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11:55 AM ET, June 11, 2007

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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Why I disagree with Privacy International  —  Sigh.  Google as a company takes privacy very seriously.  I personally feel strongly about protecting our users' privacy.  So I'm frustrated by a recent study that Privacy International did, and I want to know if I'm off-base in my reaction.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Bad On Privacy?  Maybe It's Privacy International's Report That Sucks  —  It's a bad privacy day for Google, with Privacy International first accusing the company of having the worst privacy performance of any internet service company in a study it has just released and then accusing Google …
BBC:
Google ranked 'worst' on privacy  —  Google has the worst privacy policy of popular net firms, says a report.  —  Rights group Privacy International rated the search giant as "hostile" to privacy in a report ranking web firms by how they handle personal data.
Discussion: Profy.Com
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:   Google is WRONG On Consumer Privacy
DailyTechTalk:
Exact Keynote Transcript for WWDC07 [UPDATED]  —  In a last minute find, I happened across a German site that has an outline of tomorrow's play by play of Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote.  The text has some issues when I performed the translation but I've copied it in the "Full Story" section and made some changes to make it easier to read.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's .Mac getting a Google overhaul?  —  Man, is there a Steve Jobs keynote today or something?  Oh, right, the WWDC hype machine is in town.  As such, we've got another tasty rumor to tide you over until things kick off later today.  MacScoop has it that Apple's .Mac is about to get a helpful hand …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
What Does Apple's Steve Jobs Have Up His Sleeve?  —  Apple's (AAPL) annual world wide developers conference opens this morning at San Francisco's Moscone West center and the town is abuzz with speculation about what secrets Steve Jobs will reveal in the keynote speech scheduled to start at 10 a.m. PT.
Wall Street Journal:
Apple Seeks a Deal to Make Movies Available for Rent Via iTunes Service  —  Apple Inc. is in talks with the Hollywood studios to make new movies available for rental for its iTunes service, according to two studio executives familiar with the matter.  —  The rental service is being pitched aggressively …
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Los Angeles Times:
Movie studios fear the sequel to iPod  —  They see risk that new Apple TV signals effort to control distribution.  —  Some movie fans hope Apple TV will do for Internet video what the iPod did for digital music.  —  That's precisely what some Hollywood executives are afraid of.
Discussion: IP Democracy
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Hollywood studios in video talks with Apple
Om Malik / GigaOM:   Apple plots a DVD player for the broadband era
Wall Street Journal:
GE, Microsoft Discussed Buying Dow Jones  —  General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp. were in discussions in recent weeks to combine Dow Jones & Co. with some portions of GE's NBC Universal, parrying a bid by News Corp., but the two sides couldn't reach an agreement, according to people briefed on the discussions.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
NBC Studied Dow Jones Bid With Microsoft  —  General Electric's NBC unit and Microsoft explored making a joint bid for Dow Jones but decided against it a week ago, a person close to NBC and Microsoft said yesterday.  —  No rival has yet stepped up to compete with Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid …
Discussion: BloggingStocks and parislemon
ComputerworldUK:
Bookings.com opts for open source MySQL database  —  Scalebale system incorporates up to 20 database servers  —  Europe's largest online hotel reservation site Booking.com has selected the MySQL open source database to process tens of thousands of online bookings a day.
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Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:   Doubt no more than mySQL is enterprise class
Adobe Labs:
Adobe Flex  —  Adobe® Flex™ 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems.  —  This page provides a summary of the Flex-related prerelease products, experimental technologies …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Court Tells TorrentSpy It Needs To Spy On Users  —  from the but-why?  dept  —  Popular BitTorrent search engine TorrentSpy was told by a federal judge on May 29th that it needed to keep log files of user activity on its site, even if there was no business reason for it.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:   MPAA accuses TorrentSpy of concealing evidence
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
Me.dium Secures $15M Series B - The Dawn of Collaborative Browsing?  —  Colorado-based Me.dium is announcing today a $15M Series B round led by Commonwealth Venture Partners.  Me.dium is developing a next-generation collaborative browsing technology that dynamically combines visualization and chat.
Discussion: Feld Thoughts and VentureBeat
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Phil Butler / Profy.Com:   Me.dium Awarded $15 Million in Series B
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Hollywood's YouTube frustration grows  —  news analysis Google and its YouTube subsidiary are trying Hollywood's patience.  —  The search engine has made significant progress in recent weeks signing content partnership deals for YouTube.  But a growing number of studio executives …
CNN:
Church wants cash for 'sick' game … LONDON, England (CNN) — Entertainment giant Sony has been branded irresponsible for using a cathedral from a city plagued by gun crime in a violent video game.  —  The Church of England says the company did not seek permission to use the Manchester Cathedral …
Discussion: CrunchGear and GamePolitics.com
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Wi-Fi memory cards coming to cameras  —  Think of it as point, shoot and post.  —  In the fall, start-up Eye-Fi plans to release Secure Digital memory cards with integrated Wi-Fi chips.  With the card, digital cameras will be able to automatically send photos to home PCs or to photo-sharing Web sites.
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and Vecosys
Lia Miller / New York Times:
An Editor's Untimely Departure Is Captured in Just a Flicker  —  Call it a bit of a "video killed the radio star" moment, circa 2007: John Curley, who had been a deputy managing editor of The San Francisco Chronicle, announced that he was let go from the newspaper by posting the news on Flickr, the photo-sharing Web site.
 
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Dikky Sinn / Associated Press:
Yahoo weighs in on free speech in China
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
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D.R / Akihabaranews.com:
Anybody Down for A Yellow DS Lite?
Discussion: CNET News.com and Gizmodo
Steve McClellan / Adweek:
'USA Today' Texts Ads Alongside News
Discussion: mocoNews.net
nikfletcher :: blog:
"Wish I was there".... WWDC Keynote Kit
Yvonne Wingett / Arizona Republic:
Gilbert library to be first to drop Dewey Decimal
Discussion: Gadgetopia
Sony:
SONY UNVEILS POWERFUL NOTEBOOKS IN BOLD COLORS
Discussion: Engadget, CrunchGear and Gizmodo
Google Blogoscoped:
Aye YouTube on iGoogle
Discussion: Search Engine Land
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Awaiting Real Sales From Virtual Shoppers
Microsoft:
Microsoft, Games for Change Team Up to Encourage Global Problem …
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Gizmodo:
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CBS News:
Barry Diller's Third Act
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