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Catherine Rampell / Chronicle of Higher Education:
How It Does It: The RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates — To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative told The Chronicle …
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Podcasting News, Mark Evans, Ars Technica, TECH.BLORGE.com, Recording Industry vs …, The Chronicle and Slashdot
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ok, Wired, Let's Do This. — A week ago Wired Magazine voiced its displeasure over our syndication partnership with the Washington Post. … When I read this I thought “WTF?” (with an emphasis on the “F"). Wired is a competitor to TechCrunch, but we've been on friendly terms with them for years now.
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Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
Post, TechCrunch Mum on Syndication Deal — Last week we ran a short news item about a syndication deal for a little blog called TechCrunch. — We pointed out how odd it seemed that the Washington Post, one of the nation's most trusted and revered newspapers, would run stories written …
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Valleywag
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web — First, I'm very happy to say that Ning will be rolling out our formal production support for Open Social in June. — In case you missed the news at the time, Open Social is a standard way, sponsored by Google, to build new features ("gadgets" …
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Raju Vegesna / Zoho Blogs:
Login to Zoho with your Google or Yahoo! Accounts — Now you can login to Zoho with your Google or Yahoo! accounts. Below the Zoho Sign-in section, you now have the option to login with your Google or Yahoo! accounts. — If you already have a Zoho account with your Google or Yahoo! …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Zoho No Longer Requires Accounts. Sign In With Your Yahoo Or Google ID
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David Reiss / Facebook Developers:
Using Facebook Chat via Jabber — Since the launch of Facebook Chat, we've received a lot of positive feedback from users about being able to connect instantly with their friends on Facebook. With Chat fully launched and growing steadily, we've started working on more new features to enhance the Chat experience.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Summize Gains “Local” Twitter Search Option — Summize has already turned into my preferred tool to search for what people are saying on Twitter. Now it's gained a way to see what people are twittering about near a local area. — Say I want to see what's been happening in Newport Beach, California, in terms of Twitter activity.
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BBC:
MySpace wins bumper spam payout — MySpace has won a $234m (£120m) legal judgement over junk messages sent to members of the social networking site. — Victory in the case was awarded to MySpace after Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines, the men behind the junk mail, failed to show up in court.
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Verizon, Mozilla to join LiMo Foundation — The LiMo Foundation is adding several well-known entities to its roster of mobile phone players, including Verizon and Mozilla. — A total of eight companies have agreed to join forces with LiMo to work on a Linux-based operating system for mobile phones …
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Using real-time news tools — So rumour has it that Twitter ‘beat’ even the US Geological Survey in reporting the earthquakes in China. — This was flagged up by tweet-a-second obsessive Robert Scoble, who said he saw a tweet from Twitter's dtan in Beijing before news outlets had picked up on the story …
Fred / A VC:
Disqus and Seesmic Pair Up For Video Comments — First, let me say that I am not sure about the utility of video comments. I've seen them and even viewed them on Techcrunch and I think they slow down and break up the conversation more than they contribute to it.
Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
MacBooks will take 50% of notebook market share within a year — I saw an interesting blog post this week regarding how Apple is immune to the innovator's dilemma (for those unfamiliar with the term). First, I don't think the company is immune at all, I think that OS X and MacBooks …
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Semantic Travel Search Engine UpTake Launches — According to a comScore study done last year, booking travel over the Internet has become something of a nightmare for people. It's not that using any of the booking engines is difficult, it's just that there is so much information out there that planning a vacation is overwhelming.
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Search Engine Land
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Too Many Choices, Too Much Content — Sometimes it's just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers.
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David Risley
