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1:25 AM ET, September 22, 2006

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Sam Gustin / New York Post:
YOUTUBE'S GOT A FAT IDEA OF ITSELF  —  INTERNET upstart YouTube, the bane-du-jour of copyright holders everywhere, won't sell itself for anything less than $1.5 billion, The Post has learned.  —  But that number far exceeds the price top media execs appear willing to pay for a company many believe lacks a sustainable business model.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Who is getting bought next?  YouTube, Facebook?  —  Another day in Silly-con valley.  WSJ reports Yahoo is looking at Facebook, for somewhere around $1 billion.  Yahoo-Facebook reports and rumors have been circling for a while now.  The other Web 2.0 darling, YouTube is also for sale, for $1.5 billion.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
YouTube's Magic Number - $1.5 Billion  —  I spoke with NYPost writer Sam Gustin for a few minutes last night as he was preparing an article on YouTube.  His article is now up - you can see it here.  The most interesting part of the conversation was when Sam told me that a source …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube Demands $1.5 Billion  —  YouTube wouldn't sell for less than $1.5 billion, reports the NYPost.  The information comes from a "senior industry source" who has been in talks to acquire the Menlo Park startup.  It's not clear, however, who would pay that price: it's almost three times what MySpace went for.
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Microsoft Media Player shreds your rights  —  Comment No more backups, or Tivo  —  THINK DRM WAS bad already?  Think I was joking when I said the plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then turn the thumbscrews?  Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and the rights get chipped away a lot more.
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microsoft.com:
Backing up and restoring licenses  —  Windows Media Player 11 does not permit you to back up your media usage rights (previously known as licenses).  However, depending upon where your protected files came from, you might be able to restore your rights over the Internet.
socialtext.com:
Socialtext 2.0  —  Today I gave a keynote at Networld/Interop on Enterprise 2.0 alongside Andrew McAfee — and launched Socialtext 2.0 — the most simple to adopt, use and extend wiki.  Techcrunch has the details.  —  Two big changes come with Socialtext2.0.
Discussion: Venture Chronicles
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
SocialText aims for wiki 2.0  —  Enterprise wiki vendor SocialText rolled out version 2.0 of its software this morning and made a couple of changes that are important for people beyond its existing customer base.  The changes include a drastic overhaul to the standard wiki interface …
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Geez, it's not like we had anyone killed. ...  We didn't, did we?  —  "Go far, keep your secrets close."  That's the message of Hewlett-Packard's ad campaign for its business notebooks, but it might make a better company slogan.  With new disclosures each day about HP's ill-starred leak investigation …
Lifehacker:
Visualize size differences with Sizeasy  —  Web site Sizeasy is a really cool visualization tool designed to give you an idea how big something is.  —  For example, the screenshot to the right compares the dimensions of a 2nd generation iPod Shuffle to a matchbox and credit card.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Ajaxian, Boing Boing and CrunchGear
Stephanie.Quilao / Back in skinny jeans:
How to explain RSS the Oprah way  —  Today, I'm going to explain how RSS can help you live your best life online.  —  We all have busy lives with very little time.  Web surfing is fun but can take hours going to visit every single website and blog you enjoy.
Gizmodo:
Remember Ring Gives You a Burning Reminder  —  The Remember Ring has a special nagging feature, using its "Hot Spot" technology that warms up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 seconds, every hour, on the hour, beginning 24 hours before that "special day," apparently honoring the anniversary of your voluntary servitude.
Discussion: Ubergizmo and digg
Kurt Eichenwald / New York Times:
Effort to Combat Child Pornography Would Close Web Sites  —  As part of the battle against the spread of child pornography on the Internet, an initiative has begun allowing for the shutdown or blocking of sites offering illicit images of minors, even in cases where no criminal investigation is being conducted.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype backer takes on ETrade with free trades  —  Morten Lund, the guy who was the earliest backers of Skype is at it again.  He has financed Zecco, a start-up that will allow consumers to trade stocks for zero commissions, versus $10 to $20 that many online brokers charge today.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Apple Issues Patches for Laptop Wireless Flaws  —  Apple Computer today issued a trio of software updates to fix four serious vulnerabilities located in the wireless components of a number of its Mac products.  —  In an advisory, Apple said flaws exist in the Airport wireless device drivers included …
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Apple's Mac OS Market Share Rises 24 Percent Year Over Year  —  Several outlets this week have reported that Apple's market share is declining or has flattened out, especially when compared to December 2005 data.  At first glance it may appear so but there's more to the story and the data.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Disney chief talks up Apple's iTV media hub  —  After playing with a pre-production unit, Walt Disney chief executive Robert Iger says Apple's forthcoming iTV streaming media hub is a "compelling" device that will change the way people enjoy and share their video content.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
MeeVee beefs up TV/IPTV search, saying there's too much clutter  —  With the proliferation of Internet television and other places for video, MeeVee, a Burlingame start-up, says it wants to use its "neutral" player status to sort through the clutter, and today releases new features to help.
Discussion: TechCrunch and Mashable!
Matthew Broersma / CNET News.com:
Europe's software patent war ignites again  —  Three political groups in the European Parliament have warned that the possibility of introducing software patents is re-emerging.  —  Last year, the Parliament derailed a proposed directive that, critics argued, would have legitimized software patents in Europe.
 
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VC investments in Web 2.0 companies booming, better study shows
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Yahoo 'to buy Facebook for $1bn'
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DVD BurnAway compatible with memory cards
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
AMD chip socket makes room for others
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ATM Backdoor... Why is no one talking about this?
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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

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”

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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