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12:20 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 …
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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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search!  —  Back in December 2002, Google launched its long expected product and shopping search engine.  It was called Froogle, a combination of "frugal" and "Google."  Just over four years later, Froogle is finally losing its cutesy name for something …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Goodbye Froogle  —  Froogle has been renamed "Google Product Search" …
Discussion: John Furrier
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Commitment to Promote Sustained Social and Economic Opportunity for the Next 5 Billion People  —  Company unveils affordable education suite for young people in developing nations and announces plans for 90 new Innovation Centers to promote local software ecosystems.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft aims to reach next billion PC users  —  Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost bundle of Office and Windows, one of several new initiatives aimed at getting PCs into the hands of more people in emerging markets.
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
Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:
Media mine Web searches for readers  —  If you Googled "Virginia Tech shooting" or "Virginia shooting" this week, the Internet search engine served up dozens of links to news about the university massacre.  Yet some media outlets weren't taking the chance of missing readers' attention by being bumped down the list.
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
VA Tech Tragedy Response Reveals Force of Web
Discussion: MediaVidea and CostPerNews
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 …
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!
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Zude May Be A Better Netvibes  —  Since the dawn of the Web, startups have promised users a quick and easy way to create a presence online.  With the advent of "cross-domain drag and drop" technology from a new company called Zude, CEO Jim McNeil believes everyone from MySpace addicts …
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.
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Hitwise Acquired by Experian for $240 Million  —  All of those great charts that Hitwise so freely provide us, have paid off big time for the web intelligence company.  Information services provider Experian has announced their cash purchase of Hitwise for $240 million.
 
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Hitachi aims high with forthcoming 85-inch plasma HDTV
Discussion: Gadget Lab
Vicky Taylor / BBC NEWS:
More of your say  —  If you visit the Have Your Say message boards …
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
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Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
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 Earlier Items: 
ZDNet:
Web 2.0 less participatory than assumed
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
Guy Kawasaki / How to Change the World:
The Essence of Duct Tape Marketing
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Gartner: Mac Sales Grew 30% in 1st Q
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Vlogging comes to mass murder
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Rains On StumbleUpon Parade: Launches Direct Competitor
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
A Hack for Europe!