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2:40 PM ET, March 9, 2007

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John Markoff / New York Times:
Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching  —  A new company founded by a longtime technologist is setting out to create a vast public database intended to be read by computers rather than people, paving the way for a more automated Internet in which machines will routinely share information.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Freebase Will Prove Addictive  —  Danny Hillis' latest venture, Metaweb, is about to unveil its first product, the aptly named freebase, tomorrow.  While freebase is still VERY alpha, with much of the basic functionality barely working, the idea is HUGE.  In many ways, freebase is the bridge between …
Nick / Rough Type:
Freebase: the Web 3.0 machine  —  Artificial intelligence guru Danny Hillis has launched an early version of the first major Web 3.0 application.  It's called Freebase, and its grandiose epistemological mission is right up there with those of Google and Wikipedia.
Discussion: Scripting News
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:   This is cool, unless it achieves consciousness and kills us all
John Markoff / New York Times:
Palm Responds to the iPhone  —  Palm Inc., the maker of hand-held computers, has hired a top Silicon Valley software designer as it seeks to respond to the challenge posed by Apple's new iPhone.  —  The designer, Paul Mercer, a former Apple computer engineer, began work three weeks ago …
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Wall Street Journal:
Music's New Gatekeeper  —  From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers.  Our reporters on the horse-trading that can turn unknowns into stars.  —  Every day, the roughly one million people who visit the iTunes Store home page are presented …
Discussion: PaidContent
Terry / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
NEWS AS A SOCIAL PLAY: HERE COMES MYSPACE NEWS!  —  MySpace is getting into the news business with launch due in early 2nd quarter, according to inside sources and the company's own sales materials.  — MySpace News takes News to a whole new level by dynamically aggregating real-time news and blogs from top sites around the Web
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James Quintana Pearce / PaidContent:
MySpace To Launch News Service, May Need Age Checks
Discussion: Reuters
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:   It Looks Like MySpace Will Finally Do Something With Newroo
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is 'Social News' the New Trend?
Discussion: Social Media Club
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MySpace News: The Digg Killer?
Discussion: digg
Mad4 Mobile Phones.com:
Patent: Google Phone knows what you want before you search  —  Our patent gurus have discovered an interesting patent filing from Google that could reveal the applications they are planning for the Google phone.  Alternatively this technology could even debut in the iPhone when it is released in June.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Googling Google
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007  —  Maybe you have wondered, as I have, why it takes a pretty robust notebook computer to play DVD videos, while Wal-Mart will sell you a perfectly capable progressive-scan DVD player from Philips for $38?  In general, the dedicated DVD player …
Discussion: Engadget, MacUser and digg
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Austin, beware: The SXSW geeks are back in town  —  In the wee hours of a Texas morning last March, two of the world's most creative geeks, armed with Bluetooth and a vacuum, set out to subject one innocent frog to a certain future as roadkill.  —  Animal activists can rest easy.
Discussion: Laughing Squid and Earthling
Tariq Malik / SPACE.com:
Orbital Express: Prototype Satellites Primed for In-Flight Service  —  Two prototype spacecraft, one wielding its own robotic arm, are poised to launch spaceward late Thursday on a three-month mission to test methods for robotically refueling satellites in Earth orbit.
Discussion: Engadget, digg and Slashdot
Darren Waters / BBC:
Virtual worlds set for shake-up  —  Technology editor, BBC News website, San Francisco  —  Big media firms are rushing to copy the success of online games like World of Warcraft, a conference has been told.  —  Millions of dollars are being spent trying to emulate the massively multiplayer online game …
Discussion: TechnoLlama
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
FAQ: What the daylight saving shift means to you  —  faq The fact that the U.S. is springing forward three weeks early could leave computer owners losing more than an hour of sleep.  —  Daylight saving time will kick in this weekend, but that's not when many computers are programmed to expect it.
Newlaunches.com:
SeaGrand Gene Sound adds a digital touch to your Vinyl  —  Seagrand Japan has announced the Gene Sound TAS-100 which can play your good old Vinyl records and Audio / MP3 CD's.  In addition to this it has a SD card slot and a USB connector, so you can put in your favourite Vinyl which is converted …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Crave
Gord Hotchkiss / Search Engine Land:
The Pros and Cons of Personalized Search  —  In the past two weeks I've had the opportunity to talk to both Marissa Mayer and Matt Cutts about the impact of personalization at Google.  While the initial storm following Google's announcement seems to be dying down somewhat …
 
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Dude, Where's My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?
Discussion: Global Nerdy and digg
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Web Giants Team Up for Wireless Spectrum Auctions
Bruno Giussani / Lunch over IP:
TED2007: Serious people seriously scared about climate change …
Business Week:
Weaving The Web To Your Taste
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Bose Media System crams GPS / media playback into your dash
Discussion: Gear Live and Orbitcast
Reuters:
Google Earth urged to remove "Mount Hitler" name
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Robert Vamosi / Webware.com:
NEW FIREFOX EXTENSION, FIREKEEPER, LETS YOU SURF SAFE
Consumerist:
11 Confessions of a T-Mobile Sales Rep
 Earlier Items: 
Shel / Global Neighbourhoods:
New Comm Forum: Weinberger Keynotes
Discussion: Pro PR and Chip Griffin
Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld:
Microsoft move could be the end of the JPEG
Discussion: digg
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Demo Day: Y Combinator's Spring Chicks
Om Malik / GigaOM:
10 Fun Facts About Storage
Discussion: Web Worker Daily
David Braue / CNET News.com:
iTunes: Just how random is random?
Discussion: Cult of Mac, Glass House and digg
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Big Profits in Small Packages
Discussion: The Media Age and Techdirt
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
New My Yahoo Signals It Has Abandoned the Geeks