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Brandon Holley / Yodel Anecdotal:
Hear us roar — This isn't exactly a secret, but we've unveiled a new website for women today, called Yahoo! Shine. — When our editorial team — which includes editors that hail from Lucky to Jane to the Wall Street Journal — sat down to conceive it, we wanted to avoid all of the buckets …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
What Yahoo could bring to Microsoft: Some media sense — Yahoo launched Shine, a fashion and beauty site targeted at women, and the move illustrates one of the biggest assets the portal could bring to Microsoft-some media sense and the ability to target demographics.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:Yahoo targets women with new ‘Shine’ site
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Download Squad, BuzzMachine, VentureBeat, Search Engine Watch Blog, Los Angeles Times, paidContent.org and Mashable!
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Publish2 raises a round, aims to bring more journalists to the web — In recent years, many journalists (including myself) have experimented with web services intended to help journalism go online, and those efforts have failed. — We'd hoped that things like better newsroom software …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones in 2009 — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate of 45 million a year by 2009.
Juliette Garside / Telegraph:
Virgin Media takes fight to illegal downloaders — Virgin Media looks set to become the first British internet company to crack down on customers who download music illegally. — Record labels are lobbying for a “three strikes” regime that would see those who collect pirated material disconnected …
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:ISP To Voluntarily Disconnect File-Sharers, Offers Free Usenet
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mathewingram.com/work:
The blogosphere as high school, part XVII — My friend Mark Evans has a post about the lack of original thought in the blogosphere — or at least the pressures that tend to keep original thought from appearing — and as the closest thing to what MG Siegler calls a “bitchmeme” this weekend, it has grabbed a bunch of links.
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Peter Sayer / InfoWorld:
Adobe joins Linux Foundation, develops AIR for Linux — San Francisco - Adobe Systems released an early alpha version of its rich Internet application platform AIR for Linux on Monday, and announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes and standardizes Linux.
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Doc Searls Weblog:
Getting airports and hotels out of the pay toilet business — I upload a lot of photos. It's almost always an ordeal unless I'm at home or work. That's because I get fast upload speeds in both places. At home I have a fiber connection to the Net with 20Mb symmetrical service — a rare and good thing.
Charles Knight / Alt Search Engines:
APRIL 1st is THE ANNUAL DAY WITHOUT GOOGLE! — Editor's note: This blog is not anti-Google. — All we're asking is that for One Day you try one of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines to be posted here tomorrow for One Day - April 1, 2008. And no, it's not a joke, we're very serious.
Richard Thurston / The Register:
Apple ‘most successful world brand’ — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — Apple is the most successful brand in the world, according to an international online poll of marketers. — The Mac maker topped the majority of categories in the poll, which asked marketers …
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
CIA enlists Google's help for spy work — US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects — Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Chumby Picks Up $12.5 Million Series B Funding — Chumby Industries (love the name), makers of the Chumby Internet connected device, have picked up $12.5 million in Series B funding today. The lead investor was JK&B Capital, and other participants included existing venture investors …
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The Social
Denise Howell / Lawgarithms:
Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit — The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should function are as divergent as ever.
Bonnie Cha / Crave: The gadget blog:
Lime-green Motorola Q9c adds twist to Alltel and U.S. Cellular — CTIA 2008 is still one day away from its official start, but the news is already starting to trickle in. Motorola got a jump start as it, as well as Alltel and U.S. Cellular, announced the addition of the Motorola Q9c …
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