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3:50 AM ET, April 16, 2007

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Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Microsoft Aims to Outshine Adobe's Flash  —  In a bid to capitalize on the burgeoning online video market, the tech titan is launching Silverlight, its new video-player software  —  The explosion of Web video has opened a new front in the battle between Adobe Systems (ADBE) and Microsoft …
Discussion: CNET News.com and paidContent.org
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Adobe Showcases Media Player (with DRM)  —  Adobe will unveil Monday its business plan for a desktop Flash media player still in development.  The product, due for beta release "this spring," will be a free platform monetized through licensing DRM and analytics tools.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Microsoft Unveils New Browser-Based Video Platform at NAB in Las Vegas — Major League Baseball, Netflix and Brightcove will use Silverlight  —  We've been reporting on developments with Microsoft's new online video platform which had been called Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E).
Discussion: Scobleizer
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Adobe to take Flash videos to desktop
Discussion: StartupSquad.com
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Flash Player 9 has 84.3% penetration as of March
Discussion: JD on EP
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft Urges Review of Google-DoubleClick Deal  —  Microsoft, a veteran defendant of epic antitrust battles in the United States and Europe, is urging regulators to consider scuttling Google's plan to buy DoubleClick, an online advertising company.  —  Microsoft contends that the $3.1 billion deal …
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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Google's DoubleClick bid draws complaints
Discussion: paidContent.org and ChasNote
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:   Yahoo, Microsoft and AT&T Sour Grapes in Google, DoubleClick Deal
Tims / Tim Sneath:
INTRODUCING MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT  —  It is with tremendous pleasure that I can reveal Microsoft Silverlight: our next-generation, cross-platform, cross-browser web client runtime.  Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences on the web.
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Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
"WPF/E" becomes Silverlight, struts its video side  —  At the NAB conference this morning, Microsoft is giving us a first glimpse at Silverlight, the artist formerly known as "WPF/E".  Because the announcement comes from the NAB conference, but also because it's one of Silverlights major strong points …
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb
Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Silverlight to Power the Next Generation of Media Experiences on the Web  —  Leading media companies and solution providers announce support for new solution for video and interactivity on Mac- and Windows-based Web browsers.  —  Today at the 2007 National Association …
Discussion: MSTechToday
Duncan J. Watts / New York Times:
Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage?  —  As anyone who follows the business of culture is aware, the profits of cultural industries depend disproportionately on the occasional outsize success — a blockbuster movie, a best-selling book or a superstar artist — to offset the many investments that fail dismally.
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:   The Matthew Effect in Social Networks
Krucoff / Young Manhattanite:
YM Exclusive: Dodgeball Founders Leave Google  —  Getting Out of Dodge.  Dennis Crowley, founder of the mobile social networking service Dodgeball, and Alex Rainert resigned from their positions at Google, which acquired the service in May 2005, effective Friday April 13th.
Discussion: GigaOM, Valleywag and Digital Markets
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kottke.org:   - Dodgeball founders leave Google and that leaves Dodgeball probably dead.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
$100 Million Valuation For Geni  —  Seven week old Geni raised a $10 million second round of financing last week, led by Charles River Ventures (see our coverage of CRV here), with a post-money valuation of $100 million.  George Zachary from CRV is joining the Geni board of directors.
Discussion: Futuristic Play
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fotowoosh Will Turn Any Picture Into 3D Image  —  Fotowoosh Will Turn Any Picture Into A 3D Image  —  Fotowoosh, a new service from Maryland-based startup Freewebs, will turn any image (preferably an outdoor image) into a 3D model.  They went live on Friday.
Discussion: digg
New York Times:
Google Reaches Deal With Clear Channel to Sell Radio Ads  —  Google will begin selling advertisements across all of the stations of Clear Channel Communications, the No. 1 radio station owner in the United States, at the end of June, the companies will announce today.
Discussion: The Great Seduction
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
HOW WELL DOES OPEN SOURCE CURRENTLY MEET THE NEEDS OF SHAREHOLDERS AND CEO'S?  —  ["Science Project": part of the Microsoft Blue Monster Series.  Backstory from Steve and Kris etc.]  —  This cartoon was an attempt by me to sum up the answer to a very simple question: If Open Source software is free …
Sid Yadav / rev2.org:
Ustream.tv Enables Mass Live Streaming Through Webcam  —  Ever since Justin started reinventing The Truman Show on the Internet and broadcasting his everyday life for all to see, a bulb has been lit among many.  Ustream.tv, which launched very recently, is one that is, you could say a live version …
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Gallery: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard build 9A410  —  Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard build 9A410 to third-party developers late last week arrived on the heals of the company's announcement that Leopard's release would be delayed until October.  —  In two days of testing the build …
Discussion: Engadget
Jay Palmer / Barron's Online:
High-Wired Act  —  YOU HAVE TO GET UP PRETTY EARLY in the morning to stay on top of the Internet.  The number of active Websites has exploded fivefold since 2001, to about 50 million, led by the likes of MySpace and YouTube.  That's to say nothing of the 75 million blogs …
Discussion: Paul Kedrosky's …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube Obeys Fake Takedown Request From 15 Year Old  —  Hello, Digg users.  You can subscribe to the RSS feed here.  Also check out the Digg-related article, Is Digg the Result of Cumulative Advantage?  —  Want a video removed from YouTube?  Send along a fake takedown notice pretending to be from the copyright holder.
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Google Blogoscoped:
YouTube Obeys Teen Prankster
Discussion: Chuqui 3.0 and Mashable!
 
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Ariel Leve / Times of London:
Phone rivals threaten to spoil iPod's party
Darren Murph / Engadget Mobile:
Cellphones are dangerous/not dangerous, bee killing edition
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:
Surprises @ Web 2.0 Expo
Discussion: Marketing Nirvana
David Weinberger / Joho the Blog:
How do you get to blogs  —  From a press release about a study …
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 Earlier Items: 
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
eMachines updates line with new desktops, displays
Discussion: Gadgetell
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is Microsoft bidding up acquisitions on purpose?
Discussion: Digital Markets
echannelline.com:
Telco equipment spending for 2007 to be low
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple keynote: live from NAB 2007
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft and DoubleClick: What if Redmond wanted to lose?
Discussion: alarm:clock
Bruno Giussani / Lunch over IP:
"Don't speak.  Point!"  - Three ingredients of the future of journalism
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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