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Terry Semel / Yodel Anecdotal:
Democracy and the online ad — Tonight we're announcing the acquisition of Right Media, which I believe has the potential to dramatically enhance Internet advertising. We hope to revolutionize the way ads are bought and sold on the Internet and, in turn, drive more value for advertisers, publishers, and partners.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
A new Microsoft software plus service: Silverlight Streaming — Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Microsoft's latest example of software plus service (S+S) — a new video streaming offering called Silverlight Streaming — during his opening keynote at Microsoft's Mix '07 conference on April 30.
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Charles / Channel 9:Scott Guthrie: Silverlight and the Cross-Platform CLR
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Dibya Sarkar / Associated Press:
Google nudges states to make records more accessible — WASHINGTON — By providing free consulting and some software, Google is helping state governments make reams of public records that are now unavailable or hard to find online easily accessible to Web surfers.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
eBay Launches "ToGo" Widgets For Any Listing — As you can see with the embedded Flash widget above, eBay is now letting users embed information about any listing or group of listings directly into a website. Their hope is to encourage bloggers and social network users who discuss famous listings …
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BBC:
Apple admits laptop battery issue — Apple has said that "some batteries" in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have "performance issues". — The company has issued a software update to fix the issue and has offered to replace defective batteries.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Yahoo loses VP of consumer search, to Accel Partners — Yahoo, the Sunnyvale search engine trying to stem shrinkage of its market share in search, has lost a key search executive to a venture capital firm. — Andrew Braccia quietly quit as Yahoo's vice president of consumer web search earlier this month …
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Coming Online Soon: The Five-Minute 'Charlie's Angels' — The question probably never occurred to viewers in the 1970s and 1980s, but suddenly it is highly relevant: exactly how much worthwhile entertainment content was there in shows like "Charlie's Angels," "T. J. Hooker," and "Starsky and Hutch"?
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
YouTube Launches Active Share — YouTube announced the addition of a few new features overnight. Here's a summary: — Most importantly, YouTube has added an Active Sharing feature, to let you see who's watching your video, and videos that other users are watching.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
We'd Love To Hear Your S3 Stories...And Numbers — SmugMug has told the world how much money they've saved using S3, and at the Web 2.0 Expo, Jeff Bezos told us how his aerospace company, Blue Origin spent only $304 using S3 to deliver half a million copies of the video of their test launch.
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Incentives Matter: Why Comments on Digg Are So Bad — Comparing the comments on Slashdot story Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source to the ones on the Digg story 7 Reasons Microsoft Loves OpenSource on the same topic, it seems that there is a sharp contrast in the quality of the comments posted by the users of the site.
BBC:
BBC gets TV on-demand service OK — BBC shows such as Doctor Who and EastEnders are to be made available on-demand after the BBC's iPlayer service was given the green light. — The service - which will launch later this year - allows viewers to watch programmes online for seven days after their first TV broadcast.
Nadia Cameron / InfoWorld:
Dell looks beyond direct model — In leaked internal memo, Dell CEO admits for the first time he has an interest in developing an indirect channel — Dell CEO Michael Dell has dropped his biggest hint yet that the PC vendor is looking at an indirect channel.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Got Roomfuls of Stuff? Now Sites Will Help Keep Track of It — PACK rats, shopaholic showoffs and avid collectors take note: the Internet will give you a place to track your stuff for free. One condition: you have to keep your wallet open. — At least three companies have emerged …
DigiTimes:
Xbox 360 GPU to go to 65nm in fall, TSMC to see side benefits, says paper — Sources at equipment makers were cited by a Chinese-language Commercial Times report as saying that the Xbox 360 will be equipped with a 65nm-made Xenos graphics processing unit (GPU) in the fall …
Elizabeth Olson / New York Times:
A Virtual Ad Agency for Online Radio — AS more people listen to the radio over the Internet, radio stations have been looking to generate new advertising revenue from the medium. A start-up company, TargetSpot, is trying to turn this nascent field into a viable business, and CBS Radio is its first customer.
