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8:30 PM ET, November 23, 2007

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Sridhar / Zoho Blogs:
The 1% Problem  —  Sabeer Bhatia, of HotMail fame, launched Live Documents, on online office suite today.  In the news coverage, this snippet caught my attention: … Here is Guy Kawasaki's The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs and number 11 (sic) on that list is:
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BBC:
France unveils anti-piracy plan  —  French web users caught pirating movies or music could soon be thrown offline.  —  Those illegally sharing files will face the loss of their net access thanks to a newly-created anti-piracy body granted the wide-ranging powers.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Poor Anti-Pirates: E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email Gets Leaked  —  Last month a leaked email from The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) - the anti-piracy organization that represents the recording industry worldwide - revealed that they had plans …
Discussion: Digg
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Yahoo to launch MyM "social messaging" site [Scoop]  —  Yahoo has launched, in an invitation-only trial, MyM, a "social messaging" service.  How many social networks does one company need?  Nowhere are Yahoo's scattershot efforts more evident than in this field.
Discussion: TechFold, PDA and Mashable!
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Shady Secrets of Going Viral on YouTube  —  Remember when we wrote jokingly about how to "Master Viral Video Advertising in 3 Easy Steps," concluding that there wasn't any such simple formula?  —  Well, a Stanford graduate student named Dan Ackerman Greenberg has a different take, but it's not pretty.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Will Digg-News Corp. deal include Revision3?  [Rumormonger]  —  Though the timing of Digg's deal with the Wall Street Journal was coincidental, we're told, it has sparked a new wave of whispers that News Corp. might be taking another look at the headline-voting site.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and ParisLemon
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
How To Solve Facebook's Beacon Problem  —  The controversy over Facebook's Beacon program, which publicizes your purchases and activities on other sites to your Facebook friends, isn't going away.  It doesn't matter how many Facebook users are actually upset by Beacon: This is an easy …
Discussion: Onaswarm and The Praized Blog
Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
Why Microsoft's Zune is Still Failing  —  Daniel Eran Dilger  —  Last winter, I detailed why Microsoft's iPod Killer would fail miserably.  This year, Microsoft will fail again, but for a new set of reasons.  It is not obvious that the company has figured this out itself.
Discussion: Mashable!, Got Zune? and Slashdot
PC Pro:
Skype "could have saved London numbers"  —  Internet telephony firm Skype could have kept the London numbers it stripped from customers this week for only a modest fee.  —  Yesterday, we revealed how the company had angered hundreds of its customers by suddenly withdrawing their 0207 numbers.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Nokia N810: unboxing and first impressions  —  My shiny new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet was delivered yesterday.  After fondling it for most of the day, I'm relatively impressed.  The N810 is a bit smaller than the N800, which makes it more comfortable to use and easier to tote around in a pocket.
Discussion: GottaBeMobile
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
MPAA University 'Toolkit' Raises Privacy Concerns  —  The Motion Picture of Association of America is urging some of the nation's largest universities to deploy custom software designed to pinpoint students who may be using the schools' networks to illegally download pirated movies.
Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited:
Forgotten your password?  Google can find it for you.  Unfortunately  —  There's a certain amount of crowing associated with hacking the blog of a security team - which might be why a hacker, apparently Russian, broke into the blog of the Cambridge University security team at the Light Blue Touchpaper blog.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and TechSpot News
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Divshare To DeadPool  —  Divshare, a startup we lightly praised, has apparently put its domain name and service up for sale.  —  Generally putting your service up for sale on a random domain name forum is one step above just shutting it down.  It means you see no real hope for growth …
Discussion: Download Squad
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Diller Says IAC Will Invest As Much As $100 Million in China  —  IAC, (NSDQ: IACI) now split into five groups, will invest as much as $100 million in China to build a new Internet business there and will bring in Ask.com, said Barry Diller, speaking to reporters in Beijing today.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
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OLPC extends "Give One, Get One" program to December 31
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Hack Attack : Get Windows XP SP3 Through Windows Update
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
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Go get your free Halo theme for Guitar Hero 3 on Xbox Live
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Manage Those Holiday Gift Cards With Leverage
Discussion: Consumer Reports
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Facebook takes some hits from MoveOn.org for violating privacy …
Discussion: All Facebook and Mark Evans
 Earlier Items: 
Chris Williams / The Register:
Why is the iPlayer a multi million pound disaster?
Discussion: CrunchGear and Slashdot
Cliff L. Biffle / Cliff Hacks Things:
ASUS eeePC: First impressions and GPL violations
Staska / PC JOINT:
MultiTouch 2.0 comes to Apple computers
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
The BIG iPod touch review
Discussion: Gizmodo
Frank Pasquale / madisonian.net:
Real Online Competition: The Right to Exit
Discussion: WebProNews
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Update On One Of Google's Paid Links Info Pages?
Addy Dugdale / Gizmodo:
Japanese Researchers Recycle Old Cell Phone Parts into PCs [Recycled Parts]
Discussion: Tech Digest
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
O2 has Wigan-sized iPhone problem
Discussion: broadstuff