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Rebecca Dana / Wall Street Journal:
ABC's AOL Pact Marks Web's Growing TV Allure — Walt Disney Co.'s ABC became the latest major network to strike a deal with AOL allowing its full-length prime-time shows to be available free on the Time Warner Inc.-owned portal. — ABC shows will be available on AOL starting today …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:Is Hulu Doomed? NBC To Begin Offering Free Downloads
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Bill Carter / New York Times:NBC to Offer Downloads of Its Shows
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MediaBytes with Shelly …, Compiler, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus, The FASTForward Blog, MacUser, A VC and David Card
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:NBC Launching VOD Service — What about Hulu?
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Shared Stuff — Google's social side is more visible every day. A new service called "Shared Stuff" lets you share interesting links with your friends and the entire world. You need to drag a bookmarklet to your browser's link bar or to click on the "Share" button from a web page …
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Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Shared Stuff — Google has just quietly launched a new social link sharing service called Google Shared Stuff. — According to this help file, you can add links to your "shared stuff page" by adding a bookmarklet to your web browser's "Links" or "Bookmarks" bar or by clicking this button …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked — Similar to the previously released e-mails, tracking database and phone call this leak is also spread by the group that goes by the name "MediaDefender-Defenders". In the .nfo that was posted with the torrent we read:
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Sid Yadav / Rev2.org:
Digg Gets More Social and Revamps Profiles — Kevin Rose announced on the Digg blog earlier today that Digg was launching a host of new features and revamping user profiles. Rose also posted a video walkthrough of the new features and revealed that Digg Images, a revamped comment section …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:Netscape's Propeller is Changing More Than You Might Think
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The Social, Deep Jive Interests, CenterNetworks, Mashable!, muhammad.saleem and paidContent.org
Belinda Goldsmith / Reuters:
Americans giving up friends, sex for Web life — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up friends and sex for the Web.
Nokia:
Nokia answers convergence call with Nokia 6301 UMA phone — Espoo, Finland - With a sleek stainless steel design, the Nokia 6301 phone launched today is not only stylish, but offers consumers seamless voice and data mobility across GSM cellular and WLAN networks via Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology.
Victor Keegan / Guardian:
Ignoring open source is costing us dear — Firefox, the browser that dared to challenge the supremacy of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, has just reached 400m downloads - and deservedly so. It now claims a market share of nearly 20% in the UK and 30% in Germany.
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Open Source
USA Today:
Cities turning off plans for Wi-Fi — CHICAGO — Plans to blanket cities across the nation with low-cost or free wireless Internet access are being delayed or abandoned because they are proving to be too costly and complicated. — Houston, San Francisco, Chicago and other cities are putting proposed Wi-Fi networks on hold.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Zillow Gets Mo Money — Earlier this week we were joking about Fundinistas or companies that the ones who raise venture capital relentlessly. One of them happened to be Zillow, which had raised $57 million. Well, today they called to let us know that they had raised another $30 million, bringing the total to $87 million.
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
MTV Introduces Causes-Related Social Net 'ThinkMTV — MTV is beta testing a youth-oriented social network focused on activism and works of charity called ThinkMTV. The project also has the backing from an array of nonprofit groups including the Steve and Jean Case Foundation …
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Mashable!
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach — Summary: The original vision of the semantic web as a layer on top of the current web, annotated in a way that computers can "understand," is certainly grandiose and intriguing. Yet, for the past decade it has been a kind of academic exercise rather than a practical technology.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Commercial Software Will Include Open Source, Gartner Says — IT organizations will have to manage open-source software along with commercial software, Gartner says. — LAS VEGAS—At least 80 percent of all commercial software products will include elements of open-source code by 2010 …
Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Xobni: Turn Outlook Into A Social Network — Xobni is one of the cool startups to come out of the TechCrunch 40 conference, and after installing their software, I've come off pretty impressed. Xobni produces a free Outlook add-in (Xobni is inbox backwards) that appears as a sidebar while reading emails in Outlook.
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kottke.org:
Gems from the archive of the New York Times — Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let's take a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has been missing.
