebook adds blog-like notes feature
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Google MP3 Player found in GMail
 

 
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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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