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1:40 AM ET, July 8, 2006

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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Friendster awarded patent on social networking  —  Sagging social network Friendster was awarded a patent on some pretty fundamental qualities of online social networking late last month.  The patent covers the determining and display of relationships between individuals who have entered personal information …
huffingtonpost.com:
BREAKING: New Rocketboom Girl Chosen, Looks Strangely Like Old One  —  HuffPo's "Eat The Press" has learned that Rocketboom executive producer Andrew Baron has tapped former MTV Europe VJ Joanna Colan to take the anchor chair vacated by Amanda Congdon earlier this week.
MediaPost Publications:
ABC Looks Beyond Upfront To DVR, Commercial Ratings Issues  —  ABC HAS HELD DISCUSSIONS ON the use of technology that would disable the fast-forward button on DVRs, according to ABC President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw, with the primary goal to allow TV commercials to run as intended.
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Chris Thilk / AdJab:
ABC wants to kill DVR ad-skipping
Discussion: Gizmodo, Web X.0 and SCI FI Tech
Stephanie Mehta / CNNMoney.com:
AOL as Yahoo wannabe  —  If AOL greenlights a plan to give away e-mail, it will be taking yet another page from the Yahoo playbook.  —  NEW YORK (FORTUNE) — AOL has a serious case of Yahoo envy.  —  First, AOL last year built a Yahoo-like Internet portal, putting all its content …
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Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
AOL May Speed Shift Away From Subscribers
Discussion: paidContent.org
Joshua Jaffe / VC Ratings:
Google preparing health portal; pitching WebMD and Intuit as partners  —  Google is planning a product that it hopes will overhaul the way patients, doctors, vendors and pharmaceutical companies manage their medical information online.  Dubbed the Google Health Scrapbook …
Thomas Hawk / Official Zooomr Blog:
DO WE LOVE BLOGGERS?  YES WE DO!  —  One of things that we hope Zooomr will become in the months ahead is the photo sharing site of choice for bloggers to host their images on.  Since we're new though and need to get the word out we thought the best way to get bloggers to use our site …
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Most Progressive 'Incumbent' YP Up for Sale  —  Though public (or quasi public) knowledge for several months, Verizon has formally filed to sell its yellow pages print and online directory product units, Verizon Information Services/SuperPages.com.  Here's more detail from MarketWatch.
heise-security.co.uk:
Copy protection hole in Blu-ray and HD DVD movies  —  The Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD are new data carriers for high-resolution motion pictures.  For fear of piracy, Hollywood had the developers install a cornucopia of copy prevention mechanisms on them.  For instance, the film data on the disks …
Discussion: Engadget and HD Beat
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Microsoft announces ODF support  —  Microsoft has announced support for an open source document format called ODF, Open Document Format.  Microsoft will also offer its own Open XML document format with the release of Office 2007.  This announcement follows an announcement of support for the popular PDF format as well.
Discussion: Between the Lines and TechSpot
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Nwhite / Windows Vista Team Blog:
New Windows Standard Theme in Windows Vista  —  How does Sidebar Geek do it?  I was just putting the finishing touches on a post about the new theme when I found out that Brandon beat me to it.  Well great job picking that up!  I had a chance to chat with Don Lindsay on the User Experience Team …
Ross Miller / Joystiq:
Apple cameos on PS3 website ... wtf? [update 4]  —  Load up the US PlayStation 3 website, and watch carefully on the PS3 unit just above the controller.  [You will see a quick, subliminal blip.]  It has been fixed.  You can view the original page here.  —  Did you catch what it was?
Discussion: Engadget, Infinite Loop and Kotaku
Michael Sciannamea / The Wireless Report:
A wireless network in NYC's future?  —  It's about time!  New York City's Economic Development Corporation announced it will be conducting a feasibility study to determine whether a citywide wireless network can be effectively developed and deployed within the city.
CURRY.COM:
Unleash day 2  —  Just returned to the Cottage from Rotterdam.  Pretty tired from the week's events, but there's stuff to do and things to patch/fix/glue on PodShow.com.  The most obvious being that external feeds should of course link to the original external feed
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Coghead, A New Web App Machine  —  The Enterprise is widely viewed as the next playground for collective technologies known as Web 2.0.  While there has been a lot of talk, only a handful of companies have come up with Web 2.0 inspired offerings targeting the enterprise.
Discussion: Jeffrey McManus
 
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Cingular, Verizon slapped with class action suits
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Interesting little google bug
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Updated: Kleiner And Sherpalo Invests $5 Million-Plus In Paymate
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Vista's PC-rating tool gets a revamp
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BBC:
Video game legend criticises Sony
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Jeff Bezos says he's proud of stopping presidential endorsements at The Washington Post and is working on a plan to put the outlet “on a good footing again”

Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Stanford University supports prosecution of a Stanford Daily reporter arrested at a June protest, despite evidence he was there as a journalist, not a protester

Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Esquire corrects, and then retracts, a column by Charles P. Pierce that incorrectly claimed former President George H.W. Bush pardoned his son, Neil Bush

 
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