Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:35 AM ET, May 11, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Facebook to Offer Free Classifieds  —  Facebook, the social networking Web site, is adding free classified ad listings, putting it into competition with dozens of established companies like Craigslist and many newspapers.  —  Facebook, which has 22 million active users …
RELATED:
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Facebook Classified Ad Offering Deals Another Blow To Newspapers  —  It's sure rough trying to charge for a service that other businesses are offering for free.  Just ask any newspaper exec. With 20/20 hindsight, it seems inevitable that the web would be the perfect platform for free classified ads …
Discussion: Like It Matters
Mark Evans:
Another Blow for Newspapers?  —  Everyone knows Facebook has become a social networking phenomena but can the company's influence migrate into other areas.  We'll soon find out as Facebook is adding free classified ads.  For anyone looking to reach an audience of 22 million active users …
Discussion: Blonde 2.0 and Harold Jarche
Donna Bogatin / Digital Markets:
NOT 'Another Blow for Newspapers'  —  A "Canadian take on telecom and technology" fears a New York Times story titled "Facebook to Offer Free Classifieds" signals "Another Blow for Newspapers": … Just as the "imagery" is unfounded, so is the argument.  Here's why:
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Facebook's Starting Free Classifieds; So Is Friendster
Discussion: PR Newswire, 901am and Mashable!
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Jobs addresses backdating, environment at shareholder meeting  —  At Apple's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Thursday, Steve Jobs and other company executives heard criticism about the company's stock-options scandal and the recently announced delay of of the forthcoming Leopard version …
RELATED:
Roughly Drafted:
Answers from Steve Jobs at Apple's Shareholder Meeting  —  Those comments didn't stop Greenpeace representatives from using the meeting as an opportunity to advertise the groups anti-Apple campaign.  Among the activists sent by Greenpeace was Iza Kruszewska, one of the key architects …
Discussion: Apple 2.0, MacDailyNews and Slashdot
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple hints at video rentals through iTunes
Discussion: CrunchGear, parislemon and Digg
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
HBO Exec Wants to Rename DRM  —  People have had lots of objections to Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology — centering mainly on its clumsiness and the futility of its anti-infringement rationale — but until recently nobody had complained that the term "Digital Rights Management" was insufficiently Orwellian.
RELATED:
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Latest Idea To Fix DRM: Give It A New Name
Discussion: Epicenter
Billboard:
Exclusive: McCartney Goes Digital, Beatles 'Virtually Settled'  —  Brian Garrity, N.Y. and Paul Sexton, London  —  Paul McCartney's new album, "Memory Almost Full," will be his first solo release available for download and streaming on PCs and mobile phones.
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Vonage Says It May Have Way Around Disputed Patents (Update5)  —  Vonage Holdings Corp. said it may have technology that could rescue its Internet-phone service, after a jury found the company infringed patents that allow customers to call standard telephones.
RELATED:
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
At Vonage, Sales Increase as Litigation Clouds Future
Discussion: BloggingStocks
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch20 Conference: Caterina Fake, MC Hammer & Rajeev Motwani Join Expert Panel  —  I'm excited to announce the next three experts for the TechCrunch20 Conference in San Francisco this September.  Caterina Fake, MC Hammer and Rajeev Motwani join the previously announced experts.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Congress gets earful on net neutrality, CableCARD, YouTube from video execs  —  Ah, elected representatives, where would we be without you and your endless hearings?  —  Today's hearing of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet gathered Mark Cuban, Blake Krikorian of Sling Media …
RELATED:
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Politicos take on YouTube, video's future
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
See Who's Reading Your LinkedIn Profile  —  LinkedIn added a new feature this week called "Who's Viewed My Profile" that shows the last twenty people who've looked at your profile and the company or industry they are in.  —  In the last week, visitors to my profile included a student …
Erik Larkin / PC World:
Google Shareholders Vote Against Anti-Censorship Proposal  —  The failed shareholder proposal would have stopped Google from engaging in self-censorship.  —  A majority of Google shareholders today voted against an anti-censorship proposal that took aim at the way the search giant conducts …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Slide largest widget maker on the Web?  —  Slide, the maker of a Web slide show feature, has emerged as a major player, boasting 150 million daily slide show views and more than 200,000 new slide show "widgets" created daily.  —  These numbers are astonishing, and are enough to make it the largest …
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Orbitz, the worst IPO of 2007?  —  We're not even halfway through 2007 and I'm ready to make a nomination for worst IPO candidate of the year: Orbitz.  —  You may recall that Orbitz - the online travel site founded by five major airlines in 2000 - went public at $26 a share in 2003.
Gizmodo:
Too Loud: Kharma's $1-Million Speakers Blow a Hole in Everything  —  Kharma's $1-Million Speakers Blow a Hole in Everything  —  There is spending a lot of money on your sound system at home.  And there are expensive speakers.  And then there is Grand Enigma, from Kharma (I think the H signifies "H-H-H-How much?").
Discussion: Ubergizmo and Gadget Lab
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 11:35 AM ET, May 11, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Tribe AI:
Is AI just hype?  —  Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
Authy killed their desktop apps.  Time to switch to a reliable authenticator.  Time to switch to Zoho OneAuth.  —  Twilio's Authy recently announced end of life (EOL) for their desktop apps on March 19, 2024—five months ahead of schedule.
Comprehensive.io:
Browse salary data from 3,000 startups for free  —  Click for FREE, immediate access to real-time compensation benchmarking data.  Paid version helps HR automate comp reviews and communicate total compensation to employees.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
eMarketer:
Online Ad Spending Up in UK
Discussion: MarketingVOX and BizReport
Business Week:
Municipal Wi-Fi: A Failure To Communicate
Discussion: IP Democracy
Debra Sherman / Reuters:
iPods can make pacemakers malfunction: study
Joe Leo / PBCentral.com:
Apple Store mini: Now Open at a Best Buy Store Near You
DesktopLinux.com:
Red Hat shows its Global Desktop cards
Discussion: Compiler
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
From Intel and A.M.D., Rival Boasts of Technology
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Famous Landmarks Get the Flickr Treatment in Yahoo! Search
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Top 5 TiVo Hacks (for non-hackers)
Discussion: Gizmodo, flashpoint and digg
 Earlier Items: 
Chris Pirillo:
New Live Video Stream Interface
Mike Gunderloy / Web Worker Daily:
OPENTEAMS OFFERS WIKIS WITH STRUCTURE
Discussion: Office Tweaks
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
IBM unveils energy efficiency plan
Discussion: GigaOM and ZDNet
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
IRS Leans On Auction Sites to Spill Customer Information
Peter Cohen / PC World:
iPod, iTunes Cited in Cease and Desist For Apple
Discussion: Techdirt
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Perspective: Why I love patents and copyrights
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Japanese vending machine offers free drinks for watching ads
Matt / Photo Matt:
Meaningful Overnight Relationship
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
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

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page