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Katie Allen / Guardian:
Major pirate website shut down — One of the world's most-used pirate film websites has been closed after providing links to illegal versions of major Hollywood hits and TV shows. — The first closure of a major UK-based pirate site was also accompanied by raids and an arrest …
Google News Blog:
Google News goes social — Whether it is from our homepage, one of our RSS feeds, or on a mobile device, Google News seeks to connect people with the news that matters to them — wherever they may be. As part of that goal we are pleased to announce the Google News Application for Facebook.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
YieldBuild Will Try To Pay You More Than AdSense — Simply slapping AdSense on your site is one of the easiest, but not necessarily best, ways to monetize your website. There are a lot of factors that go into getting the most out of your ad units. They range from placement, color, ad network, or even time of day.
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Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire blog:
Sleazy Linkers Lose An Ally — Seems as if there's a bit of a groundswell building against internal links, which I got all upset about a few months ago. (internal linking is where you place a link on a word like, say, Google, but instead of actually linking to Google you link to another page on your own blog about Google.)
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
CSI:NY Comes To Second Life Wednesday — Second Life is bracing itself for an influx of new members this coming week with the long awaited episode of CSI:NY does Second Life to be shown in the United States on Wednesday. — The episode will see Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
The New Era of Semantic Apps — I'm here at the Semantic Edge panel at the Summit, moderated by Tim O'Reilly and featuring W. Daniel Hillis (Co-Chairman and CTO, Applied Minds), Barney Pell (Founder and CEO of Powerset), Nova Spivack (Twine - see our review here). The panel starts with demos from each of the three speakers.
Google Code Blog:
Blogger GData JavaScript client library released with offline Blogger client example — Near the end of September we announced the release of a new GData JavaScript client library that allowed you to do full read-write access to Google Calendar from JavaScript. — We now have another service for you to have at.
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Microsoft: Online Ads Will Move Away From Search — Well, what do you do when you're the small kid on a basketball team? Walk away from the game, I guess. That's my thought after reading a Bloomberg piece this afternoon quoting Microsoft (MSFT) executives as saying that the online ad business …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Don't Click On This Link Unless You Don't Mind A Grand Jury Knowing What You Read — from the privacy? -schmivacy dept — Apparently two executives from Village Voice Media (publishers of The Village Voice and other independent newspapers) were arrested yesterday for revealing grand jury information …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flickr To Add Online Photo Editing Tools Via Picnik — Fotoflexer may be my personal favorite among the many online photo editing tools, but Flickr has chosen Seattle-based Picnik (profile) to handle the long requested photo editing feature for Flickr users.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Sun starts bidding adieu to mobile-specific Java — SAN FRANCISCO—One area where Sun Microsystems' Java caught on was in mobile phones, but a leader of the project is working to eventually replace the mobile-specific version of the software. — Java Standard Edition (SE) …
Chris Pirillo:
Christmas Music Parody - Blue Vista — Every year, I enjoy making a tech-themed parody out of a Christmas song. This year is no exception. Welcome to "Blue Vista". — We were talking about Christmas and Vista both in the chat room today. Someone laughed and mentioned "Blue Vista Christmas" and inspiration struck.
InfoWorld:
AT&T unsure about bidding in 700MHz auction — AT&T hasn't decided whether it will bid for the highly desirable 700MHz band because it doesn't know if it can build a profitable business, given the open-access rules set for the wireless spectrum by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in July.
InfoWorld:
AT&T sues Vonage for patent infringement — AT&T filed a lawsuit against VoIP provider Vonage on Friday seeking damages for alleged patent infringement. — The lawsuit comes just days after Vonage settled a patent-infringement lawsuit with telecom provider Sprint Nextel.
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