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5:00 PM ET, May 10, 2007

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Business Wire:
Joost Closes $45 Million in Financing  —  Leading Venture Capital Firms and Content Owners Support Joost's Global Expansion  —  Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CBS Corporation and Viacom Participate in Round  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Joost&trade …
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Skype founders raise $45m in Joost funding
Stace / Unwired View:
NEXT GEN IPOD AND IPHONE NANO: FULL SCREEN WITH TOUCHPANEL AT THE BOTTOM  —  With introduction of an iPhone, Apple opened our eyes to the possibilities of full screen touch interfaces.  But such interfaces have one drawback - there's a limit how small you can make it.
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Gizmodo:
Apple: Next Gen iPod Patent Has "Touch Surface" On Back  —  The newest iPod patent says that the "touch" and the "screen" don't have to go together.  The next gen iPod will have a normal display covering the front, and a separate touch surface on the back.  Here's how it'll work.
Discussion: Apple Gazette
EE Times:
Xuuk's eye-counting technology mimics Google  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — Xuuk Inc. has unveiled an eye-counting video camera that could enable the highly successful Google business model to be extended online to brick-and-mortar advertisers.  —  Using its PageRank technology, Google (Mountain View …
Discussion: Gadget Lab and InsideGoogle
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Tom Simonite / NewScientistTech:   Tracking billboards could give you the eyeball
Nilay Patel / Engadget:   Google's EyeBox counts eyes in public
Paul Conley / paulconley:
All's well that ends well  —  I like a happy ending.  —  Harry McCracken has been reinstated as editor of PC World.  And that should please everyone at PC World, parent company IDG and the journalism world in general.  —  If you haven't been following the story, you can read coverage from CNET.
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Nokia:
Nokia becomes the first phone maker to add energy saving alerts to mobiles  —  Espoo, Finland - Nokia has launched the first mobile phones to include alerts encouraging people to unplug the charger once the battery is full, a move that could save enough electricity to power 85,000 homes a year.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kevin 'Digg' Rose goes for 3rd startup  —  First Digg, then the online video network, Revision 3 and now another start-up!  —  Business Week poster boy Kevin Rose is rumored to have teamed up with Daniel Burka also of Digg, and first time entrepreneur Leah Culver and has started a new company.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Zune to get wireless downloads, version 2 hardware, flash player  —  Sometimes you can never know for sure, but we've got some pretty convincing material from a Zune source which shows a beta build of firmware v1.4 (shown as 2.1.4, perhaps as an internal designation).
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Widget mania run amok?  —  For past few days there has been an amazing amount of chatter about widgets - which are transforming themselves into advertising widgets, billboards and what not.  Earlier today, for instance Mpire introduced shopping widgets that tap into say eBay and Amazon, and let you sell goods via Mpire widgets.
Discussion: Online Media Cultist
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David Lenehan / Read/WriteWeb:   World Wide Web of Widgets
Mike Neil / TechNet Blogs:
Viridian features update; beta planned for Longhorn RTM  —  Here we are on the eve of WinHEC 2007.  This show is always a fun industry event for me to engage with a broad spectrum of partners.  Perhaps none better than last year, when we demo'd Windows Server virtualization (codename Viridian) …
Intel:
Intel Capital Kicks Off Annual CEO Summit; Announces Six New Global Investments  —  Deals Covering U.S., China and Israel Total $31 Million  —  Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corporation, kicked off its eighth annual CEO Summit today with the announcement of six investments totaling $31 million.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories:
Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar  —  In February we gave a sneak preview of our project to construct a home-built three dimensional fabricator.  Our design goals were (1) a low cost design leveraging recycled components (2) large printable volume emphasized …
Discussion: Engadget, MAKE Magazine, Neatorama and digg
Harrison Hoffman / LiveSide:
How to launch a cool product: Marketing with silly videos  —  Making silly web videos to promote the launch of your product is all the rage at Microsoft these days, so of course the worldwide launch of Windows Live Hotmail, this week, also saw the launch of a self-described "viral" (see the url) ad campaign.
John Walko / EE Times:
E Ink displays upgraded imaging film technology  —  LONDON — Electronic paper display technology specialist E Ink Corporation has developed an imaging film that offers higher performance switching speed, peak switch speed and brightness than its existing electronic ink.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Gadget Lab and Engadget
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo hires economics, sociology researchers  —  Yahoo is hiring two scientists in the areas of economics and sociology to head up its research in online markets and social networks, the company is expected to announce Thursday.  —  R. Preston McAfee, the J. Stanley Johnson professor of business …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Samwers bankrolled Facebook clone, now Twitter clone  —  The Samwer brothers, the well-known European trio of entrepreneurs, have invested in Frazr, an exact duplicate of Twitter.  —  They have thus embarked on a reputation of backing blatant rip-offs of successful U.S. companies.
Discussion: Valleywag and Harold Jarche
Fred / A VC:
(Over) Counting Widgets  —  I got an email from a friend the other day.  —  "Did you see that Clearspring has served 3bn widgets in the past five months?"  —  I hadn't actually seen that news, but here is the press release my friend was referring to.  It's clearly an impressive number …
 
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Vonage it keeps getting worse
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Macworld UK:
iTunes income substantial for music partners
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Image Labeler Is More Exciting
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Your advice: Should I debate?  —  Andrew Keen and his publisher …
Discussion: Scobleizer
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Thoughts on Mozilla  —  Spurred by a conversation I had today …
Discussion: Anne 2.1
Smashing Magazine:
70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding
Discussion: DailyTechRag and digg
Valleywag:
Wild Prognostication: The future's five enemies (and how to beat them)
Discussion: Gadget Lab
Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
Movie Keystroke Cops
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Ars Technica:
Intel readies flexible displays, gets new patent
BBC:
Back to the future for Lara Croft
Zephoria / apophenia:
quality of Google searches?
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Bookmark, Copy, Note and Share: SharedCopy.com
Dale Nardozzi / previews.teamxbox.com:
First Look at Crackdown Downloadables (Xbox 360)
Robin Linden / Official Linden Blog:
Accusations Regarding Child Pornography in Second Life
BBC:
Sounds bring Google Earth to life
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Odeo Acquired By SonicMountain
 

 
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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”

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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