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4:23 AM ET, March 17, 2007

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Karen / Official Google Blog:
A world in motion  —  Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience  —  Mark Twain said, "Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."  We're pretty sure Twain's definition of pliable is different from ours.  Building flexibility into search, email …
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Google:
Frequently asked questions  —  Background  —  Q. What is Adscape Media?  —  A. Adscape Media is a small in-game advertising company based in San Francisco California.  Adscape Media offers dynamic delivery of advertising with plot and storyline integration - making its solutions a truly interactive marketing platform.
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped and Googlified
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Let the passion continue!  We're acquiring Adscape  —  Asteroids, Space Invaders, Centipede and Tetris—remember when you could only play these games at an arcade?  I would line up behind at least 6 people for my chance at Asteroids.  —  Time warp—now it's 2007.  Games can be played anywhere and at anytime.
Nick / Rough Type:
Google should buy Intuit  —  Google has begun to nibble at the business market, introducing its $50-per-employee-per-month package of personal productivity applications, Google Apps, and buying up some little companies like JotSpot, a purveyor of corporate wikis.
Discussion: robhyndman.com and Howard Lindzon
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:   QuickBooks Enterprise: The forgotten mid-market ERP player
Dave Winer / stories.scripting.com:
NY Times on Twitter  —  Okay, I got the bugs worked out, and it seems to work, fingers crossed, praise Murhpy, I am not a lawyer and I don't work for the NY Times.  —  It's set to post one new story per minute, as long as they are available.  I may decrease that to once every three minutes or every five minutes.
Valleywag:
EXCLUSIVE: The rise and fall of David Hayden  —  So profound is the Valley's belief in redemption, that it's hard for anyone to accept that a career can lurch merely from failure to failure.  Here's one such story: David Hayden, founder of Magellan and Critical Path and one of Silicon Valley's …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Viacom lawyer: YouTube knows it violates copyrights  —  update WASHINGTON—There's no doubt that YouTube is committing copyright infringement, so the central question is who must police its content, an attorney for Viacom said Friday.  —  After "months and months" of negotiations about that dilemma …
Gordon Meyer / O'Reilly Network:
Twittering Your Home  —  Interest in the messaging service Twitter is clearly on the rise (see this Wall Street Journal article if you're not already familiar with it), and while most people are figuring out how to use Twitter for its intended purpose-social networking-I'd like to share …
Valleywag:
DOUBLE STANDARDS: Viacom's own video pirates  —  Let me get this straight.  Sumner Redstone's Viacom, outraged at video grabs of programs such as the Daily Show, orders Google to remove more than 100,000 clips from its Youtube video sharing site.  And then the 83-year-old media tycoon authorizes …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Socializr, for planning events online  —  Socializr, a new San Francisco-based company that wants to help you plan events online, opens to the public today.  —  It is owned by Jonathan Abrams, the founder of the early social networking site, Friendster.  When Friendster emerged four years ago …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:   Socializr Launches - Still a Mess
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Goodbye, Tello  —  Forget Web 2.0, and think VoIP when it comes to start-ups that are kicking the bucket.  Tello, a San Mateo, Calif.-based start-up that launched with much fanfare back in January 2006, is no more, becoming one of the first high profile causalities in the voice over the Internet space.
Discussion: VoIP Watch
Ian Smith / Download Squad:
Top 11 Yahoo Mail Tips and Tricks  —  Yahoo's new version of web mail is, without a doubt, one of the coolest and most fluid Ajax applications we've seen to date.  For the average user it offers every major feature that you can find in Outlook or Thunderbird, and it does it with style.
Discussion: Lifehacker and digg
Justin Fox / Time:
Google Gooses Big Media  —  "Content is king."  It's a phrase uttered repeatedly by media executives making the case that the movies, music, TV shows, books and journalism their companies produce are the core of their business.  —  It happens to be a dubious claim.
BBC:
Flickr targets Hong Kong market  —  Popular photo-sharing site Flickr has announced plans to launch a version in the Chinese language.  —  The move from Yahoo-owned Flickr is part of its attempts to localise and increase the accessibility of its websites, especially in Asia.
Discussion: Download Squad
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Flickr China Coming
Discussion: Search Engine Journal
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Toward a Better Digg  —  Digg revolutionized social news when it launched in 2004.  Since then, it has become the undisputed champ of news link ranking sites.  They just recently crossed the million mark.  And their influence goes far beyond those user registration numbers.
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Why a Strong Brand Is a Search Marketer's Best Asset  —  Travelocity: Nonbranded Keywords Only Convert 4% of Searchers  —  CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — For brand marketers using search, a brand name may be their best asset.  That's the finding of a recent Travelocity study …
Brian Livingston / WindowsSecrets.com:
Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation  —  Microsoft always says it opposes "software pirates" who sell thousands of unauthorized copies of Windows.  —  But the Redmond company has made things a lot easier for pirates by adding a line to the Registry that can be changed from to 1 …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
How to run Vista legally without activation ... for at least a year
Discussion: Bink.nu, CrunchGear and Slashdot
 
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PC World:
Google's Blog Software Hijacked by Scammers
Mark Ward / BBC:
TV to come through mains supply
Discussion: Engadget, Gadget Lab and CrunchGear
Chip Chick:
Coby's MP-C83 Shuffle Killer to Compete with Sandisk's Sansa Xpress
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Why Cisco Bought WebEx
RawmeatCowboy / Go Nintendo:
Official Nintendo Magazine claims world exclusive Wii game …
Discussion: Kotaku, Game | Life and digg
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Twitter to live, but don't live to Twitter
Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
NETGEAR EVA8000 Review: Hands on with the Digital Entertainer HD
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
The "Works on My Machine" Certification Program
Discussion: JD on EP
 Earlier Items: 
GameDaily:
Breaking: Nintendo Dominates February; Total Industry Sales Up 53%
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Your ISP may be selling your web clicks
ZDNet:
EMERGING TECH TOOLKIT
Johnporcaro / Gamerscore Blog:
Castlevania: Symphony of Night on Xbox Live Arcade
Discussion: Kotaku, Joystiq and Paul Mooney
Mat Lu / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
DockArt: Change your iTunes icon to Album Art
Switchtoamac / Switch To A Mac:
Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 - a May 2007 release?
Discussion: MacUser, Apple Gazette and digg
Mike / Techdirt:
Collateral Damage Takedown Victims Start Suing Viacom
Luke O'Brien / Wired News:
'Yahoo Betrayed My Husband'
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped and digg
 

 
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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Filing: Trump Media lost $19.2M in Q3, while revenue fell 5.6% YoY to just $1.01M; DJT jumped 18.6% before closing down 1.16% on November 5

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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