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11:25 AM ET, May 10, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Three's Company Or Three's A Crowd?  Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday  —  Don't they say good things come in threes?  Well, regardless, we've heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs …
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Dave Morin / Facebook Developers:
Announcing Facebook Connect
Corvida / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Answers MySpace Data Availability With Facebook Connect
Charlene Li / Groundswell:
Facebook Connect - another step to open social networks
Discussion: Damien Mulley
David Recordon / O'Reilly Radar:
MySpace's Data Availability is not Data Portability
Discussion: IDG News Service and Ars Technica
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Facebook: Friends with Money  —  The social network taps a fresh source of funds for $100 million and will buy more servers to support its growth in users and applications  —  Facebook is about to stuff more cash into its already full coffers.  Having raised $360 million in the span of seven months …
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Facebook Borrows $100 Million to Buy Servers
Discussion: VentureBeat
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Inquisitor Joins the Yahoo! Search Team  —  Last year, Yahoo! Search launched Search Assist to help users find what they're looking for quickly and easily by providing query suggestions and related concepts in real-time.  Today, Yahoo! Search is embracing the Mac community …
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Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
Yahoo Acquires Inquisitor to Target Safari Users
Discussion: TechCrunch
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
.org owners facing 10% hike in registration fees this fall  —  Organizations that own .org domains may soon find themselves paying a bit more to renew, transfer, and register new domains.  The company that operates the .org domain, Public Interest Registry (PIR), has decided to raise wholesale rates …
Discussion: Mashable!
Robert McMillan / IDG News Service:
Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits  —  Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products.  —  Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit …
Paul Stamatiou:
Review: Summize Twitter Search  —  Summize, a company I am quite familiar with following my review of their review aggregator product, has substantially changed their company direction since I have last been in touch with them.  They are now focusing on a Twitter search tool …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Yuvi / The StatBot:
The All Time Techmeme Leaderboard from The Statbot  —  The Techmeme leaderboard is limited only to the past 30 days.  Here's the Top 100 Sites on Techmeme, all time: … http://www.techcrunch.com … http://www.nytimes.com … http://www.engadget.com … http://news.com.com
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Spotplex Suffers Identity Crisis, Stumbles Into DeadPool  —  We introduced Spotplex in February 2007 as a potential Digg killer that served up popular stories by monitoring how many people read them.  Somewhere along the way, it also turned into an Alexa-like analytics service.
Electronista:
Zune reaches 2m sales; flat versus iPod  —  As part of its recent Zune update, Microsoft has revealed that it has sold two million of the music players since their launch in November 2006, revealing relatively flat growth for the device lineup.  Although the company originally promised …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Sneak Peak At Android Apps Out of MIT  —  A class at MIT built some mobile apps for Google's Android operating system and presented them today.  CrunchGear's own superblogger Doug Aamoth reports on the seven apps—loco, Flare, GeoLife, Re:public, Locale, Kei, and snap—that he saw.
Discussion: CrunchGear and DSLreports
Maria Halkias / Dallas Morning News:
Amazon.com may owe Texas millions in uncollected sales taxes  —  mhalkias@dallasnews.com  —  Texans who shop Amazon.com to avoid paying sales taxes may not have that luxury for long.  —  The Texas Comptroller's Office is investigating whether the Internet retail behemoth …
Discussion: The Register, Mashable! and WebProNews
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
BlackBerry vs. iPhone  —  1: WHEREIN NEITHER ‘RIM’ NOR ‘BLACKBERRY’ ARE EVEN MENTIONED, BUT RATHER THE STAGE IS SET FOR SHOWING WHY THEY MIGHT BE SERIOUSLY SCREWED  —  Along the lines of can't-really-be-answered-but-gosh- they're-fun-to-ponder questions like, say, “Who'd win in a fight …
Discussion: Technovia
Julie Ruvolo / VentureBeat:
Madison Avenue shift: Look who's leaving big firms, moving to digital startups  —  Executives at major media companies and advertising agencies are defecting to web start-ups in increasing numbers, attracted by some combination of equity and autonomy.  Here's a closer look at who's left, and gone where.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and broadstuff
Saul Hansell / Bits:
AT&T's Wi-Fi Tease for iPhone Users  —  Maybe it's because I work as a reporter, but it seems to me that secrets are overrated.  I suspect that so often the cost of keeping secrets is greater than whatever benefit they bring.  —  You may disagree.  But there's one thing that should be clear …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Colleges fret RIAA push for state anti-P2P laws
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Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
Guitar Hero pedal used for one-handed gameplay
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
If Copyright Is About Incentive, Should It Allow Total Control Over The Work?
John P. Falcone / Webware.com:
Netflix Watch Now: Missing too much popular content
Robert Lemos / SecurityFocus:
Proposed cybersecurity bill to pressure DHS
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
oEmbed: An Open Format for Embedding Media
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Report: Rumored Google, News Corp. bids make Blinkx shares soar
 Earlier Items: 
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Spam Moves to Cellphones and Gets More Invasive
Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Facebook's Valuation Problem
Discussion: Deal Journal and WinBeta
Richard Liebson / The Journal News:
Stolen laptop leads victim to alleged thieves
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to appeal EC's $1.39 billion fine
Ben Worthen / Business Technology:
Tech Conferences: A Breeding Ground of Disease?
Don Reisinger / CNET News.com:
Why Apple should release a game console
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
The 5 Stages of a Consumer Web Startup
Discussion: broadstuff
 

 
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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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