Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
6:50 AM ET, May 14, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Roger Parloff / Fortune:
Microsoft takes on the free world  —  Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents.  It wants royalties from distributors and users.  Users like you, maybe.  Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.
RELATED:
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents
Discussion: Neowin.net
Jason / Ask The VC:   Microsoft - The New Destructor of Innovation
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:   Microsoft about to enter into patent war?
Jossip:
CBS News Acquiring Wallstrip, New Headache in Eeking Out Online Profits  —  Wallstrip - the Wall Street web video program featuring Lindsay Campbell trying to make the Nasdaq hilarious - is being snapped up by CBS News, we're told, for something in the $5 million range.
RELATED:
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
CBS Acquires WallStrip for $5 million  —  Jossip is reporting that corporate focused video blog WallStrip has been acquired by CBS News for $5 million.  The report states that an announcement is expected early this week and involves WallStrip host Lindsay Campbell being the next Amanda Congdon for CBS, fronting online shows.
Discussion: ben barren and duncanriley.com
David Dalka:
MyBlogLog to Rebrand and Make Significant Changes  —  At SOBcon yesterday in Chicago, Robyn Tippins, who was recently hired as the MyBlogLog community manager, spoke about several major upcoming changes with MyBlogLog.  —  There are several changes in the works:
RELATED:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo To Finally Upgrade MyBlogLog  —  MyBlogLog, the ubiquitous blog widget that shows pictures of recent visitors to a site, was one of the "instant" success stories of 2006 - Yahoo acquired the company before most people even had a chance to hear about it.  —  Like many blogs, we had the MyBlogLog widget on TechCrunch for months.
Discussion: Library clips
Duncan / duncanriley.com:   Yahoo and MyBlogLog: too little, too late
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Video Ad Firm Adap.tv Launches to Serve Direct Response Advertisers  —  Unlike most Web advertising, video is usually considered a venue for brand advertisers, but just-launched video ad platform Adap.tv aims to give direct-response advertisers a place in video content.
Discussion: alarm:clock and Mashable!
RELATED:
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Contextual Overlay Advertising in Online Video is Here: Metacafe to Debut Format Today — YouTube Appears to be Testing It  —  Amir Ashkenazi, one of the founders of shopping.com which was sold to eBay, has just launched adapt.tv It is a new kind of advertising network that places advertising …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
The Age:
First A4 colour e-paper unfurled  —  The world's first A4-sized colour electronic-paper - a paper-thin and bendable viewing panel, produced LCD.  —  South Korea's LG Philips LCD has developed the world's first A4-sized colour electronic-paper - a paper-thin and bendable viewing panel.
Gizmodo:
BRING ON THE DIGG MOBS  —  Ambient TV Brings Web 2.0, Derision of Your Friends' Viewing Habits to TV  —  Oh, these NYU kids and their big ideas.  (Disclosure: I was an NYU kid until Thursday.)  Myra Einstein's project, Ambient TV, aims to bring Web 2. tech to TV and would make a great add …
Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog  —  Jonathan Coulton sat in Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn, his Apple PowerBook open before him, and began slogging through the day's e-mail.  Coulton is 36 and shaggily handsome.  In September 2005, he quit his job as a computer programmer and …
Discussion: 43 Folders, robhyndman.com and Coolfer
Drew / Dembot:
+ Why do Video Platforms Fail?  —  In online video, there is big interest in the entry point, the place where people go to discover and watch video and ultimately where payment is made, one way or another, for the watching.  For some incredible reason that I can not fathom …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
We need better statistics...  Almost every entrepreneur I talk to lately whines privately about the stats they see on places like Compete.com, Comscore, and Alexa.  Today Tom Conrad of Pandora told me that they are extremely low.  He says his service requires registration …
RELATED:
Marshall Sponder / WebMetricsGuru:
Second Life Key Metrics - April 2007
Discussion: Conversion Rater
Skrentablog:
Give Hammer a break  —  The collective response to Michael Arrington including MC Hammer on his TechCrunch 20 review panel is pretty lame, IMO.  —  Commenters should keep in mind that this is a real guy they're talking about.  Have some friggin courtesy.  I've actually met the guy at a party …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Memorex finally goes color with MMP8640 4GB DAP  —  Apple, Creative, Microsoft, SanDisk, and Sony would like to officially welcome Memorex into the 21st Century, as the jack-of-all trades manufacturer has finally discovered that monochrome displays are totally played, introducing its first digital audio player to feature a color screen.
Discussion: CNET News.com
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Enterprise RSS - 3 Major Vendors Show The Way  —  Forrester has just released a new report on Enterprise RSS.  Specifically it tackles the issue of information overload in the corporate environment, now that RSS feeds are an important source of information in the workplace.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AllFreeCalls Back From DeadPool, Now Called Yak4Ever  —  AllFreeCalls Back From DeadPool, Free Calls Are Here Again  —  When AllFreeCalls shut down in February as a result of litigation, most people thought it was gone for good.  The service, which allows people to call overseas for free …
RELATED:
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 6:50 AM ET, May 14, 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: 
Ken / Digital Common Sense:
Evolving thoughts on the Nokia N-series
Eric Miraglia / Yahoo! User Interface Blog:
YUI Theater — David Weinberger in Conversation with Bradley Horowitz
Discussion: WeBreakStuff
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Swedish Game Site Power Challenge Raises $8 Million From Benchmark Capital
ongoing:
Lightroom and Open Source
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
BarCampPortland and Pibb
Brooks Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
NBC Puts 'Law & Order' on Cable First
Discussion: Lost Remote
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Techmeme's Gabe Rivera Reveals His Secret Sauce in Rare TV Interview …
 Earlier Items: 
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
RFID being tapped to stifle exam cheaters
Discussion: The RFID Weblog
Doreen Carvajal / New York Times:
Music Radio on the Internet Faces Thorny Royalty Issues
Louise Story / New York Times:
Novelties: A Diet, Oddly Bland, of Continuous Images and Chat
Valleywag:
Wedding Announcements: Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Mashup litmus test for Web 2.0 start-ups
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Found Footage: AT&T's Stan Sigman gifts iPhone at West Texas A&M
 

 
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”

Sam Wolfson / The Guardian:
A look at the rise of celebrity-hosted interview podcasts, whose long running times mean guests delve into deep and personal topics, resembling therapy sessions

 
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