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3:13 AM ET, August 3, 2007

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Tariq Krim / Netvibes.com Blog:
Facebook Meet Netvibes: Netvibes Introduces the Facebook Widget  —  Well you've all been asking for it, and it's finally here.  —  The new Netvibes Facebook Widget will allow users to view their Facebook notifications and friends.  You can now access your Facebook info on Netvibes, and keep up to date on what your friends are doing!
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Netvibes Launches Facebook Widget, Challenges Lock-In  —  There's a war being fought over ownership of your identity.  Today Netvibes launches the Facebook Widget, which lets you view your Facebook notifications and friends within Netvibes.  —  Data displayed includes links to your profile …
Discussion: Scripting News
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:   Platform Wars: Netvibes Launches Facebook Widget
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Not one, but many "gPhones" in the works: report  —  We've known for some time that Google has research and development resources dedicated to mobile phone technology, but the question has always been: will Google strike out on its own, or will it embrace partners in its quest to tackle the mobile world?
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Ben Ames / Computerworld:
Report: Google shows phone prototype to vendors  —  Analysts disagree about its potential for success  —  Google Inc. has developed a prototype cell phone that could reach markets within a year, and plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advertisements with its search engine …
CNN:
Google Still 'Very Interested' In Spectrum Auction
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org  —  The Pirate Bay crew has been working on this secret project for quite some time now.  Back in April they wrote a cryptic post on their blog announcing that something was coming.  In a response to this announcement TPB admin Brokep told TorrentFreak …
Discussion: digg
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Thomas Mennecke / Slyck.com File-Sharing News …:
SuprNova.org Transferred to The Pirate Bay
Discussion: CNET News.com
MikeG / Mike Grehan says:
A guaranteed number one listing at Google!  —  I've been burning up my keyboard for the past two weeks none stop writing.  So I've had little time to read any of the latest news around the various other blogs, forums etc.  So, maybe this has been covered in great detail elsewhere.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Tests On Search Page Keyword Bookmarking Service?
Discussion: Googlified
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Out of the Theater, Into the Courtroom  —  Jhannet Sejas and her boyfriend were celebrating her 19th birthday by taking in a matinee showing of the hit movie "Transformers" at the theater at Ballston Common mall.  —  Sejas was enjoying the movie so much that she decided to film a short clip …
Dan Browning / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Web's 'drug kingpin' gets 30 years  —  Prosecutors got their wish: A long sentence for Christopher Smith, who illegally sold $24 million worth of prescription drugs.  —  A federal judge sentenced internationally known e-mail spammer Christopher William Smith on Wednesday to 30 years in prison …
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Austin Modine / The Register:   Spammer gets 30 years in the slammer
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
ARIN fights IP address trading as transition to IPv6 may get new deadlines  —  Yesterday, the American Registry for Internet Numbers published a statement outlining its thoughts on the Internet address policy going forward in Canada and the US, the area it has responsibility for.
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American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN):   ARIN Board Statement on the Future of Addressing Policy
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
HandHeld To Acquire eBaum's World For $15 Million Cash; Other Payouts Possible  —  Another deal from HandHeld Entertainment, which continues to roll up traffic and content.  This time the company is picking up user-gen site eBaum'sWorld for $15 million in cash at closing and a possible total …
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Uses Crowdsourcing To Create Maps In India  —  Google has been sending GPS kits to India that enable locals to make more detailed maps of their area.  After the data has been uploaded and then verified against other participant's data it becomes a part of the map.
Anita Hamilton / Time:
Online Snooping Gets Creepy  —  When Nazira Sacasa sent me a press release for a new clothing boutique late last month, she didn't know that I would launch a full-scale web search to learn everything I could about her.  But I needed a victim to test out the new breed of people-search services on the web …
Discussion: TechCrunch and down the avenue
CraigE / Mac Mojo:
Office 2008 Coming January 2008  —  We announced today that Office 2008 for Mac will be released to manufacturing ("RTM") this December, which will allow for retail availability in the US in mid-January (planning for Macworld), and allow us to deliver Office 2008 to our volume license customers …
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
070829: viral campaign for new mobile phone?  Update: looks like Nokia's N81 8GB phone  —  I'll admit I have no idea what this is.  I started to notice contextual Google Ads on our site for 070829 and since the ads are contextual, this likely has to do with mobile tech.
ir.take2games.com:
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Provides Financial Update  —  Launch of Grand Theft Auto IV Now Planned for Fiscal 2008  —  Conference Call Set for 5:30 pm ET Today  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) today announced revised revenue and earnings guidance for fiscal 2007.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Twitter Is A Publication  —  Here's a theory that's emerged from my web communication experiment: Twitter isn't a communication tool, it's a publication.  —  That's not to say there isn't a strong communication element to it, just like there is in the comment sections of blogs …
Discussion: CostPerNews
 
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
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The Official Parallels Virtualization Blog:
New Parallels Desktop beta starts today, and a friendly hello
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Transcend's T.sonic 840 DAP jams on for 30 solid hours
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Listen To Your iTunes Library On The Web With Anywhere.FM
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
iPhone's kinetic scrolling comes to the Nokia N800
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Is this Federated Media's new conversation?
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Unboxing the Timex Ironman iControl watch
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Union Square venture firm gets sued
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Mozilla releases browser testing tools
Discussion: TechSpot News and PC World
Todd R. Weiss / Computerworld:
With ID theft, fraud fears growing, credit cards ranked on security
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Flash: Public Wi-Fi even more insecure than previously thought
Discussion: CNET News.com
Hiroko Tabuchi / Associated Press:
Japanese Companies Slam YouTube
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The latest "shiny social object": an open/controllable social network?
Discussion: Mashable! and Krishwords
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yelp API Released
BBC:
Microsoft tries free office suite
 

 
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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

 
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