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6:30 AM ET, December 3, 2006

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Ben Harrington / Telegraph:
Hitwise eyes up £180m sale  —  Website monitoring firm Hitwise, founded by two Australian internet entrepreneurs, is the latest dotcom business to put itself on the auction block for around £180m.  —  Hitwise is understood to have appointed investment Deutsche Bank to advise on a potential sale.
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Traffic Monitoring Firm Hitwise On The Block; Asking $350 Million: Report
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Million Dollar Homepage Becomes Multi-Million Dollar Homepage  —  Alex Tew, the mastermind behind The Million Dollar Homepage is most certainly pressing his luck.  Tew sold one million pixels worth of advertisement for $1 per pixel and made $1 million.  It worked so well that he thinks …
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Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
Pixelotto: From The Creator Of The Million Dollar Homepage  —  Bookmark This: CyberMark - del.icio.us - Furl - reddit - StumbleUpon - Yahoo  —  The creator of the Million Dollar Homepage is at it again with a whole new venture.  Previously Alex Tew sold 1 pixel for $1 and in the end he sold all 1 million pixels on his site.
Think Secret:
With Photoshop CS3 just months away, new details emerge  —  More than one year after Think Secret first reported details of Adobe Photoshop CS3, sources recently disclosed that as development enters its final months features have remained true to what Adobe originally planned.
Discussion: Apple Gazette and digg
Dan Mitchell / New York Times:
A Bubble Watcher Watches Google  —  COULD Web 2.0 be fast becoming Bubble 2.0?  It's hard to say, mainly because of the lack of a yardstick to measure the value of most Internet companies.  —  Compared with the late-'90s technology boom, there are few initial public offerings and thus …
Discussion: CenterNetworks
Paperghost / The SpywareGuide Greynets Blog:
Myspace Phish Attack Leads Users to Zango Content  —  A while ago on the Spywareguide Blog, I covered a technique being used in Peer to Peer land involving URLs being embedded in Quicktime movies, which would then pop open a website.  This has now been taken to the next level …
Dick / Burning Questions:
Headline Animator Overhaul, Part I  —  Historians believe that our Headline Animator service was the last known use of brushed metal backgrounds in a public web service.  For a couple years now, FeedBurner publishers have courageously placed the one-size-fits-all Headline Animator widget in their sites …
PR Newswire:
Apple Settlement Decision Lands Patent Attorney in Public Spotlight  —  SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ — A recent out-of-court settlement between Apple Computer and the owner of the patent that covers the downloading of music and video with the ability to play music and video on a device …
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Yahoo's Deal With Current TV In Jeopardy, Two Months After Launch  —  This is a surprise, but not really, considering the troubles Yahoo is going through now: Current TV's distribution/joint venture deal with Yahoo is in peril, reports News.com.  "Current is exploring better opportunities …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Current TV and Yahoo on the outs?
Discussion: HipMojo.com
John Gartner / Marketing Blog Bent …:
Podcasting's 15 Minutes Almost Up  —  Podcasting probably will never become an "impact media" like online video or satellite radio, and deservedly so.  —  According to the most recent survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, only 1 percent of Internet users download a podcast on a given day.
Gamasutra:
Question of the Week: Does Size Matter?  —  Gamasutra's latest Question of the Week asked our esteemed audience of game industry professionals, educators and students for feedback on the importance of a game's play length, particularly in terms of monetary value.
Discussion: Joystiq and Slashdot
Timothy Burke / Terra Nova:
The History of Virtual Worlds  —  I'm going for a first-time event here: a triple cross-post at Easily Distracted, Cliopatria and Terra Nova.  I'm at a meeting on law and virtual worlds at the New York Law School, and there's a really interesting panel discussion of methodologies in virtual worlds.
Discussion: Between the Lines and Joystiq
CNET News.com:
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool  —  update The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
WikiMatrix Allows Side-By-Side Wiki Comparison  —  Like it or not, wikis are a dime a dozen these days.  So when (and if) it comes time to choose one, WikiMatrix is a good place to start.  It's a site that allows you to compare any and all wikis on the market in a side-by-side grid.
Discussion: iPlot
Matthew Hurst / Data Mining:
A Round Trip To Google  —  If you publish a blog and subscribe to Google's blog alerting, you can - by using the real time option for altering - get an idea of how long it takes Google to get each post.  — I posted Weekends At The Movies at 5:18 AM on December the first.
 
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Kotaku:
JPN Wii Launch: The GETs And The GET-Nots
Discussion: Gizmodo and I4U News
Joe / Techdirt:
Paging William Shatner: Restaurants To Let You Name Your Own Price
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
BenQ uses WTC & 9/11 imagery to sell devices
Discussion: CrunchGear
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ok, Now I Get JPG Magazine
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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Shawn Fanning's New Social Network Will Comply With WoW
Michael / michael parekh on IT:
ON THE WHIMSY OF LINE RIDER
Derek / .:UNEASYsilence:.:
Parallels - IE7 & Firefox in "coherence" mode
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Open-source group wants educational patent reversed