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12:25 PM ET, April 19, 2007

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: MySpace News Launches Thursday  —  On Thursday morning MySpace will launch its much rumored news property at news.myspace.com.  Expect the site to go live and a press release to be issued around 7 am EST.  —  The news property is built on Newroo technology, a company they acquired in early 2006 for a rumored $7 million.
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Times of London:
MySpace takes on Google News and Digg  —  MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure.  —  This approach blends elements of Google News and sites such as Digg and Netscape …
Joseph Menn / Los Angeles Times:
MySpace visitors to vote on what's news  —  Leave it to the folks behind "American Idol" to ask tens of millions of MySpace visitors to vote for their favorite news story.  —  News Corp., which owns the world's top social-networking website as well as the Fox television network …
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
MySpace to test news service to boost ad revenue
Discussion: Gizmodo
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Back to basics  —  Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User Experience, and Jeff Bartelma, Product Manager, Google Product Search (the product formerly known as Froogle :) )  —  Today, we're making some changes to how we help users find things to buy.  You may be familiar with our product Froogle (a pun on "frugal").
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experiangroup.com:
Acquisition of Hitwise  —  Experian, the global information solutions company, announces that it has acquired Hitwise, a leading Internet marketing intelligence company, which helps clients monitor the performance of their websites and target their online advertising spend more effectively.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Hitwise Acquired by Experian for $240 Million
Discussion: TechFold and ben barren
Ubuntu Releases:
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)  —  Select an image  —  Ubuntu is distributed on three types of images described below.  —  Desktop CD  —  The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later.  This type of CD is what most people will want to use.
Discussion: Compiler, Lifehacker, Boing Boing and digg
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Found Footage: Apple TV Plugin Loader  —  AwkwardTV has just posted this video demonstrating a new Apple TV 'meta plug-in' that retrieves and installs other plug-ins from around the net.  Developer Alan_Quartermain built this brilliant tool that displays a list of third party items …
Discussion: Apple Gazette and UNEASYsilence
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
EBay Profit Climbs 52 Percent  —  EBay posted better-than-expected profit in the first quarter as several of its newer businesses compensated for disappointing results in its mainstay auction service.  —  The faster-growing units include shopping.com, a price comparison site …
Discussion: WebProNews and AppScout
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Reuters:
eBay beats profit estimates, raises outlook
Sean Ammirati / Read/WriteWeb:
Web 2.0 Expo: All Things Widgets  —  Yesterday afternoon the Web 2.0 Expo included two sessions on widgets.  The first was a presentation by Dion Hinchcliffe, which provided an Overview of Badges and Widgets.  Immediately following that session, two widget syndication companies provided …
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Read/WriteWeb:   Widgetsphere: New Playground For Marketers
Mr Blog:
Fring is technically impressive, but I'm still wondering about its utility  —  I have mentioned Fring a few times before.  The most recent post left it that I had not been able to complete the setup because I never received the SMS from Fring on my phone.  —  I sat down with Boaz Zilberman …
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
How Security Companies Sucker Us With Lemons  —  More than a year ago, I wrote about the increasing risks of data loss because more and more data fits in smaller and smaller packages.  Today I use a 4-GB USB memory stick for backup while I am traveling.  I like the convenience, but if I lose the tiny thing I risk all my data.
Discussion: Slashdot
Reuters:
iPhone on target for end of June launch, AT&T says  —  BOSTON (Reuters) - The iPhone, Apple Inc.'s first mobile handset, is on schedule to hit the U.S. market at the end of June, a senior executive with AT&T Inc. said on Wednesday.  —  AT&T's wireless unit has an exclusive U.S. deal to sell the highly anticipated new handset.
Discussion: Infinite Loop and MacUser
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Vista, IE7 help Microsoft boost search market share  —  In a rare bit of good news for Microsoft on the search front, web metrics firm comScore reported that for the month of March, Microsoft's search engines saw their first market share increase in nearly a year.
Discussion: Neowin.net
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
The Blog is the New Resume  —  Bokardoan Adam Darowski suggests that the blog is the new resume.  I think he's absolutely right...whenever anyone wants to know anything about me I send them here.  —  This immediately brings several things to bear:  — Your blog represents you.  —  Represent!
TalkBMC - opensville:
Welcome to Opensville, Population Zero  —  At conferences I'm often asked, "What is the state of open source?"  I usually toss out some variation of my "Opensville" analogy.  Today I thought I'd elaborate on the analogy in my first TalkBMC post.  —  Nestled between Proprietary and Freedomberg, Opensville is a utopia.
Discussion: Open Source and digg
Glenn Wolsey:
Interview: Will Friedwald, Owner Of The Worlds Largest iTunes Collection  —  Will Friedwald proclaims he has the world largest iTunes collection.  An avid listener to Jazz music, and a writer for the New York Sun, Will spends his days in front of his Power Mac G5 running "The Maxtix", his mammoth 200,000 track iTunes library.
 
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Mike / Techdirt:
Trent Reznor: CD Outdated... But If We Have To Sell It, Why Not Make It Cool?
Joe / Techdirt:
Are Supporters Of Net Neutrality Really Just Supporters Of Music Piracy?
Internal Revenue Service:
Taxpayers, Tax Professionals with TurboTax Problems Have Until …
Discussion: RSS, WebProNews and Rough Type
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
Valve's Steam service hacked, credit card information obtained
David Pescovitz / Boing Boing:
Steampunk Telegraph Sounder for RSS
Paul Miller / Engadget:
SimpleTech announces 512GB and 256GB 3.5-inch SSD drives
Discussion: Gadget Lab
Pew Internet:
Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks: How teens manage …
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Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
Skype financials: a few more notes on the data
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Zude May Be A Better Netvibes
Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:
Media mine Web searches for readers
BBC:
Blackberry says system restored
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
SAY GOODBYE TO THE PAGE VIEW AS AN AD METRIC
Discussion: WebProNews and Liberate Media
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Vlogging comes to mass murder
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Rains On StumbleUpon Parade: Launches Direct Competitor
 

 
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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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