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1:35 PM ET, October 12, 2006

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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo's Talks With Facebook Get Bogged Down  —  Days after Google Inc. announced a $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube Inc., rival Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to extend its Web reach through an acquisition of Facebook Inc. aren't making much progress, say people familiar with the matter.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is Facebook worth as much as YouTube?  —  I was reading Steve Ballmer scratching his head in BusinessWeek where he was wondering about the valuations that are getting paid out for companies like Skype and YouTube.  —  Good to hear that Ballmer's leadership on the social software industry …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Facebook worth more than YouTube?  —  The Wall Street Journal says "Yahoos talks with Facebook get bogged down" Yahoo is reportedly offering $1B for FaceBook.  The talks have been on and off most of this year.  —  Robert Scoble asks "Is Facebook worth as much as YouTube?"
Discussion: Joe Duck
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
With YouTube, Grad Student Hits Jackpot Again  —  For Jawed Karim, the $100,000 or so he would have to spend on a master's degree at Stanford was never daunting.  He hit an Internet jackpot in 2002 when PayPal, the online payment company he had joined early on, was bought by eBay.
Discussion: IP Democracy and DealBreaker.com
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
YouTube follow: Yahoo gets bashed, "page view" metrics & the third man
Discussion: Scott Rafer at WINKsite and B2Day
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Ask Mobile Search Launches  —  Ask.com has launched a mobile search product at m.ask.com or mobile.ask.com.  First, Ask Mobile is optimized for mobile devices and uses Skweezer throughout to improve readability and download speed on your mobile device.  Navigating Ask Mobile was a pleasure on my Treo …
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple's missing "Home on iPod" feature resurfaces in filing  —  Apple Computer has been granted a patent for a pretermitted feature of Mac OS X that would have allowed users to sync their home directories to an iPod and then use the data stored on the player to securely log into any supported Mac.
BBC:
Libyan pupils 'to have laptops'  —  The government of Libya is reported to have agreed to provide its 1.2m school children with a cheap durable laptop computer by June 2008.  —  The laptops offer internet access and are powered by a wind-up crank.  They cost $100 and manufacturing begins next year, says One Laptop per Child.
Dylan T. Lovan / Associated Press:
EU Rejects Spam Maker's Trademark Bid  —  Font Scale:  —  LONDON (AP) - The producer of the canned pork product Spam has lost a bid to claim the word as a trademark for unsolicited e-mails.  EU trademark officials rejected Hormel Foods Corp.'s appeal, dealing the company another setback …
Discussion: Gadgetopia
John Gaudiosi / Next Generation:
Research Findings Put PS3 Way Ahead  —  New research has shown massive consumer belief in the PlayStation 3, and waning interest in Xbox 360.  —  According to the study by Los Angeles based Interpret, 8.9 million U.S consumers 'are prepared' to pay full price ($500 or $600) …
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Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS...  Disclaimer (added 3:15pm): Obviously I work at Yahoo and obviously I know the people who work on Flickr and Zonetag personally.  Other clients for uploading information from your phone and capturing context do exist and if you're interested …
David Pogue / New York Times:
Trying Again to Make Books Obsolete  —  "The market for downloadable books will grow by 400 percent in each of the next two years, to over $25 billion by 2008," predicted the keynote speaker at the 2001 Women's National Book Association meeting.  "Within a few years after the end of this decade …
Discussion: paidContent.org, TechBlog and TeleRead
Johnt / Library clips:
Google Reader and clipping in general  —  The first release of Google Reader wasn't good at all, but now they are in business.  The new release is more close to what we are used to and some extra treats.  —  A while back I dropped Bloglines for Rojo, and this week I dropped Rojo for Feeds 2.0 …
David Hatch / njtelecomupdate.com:
Democrats On FCC Criticize Justice Dept.'s OK Of Merger  —  The FCC's two Democratic members harshly criticized the Justice Department for approving the $78 billion AT&T- BellSouth merger without conditions.  —  The department, however, said Wednesday that "the presence of other competitors …
Discussion: IP Democracy and Digital Destiny
Brian McKenna:
5 Reasons to Support IceWeasel  —  Mozilla wants to protect its trademark, Firefox, that sounds very fair to me - problem is that they don't want their trademark being used on software that isn't actually maintained by themselves.  Furthermore, they don't want the Firefox name being used without the appropriate artwork.
Jon's Radio:
Levelator!  —  When Doug Kaye announced the availability of The Levelator, I hoped it would spare me the worst drudgery of podcast production.  After recording and postprocessing my next Friday podcast this morning, I'm convinced that it will.  —  Here's the deal, from my perspective as an audio newbie now plunged into the deep end.
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Elisabeth Osmeloski / Search Engine Watch:
The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee  —  Does information really want to be free?  If so, how can traditional information publishers and aggregators deal with shifting value propositions and revenue models of premium content and survive in the era of free web content?
 
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Plesstv / Beet.TV:
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ICANN New and Noteworthy:
Spamhaus Litigation Update
Discussion: Freedom to Tinker
Mark LaPedus / EE Times:
Transmeta files suit against Intel
Discussion: Engadget, TechSpot and Slashdot
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dell busts out E207WFP 20-inch LCD for the budget set
Discussion: Gizmodo and digg
Niero / Destructoid:
Judge to Take-Two: Produce Bully at 3 p.m. tomorrow and I'll decide how bad it is
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Eight Social Networking Sites for Men Who Love Men
Discussion: VentureBeat
IGN:
PS3 Bundled With Composite
Alisha Karabinus / DS Fanboy:
SNK's game is about witch-hunting, not girl-hunting
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USA Today:
Product placement — you can't escape it
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Warning over 'broken up' internet
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