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12:25 PM ET, June 13, 2007

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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Mahalo Greenhouse Launches  —  Two weeks ago we launched the human-powered "search service" Mahalo.com in alpha at the WSJ's D conference in California.  The tag line of Mahalo is "we're here to help," and after 15 days of tremendous feedback we've learned one thing: you want to help too!
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
OpenAds: A step in the right direction  —  I may be reading too much into this, but I take hope in a $5 million investment VCs made today in the company behind Openads, a free, open-source ad server.  They already serve more than 20,000 publishers, 100,000 sites in 20-plus languages over 30-plus networks.
Discussion: Publishing 2.0
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Open Source Ad Server openAds Gets $ 5 Million Funding
Discussion: Reuters, O'Reilly Radar and HipMojo.com
James S. Granelli / Los Angeles Times:
AT&T to target pirated content  —  It joins Hollywood in trying to keep bootleg material off its network.  —  AT&T Inc. has joined Hollywood studios and recording companies in trying to keep pirated films, music and other content off its network — the first major carrier of Internet traffic to do so.
Discussion: Gizmodo
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
AT&T willing to spy for NSA, MPAA, and RIAA  —  In a move that has executives from movie studios and record labels grinning from ear to ear, AT&T has announced that it will develop and deploy technology that will attempt to keep pirated content off its network.
John Markoff / New York Times:
That iPhone Is Missing a Keyboard*  —  If there is a billion-dollar gamble underlying Apple's iPhone, it lies in what this smart cellphone does not have: a mechanical keyboard.  —  As the clearest expression yet of the Apple chief executive's spartan design aesthetic, the iPhone sports …
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Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Poll: do you care that iPhone is missing a physical keyboard?
Discussion: Digital Trends and Cult of Mac
Michael Gartenberg:   It's not just the "what", it's the "how"  —  Dave Winer comments …
Michael Calore / Compiler:
Wired News Benchmarks Show Safari 3 Is Slower Than IE 7, Firefox  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs touted Safari 3's speed as one of its most appealing features.  But in tests by Wired News, the first public beta of Safari for Windows is actually slower than both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 when accessing Ajax-intensive web applications.
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MacNN:   Safari 3: speed, security, font blurriness
Steve Bryant / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Fails Us Politically (or is it vice versa?)  —  There's a blog-sharp maw waiting to gnash anyone who is critical of the democratizing power of YouTube.  If you deride its star-making potential, you're accused of old media partisanship.  If you doubt its meritocratic infallibility …
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Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube Fuels — and Foils — Campaigns
Discussion: Reel Pop
Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Apple to sell music through UK Bebo network  —  Apple is tapping into the popularity of social networking sites, as it announces a deal on Wednesday to embed its iTunes internet music download service into the Bebo website.  —  From Wednesday, Bebo's 8.8m users in the UK and Ireland …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:   Apple-Bebo: E-commerce comes to SocialNets
Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
More ways for you to give us input  —  At Google, we are always working hard to provide searchers with the best possible results.  We've found that our spam reporting form is a great way to get your input as we continue to improve our results.  Some of you have asked for a way to report paid links as well.
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
An OpenSolaris/Linux Mashup  —  To non-technical readers of this blog, or those uninterested in the ebbs and tides of the free software world... this might be a good entry to skip.  —  I was just forwarded a pointer to this note regarding Sun and OpenSolaris, written by the eponymous Linus Torvalds.
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Everyscape: A 3D Worldviewer Made From 2D Photos  —  Everyscape aims to be able to show you the whole world — both inside and out — from its website.  It plans to do this with normal 2D photos.  Using proprietary technology Everyscape will stitch these photos together and 3D-ify them.
Discussion: Search Engine Land and Screenwerk
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Santa Rosa comes to the Mac: a review of the new MacBook Pro  —  Santa Rosa in the house  —  Apple MacBook Pro  —  Quick specs: 2.40GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD, 17" 1920x1200 LCD  —  Price as configured: $2,899 (shop for this item)  —  Since Apple made the great migration …
Discussion: Gadget Lab
Google Custom Search:
Custom Search on the fly  —  Starting today, there's a new feature that makes Custom Search Engines (CSEs) even easier to create and keep up to date.  —  You can now create a CSE by simply placing a small piece of tailored code on a page on your site.  With that one piece of code …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Ron Conway: Third-rate VCs are paying off entrepreneurs  —  Ron Conway, the most prolific investor in the latest wave of Internet companies, is hot for video companies, and ways to monetize them.  —  However, he's upset by some recent investment practices, he says.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and Texas Startup Blog
Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
Google to use YouTube to amass video database  —  SEARCH FIRM WILL TEST ABILITY TO FILTER ILLEGAL CONTENT  —  It is commonly believed that Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion because the wildly popular video-sharing site represented a great way for the search giant to expand into video advertising.
Discussion: Groundswell and The Utube Blog
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
SHAKE-UP IN NEWSROOM OF JOURNAL  —  The Wall Street Journal will announce a major newsroom shake-up, including the reassignment and replacement of several top editors, officials there say.  —  THAT IPHONE IS MISSING A KEYBOARD*  —  By JOHN MARKOFF  —  If there is a billion-dollar gamble …
 
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
White Stripes album sold on limited edition USB drives
Discussion: Morning Paper and Gadget Lab
Daimaou / Akihabaranews.com:
New PAVV TeleVisions by Samsung (incredible contrast!)
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
New video-game league seeks mass appeal
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Peter Adderton Offically Out Of Amp'd Mobile
Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Big Radio Makes a Grab for Internet Listeners
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Sharon Gaudin / InformationWeek:
California Man Gets 6-Year Sentence For Phishing
Discussion: Techdirt and UNEASYsilence
Mike Yamamoto / CNET News.com:
A laptop case for paramilitary missions
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DigiTimes:
Epson and Philips release joint reference design for personal projector
Discussion: Engadget and Ministry of Tech
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Without iTunes Account, iPhone Won't Work As Promised; AT&T Holding …
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Money:
How to get rich in America
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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
'Widgets' May Snag More Ads
Discussion: IT Facts
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Act now to stop Congress from legalizing spyware!
Discussion: Consumerist
Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
BioWare Adapts Complex Event Processing To Online Gaming World
Dennis McLellan / Los Angeles Times:
'Mr. Wizard' dies at 89  —  Don Herbert, who explained …
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Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Google to Reduce History of Personal Searches
 

 
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