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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Six Apart Sells LiveJournal To Russia's SUP — Six Apart has sold its hosting blogging platform LiveJournal, which it acquired in January 2005, to Moscow-headquarted SUP (pronounced "soup"), the company said this evening. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
In Japan Half The Top Selling Books Are Written On Mobile Phones — With all the talk about Amazon's Kindle, there's a bigger revolution taking place and those who studied classic literature will be horrified. In Japan, half of the top ten selling works of fiction in the first six months of 2007 were composed on mobile phones.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Stealing Books For The Kindle Is Trivially Easy — If you are willing to violate copyright laws, getting free ebooks is almost as easy as getting free music. There are numerous sites that have free, legal, out-of-copyright ebook files available for download.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
RockYou climbing past Slide, to be number one widget-maker? — RockYou, the company behind popular Facebook applications and Myspace Flash widgets, may soon pass its arch-rival Slide to be the largest widget-maker in the world. — Some have accurately called such Facebook applications …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Facebook App Developers Square Off: RockYou! Overtakes Slide — Back in August, we noted that most of the very big Facebook apps seem to be owned by Slide or RockYou!. At that point Slide had the most popular Facebook app (in terms of users), with Top Friends.
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Internet Ad Spend Set To Overtake Radio In '08, Magazines By 2010: Report — Despite growing pressures on global advertising dollars in general, ZenithOptimedia's optimistic outlook for online ad spending is undiminished, projecting that the category will surpass radio ad dollars in 2008 and the amount spent on magazines by 2010.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
JotSpot to Spawn Google Sites - Can it Make Intranet CMS Dinosaurs Extinct? — A well linked to post over the weekend was Andrew Miller's notes on a Google Apps presentation. The main presenter was Scott Johnston, former VP of Product Development at JotSpot - one of my favorite Web Office apps …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Facebook Founder Finds He Wants Some Privacy — Social networking Web sites can seem dedicated to the idea that nobody's personal life is worth keeping private, but when it comes to Mark Zuckerberg — the founder of Facebook, one of the largest networks — Facebook disagrees.
Zephoria / apophenia:
Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean? — Advertising is the bread and butter of the web, yet most of my friends claim that they never click on ads, typically using a peacock tone that signals their pride in being ad-averse. The geekier amongst them go out of their way to run Mozilla scripts …
Fred / A VC:
Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room — Back in the spring, we moved homes. Our old house had this over the top Crestron system with audio everywhere driven by a multi-room audio system. At the heart of the system was a series of music servers from a company called Request.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TeXtra's Natali Del Conte Leaves Podshow For CNET TV — TeXtra, a tech news video show hosted by former TechCrunch writer Natali Del Conte, may be shutting down well shy of its first birthday this upcoming February 13. That's because CNET has poached Natali away from Podshow, which owns TeXtra.
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The Register:
Bluetooth marketing window could be shut — The Register Desktop Support Seminar . Live & Online 11th December (10am PST) — A window of opportunity for marketing by Bluetooth technology that opened in October could be closed once more, the UK Government has said.
Staska / Unwired View:
NEW NOKIA 6 OR 8 MEGAPIXEL IMAGING SLIDER IN THE WORKS? — It's been a while now since Nokia came up with an interesting phone form factor innovation in an actual phone, instead of patent applications. — You know, something along the lines of Nokia 7380 "lipstick", Nokia N92 TV phone or Nokia N93 Camcorder/imaging phone.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Roll over, Beethoven: Deutsche Grammophon ditches DRM — Universal has been one of the two major labels to drop DRM (along with the UK's EMI), but its support of the MP3 format has been experimental. Should the experiment not go well, Universal has always reserved the right to slap the padlocks back on its tunes.
