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1:05 PM ET, March 20, 2007

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Brad Stone / New York Times:
MySpace Restrictions Upset Some Users  —  Some users of MySpace feel as if their space is being invaded.  —  MySpace, the Web's largest social network, has gradually been imposing limits on the software tools that users can embed in their pages, like music and video players that also deliver advertising or enable transactions.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:   MySpace Blocks Hoooka, Makes NYTimes
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
Web 2.0 - Over and Out  —  Many of us in the VC community have been quietly wondering about the state of Web 2.0 innovation.  We aren't seeing much.  Startup activity remains strong, but the consumer web landscape seems to be populated with the same bodies with different skins.
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Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:
Looking back at three years of Web 2.0 investing  —  Almost three years ago, I left the fund I was a general partner of and decided to switch my investment focus from mid-stage enterprise software to (very) early stage consumer Internet.  Dotcoms as they were, since the Web 2.0 meme had not been cornered yet.
Discussion: alarm:clock
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Does everything have to be Web 2.0?  —  Web 2.0 might have jumped the shark - that is not exactly what Peter Rip says, but that is the essence of his argument: Web 2.0 has gone mainstream, and the innovation around it is scuffling.  The personal anecdote Rip retells is pretty amusing.
Julio / iinnovate:
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google  —  Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, talks about Google's industry and competitors, about leading innovation, and career advice.  —  MP3 File |  Subscribe via iTunes |  Digg it!  Add to del.icio.us  —  We caught up with Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google last week …
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Eric Schmidt / Google Blogoscoped:   Eric Schmidt on Entrepeneurs, Censorship and More
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's next-generation iMacs to add a touch of grace  —  AppleInsider has learned that Apple's popular line of iMac personal computers are about to undergo a substantial facelift that will showcase striking new industrial designs aimed at leaving both competitors and onlookers smitten.
Unstrung:
Palm Deal in the Final Stretch  —  A Palm Inc. buyout could be finalized by Thursday this week, demanding $20 or more per share, according to sources close to the situation.  Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK - message board) is seen as the leading vendor bidder; while Palm's management is said to prefer a private equity buyer.
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Reuters:
Palm Takeover Expected This Week — Report
Discussion: Engadget and Phone Scoop
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies  —  John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died on Saturday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 82.
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar and Slashdot
Geoff Adams-Spink / BBC:
GPS navigation plan to help blind  —  Age & disability correspondent, BBC News website  —  An Italian technology company is pioneering a GPS satellite system that will give blind people greater independence and mobility.  —  The Easy Walk service has been developed by Il Village, a firm in Turin in northern Italy.
Discussion: Gadget Lab and CrunchGear
Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog:
Google Personal Homepage Gets Skinnable  —  When I think of Google, I think of a site with a relentlessly consistent—and ultimately mundane—look and feel.  Which is why a fairly minor new Google feature—dynamic themes (aka skins) for the Google Personalized Homepage—is worthy of comment here.
CNET News.com:
Who exactly wrote the first blog  —  Someone, somewhere created the very first Web log.  It's just not quite clear who.  —  It may not be one of the Internet's grandest accomplishments, but with the number of active bloggers hovering somewhere around 100 million, according to one estimate …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and UMBC eBiquity
Kotaku:
Game Mag Says Black Xbox 360 Is Coming  —  Always get an iffy feeling posting black Xbox 360 stories — Especially ones that pop up in April.  Yes, we know that the debug unit is black.  And yet, the rumor continues to surface.  This month's Game Informer says that a black Xbox 360 …
Discussion: Xbox 360 Fanboy, GigaGamez and Joystiq
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Cue the 4:53 Silver Bullet to Happy Hour  —  YOU know the old drinker's saying that it is always 5 o'clock somewhere?  Coors is turning back the clock seven minutes in an effort to turn the clock forward when it comes to reaching consumers through new media.
Discussion: Techdirt
MediaShift:
DOOMSAYERS DEBUNKED Serious Journalism Won't Die as Newsprint Fades  —  I was reading my local newspaper today — yes, I still read it in print — and came upon this unfortunate passage in an otherwise nice report on a maverick newspaper publisher in rural California: "With classified advertising usurped …
LC Angell / iLounge:
Philips intros iPod-ready LCD-TV kitchen system  —  Philips has introduced a new iPod-compatible, under-cabinet multimedia player.  The Philips DCD778 Docking Entertainment System sports an 8.5-inch widescreen LCD display and can play audio and video from an iPod, DVD, (S)VCD, MP3-CD, CD(RW) and Picture CD.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and Ubergizmo
 
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Chris / Are You Paying Attention?:
Announcing second intake of participants for the APML Workgroup
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Infringing videos on iFilm could cause problems for Viacom
Discussion: Gizmodo, Slashdot and digg
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Time Warner Cable Internet sucks rocks
Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
NAB ripping off MasterCard with anti-Sirius/XM merger ad: priceless.
Discussion: Orbitcast and John Carroll
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wink Pulls Half An Odeo, Partially Liquidates
Discussion: Wink Blog
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
37signals Launches Highrise
Dick / Ask the Wizard:
Launch Late to Launch Often
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Apple releases WWDC details
Discussion: Neowin.net and digg
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Userplane Releases Userlist - IM for Websites a Trend to Watch
George Ou:
Should Apple be making fun of Vista UAC?
Discussion: CrunchGear, Cult of Mac and MacUser
BBC:
YouTube to present video awards
Discussion: Profy.Com
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Exclusive: Yahoo oneSearch Launches on US Mobile Web
Symantec Corp.:
Symantec Reports Rise in Data Theft, Data Leakage, and Targeted …
David Carr / New York Times:
All the World's a Story  —  Journalism has always been a product of networks.
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
How Google Blog Search Ranks Results