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3:20 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: Zenrob and 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.
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 …
Todd Weiss / Yahoo! News:
Could a 30-in. monitor help you do your job faster?  —  Providing employees with 30-in. computer monitors can boost worker productivity at companies where 17-in. or 19-in. monitors are typically used, according to a French consultant hired for a study sponsored by Apple.
Discussion: Forever Geek, Gadgetopia and Slashdot
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.
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.
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
Bruce Byfield / Linux.com:
Reiser filesystem development to continue  —  Hans Reiser, the developer of the ReiserFS and Reiser4 filesystems, has been arrested in Oakland, California as a suspect in the disappearance of his estranged wife Nina Reiser.  As the news of his arrest spreads in the free and open software communities …
Discussion: TechBlog, TechSpot, digg and Slashdot
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 …
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Sony Battery Recall to Cause Shortage Until June, Makers Say  —  Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — A global recall of about 8 million Sony Corp. notebook-computer batteries is creating a shortage that's driving up prices and causing delays in shipments, executives from three Taiwanese manufacturers said.
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Mobile Ad Trend Grows  —  Advertisers from telecom provider Verizon to olive oil brand Bertolli are experimenting with new mobile ad offerings from business listings providers Citysearch and WhitePages.com, and mobile ad software outfit Third Screen Media.  Coming on the heels …
Discussion: MocoNews.net
Asack / A Sack of Seattle:
What's been hard at Judy's Book  —  Following up on my post yesterday, below are answers to the question of what's been harder than expected at Judy's Book.  —  Achieving critical mass in local  —  Momentum in any one location doesn't transfer to others - you have to fight the same fight over and over.
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
 
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Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
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Gavin O'Malley / AdAge:
Digital Media Buyers Love GoogTube Merger
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Spamhaus Tests U.S. Control Over Internet
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Plesstv / Beet.TV:
Video Search Is About Audio — And Blinkx is Tuning In with Spiders with Ears!
Discussion: CNNMoney.com and Valleywag
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dell busts out E207WFP 20-inch LCD for the budget set
Discussion: SCI FI Tech, Gizmodo and digg
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Office? How About Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Now Launched
Elisabeth Osmeloski / Search Engine Watch:
The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee
seagate.com:
SEAGATE STRENGTHENS ITS MAXTOR ONETOUCH AND MAXTOR SHARED STORAGE PRODUCT FAMILIES
Alisha Karabinus / DS Fanboy:
SNK's game is about witch-hunting, not girl-hunting
Discussion: Kotaku, Gizmodo and digg
RawmeatCowboy / Go Nintendo:
UPDATE WITH SCAN* It's official - GameStop/EB Games taking Wii preorders on Friday
Darren Waters / BBC:
Warning over 'broken up' internet
Discussion: Techdirt and IP Democracy