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7:20 AM ET, March 11, 2009

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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Gets Into Behavioral Targeting, Launches “Interest-Based Advertising” Beta  —  Google today is launching a form of behavioral targeting advertising named Interest-Based Advertising.  Interest-Based Advertising allows advertisers to deliver ads based on hundreds of interest categories and previous interactions with those users.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google to Offer Ads Based on Interests  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google will begin showing ads on Wednesday to people based on their previous online activities in a form of advertising known as behavioral targeting, which has been embraced by most of its competitors but has drawn criticism from privacy advocates and some members of Congress.
Aitan Weinberg / Inside AdSense:
Driving monetization with ads that reach the right audience  —  Advertisers spend more money on campaigns that reach the right audience; helping them do that should drive more revenue to your websites.  This week we're announcing plans to provide interest-based advertising across AdSense publisher sites to help achieve that goal.
InfoWorld:
How Vista mistakes guided changes to Windows development  —  About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of Microsoft's Windows Vista team met with a group of journalists to face some tough questions about the OS.  —  At the time, it was clear Vista was not going to be the …
Discussion: Hardware 2.0 and Computerworld
innerfence:
Google to Shut Down Infinite SMS  —  Got an email from Google.  They say they're going to start blocking sometime tomorrow, 11 March 2009.  —  Google will soon block Infinite SMS and all other non-Google software from sending free text messages.  —  For now, Infinite SMS will continue to work …
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Google's free SMS gravy train dries up
Discussion: TechSpot
Christian Zibreg / TG Daily:
Apple's App Store analysis: This Titanic is actually unsinkable … Chicago (IL) -With nearly 27,000 applications now available on Apple's App Store, the number of iPhone applications has now exceeded what it took Windows Mobile nine years to amass.  With an addressable market …
Discussion: Macsimum News
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple's App Store already nearing pace of $1 billion business?
Discussion: TUAW, VentureBeat, CNET News and IntoMobile
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
In case you missed ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ last night  —  If you didn't get to see Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night, here's your second chance!  Up above is NBC's edited segment, and after the break we've got our own video (for completists and international readers).
Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence:
Visits to Gmail surpass YouTube  —  For the past two weeks, the market share of US Internet visits to Gmail has been higher than visits to YouTube.  Previously, YouTube consistently ranked 10th among all websites by market share of visits until the week ending Jan. 10, 2009, where Gmail moved up one rank to reach #10.
Nokia:
Nokia latest releases set to hit the top of the charts  —  Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the arrival of new Nokia Music Stores, more Comes With Music launches and three new music devices.  The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia 5330 XpressMusic and Nokia 5030 bring people's music to life …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Apple backs down on Tweetie app.  Swear words for all!  —  Earlier today, iPhone app developer Loren Brichter raised hell on Twitter about Apple's rejection of the latest version of his Twitter iPhone app, Tweetie.  Perhaps after seeing the crazy amount of negative coverage …
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Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
Tweetie 1.3 Rejected by Apple for Returning “Offensive Language” …
Adriana Lee / PhoneDog.com:
Rumor: Samsung A877 to launch 3/29 for AT&T  —  This just in ...  According to an anonymous source, it looks like Samsung A877 will be launching through AT&T on March 29.  If you're in the market for a sweet messaging phone, this might be one worth waiting for.  — 3.2" WQVGA AMOLED touchscreen
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
MeeHive wants to deliver smarter news aggregation  —  Kosmix, the company that automatically generates informational pages about any topic, is using its technology to improve the news-reading experience with a new product called MeeHive.  —  Okay, so I've probably got many of you rolling your eyes already.
Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com:
How To Monetize A Social Network: MySpace And Facebook Should Follow TenCent  —  Everybody had to pay and pay"  —  The consensus seems to be that social networks have a monetization problem.  On this topic, both the leading technology industry blogs and the world's top news organizations agree.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Folks, this is, in no way, open  —  Today the Guardian announced their “Open Platform,” much as the NY Times did a couple of weeks ago.  It's even less open than the Times was.  —  If it were actually open they'd announce it to all developers at the same moment, so we could all try …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
How Low Can PC Prices Go?  —  As consumers cut back and the popularity of low-cost netbooks grows, the computer industry could see a sharp drop in prices  —  When Jim Wahl bought his first computer back in 1995, it cost $2,500.  In December, when the Dallas acquisitions manager bought a Hewlett-Packard …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Another $10.5 million for Auditude's video ads  —  Auditude, a video advertising company best known for technology that can identify clients' video content and run ads against it, has raised a $10.5 million Series B funding round from Redpoint Ventures and existing investor Greylock Partners.
Discussion: VentureBeat and NewTeeVee
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Developers Getting Antsy Over Verified Apps Program  —  Facebook's Verified Apps program, first announced in Summer 2008, is a way for trusted application developers to be separated from the pack.  But the program is yet to launch, and perceived delays and a lack of communication …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Cotendo launches “next generation” content delivery network  —  The world of content delivery networks — i.e., services that help serve videos and other content to website visitors — is already dominated by established players like as Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks.
Discussion: blogs.ft.com and Contentinople
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Advertisers Get a Trove of Clues in Smartphones  —  The millions of people who use their cellphones daily to play games, download applications and browse the Web may not realize that they have an unseen companion: advertisers that can track their interests, their habits and even their location.
Discussion: Local Mobile Search, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld:
Gmail down; outage could last 36 hours for some  —  Google calls outage ‘minor’  —  IDG News Service) Google Inc.'s Gmail e-mail service is down for an undetermined number of users, and while the outage has been partially fixed, some people could be locked out of their accounts for many more hours.
Ulysses Shi / Outdustry:
The Chinese iTunes Gift Voucher Trick  —  While there are some legitimate digital music download sites in China - including 9Sky, Top100 and the recently launched Wawawa - digital music is proving to be a tough sell in the P.R.C, partly because of the market dominance of Baidu's free mp3 search.
Aaron Rowe / Danger Room:
Don't Tape Me, Bro!  Taser Launches Headcam for Cops  —  Officers: Are you sick and tired of excessive force lawsuits?  Well cheer up.  Taser has a plan to give your police department its own CYA reality TV show.  —  The less-lethal weapons company has launched a wearable computer …
Discussion: Pulse2, Thanks:jamtoday
Randall C. Kennedy / Enterprise Desktop:
Is IE8 the end of the line for Internet Explorer?  —  Dropping IE in favor of a newer rendering engine may be not be as easy as it seems  —  IE8 is the last version of the Internet Explorer Web browser.  At least, that's what I'm hearing through the grapevine.
Discussion: OSNews, TechSpot, Slashdot and digg.com
Jane Wakefield / BBC:
Last.FM joins Google's rights row  —  Online music service Last.fm has waded into the row between YouTube and the Performing Right Society.  —  Founder Martin Stiksel said he hoped a resolution could be found to avoid illegal services from taking over.  —  He urged both parties to find a …
BBC:
Stephen Fry: The internet and Me  —  Stephen Fry - wit, writer, raconteur, actor and quiz show host - is also a self-confessed dweeb and meistergeek.  As he confesses “If I added up all the hours I've sat watching a progress bar fill up, I could live another life.”
Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
Sarkozy threat to illegal downloaders  —  The French government has been accused of “Big Brother” tactics over an anti-piracy bill which aims to punish people who repeatedly illegally download music and films by cutting off their internet access for up to a year.
Discussion: Reuters and Ars Technica
Grace Chen / PlayStation.Blog:
NBC Universal Premieres on PSN Today  —  Hi Everyone -  —  We are very excited to announce that as of today, PlayStation Network will offer movies and television programs from NBC Universal.  Universal Pictures has a huge lineup of new releases, including MILK and ROLE MODELS …
Discussion: VG247, Engadget HD and Game|Life
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Store Down, 4GB iPod Shuffle in the Wings?
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Plans to Market Digital Health Records System
Discussion: 247 Wall Street, Thanks:atul
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Sensors, Smart Content, and the Future of News
Timothy High / High T:
Do we need Yet Another Method to communicate?
Thanks:atul
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Ex-Googler Launching iPhone App For Popular Barflies
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
An Upgrade for the Web  —  Browsers are changing to accommodate powerful applications.
 Earlier Items: 
Mary Kathleen Flynn / Dealscape:
Q&A: Roger Ehrenberg on startup shutdowns
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Concerted Linux-netbook effort needed to beat Microsoft
Discussion: CloudAve and OSNews
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”
Discussion: Twitter Blog, Thanks:atul
Alina Dizik / Wall Street Journal:
Windows Into Lives After a Layoff
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
EMC Tightens Its Embrace of VMware
Discussion: The Register
DealBook:
Google and Cisco Eyed as Possible Dow Candidates
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