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4:05 PM ET, August 1, 2006

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
YouTube overtakes MySpace  —  The rise and rise of YouTube  —  MediaGuardian.co.uk  —  YouTube has established itself at the top of the league of the new generation of community websites by becoming even more popular than MySpace, according to research.  —  The video sharing site has taken …
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Business Week:
Whose Video Is It, Anyway?  —  YouTube's runaway success has opened a Pandora's box of copyright issues  —  When YouTube Inc. was sued on July 14 for copyright infringement, the shock wasn't that the video-sharing service was being yanked into court.  Questions had been swirling for months …
Shelley / The Bb Gun:
Measuring Success  —  Before I started the new weblog(s), I told a friend that I was going to avoid saying anything even remotely critical about BlogHer.  It does no good to do so, I told him.  —  I'm sure he knew that I could not follow this vow.  I don't know if being critical of Blogher will do any 'good' or not.
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Melinda / Sour Duck:   Goodbye Grassroots BlogHer
Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:
BlogHer and the issue of unctuousness
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
McLaws is right on Windows Vista ship date  —  I'm sad to agree with Robert McLaws about Windows Vista's ship schedule.  This sucker is just not ready.  Too many things are too slow and/or don't work.  I've been on the betas of every Windows OS since Windows 3.1 and Vista is starting to feel good …
DesktopLinux.com:
The latest news & announcements about Linux on the desktop ...  Keywords: Match: Sort by:  —  Four countries commit to buying 4 million Linux-powered OLPC laptops  —  A spokesperson for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program revealed July 31 that the countries of Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina …
Mike / Techdirt:
Mike McCurry: Will You Pay Google's Bandwidth Bills For The Rest Of This Year?  —  from the worth-asking dept  —  We've already covered how much dishonesty there is in the network neutrality debate — often involving editorial pieces in major newspapers penned by lobbyists.
Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
Cingular to charge $5 for older phones  —  NEW YORK - About 4.7 million Cingular Wireless subscribers with older phones will have to pay $5 extra each month as the company tries to prod them to get new handsets so it can devote its entire network to one type of signal.
Dan Dorfman / New York Sun:
Error Knocks Down Google $350 a Share  —  It was like a Wall Street version of one of those Keystone Cops comedies of the 1930s, but at least one investor wasn't laughing.  According to his stockbroker, he almost had a heart attack as a result of what appeared to be an enormous plunge Thursday …
Discussion: CNNMoney.com and Download Squad
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Open Source Licenses are Obsolete  —  Last week at OSCON, I made the seemingly controversial statement "Open Source Licenses Are Obsolete.  During the Q&A period, Michael Tiemann of Red Hat and the Open Source Initiative took issue with my statement, pointing out just how much value open source licenses have created.
investor.verizon.com:
Wireline  —  440,000 net new broadband connections, including 111,000 FiOS Internet customers; 6.1 million total broadband connections, up 47.9 percent from second quarter 2005  —  Data revenues of $4.0 billion, up 89.8 percent from second quarter 2005, including results from Verizon Business domestic and global operations
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Digital kids  —  MySpace blurs line between friends and flacks  —  The volume of advertising in MySpace and other social networks is expected to balloon in the next few years, and much of it could blur the lines between socializing, entertainment and marketing.
Discussion: SearchViews, AdJab and MarketingShift
Julie Jacobson / cepro.com:
Lux Intros Rugged, Waterproof MCE TV for the Outdoors  —  It's the quintessential geek dilemma: You want to go outside to take a dip in the pool, but you simply cannot leave your Media Center Edition behind.  —  Torment yourself no longer.  Lux Entertainment introduces the ARIIS outdoor MCE TV.
Discussion: Engadget and eHomeUpgrade
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Pearson ponders web strategy as profits rise  —  Pearson's chief executive, Marjorie Scardino, admitted yesterday that the ability of its flagship Financial Times title to take part in the growing online debate was being hampered by the subscription fees charged for access to its FT.com site.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
One of these six companies will buy YouTube  —  All the buzz around video site YouTube indicates that the closely-held company could have a market value of around $1 billion.  —  Given those numbers, it is only natural to crystal-ball YouTube's future: private, IPO, acquired, acquirer?
Ozymandias:
The Problem with Modchips  —  I received an email from "HcC" earlier last week with an interesting topic: console modding.  To quote: … It's a great question, and I'm happy to share some of my thoughts and opinions on the topic.  —  For the uninitiated, a mod chip is simply a device …
Discussion: Opposable Thumbs and Kotaku
 
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Karen Springen / Newsweek:
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Nicholas Lemann / New Yorker:
AMATEUR HOUR  —  On the Internet, everybody is a millenarian.