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4:15 PM ET, September 18, 2008

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Amazon Web Services Blog:
We're Never Content  —  We've got something new and cool in the works and I'm excited to be able to tell you a little bit about it today!  —  Before the end of the year we are planning to release a new service for content delivery.  This new (and as yet unnamed) service will provide …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Amazon Launches Content Delivery Network.  Rivals, Watch Out!  —  It was a matter of when, not if, that Amazon would launch a content delivery business in addition to its current suite of web services that include S3 storage service and EC2 on-demand computing.
Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
Expanding the Cloud  —  For many the “Cloud” in Cloud Computing signifies the notion of location independence; that somewhere in the internet services are provided and that to access them you do not need any specific knowledge of where they are located.  Many applications have already …
Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
Amazon Launching New Content Delivery Network: No Threat To Major CDNs, Yet
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica:
Alleged 1st-person tale of Palin e-mail hack comes and goes  —  With news of Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo e-mail account being hacked coming to light yesterday, details on how the hack may have taken place may be emerging.
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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Echoing the Campaign of a Rival, Microsoft Aims to Redefine 'I'm a PC'  —  RELAX, computer users, after only two weeks Microsoft will stop teasing you as the company begins the next phase of an ambitious — and risky — $300 million campaign intended to make over its tarnished image.
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Ads Featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Not Canceled  —  From a trusted Crispin Porter source, we've learned that the internet has jumped the gun and that the Microsoft Gates/Seinfeld ads have not been axed.  It's true, Microsoft apparently asked the agency to focus on the new “I'm a PC” spots.
Michael Liedtke / E-Commerce Times:
Google May Plunge Ahead With Yahoo Deal Sans Gov't Blessing  —  Regardless of whether government antitrust dealers need more time to inspect its online ad deal with Yahoo, Google has announced it likely won't make further delays beyond the Oct. 11 deadline spelled out in its contract with the rival search engine.
Discussion: The Register and HipMojo.com
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Reuters:
Google CEO says ready to move on Yahoo deal
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Search for music on Yahoo!, play songs on search results page  —  Companies like SeeqPod and Skreemr have made a business model out of letting you search for a song or musician by name and then streaming the MP3s found on the web.  The sites don't actually host any of the music - just the tools to locate and play it.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo's New Music Business: Other People's Music Businesses (YHOO)
David Bowie / Joost:
Notice anything different? … One of the great things about working at a startup is the ability to be flexible and make changes when our users, trends or data suggest a new direction.  For much of the past year, we've listened to the feedback we've received from many of the people who use Joost …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone 3G Owners Are Using Less Internet Than AT&T Expected: Blame Crappy Service (AAPL, T)  —  Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone 3G is supposedly twice as fast as the old one, and its new App Store opens up all kinds of neat new mobile Internet services like baseball video and free streaming radio.
Discussion: Electronista
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Matt Kapko / mocoNews.net:
Communacopia: AT&T CTO John Donovan: Technology Choices Have To Be Timed For ROI
Discussion: Macsimum News
The Official Google Blog:
The intelligent cloud  —  The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding.  It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of.
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Dan Farber / CNET News:   Google's quest for the intelligent cloud
Don Reisinger / TechCrunch:
Beacon Is Baaaaack!  —  Tom Kincaid, a top Facebook developer and blogger mentioned in the Facebook Developer Forums last night that Beacon seems to be rearing its ugly head once again.  —  According to Kincaid, he signed up for CBS Sportsline and got a Beacon-like pop-up, which he thinks may have used a Facebook cookie.
Discussion: Industry Standard and Valleywag
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Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Beacon Makes a Comeback, With More Choices and Options
Tapan Bhat / Yodel Anecdotal:
Testing, testing...a new Yahoo.com  —  Ever since Jerry and David began categorizing the Web back in 1994, people have visited our homepage to find out what's happening.  That's 100 million of you in the US and 314 million of you globally starting your day on a Yahoo! homepage, so we must be doing something right.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T launch updates: HTC Fuze, Samsung Mirage, Bold moved to November?  —  Bear with us folks.  We've just got ahold of an AT&T product sheet dated September 17th.  Also known as “the most up to date doc you've seen”.  Before we get into the BlackBerry Bold nonsense, here's a break down on what the sheet says:
Tony Smith / The Register:
Toshiba takes wraps off netbook  —  Updated It's official: Toshiba today formally launched its entry into the Small, Cheap Computer arena, following Dell's lead and equipping the Linux version with Ubuntu 8.04.  —  The NB100 is an 8.9in model - the display resolution is 1024 x 600 - and powered by Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270.
Discussion: Liliputing, Electronista and Gadget Lab
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Earthscape iPhone App Now Free For Limited Time, Grab It Now  —  Earthscape (iTunes link), the incredible iPhone application that brings Google-earth to the iPhone, just discounted its $10 pricetag to...free.  For a “limited time.”  —  The app, which we first wrote about in May …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Sometimes Google Isn't Enough: New Research Engine Searches “Deep Web”  —  What do you do when you need to research something on the web?  You just google it, right?  Using a web search engine like Google is usually fine for casual searches, but when you need to delve deep into a subject, it just won't do.
 
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mikeash.com:
The iPhone Development Story
Discussion: TUAW
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
iPhone 3G has a hidden data matrix code
Discussion: The iPhone Blog, Gizmodo and TUAW
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Xohm Baltimore Launch October 6 - Sprint should announce prices on September 26
Discussion: Gearlog and MobileCrunch
Christopher MacManus / Sony Insider:
Sony Japan Releases Bravia App SDK
Discussion: Engadget HD, CrunchGear and Gizmodo
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
All eyes on the MacBook
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Google Chrome: Nearly 2 million US downloads in first week
Discussion: All about Microsoft and Pulse 2.0
John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
HTC Touch HD Gets Fondled in French Video (Oh La La)
Discussion: IntoMobile and Boy Genius Report
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
MySpace Music hears the antitrust song
Discussion: Contentinople
Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics
Tom Hogarty / Lightroom Journal:
Camera Raw 4.6 and DNG Converter available on Adobe Labs
BBC:
‘60,000’ devices are left in cabs
Discussion: Lockergnome and dailywireless.org
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Federal lawsuits take on the humble hyperlink
DeviceGuru:
Stanford offers free CS, robotics courses
Discussion: Brier Dudley's blog
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Mark Zuckerberg Becomes 321st Richest American
Discussion: The Social Web and Valleywag
 

 
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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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