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3:40 AM ET, April 15, 2008

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Russell Beattie / Russell Beattie's Weblog:
The end of Mowser  —  It's been a year since I launched Mowser at April 2007's Mobile Monday, so it's time for a progress report.  Sadly, the news isn't good.  —  Mowser is at the end of its life in its current form.  We haven't been able to raise funding, and as a site …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Is the Mobile Web Dead?  Some Mobile Entrepreneurs Say Yes  —  Former Yahoo! Mobile evangelist turned startup entrepreneur Russell Beattie announced today that he's calling it quits for his company Mowser because the market for mobile browsing is taking a fast turn for the worse.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mobile Web: Over before it began?
Discussion: The Blog Herald
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Buys Sphere's Blog Content Engine  —  Tomorrow AOL will announce the acquisition of San Francisco-based Sphere, a blog content engine that launched in 2006.  The price is not being disclosed, but sources are suggesting it's in the $25 million range, or possibly a little more.  More details from Om Malik
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Tony Conrad / Sphere Blog:
Our New Address @ AOL.COM  —  Unlike the rumor that Sphere has reserved the Wrigley Field bleachers for Game 7 of the 2008 World Series, the conjecture about Sphere being acquired by a larger platform is officially true.  AOL has acquired sphere.  More information is here, here and here again for the curious detail seeker.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Personal Note: Conrad Got Mailed.  —  My buddy Tony Conrad, co-founder & CEO of Sphere just called to let me know that he had sold his company to AOL for an undisclosed amount of money.  The details of this announcement are on TechCrunch and also on the Sphere blog.
Discussion: Photo Matt
Waxy.org:
Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2  —  One of the biggest criticisms of Google's App Engine have been cries of lock-in, that the applications developed for the platform won't be portable to any other service.  This morning, Chris Anderson, the Portland-based cofounder …
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Is Google App Engine a Lock-in Play?  —  Venture capitalist Brad Feld just put up an intriguing post comparing Google App Engine to Amazon EC2.  The meat of the entry is from an analysis by Brad's friend Scott Moody.  Here are the juiciest bits, pro and con: … This last point is really very serious.
comScore:
AOL's Platform-A Ranks as Top Ad Network in March, Reaching More Than 9 Out of 10 U.S. Internet Users  —  Niche Ad Networks Emerge to Help Advertisers Target Specific Audiences  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released March 2008 data on online ad networks …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Not A Misprint: AOL's Platform A Is The Top Advertising Network By Reach
Discussion: Tech Beat
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yahoo! Slurp 3.0  —  Over the past few weeks, we've been preparing for the latest version of the Yahoo! Search crawler with some infrastructure updates, which recently caused a variance in our crawl behavior.  —  With everything now in place, the rollout has officially begun.
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Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 Replaces Yahoo! Slurp Search Engine Crawler
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Latest iPhone Firmware Saves Pictures from Safari  —  At last!  The latest beta version of Apple's iPhone 1.2.0 firmware gives you the possibility of saving pictures straight from Safari and into the Photo Album.  We tried and it works: just hold your finger against an image for a longer …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hitwise: Google Hits New High; Microsoft & Yahoo New Lows  —  Last week, Hitwise released the latest statistics for search engine share in the United States for March 2008, showing Google at an all-time high while Microsoft and Yahoo hit all-time lows.  —  The four major search engines stack up as follows:
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Content Is Becoming a Commodity  —  Over the weekend, it seemed that everyone in the tech blogosphere contributed to the discussion around fractured blog comments; Robert Scoble even went so far as to say that the “era of blogger's control” is over.  What all these discussions hinged …
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Tony Hung / Deep Jive Interests:   Blogging's Naked Truth
benheck.com:
Apple IIgs Original Hardware Laptop  —  As many of you know I grew up during the 80's and spent a lot of time with the fun 8-bit computers of those days.  One of my favorites was the Apple IIgs, and when someone requested I build a portable version of it I jumped at the chance.
David Cohn / DigiDave:
What I Hate About the Internet - Everyone is a “Social Media Consultant”  —  Already you can tell this will be a different kind of post for me.  Before I begin my curmudgeoned polemic, let me state for the record: Overall I LOVE the internet.  I love how it empowers, entertains, enables, etc.
Discussion: WinExtra
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Social network Hi5's developer platform is more successful (and spammier?) than MySpace's [updated]  —  It's a tale of two social network developer platforms.  Hi5, a site popular in some Spanish-speaking Latin American countries and other regions around the world, launched its platform …
 
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Seth Sutel / Associated Press:
AP Cuts Prices, Announces Mobile Product
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Rocker Peter Gabriel offers Filter to cut through online clutter
Eric Deggans / The Feed:
Half of Employees at WFLA-Ch. 8, Tampa Tribune and Other Tampa …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FTC: We'll take on spyware, spam, and unlabeled DRM
Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
Move Networks Rasies C Round Totaling $67.9, Not $91.3 Million
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Maps + YouTube Videos = Local Video White Pages
Discussion: Google LatLong
comScore:
comScore Media Metrix Releases Top 50 Web Rankings for March
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google: We're Going to Crush Baidu in China. We Think.
Discussion: paidContent.org
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
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TwitLinks: Not Useful, Not A TechMeme Killer
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Bridging the Gap, the Sequel
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search
Discussion: WebProNews and NewTeeVee
Xssniper / Billy (BK) Rios:
Google XSS  —  Now, normally when I find an XSS vulnerability …
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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