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8:20 PM ET, May 26, 2008

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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
New York Times API Coming  —  As print circulation continues its slide at most newspapers, one of the United States' most respected newspapers, the New York Times, is taking steps to boost online readership.  The paper is already the third most cited web site on Techmeme, and the first on Memeorandum …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Demo of iPhone Earth  —  Want to see what the earth would look like in your iPhone?  Watch the video below, which was shot by Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog.  It shows a demo of the “coolest thing” he saw at the recent Where 2.0 conference from a Boulder-Colorado startup called Earthscape..
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Blazing Samsung 256GB SSD Is the One We've Been Waiting For  —  This is the solid-state drive that we've been waiting for: a full 256GB, which Samsung says is “the world's fastest and largest capacity 2.5-inch, MLC-based SSD with SATA II Interface.”  Sick sequential read and sequential write speeds …
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Sometimes Crowds Aren't That Wise  —  Last week, computer book publisher SitePoint relayed a story about recent experiences with Digg that demonstrates that the Digg system is far from perfect.  We've written recently on ReadWriteWeb about the decline and fall of quality on Digg …
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
YouTube suit called threat to online communication  —  NEW YORK - A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.
Discussion: CNET News.com
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Semantic Tagging with Faviki  —  Faviki is a new social bookmarking tool that offers something that services like Ma.gnolia, del.icio.us, and Diigo do not - semantic tagging capabilities.  What this means is that instead of having users haphazardly entering in tags to describe the links they save …
Discussion: UMBC ebiquity
getclicky.com/blog:
Paypal has been terribly broken for 10 days and no one's talking about it.  —  Everyone's heard Paypal horror stories, but those are typically related to individual accounts, e.g. fraud, random holds on money, terrible customer service, etc.  From over 6 years of both personal use …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:   PayPal Apparently Costs Merchants Thousands of Dollars By Not Communicating
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
FriendFeed Should Kill Those Who Accuse It of Murder  —  Internet - Can we please stop with the FriendFeed murderous meme?  —  Over the weekend it was that FriendFeed is going to kill Twitter - which won't happen.  Today it's that FriendFeed is going to kill Google Reader - which won't happen.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Should services charge “super users”?  —  Om Malik says that Twitter should charge super users like me and come up with a business model.  —  Dare Obasanjo, in a separate, but similar post comes to the conclusion that Twitter's problems are due to super users like me.  —  Interesting that both of these guys are wrong.
Smashing Magazine:
Beautiful And Original Product Designs  —  Successful product design manages to reveal useful functionality beyond its appealing form.  No matter how excellent a design looks like, most customers aren't likely to spend money on something they won't be able to use.
Discussion: Digg
Dusan / IntoMobile:
Brando's iPhone Super Grip makes sure your iPhone never slips away  —  iPhone may be a beautiful phone but without a proper case it can easily slip away.  On the other hand, that same case makes the device look uglier, but I guess that's a trade off for protecting it against falls.
Discussion: Unwired View and textually.org
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Warner Tries a New Tactic to Revive Its DVD Sales  —  LOS ANGELES — Retail's love affair with the DVD is on the rocks and Warner Brothers Entertainment would like to patch things up.  —  Faced with a decline in DVD sales, Warner Brothers, part of Time Warner, is planning an unusual effort around …
Discussion: NewTeeVee and ReadWriteWeb
 
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Rob Kerr / Inquirer:
Asus Ebox ready for launch
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Advertisement holds web 2.0 in a death grip
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Tom Abate / San Francisco Chronicle:
Via set to fight Intel in microprocessor arena
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Nvidia has two CPU lines
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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