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10:55 AM ET, September 20, 2007

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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
Discussion: The Utube Blog
Saul Hansell / Bits:
NBC Brings the Most Popular Word to TV Downloads: Free
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 …
Discussion: Mashable! and Technovia
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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:
Discussion: Slyck, Compiler and Digg
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Greg Sandoval / ZDNet:
Leaked e-mails reveal MediaDefender's antipiracy woes  —  The antipiracy company MediaDefender was under attack long before hundreds of its e-mails were stolen and exposed to the Web.  —  One of the largest companies offering to protect copyright music and movies from online piracy …
Discussion: WinBeta
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.
Discussion: WebProNews, 901am and broadstuff
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 …
Discussion: VentureBeat
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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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: RSS and Hear 2.0
Reuters:
Apple CEO subpoenaed in backdating case: report  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive Steve Jobs was asked by U.S. securities regulators to give a deposition in a lawsuit against the company's former general counsel involving stock options backdating …
Discussion: Engadget
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.
Discussion: Things That
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Feld Thoughts and John Furrier
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.
 
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James Kilner / Reuters:
USSR alive and kicking on the Internet
Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Apple's iPod Touch Is a Beauty of a Player Short on Battery Life
Discussion: CrunchGear and iLounge
Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:
Apple Seeks Dismissal of Burst.com Claims Over iPod
Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Xobni: Turn Outlook Into A Social Network
Discussion: Instigator Blog
PC World:
Sony to Expand PS2 Business, But No PS3 Price Cut
Discussion: Opposable Thumbs
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Commercial Software Will Include Open Source, Gartner Says
Discussion: The Open Road and Inquirer
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google plugs hole in Presentations after e-mail addresses leak out
BBC:
Old mobile spectrum to be freed
 Earlier Items: 
David Meyer / Technology news:
SCO Group admits it may fold
Paul McNamara / Network World:
Ameritrade leak looks to have started in late '05, much earlier than reported
Discussion: Inquirer and Valleywag
Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:
A game of cat and mouse: The iPhone, Steve Jobs and an army of blind hackers
Janak Parekh / Pocket PC Thoughts:
Upcoming Samsung Pocket PC with Mouse Pointer?
Discussion: the::unwired and IntoMobile
Nicole Lee / Crave: The gadget blog:
Google phone rumors heat up
technabob:
9-volt flashlight: a simple, bright idea
Discussion: Ubergizmo and Forever Geek
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Big trend coming out of TechCrunch40: data normalization services
Discussion: Insider Chatter and Roam4free
BBC:
Time for Apple to face the music?