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9:10 PM ET, March 19, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
More Bloggers Raising Money.  Here Come The Politics.  And Here Comes My Rant.  —  More blogs are raising venture capital, we're hearing from people they've pitched.  Newcomer Silicon Alley Insider is looking for a $3 - $5 million round, if reports are correct.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Company Note: Wrong on All Counts  —  Mike, Despite your apparent cold war with us, all it would have taken you to get the facts is drop me an e-mail.  Instead, you got it wrong on all counts::  TechCrunch reports that our company is looking to raise $2 million to $3 million and that we are also considering selling the company.
Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:   Blogger: We Should Team Up to Take On Big Media
comScore:
comScore Releases February 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace.  February 2008 saw Americans conduct nearly 10 billion core searches …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Queries Decelerated in February—Comscore
Discussion: WebProNews and GigaOM
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Report: Google widens Web search lead, again
Discussion: CNET News.com
Robert Hamilton / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Fast is better than slow  —  A few weeks ago, we launched a plug-in for Symbian devices that put a Google search shortcut onto the phone's home screen.  This shortcut reduces the time it takes for you to get answers from Google by eliminating the initial search steps (e.g. finding the browser application …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple may bundle unlimited iTunes with iPods  —  A report by the Financial Times (registration required) cites unnamed executives who say that Apple is in talks with record labels to offer access to the entire iTunes music library for a lump sum price.  The fee would be added as a premium option …
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Official Google Blog:
Opening Google Docs to users and developers via Gadgets and Visualization API  —  Whenever we're asked “how do people use Google spreadsheets?”, we always struggle with where to start.  It's not that we can't think of examples, it's just that the examples are all so different, so unique.
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Port 25:
Supernova  —  I'm writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I'm going to announce the beginning of Microsoft's collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation.  —  This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the Open Source Software Think Tank 2007) …
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Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Microsoft working with Eclipse on Vista, ID links
Discussion: eWeek, OSDir.com and InfoWorld
Fred / A VC:
Thoughts On FriendFeed  —  I know I am late to this discussion and that many bloggers have already weighed in on this topic already.  —  Back a few months ago, the New York Times covered FriendFeed and after reading the story I set up my FriendFeed.  I have always been a fan of aggregation and life streaming.
Discussion: broadstuff
Naomi Gleit / Facebook Blog:
More Privacy Options  —  Today, we are introducing privacy changes that work towards our goal of giving you the control you need in order to share information comfortably on Facebook.  There are two ways we've changed things: a standardized privacy interface across the site, and new privacy options available through this interface.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Mefeedia Launches Extensive Multimedia Search  —  Online video community Mefeedia has officially launched its media search engine indexing more than 15,000 sources of video, TV, music and podcasts.  It's even indexing SlideShare presentations.  It's a good place to find media on almost …
Discussion: Webware.com and NewTeeVee
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Frank / Mefeedia Blog:   Announcing Video Search - Search across 15,000 Video Sites
eMarketer:
Online Advertisers To Spend Through Turbulence  —  The shift online will continue in 2008.  —  eMarketer predicts that, despite the economic rough patch, US online advertising will continue to grow through 2008.  Online ad spending will rise by 23%.  —  Yet even that reduced rate of growth …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo turns to radio ads to lure Google Web searchers  —  Updated 10 a.m. PDT with quotes from radio ad.  —  Yahoo is running radio ads in the San Francisco Bay Area and several other markets in an effort to get more people to use its search engine instead of Google's.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Dell's Latitude XT2 plans revealed  —  That's Dell's product rendering for its second generation Latitude XT convertible tablet.  Expected in November 2008, the XT2 will ship with Intel's latest Montevina, er “Centrino 2” architecture in your choice of ULV or LV CPUs, new UMA graphics supporting Vista Aero …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Verizon Wireless opens its network  —  Verizon Wireless unveiled specifications for its new open wireless program Wednesday as part of a strategy that could change the future of the wireless market.  But the road ahead will likely be a long and slow one.  —  Traditionally, cell phone operators …
Discussion: Gearlog
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Roger Cheng / CNN:
2nd UPDATE: Verizon Wireless Unveils Open Network Specs
Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Is your Airport Extreme suddenly Time Machine-happy?  —  Sometimes the fixes are subtle and quiet.  Once TUAW reader Peder downloaded today's Airport updates and ran the utility, he noticed a new version of the Airport Extreme firmware queued up and ready (v7.3.1).
Discussion: Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun and Engadget
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Mahalo Launches Reviews and Ratings; CEO Shares Company Stats  —  Today at the Search Engine Strategies conference in NYC, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis is launching a new feature: product/service reviews and ratings.  I sat down with Jason yesterday to discuss the new feature and here are my notes.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google about to drop the other Enterprise shoe on Microsoft?  —  I'm hearing about a few things that Google is planning to do to newly compete with Microsoft's enterprise offerings.  —  Several people have told me about an offline version of Gmail, coming soon.
 
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
SugarSync: Most useful sync tool ever. But you'll pay for it.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay to BBC: We Don't Want To Be Information Slaves
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
CNET Soap Opera Continues; CEO Neil Ashe May Be Fighting For His Job
Discussion: HipMojo.com and MarketWatch
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple and Adobe: Who needs whom?
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
VC confab: Please, no more social networks
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
HTC Shift Vista UMPC Coming in EV-DO Flavor
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Advertising Is Content; Content Is Advertising
Discussion: Going Social Now
Dan Goodin / The Register:
So what's the easiest box to hack - Vista, Ubuntu or OS X?
Discussion: Computerworld
 Earlier Items: 
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
The long awaited HTC Shift is now coming to you from Sprint, 140+ hands-on photos
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Google launches tool portal for nonprofits
Discussion: Google LatLong and WebProNews
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
FCC approves new method for tracking broadband's reach
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Whatever happened to Microsoft's ‘other’ mesh projects?
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Ad network Federated Media close to raising $30M round, valued at $200M
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
First iPhone Developer acceptances confirmed
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
The reality of the RDF: how Apple motivates us to creativity
Leander Kahney / Wired News:
How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong