Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:20 AM ET, July 18, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Angel Jennings / New York Times:
Web Site for Job Seekers Is Sold  —  Laurel Touby turned her popular cocktail parties into a high-traffic Web site for job-seeking media and creative professionals.  Yesterday, she sold Mediabistro.com, the company that sprang from those mixers, for $23 million.
RELATED:
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Media Jobs Site Mediabistro Sold To Jupitermedia For $23 Million  —  After a long auction process and going through multiple suitors, almost giving up on the process, and coming close to selling to at least one of them, the media jobs, events and info site Mediabistro has been sold to Jupitermedia …
RELATED:
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Will The FTC Block Google's Acquisition Of DoubleClick?  —  Scott Cleland, an analyst at the Washington, D.C. based telecom research group Prescursor has published a 35 page paper "Googleopoly: the Google-DoubleClick Anti-Competitive Case".  The paper argues that the US Federal Trade Commission …
RELATED:
Om Malik / GigaOM:
100 days of Jerry Yang
Discussion: Technovia
Thor Larholm / Larholm.com:
Firefox fixes Internet Explorer flaw  —  Mozilla has just released Firefox 2.0.0.5 which purportedly fixes one of the attack vectors of the Internet Explorer input validation flaw that I previously detailed.  I will go on the record as stating that this does not actually fix the flaw in Internet Explorer …
Steve O'Hear / last100:
Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro  —  Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) is an open-source Internet TV application that combines a media player and library, content guide, video search engine, as well as podcast and BitTorrent clients.  Developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation …
RELATED:
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Democracy Player Reborn as Miro
Discussion: Inquirer
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Last Harry Potter leaks online  —  The new Harry Potter novel — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — has hit the Internet days before its publication.  The publisher spent a reported $20 million on keeping the book secret.  Was the money well-spent?  As Bruce Schneier points out …
Discussion: TeleRead
RELATED:
Schneier on Security:
New Harry Potter Book Leaked on BitTorrent
Yahoo! News:
EU regulators drop mobile phone probe  — EU regulators drop mobile phone probe  —  BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission said Wednesday it had dropped its antitrust investigation into mobile phone roaming prices charged by operators in Britain and Germany after new EU rules forcing telecom companies …
RELATED:
fudder:
The very first iPhone  —  In late June, the [iPod] iPhone hit the US market.  Apple aficionados queued for days to be first in line to get their greedy little paws on the long awaited gadget. fudder-employee Marc Esslinger is an Apple-fan as well - also because he has a very special relationship to Apple.
Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones Board Approves Sale  —  Backing of News Corp. Offer  —  Puts Pressure on Family;  —  A Bancroft Exits Meeting  —  The board of Dow Jones & Co. voted to approve News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for the company last night, with two directors abstaining from the vote and one leaving the meeting early …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
SocialMedia is a new kind of widget ad network  —  Seth Goldstein and David Henderson have teamed up with one of the leading Facebook application developers and launched SocialMedia: part widget developer, part widget hosting provider/ad network.  Along with Lookery, the company …
Keith Stuart / Guardian:
"I'd close World of Warcraft!"  MUD creator Richard Bartle on the state of virtual worlds  —  A couple of weeks ago I promised an interview with Richard Bartle, co-creator of the original Multi-User Dungeon (or Domain if you prefer) set up back in 1978 at the University of Essex.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
SunRocket Users May Lose Service and Payments  —  Telephone service could be lost for more than 200,000 customers of SunRocket, an Internet telephone company that said on Tuesday that it had gone out of business, according to a person involved in its liquidation.
BBC:
EU backs standard for mobile TV  —  European officials have backed a single standard for the rollout of mobile TV services across Europe.  —  Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has called on member states to roll out services using the DVB-H standard "as quickly as possible".
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian Unlimited:
Can we design gadgets that age?  —  iPhone: built to be perfect.  Photograph: Michael Nagle/Getty  —  I harbour a pet obsession with materials - more specifically the idea of using alternative materials for the manufacture of electronic devices like computers.
Discussion: Subtraction and PSFK
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Local.com: Hearst Apparently Sells Entire 22% Stake  —  Hearst Corp., which earlier this year made a private placement investment in local search engine Local.com (LOCM) debt and warrants convertible into a 22% stake in the company, has apparently converted the securities into common stock and sold all of its share in the open market.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 11:20 AM ET, July 18, 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: 
Ryan Caldwell / Performancing.com:
10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once)
AdAge:
Google Print Ads Now Used by 225 Newspapers
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI remotely installs spyware to trace bomb threat
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise UK:
Facebook overtakes MySpace in Share of UK Internet Searches
Flung / Krunker:
25th Anniversary Starship Enterprise model from Wrath of Khan
Discussion: Gizmodo and CNET News.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iLike's Wonderful Facebook Problem
Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
Community-Based Facebook Application Reviews at AppRate.com
Discussion: Michael Gartenberg
Sunnet Beskerming Security Advisories:
A Worm for Your Apple  —  A small controversy is brewing …
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
 Earlier Items: 
Bill Ray / The Register:
Moving mobile numbers should be instant
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Mozes Acquires Popular Facebook App
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
My iPhone is back and I too am satisfied
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and PalmAddicts
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Google Cookie Expiration Policy Changes: Too Little, Too Late
Discussion: Nelson's Weblog
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
New Boss Aims to Apply Some 7-Eleven Tactics to Blockbuster
Discussion: CinemaTech and /Message
CNET News.com:
Will security firms detect police spyware?
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Crowdsourcing a New System for Measuring Influence (Beta)
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Eye On You: Google Streetview Camera Car Fleet Set to Invade America
 

 
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”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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