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4:50 PM ET, August 21, 2007

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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
MTV bails on Microsoft, partners with RealNetworks for "Rhapsody America"  —  15 months after partnering with Microsoft on URGE, MTV has decided to cut its ties with Microsoft and cast its lot with with RealNetworks and Verizon.  At a news conference this morning, MTV and RealNetworks announced …
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
MTV, RealNetworks said to merge digital music stores  —  San Francisco (IDGNS) - MTV Networks and RealNetworks will merge their online digital music stores in the latest attempt to reduce Apple's hold on the music download market, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday morning.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:   MTV and RealNetworks: A sound decision?
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
World's largest music retailer ditches DRM, not censorship  —  Like a frog slowly turning into a princess, Wal-Mart's music download store has grown far more attractive now that it offers 256kbps unrestricted MP3 tracks from both EMI and Universal.  It won't win over fans who like the other features …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:   Apple & The DRM Free Market Madness
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
The anti-iTunes movement: gBox, Universal, Wal-Mart, MTV, Rhapsody
Discussion: PR Newswire
Jess Lee / Google LatLong:
YouTube-style Embeddable Maps  —  Today we're excited to announce a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML.  And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps you know and love; it's clickable, draggable, and zoomable.
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Google:
Google announces a simple new way to embed Google Maps
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
Bindu Reddy / Official Google Blog:
An update on Google Video feedback  —  When your friends and well-intentioned acquaintances tell you that you've made a mistake, it's good to listen.  So we'd like to say thank you to everyone who wrote to let us know that we had made a mistake in the case of Google Video's Download to Own/Rent Refund Policy vs. Common Sense.
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Google Video Store gets stay of execution, full refunds coming  —  As we reported last week, Google Video is closing its commercial video sales wing, the Google Video Store.  The controversial decision will see Google eventually shuttering its video Digital Rights Management service …
Larry Larsen / Channel 10:
First Look: Microsoft Tafiti  —  About a week back I got an internal email asking us to kick the tires on a new Silverlight/search demo called Tafiti.  Tafiti is a mashup that uses the resources of Windows Live Search driven by a Silverlight top layer.  The result is a search experience unlike anything you've seen before.
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Chris / LiveSide:
Microsoft launches Tafiti - Search and Silverlight experiment  —  Tafiti, an experimental demonstration site that combines Live Search with Silverlight has just been launched.  Its described as follows: … Search results are presented in the central column, with the right hand "shelf" …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zoho Goes Offline (in a good way)  —  Online office suite Zoho will launch offline functionality for Zoho Writer this morning, and other applications in their suite will follow shortly.  —  The offline functionality was built on Google Gears, an open source project launched by Google in May 2007.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Video site Metacafe gets $30M more  —  Investors have poured $30 million more into video site Metacafe, the popular online video site.  —  This is a significant amount of money for a company that already raised $15 million.  But the support may be necessary if Metacafe is to stay among the front-runners.
Discussion: Xconomy, Mashable! and WebProNews
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Business Wire:
Metacafe Raises $30 Million in Series C Financing
Villu Arak / Heartbeat:
The Microsoft connection clarified  —  Yesterday, we posted an explanation of what happened to Skype on August 16.  Some reactions to the explanation, however, have reminded us of one of the basic tenets of communication: It's not what you say.  It's what they hear.
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Dear Palm: It's time for an intervention  —  Man, what a crazy year, right?  We know things haven't really been going your way lately, but we want you to know that we haven't given up on you, even though it might seem like the only smartphone anyone wants to talk about these days is the iPhone.
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Be Dynamic, Be Confident — Yahoo! Search Supports You  —  Please excuse the dramatic start to this post.  Between the anticipation of rolling this out and my incessant Harry Potter reading, I couldn't resist.  —  Once upon a time, on the World Wide Web, all URLs were fixed strings — static in form.
Tinic Uro / kaourantin.net:
What just happened to video on the web?  —  That's a question you should ask with the announcement we made tonight.  I think a lot will change.  This is probably one of my longest and information packed posts ever, but I think it is important we put down all cards on the table.
Tim Green / Mobile Entertainment:
Yahoo! buys Actionality  —  Yahoo! has bought the ad-funded gaming specialist Actionality, ME understands.  —  The search giant moved for the Munich-based mobile company earlier this month, but did not announce the deal to the press.  —  It represents a further commitment to the mobile channel for Yahoo! …
 
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
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