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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
YouTube vs. MySpace? — With millions of dollars in online ad revenue on the line, the two Net superstars could be headed for more conflict — Just a few months ago, News Corp. (NWS) landed a crucial deal with Internet leader Google (GOOG). News Corp. designated Google as the search engine for MySpace …
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Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
MySpace Makes Subtle Shifts to Emphasize Video — We wrote earlier about News Corp's unease with the Google-YouTube acquisition. For the last few weeks News Corp has been engaging in a one-sided PR war with YouTube - from News Corp. COO Peter Chernin's recent comments that 60-70% …
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
The Reporter Is Real, but the World He Covers Isn't — In preparing to open a Reuters bureau on a bustling island, Adam Pasick has been introducing himself to residents and interviewing entrepreneurs. After finishing such interviews, Mr. Pasick often levitates for a moment, then flies over buildings.
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Adam / Reuters/Second Life:
US Congress launches probe into virtual economies — Booming virtual economies in online worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft have drawn the attention of a U.S. congressional committee, which is investigating how virtual assets and incomes should be taxed.
Daily Mail:
One giant step for home entertainment? — Is this the way we will all be 'enjoying' our television programmes and computer games in the future? — In this astonishing photo, a model is wearing a new gadget, from electronics manufacturer Toshiba, that enables the wearer to experience …
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
55 Million Blogs, and Now a Service to Track Them — LONDON — Corporations are growing increasingly conscious of the power, and potential pitfalls, of blogging. A favorable review from an influential blogger can help generate the kind of buzz around a new product that traditional advertising struggles to achieve.
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Edelman / Richard Edelman:
A Commitment — For the past several days, I have been listening to the blogging community discuss the cross-country tour that Edelman designed for Working Families for Wal-Mart. — I want to acknowledge our error in failing to be transparent about the identity of the two bloggers from the outset.
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Chris Kohler / Game|Life:
Exclusive! Elite Beat Agents Track List — Would you believe... Chicago? The Village People? — Cher? — It's all true. As Game| Life can exclusively reveal this morning, Elite Beat Agents — the feverishly anticipated musical video game for Nintendo DS — will pack nineteen …
Barry Fox / NewScientistTech:
Invention: Smart-card DVDs — Smart-card discs — CDs and DVDs have been around for a while. Nevertheless, American-Israeli company Aladdin think it can breathe new life into these formats by creating a disc that combines optical storage capacity with an embedded electronic smart card chip.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Gains Pay For YouTube — Did the YouTube deal pay for itself? At least for one week it did. On Friday, October 6, 2006, Google shares closed at $420.50 a share. With roughly 304.36 million shares outstanding, that meant the company had a market capitalization of $127.983 billion.
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's No. 2 Has Low Profile, High Impact — When Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs lured little-known Timothy D. Cook to the company in early 1998, Mr. Cook was charged with straightening out the messy operations of a fallen Silicon Valley icon.
Reuters:
Stern freebie kicks off new online radio service — Ten months after leaving the commercial airwaves for subscription-based Sirius Satellite Radio, shock jock Howard Stern is out to attract a broad new online audience with his first-ever free Internet broadcast.
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
MySpace Predator Caught by Code — Yaphank, NY — The computer crimes unit of New York's Suffolk County Police Department sits in a gloomy government office canopied by water-stained ceiling tiles and stuffed with battered Dell desktops. A mix of file folders, notes, mug shots and printouts form …
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
I'll Trade You My 'Titanic' for Your 'Spider-Man' — One of the world's oldest forms of commerce has finally gotten a foothold in the newest commercial medium. — Online bartering, an idea with many proponents but few successes, is emerging as an e-commerce model, bolstered by a spate …
