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4:20 PM ET, April 3, 2007

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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
The State of Technorati, April 2007  —  I typically issue the State of the Blogosphere report each quarter to give a glimpse into our data and what that may tell us about the global social media phenomenon.  As many of you have pointed out, it's been nearly six months since the last report.  Yow!
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Mirror mirror on the wall, which blog search is best of them all?  —  Last Friday I visited the famous South Park area in San Francisco.  It's a small park south of Market street where a number of cool Web 2.0 startups are located (Twitter's parent, Obvious Corp, is located in a building on one end of the park).
Mark Evans:
Talking Up Technorati  —  If Technorati is looking for a suitor or more venture capital, the latest State of Technorati report is a dead giveaway.  CEO David Sifry talks about how Technorati has evolved into a new company, how tags have exploded, and how it's still the most popular search engine …
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-017  —  Vulnerabilities in GDI Could Allow Remote Code Execution (925902)  —  Version: 1.0  —  Who Should Read this Document: Customers who use Microsoft Windows  —  Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution  —  Maximum Severity Rating: Critical
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The Microsoft Security Response Center Blog:
MS07-017 Released  —  This is Christopher Budd.  I wanted to follow up on my posting from Sunday night to let you know that we've released the security update, MS07-017, that addresses the vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling.  —  As I noted on Sunday night …
Google:
Google Announces TV Ads Trial  —  At Google, we are constantly looking for ways to improve user experience and bring value to advertisers, publishers and partners.  Users spend a lot of time watching TV so improving the relevance of advertising information on that medium is important.
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
EMI to Drop Digital Locks in Web Sales  —  EMI Group, the British music giant, broke ranks with the music industry's biggest corporations yesterday by announcing a deal to sell songs online through Apple's music service without copy protection.  —  The move by EMI, which ranks last among …
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Gizmodo:
Apple Playing Second Fiddle: DRM Free Tracks Were EMI's Grand Idea
Discussion: MacUser and Apple 2.0
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Vonage hangs up on Verizon patent infringement with new agreement  —  Vonage has signed an agreement with a VoIP network services provider to carry calls placed by Vonage customers, giving the troubled VoIP provider an out on two of the three Verizon patents it was found to have infringed.
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Somasegar / Somasegar's WebLog:
Listening to your feedback - Expression and MSDN  —  When we announced Expression Studio last December, we saw great excitement from both the design and development community - excitement that is clearly reflected in the hundreds of thousands of CTP and trial downloads we've already seen.
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:   Microsoft Makes Expression Tools Available to MSDN Subscribers
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
ClickTale Heatmaps Launching Now  —  ClickTale, a user tracking service for websites similar to CrazyEgg, will announce the launch of ClickTale Heatmaps in the next few minutes.  —  ClickTale provides a multi-colored overlay for your website that shows where visitors look, which parts of the page they focus on and how far they scroll.
Discussion: franticindustries
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Peter Lauria / New York Post:
SATELLITE STATIC  —  CARMEL GROUP THROWS WRENCH INTO SIRIUS/XM MERGER  —  The Carmel Group, the influential research firm whose analysis helped kill the 2003 merger of EchoStar and DirecTV, will release a new report today that outlines the strongest arguments yet against merging satellite …
Arnaud Fischer / Search Engine Land:
The Impending Social Search Inflection Point  —  Online consumer information retrieval has reached another inflection point: A shift from pure algorithmic search to social search.  Searchers have become increasingly sophisticated, and basic algorithmic Web results are getting diluted …
Insurgent / JoshWolf.net:
Watch the Unedited Video  —  During the course of this saga I have repeatedly offered to allow a judge to be the arbiter over whether or not my video material has any evidentiary value.  Today, you the public have the opportunity to be the judge and I am confident you will see, as I do …
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
In VoIP, Cisco thinks small to go big  —  Cisco is announcing Tuesday a somewhat expected push into the small-business Voice over IP market, one that enlists resellers as key allies in the search for the ever-elusive SMB.  —  The networking king joins an SMB VoIP race that is getting considerably crowded …
 
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Drinks with Dell
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Napster, MusicNet Report Happier Numbers
Discussion: Business Week
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Google vs. Microsoft: Vying for DoubleClick
Discussion: HipMojo.com and Clickety Clack
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft sued over Windows Vista marketing
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Mobile customers interested in dual-mode service after all
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Your Guide to Online TV Guides: 10 Services Compared
Discussion: digg
Steve Bryant / NewTeeVee:
TVGuide's 'Stingray' Organizes Video Search
Discussion: GigaOM
Eric Pryne / Seattle Times:
Could Times-Hearst battle end with P-I strictly online?
Discussion: The Local Onliner
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Cameron Olthuis / Search Engine Land:
The Four Returns Of Social Media Marketing
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Bloated 17-inch MacBook Pro battery — take 2
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Microsoft Adds Xbox 360 Warranty "Enhancements"
Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
The Worst Thing a VC Can Do
Discussion: Scripting News
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge
Discussion: Slashdot
Stevie Smith / Monsters and Critics:
Google's wrist slapped for "airbrushing history"
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Compete Introduces Attention Statistics
Gizmodo:
Sprint's Treo 755p Also Comes in Maroon
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
C-SPAN's own business choices keep the network from being offered on streaming TV platforms like YouTube TV, as it stays reliant on cable and satellite funding

John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
Studies show a negativity bias in US coverage of the economy and gas prices, particularly cable news, as the tone of economic news moves away from reality

Christi Carras / Los Angeles Times:
LAist initiates a voluntary buyout program for staff to avoid layoffs as it faces a “significant budget shortfall” ranging from $4M-$5M in the next two years

 
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