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8:40 AM ET, February 26, 2007

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New York Times:
Google in Content Deal With Media Companies  —  Google built an empire delivering advertisements across the Internet, and now it plans to distribute content from media companies just as aggressively.  —  Google is working with Dow Jones & Company, Condé Nast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment …
Discussion: Beet.TV, PaidContent and Lost Remote
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Reflections on the first decade of blogging  —  I ran into my old friend Dave Winer at the San Francisco airport on Wednesday last week.  He was on his way to Boston for the Public Media Conference.  We traded pictures and chatted over early morning (6:30 AM) coffee about developers …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
EMI to Apple, Microsoft: Ditching DRM is going to cost you  —  Earlier this month it was widely reported that EMI was indeed ready to cast DRM into the dark abyss and earn the company the honorable status of being the first major music label to realize that DRM alienates honest customers.
Discussion: Neowin.net
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center  —  I was lucky enough to get in on the Gmail beta when it launched and I haven't looked back since.  Even though I've had an account for almost three years and I get over 100 emails a day, I have chewed up only 18% of the generous 2.8 gigabytes of storage.
Discussion: Office Evolution
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Hollywood Disrupted  —  Reading through the LA Times, as I do before The Oscars every year, I came across a fantastic Op-Ed written by a respected Hollywood author by the name of Neal Gabler.  The opinion piece, titled "The Movie Magic is Gone", explains how Hollywood is losing its place …
Pranam Kolari / UMBC eBiquity:
The I's of the Blogosphere  —  The token "I" (1, 2) can provide interesting cues on the Blogosphere, other than signifying the obvious personal nature of blog posts.  "I" sometimes use it to study the growth of the blogosphere (between David Sifry reports ofcourse), or just for fun …
Discussion: 901am
New York Times:
Tribune Considering Late Offer From Real Estate Magnate  —  The Tribune Company, in discussions about its future, is weighing a proposal from Sam Zell, the Chicago real estate maverick and billionaire who sold his huge office development company this month for $39 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout ever.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
TiVo Desktop 2.4 public beta loosed, enables PC-to-TiVO transcoding  —  It's that time again folks, when you gleefully head on over to TiVo's website and download a new release of its desktop software to add more of those PC / TiVo integration features you love so dearly.
Discussion: Zatz Not Funny! and digg
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
When Unequals Try to Merge as Equals  —  HERE'S a tip about deal-making: When companies start talking about a "merger of equals," someone is usually getting the better deal.  It is especially true in the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Discussion: Information Arbitrage
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Six cool things you can build with OpenID  —  I've posted the slides from my Future of Web Apps talk on OpenID, minus the demo videos.  I'm planning to put together a video that combines the slides, demos and audio once the official podcasts have been published.
Discussion: Loud Thinking
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple iPhone Teaser Ad Airs During Oscars [Updatex3]  —  Apple aired their teaser ad for the Apple iPhone during the Oscars tonight.  The ad has run multiple times during the Oscars.  —  The advertisement started with a collection of scenes from television and film with actors saying "Hello" on a telephone.
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Gift Economy or Honeymoon?  —  Peter Brantley pointed to an interesting discussion on if:book entitled Gift Economy or Honeymoon? about the economic difference between a search engine like Google (or Google News) and a community content site like YouTube: … That's a key insight.
PRWeb:
Oscar Nominations - Wordtracker Predictions  —  The movie and gossip columns today are awash with speculation on the Oscar nominations.  Asking who will walk away with the prizes is great fun not only in the US but throughout the world.  But is there anyway to really get an inside track?
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Plusbox  —  While searching Google for nightwish videos, Razvan Antonescu spotted this video plusbox* (ignore the blue link bars in the screenshot, they're from a Firefox extension).  Alongside a snippet from Google Video, a plus icon appeared with a link reading "show video" …
Discussion: Googling Google
 
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Razvan Antonescu:
Videos in regular Google SERPs
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Heat-sensitive paper could lead to 3D printers
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Hamad releases high-resolution Vista wallpapers
Discussion: Windows-Now.com
San Francisco Chronicle:
IRS urged to go after eBay sellers
Discussion: The Blog Herald and Slashdot
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
BitTorrent's New Service To Launch Tomorrow; Service Rife With Restrictions
Discussion: GigaOM, Variety, I4U News and Webomatica
 Earlier Items: 
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
The Best Anti-PS3 Song of the Weekend
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Windows-based ATM machine hacked, gets Painted
Discussion: digg
Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
Gamer busted for "borrowing" library WiFi after hours
Discussion: Wi-Fi and digg
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Great Media Industry Schism
New York Times:
In Big Buyout, Utility to Limit New Coal Plants
Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Publisher Network's Trojan Horse