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Neil Patel / Pronet Advertising:
Digg is Censoring Content by Burying Stories Internally — We all know that the main reason why stories don't hit the Digg homepage is because they get buried. Some say the buries are caused by specific Digg users who have it out for us while others just blame it on the content saying it wasn't Digg worthy.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Censorship Issues Continue for Digg — It's been almost two weeks since the latest Digg fiacso. Quick review: stories with HD-DVD encryption codes being censored, Diggers strike back by creating, posting and digging new stories with the codes, Digg's Kevin Rose conceded.
Associated Press:
Military puts MySpace, other sites off limits … DENVER, Colorado (AP) — Soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a Department of Defense policy that a high-ranking Army official said would take effect Monday.
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Business Wire:
Forrester: No Future For Paid Video Downloads — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The paid video download market is a dead end, according to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester estimates that paid video downloads will peak in 2007, generating $279 million in revenue, up from $98 million last year.
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nrf.com, NewTeeVee, BetaNews, Valleywag, Podcasting News, paidContent.org, MacUser, Paul Colligan's …, Playlist, Todd Watson, HipMojo.com and A View on View
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Kenneth Li / Reuters:iTunes-like video services have no future: study
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IP Democracy, broadstuff, Deep Jive Interests, Smalltalk Tidbits …, TechSpot News and Slashdot
The Boy Genius Report:
AT&T iPhone not to be pre-sold — If you have not been able to get your iPhone fix as of lately, this might help hold you over. According to an internal document from AT&T, the Apple iPhone has "advanced software 5 years ahead of any phone". But you already knew that.
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John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Microsoft delves further into manufacturing with Zune plant — Software giant hopes new factory, designs will help player compete with iPod … SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Microsoft Corp., a colossus built on software, is making a new push in hardware manufacturing by building a factory in China to produce its Zune media player.
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Rupert Murdoch / Wall Street Journal:
Text of Murdoch Letter to Bancrofts — Below is the text of a letter sent by News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch to members of the Bancroft Family, concerning his $5 billion offer for Dow Jones & Co. — Ladies and Gentlemen: — Please allow me the opportunity with this letter to address …
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Michael Totty / Wall Street Journal:
How to Be a Star in a YouTube World — What it takes to stand out when anyone can be an entertainer — There are millions of people trying to get noticed on the Web, with everything from blogs to podcasts to videos. So with the huge glut of material out there, how do amateurs get attention …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:A (FORMER) YOUTUBE STAR'S RANT: WE'LL GO IT ALONE, THANKS
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Things Sure Are Quiet At MySpace News — When the largest site on the Internet announced their new MySpace News service, people expected it to get at least some traction, quickly. But a month later, as former TechCrunch writer Marshall Kirkpatrick noted in Twitter today, the site appears to be nothing more than a ghost town.
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Dion Almaer / Google Code:
Introducing the Google Developer Podcast — A fair few Googlers enjoy creating podcasts, and a large number choose to participate in the medium as listeners. — I have really enjoyed creating Audible Ajax, as it gives me a way to get close to the community.
Eddie Hargreaves / The Apple Blog:
10 Biggest Apple Rumors (that never came true) — With Apple rumors getting spread further around than ever (and regular coverage from national news media), it's important to remember that many (most?) tend to be either completely untrue or so premature they never come true.
Angus Kidman / ITWire:
Facing the full horror of Windows Vista — So far, Transit has been using Vista Business full-time for a fortnight. And so far, we've found nothing that works better than in Windows XP, dozens of things that are annoyingly different without being a functional improvement …
Grant Gross / InfoWorld:
U.S. piracy crackdown nets 50th conviction — (InfoWorld) - A U.S. Department of Justice crackdown on online piracy has recorded its 50th felony conviction, the agency announced. — Christopher E. Eaves, 31, of Iowa Park, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Meebo Launches Meebo Rooms (oh, and Meebo now has ads) — Web based instant messaging provider Meebo will launch Meebo Rooms tonight. Like MeeboMe, which allows users to embed a widget on a website where visitors can chat with the publishers, this is a significant new product that will appeal to new set of users.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Why does Google retain data? Because nonexistent laws tell it to — Google wants to know what you search for, and plenty of people have wondered why. The company's global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, recently posted an explanation to this question of Google's official blog …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
I would pay for Twitter.com — At this point I'm offering $100 a year for a premium account on Twitter. By premium I mean a dedicated server that is independent of the free cluster of servers, and that has an SLA of 99.99999% or something to that effect. Also, I'd pay for more features and better speed.
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