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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Plaxo launches new social network, Pulse—and it's a lot like Pownce — As expected, address and calendar organizer Plaxo unveiled on Monday its Pulse social-networking site. — Rumors about Plaxo expanding into social networking have been floating about recently; the company confirmed …
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Scott Gilbertson / Wired News:
Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up — Damn the Facebooks and the MySpaces. The last time we checked, there was this thing called the internet that had 6 billion users. It's time to take our personal data out of Mr. McGregor's little gardens and put it back where it belongs …
ClickZ:
IAC Leaves DoubleClick for Atlas — IAC Advertising Solutions has switched ad servers, abandoning DoubleClick in favor of aQuantive's Atlas. — The ad sales division of IAC/InterActiveCorp said its goal in making the move was to consolidate IAC's myriad Web properties …
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Jeff Pulver / Business Week:
Confessions of a LinkedIn Dropout — Blogger Jeff Pulver quit the professional network in favor of Facebook and urged his friends to do the same. Here's why he's not looking back — Are you on Facebook yet? Maybe you should be. — I made this pronouncement on my blog recently …
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David Krug / Telegraphik:
Bloggers Pushing For A Labor Union — Agh, I hate to be quoting Fox News but it's one of the few places that seems to be talking about this issue. Bloggers are fed up with payrates, we want insurance, and we want to be able to set standards on how this industry — online publishing is run.
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Louise Story / New York Times:
It's an Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World — It is only a matter of time until nearly all advertisements around the world are digital. — Or so says David W. Kenny, the chairman and chief executive of Digitas, the advertising agency in Boston that was acquired by the Publicis Groupe for $1.3 billion six months ago.
Microsoft:
Groundbreaking Digital Experience for Endeavour Shuttle Launch — Microsoft's Photosynth 3-D imagery gives people around the world unprecedented views of the shuttle vehicle and its launchpad. — For the first time, people around the world can view 3-D images of the space shuttle Endeavour …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
ICQ Founders Start KnockaTV — We just heard about a new Israeli video/TV startup called KnockaTV, which has the tagline "The People Have Taken Over." — KnockaTV is self described as: … They are also looking for original content producers to submit content to the service.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Lenovo, Novell partner to offer Linux on the ThinkPad — ThinkPad customers will soon have a new configuration option, as Lenovo and Novell have announced that the popular laptops will begin shipping with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED) preinstalled.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Are CDNs Becoming Commoditized, Again? — Being a fairly large producer of video content over at WatchMojo.com, I've come to appreciate the need and desire to serve videos in a crips, quick and reliable fashion. Having viewers from Bombay to Boston, having a global grid that can serve videos is not an option, it's a must.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
L337: iPhone Unlocked for $96 with Forged SIM, Tested in Europe — While the wizards are still working on a software-only complete unlock for the iPhone, hackers in Europe claim that they have completely unlocked the JesusPhone, allegedly using a SIM reader/writer and a blank SIM card to obtain full calling and SMS capabilities.
Federal Trade Commission:
FTC to Host Town Hall to Examine Privacy Issues and Online Behavioral Advertising — The FTC will host a two-day Town Hall to bring together consumer advocates, industry representatives, technology experts, and academics to address the consumer protection issues raised by the practice …
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Computerworld
Wss / Netcraft:
August 2007 Web Server Survey — In the August 2007 survey we received responses from 127,961,479 sites, an increase of 2.3 million sites from last month. Microsoft continues to increase its web server market share, adding 2.6 million sites this month as Apache loses 991K hostnames.
Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget:
Toshiba's HD-A3x third generation HD DVD players get official — Looks like we won't have to wait 'til CEDIA to learn more about Toshiba's next generation HD DVD players. Amazon had the model numbers and prices right, which are in-line with the last generation of players …
Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist — (InfoWorld) - A U.S. congressional committee plans to investigate whether or not Yahoo lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years.
