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Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Veoh Hosts $26 Million Round — Updated Veoh may no longer host popular adult videos, but that hasn't stopped venture capitalists from backing up the Brink's truck. peHUB has learned that the San Diego-based company recently raised around $26 million in Series C funding …
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John's Blog:
A Picture's Worth 100M Users??? — Steve Job's keynote at WWDC this year inspired some and was disappointing to others — but, as usual, it was interesting & entertaining. I've always liked Apple's products, and spend an embarrassing amount of my own money on them. So I'm interested in what he's got to say.
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Seduction of AT&T — This week was Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), the biggest news from which seemed to be the beta version of Safari (Apple's web browser) for Windows. Why the heck would Apple even produce such a product? Readers and pundits alike have been wondering ad nauseam.
Valleywag:
Housekeeping: Owen Thomas is the Valleywag — Owen Thomas, the Business 2.0 editor whom we've lured to run Valleywag, is all smiles. But don't be deceived. This Silicon Valley gossip rag, after he takes over in July as managing editor, will remain as obnoxious as ever.
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mathewingram.com/work, Business 2.0 Beta, GigaOM, The Next Net, Laughing Squid, Insider Chatter, Paul Kedrosky's …, bub.blicio.us and Gawker
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
The CNN/YouTube debates — Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube — Back in March we kicked off our You Choose '08 program, a hub of political channels on YouTube designed to educate, empower, and connect voters and presidential candidates through the power of online video.
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BBC:
The Tech Lab: Dave Winer — Dave Winer, considered by many to be the father of blogging and a pioneer of RSS feeds, offers his personal view on technologies he would like to see in existence one day. — I'm a blogger, therefore I like to write short two or three paragraph essays on things I care about.
Apple:
Safari for Windows Public Beta Downloads Top 1 Million in First 48 Hours — Apple® today announced that more than 1 million copies of Safari™ for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday.
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Podcasting News, Forever Geek, Macsimum News, Apple Gazette, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and MacSlash
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Taking a detailed look at Windows Vista DVD hologram — An astute Windows user was intrigued by the holographic image on the face of the Windows Vista Business DVD and decided to take a much closer look, discovering in the margin a microscopic photograph of three men. Just who they could be?
Karen / Official Google Blog:
The state of our video ID tools — Recent speculation and stories like this Wall Street Journal article or this Reuters report on YouTube's use of video identification tools made us think it would be useful to clarify what we're doing. — We've been developing improved content identification for months …
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Search Engine Journal
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone sighting? — Looks like they're out there, and no, we don't just mean in Walt and David's hands...we mean out there. Check out this flick of someone using what almost definitely appears to be an iPhone. He's all listening to Journey probably, reminiscing about The Sopranos season finale.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Boston U student fights RIAA attempt to discover names behind IP addresses — As part of its stepped-up efforts against file-sharing on college campuses, the RIAA has begun filing lawsuits against college students who don't take advantage of the group's discounted settlement offer.
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John Solomon / Washington Post:
FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data — An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years …
Point-Topic:
World broadband closes in on 300 million subscribers — According to the most recent data from Point Topic's Global Broadband Statistics service there were 298 million broadband subscribers worldwide at the end of March 2007. — "Given the prevailing growth rates it is safe to assume …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
EBay slashes Google ads, escalating rift — Analyst: 'The two companies have been on a collision course for a long time' — EBay Inc. has pulled all of its advertising from Google Inc.'s U.S. network in what is widely seen as punishment for trying to crash eBay's user conference in Boston this week.
