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11:15 AM ET, March 15, 2008

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Josh Wolf / Webware.com:
CNN tracks Ashley Dupre's social networking activity and provides full report  —  For most people, updating your MySpace or Facebook profile is not news.  Sure, it might appear in your news feed on the site, but that's just about as far as the story is likely to travel.
Discussion: VoIP Blog, Valleywag, MTV and Salon
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Mallory Simon / CNN:
Dupre's MySpace page evolves with scandal  —  (CNN) — In three days, Ashley Alexandra Dupre went from being an unknown 22-year-old aspiring musician to the fifth most-searched subject on Google because of her alleged sexual encounters with New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
How Internet news should work  —  By the mid-90s I became accustomed to reading news on the web.  So much so that I cancelled subscriptions to the NY Times and Wall Street Journal because most days I'd never take the papers out of the plastic bags they were delivered in.
Discussion: Social Media
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:   Radical Idea For News Sites: Show What's New On Your Homepage
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Report: DVR could turn Apple TV into multi-billion dollar business  —  By integrating digital video recording (DVR) features into Apple TV, Apple stands to transform it's niche media hub business into a serious growth driver worth over a billion dollars annually, according to one Wall Street analyst.
Blake Robinson / ReadWriteWeb:
FriendFeed vs SocialThing!  —  In the past year there has been an explosion in social media.  Where once we had only to worry about managing our Facebook or MySpace networks, we're now each creating a seemingly infinite number of feeds.  The burden of this data is a lot to manage …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Launch Instant Messaging Service  —  Facebook has been testing a new instant messaging service and will be launching it to the public soon, perhaps in the next week.  —  Our understanding is that the service will be built into user's Facebook pages and allow them to web chat with their Facebook friends.
YouTube :: Blog:
YouTube Videos in High Quality  —  You may have noticed that we're now giving you the option of watching some YouTube videos in higher quality.  We're making these streams available on certain videos, based upon the source file uploaded to us, and over time you'll find a greater percentage …
Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Bridging your traffic engine with your revenue engine  —  Viral loops are only good for one thing  —  ... and that thing ain't revenue.  Viral loops generate traffic, but you still need to:  — Retain the traffic that's generated virally  — As well as also monetize the traffic
Om Malik / GigaOM:
And Now InDirecTV  —  The lack of a broadband pipe and the subsequent inability to offer video on demand is the proverbial glass jaw of John Malone's satellite broadcasting service, DirecTV.  While the broadband dilemma is likely to continue for a while, DirecTV has come up with a workaround for the VOD problem.
Liz Tay / iTNews Australia:
Child-like intelligence created in Second Life  —  Four-year-old Eddie might behave like a typical young boy.  Outside of the Second Life virtual world, however, he is anything but.  —  The child is a product of logic-based artificial intelligence and complex modelling techniques …
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Second Life's Second Phase  —  The Burning Man era of Second Life is over.  According to Reuters and a personal announcement on the official blog of Linden Lab, the company behind the user-created online world, Philip Rosedale is stepping down as Linden's CEO.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Sucks Life Out of Old Media: Check Out The 2007 Share Shift  —  For the past few quarters, we've analyzed the amazing rate at which advertising spending is moving online.  Now we're able to look at full-year 2007.  —  Specifically, we analyzed the change in US advertising revenue at 17 major media companies from 2006 and 2007.
Discussion: CNET News.com, TechCrunch and WebGuild
 
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Brad Linder / Eee Site:
Asus EP20: First look at the Eee PC desktop
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
The night the IETF turned off IPv4
Discussion: Slashdot
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel to launch quad-core notebook CPU in 3Q08
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
YouTube's Embedded Player Has Been Updated
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dell busts out 20-inch UltraSharp 2009W LCD
Discussion: DisplayBlog and Electronista
Reggie / Internet Tablet Talk:
The noBounds Project  —  It seems like folks from the Nokia …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Wundrbar: A Smart Search and Account Management Tool
Discussion: KillerStartups.com
Google Code Blog:
How we improved performance on Google Code
Discussion: Ajaxian
 Earlier Items: 
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
PodShow said to lay off 20 out of 60-plus employees
Discussion: The Last Podcast and Mashable!
Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux
Discussion: Digg
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MTV Uses P2P Data for Playlist Selection
Discussion: Digg
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
MySpace platform goes live, with issues, developers staying optimistic
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
EU taxpayers to fund $306m Google rival.  No wonder the Yanks think we're dumb
Discussion: LEWIS 360°
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
SXSW: Not Much to Twitter About
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Blu-ray Blues  —  Now that HD DVD is dead and Sony's Blu-ray …
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone developer rejection letter mass mailing
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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