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10:50 AM ET, May 14, 2008

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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 …
Discussion: Valleywag
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
Discussion: Zoli's Blog
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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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat
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.
Discussion: Today @ PC World and WebProNews
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Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
MySpace wins $230 million anti-spam judgment
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" …
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
More people depend solely on cell phones  —  For many people, the residential home phone is fast becoming the equivalent of a vestigial body part - it's there, but serves little or no purpose.  —  According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 22.3 percent …
Discussion: Portfolio.com
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:   3 in 10 get all or most calls on cell phones
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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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:   NY Tech Video Demo: Summize Conversational Search
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 …
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.
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Dell to cut energy use by 25 percent in PCs  —  Bragging rights have gone in the PC industry have shifted from being cheap on price to miserly with energy.  —  Dell on Wednesday announced energy efficiency targets for its laptops and desktop PCs: a 25 percent reduction by 2010 based on the efficiency rating of today's models.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Moonwatcher and CrunchGear
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.
Discussion: Search Engine Land
 
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
First European Anti-Piracy Disconnection: The Finnish Government
Discussion: Mashable!
Lucian Cionca / Google News Blog:
Keeping good news stories together: just part of what it means …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Google sets sights on IPv6
Anne B. Camden / Your Blog:
Calling All Gamers...  I'm guessing that most hardcore gamers …
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
OCZ Announces 15.4" DIY Gaming Notebook
Discussion: The Tech Report and Engadget
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Too Many Choices, Too Much Content  —  Sometimes it's just hard to keep up.
Discussion: David Risley
Liz Tay / iTNews Australia:
Quantum cryptography not yet perfectly secure, researchers say
Discussion: The Register and Slashdot
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Wireless Boss: Smartphones, Data Leading Growth, No Comment On 3G iPhone Timing
Discussion: Electronista and IP Democracy
 Earlier Items: 
Brian Nadel / Computerworld:
Review: Which 3G network is the best?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Report: Al Gore's CurrentTV Offered $100 Million For Digg In 2006
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Tablet PC, Mac style: a review of the Axiotron ModBook
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and GottaBeMobile
Matt Manolides / Google LatLong:
Where in the world is...  Hello again!  Today I'm happy …
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Frank Watson / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Advertisers Can't Sell Hard Liquor But Google Can
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Where 2.0 Video: Google/ESRI Keynote
Discussion: All Points Blog and Screenwerk
Lewis Page / The Register:
SMS costs more than using Hubble Space Telescope
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
What is blocking Vista users from recording NBC shows?