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4:50 PM ET, August 8, 2007

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Google News Blog:
Perspectives about the news from people in the news  —  We wanted to give you a heads-up on a new, experimental feature we'll be trying out on the Google News home page.  Starting this week, we'll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, but with a bit of a twist...
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google News Adds (Special) Comments  —  Google News USA is rolling out an experimental feature that lets people or organizations who are part of a news story add a comment to the news.  "Our long-term vision is that any participant will be able to send in their comments, and we'll show them next to the articles about the story.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google News To Newsmakers: Send Us Your Comments  —  Weird.  That's the only way I can describe it.  Google News is asking people who are in news stories to email them comments about the story, which will be associated with those articles.  From the Google News Blog post:
Tony Hung / Deep Jive Interests:
Google News To Change Online News As We Know It.  Here's Why.  —  Really interesting development over at Google News: apparently they are making a move to introduce a comments type system to its news.  Currently, its only available with a subset of readers, and they are only allowing certain individuals …
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
GOOGLE NEWS ROLLING OUT EXPERT USER COMMENTS  —  Google News is getting an interesting feature this week, and by interesting I mean it's downright peculiar.  Users of the U.S. version of Google News will now be able to comment on a story, that is assuming they're somehow involved in it.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Freedom from the press: Google News lets newsmakers comment on stories
Discussion: Online Media Cultist
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:   Google News Now Has Feedback, Editing and More Risk
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst Set to Buy Shoppers Site Kaboodle  —  Hearst Corp. plans to announce today its plans to acquire closely held start-up Kaboodle Inc., a service for sharing shopping recommendations and style advice online.  —  The deal marks Hearst's attempt to tap a new area of e-commerce …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Big Media Is Buying, Hearst goes Kaboodle
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Big-media acquisitions roll on as Hearst snaps up Kaboodle
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
People search engine Spock launches  —  Spock, the Redwood City, Calif. search engine for people, launches tomorrow after a year of suspense.  —  It has remained secretive for months (see our original coverage), testing its engine, adding some 100,000 profiles and inserting other social networking features.
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Charles Cooper / CNET News.com:
Spock: Search's final frontier?
Discussion: Webware.com and Lifehacker
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Spock Open Public Beta
Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
360 Cores and Premiums with HDMI?  An inside source spills the beans  —  When I was at E3 I had a chance to get a look at the new Halo-edition 360 hardware, and I asked about the HDMI connection.  "HDMI will probably be standard moving forward," I was told.  I pushed for more information, but was rebuffed.
Josef Adalian / Variety:
NBC Universal launches Didja  —  Ad friendly video site to combat YouTube  —  NBC Universal is expanding its battle against YouTube and other viral video sites, using the weight of its top-rated USA cable network to launch an all-advertising website called Didja.com.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Filters Torrents From Search Results  —  So, apparently one day Google decided that it is illegal in nearly every country of the world to host a .torrent file that (allegedly) links to infringing material.  Strange, because there is no legal precedent for this decision in most countries.
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Asus Launches 13.3" U3 Notebook  —  Asus launches a high-end leather-clad notebook  —  Dell isn't the only company these days with a sexy 13.3" notebook to brag about.  Asus today announced its sleek new 13.3" U3 (LED backlit, WXGA) which is based on Intel's Santa Rosa platform.
Tom McNichol / Business 2.0:
How a small winery found Internet fame  —  A small South African winery is using conversational marketing to go global, reports Business 2.0 Magazine.  —  (Business 2.0 Magazine) — How do you get your product noticed in a sea of look-alike competitors?  If you're South African winery Stormhoek …
Discussion: gapingvoid
Bill Ray / The Register:
Court finds Qualcomm guilty of standards abuse  —  First create a standard, then sue the adopters  —  Qualcomm kept its patents on H.264 a secret until the video standard had been adopted by the industry, and then sued users for breaching those patents, a San Diego federal court has ruled.
Discussion: TMCnet
Chris / LiveSide:
Get ready for a new Live.com - Windows Live Home  —  At a briefing given to Japanese press about Windows Live, Tetuya Onoda (Windows Live Director) held up a nice big picture of the new Windows Live Homepage that looks set to replace the existing personalised Live.com page.
BBC:
Photo tool could fix bad images  —  Digital photographers could soon be able to erase unwanted elements in photos by using tools that scan for similar images in online libraries.  —  Research teams have developed an algorithm that uses sites like Flickr to help discover light sources, camera position and composition in a photo.
Discussion: Gadget Lab, Alan Meckler and JD on EP
 
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Discussion: The Tech Report
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Steve O'Hear / last100:
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Discussion: The Mac Observer
Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
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MarketWatch:
As Cablevision's net grows, 2007 forecasts cut
Discussion: IP Democracy and 24/7 Wall St.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Apollo Group To Acquire Online Ad Network Aptimus For $48 million
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Oracle contributes Linux code, expands hardware support
Discussion: eWEEK.com and PC World
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Alex Woodward / The Independent:
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In a meeting with news agencies, Pope Leo XIV urged journalists to stand firm against manipulation of information, conveyed respect for war reporters, and more

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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