Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:20 AM ET, March 23, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Business Wire:
NBC Universal and News Corp. Announce Deal with Internet Leaders AOL, MSN, MySpace And Yahoo! to Create a Premium Online Video Site with Unprecedented Reach  —  Charter Advertisers, Including Cadbury Schweppes, Cisco, Esurance, Intel and General Motors, Will Now Reach 96% of U.S. Internet Audience Through This Groundbreaking Venture
RELATED:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Notes From News Corp./NBC Universal Media Call  —  I've just joined the "NewTube" media call with NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker and News Corp. COO Peter Chernin.  Notes to follow.  —  Chernin is kicking things off.  It took him about 2 minutes to say "Web 2.0″ for the first time.
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Why the NBC/Newscorp Video Venture is a Great Idea  —  I have no idea what the traffic will be for this new venture if they create a single destination site.  I have no idea what the traffic will be for video hosted by the distribution partners they signed up, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Fox and NBC/Universal sites themselves.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
News Corp. and NBC announce partnership to create YouTube competitor  —  News Corp. and NBC have announced a deal to create a new video distribution site, dubbed the "YouTube killer" by many.  The companies have also formed partnerships with a number of big players, including Yahoo! …
Discussion: Neowin.net, Slashdot and digg
Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
NBCU-News Corp.: More Like The Anti-YouTube Than YouTube Killer  —  A lot of attention has been paid here and elsewhere to the notion that major media companies were planning a MeTooTube.  But the venture actually being created by NBC Universal and News Corp. goes far beyond—it's more like the anti-YouTube.
CNET News.com:   NBC, News Corp. push new Web rival to YouTube
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Hey Ma! They got TV on the Internet now!
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:   NBC Universal/News Corp Online Video Deal Demonstrates That The …
Owen Thomas / Business 2.0 Beta:
NBC, News Corp. Launch YouTube Rival: Live Coverage
Discussion: Epicenter
USA Today:
Jet passengers may not get to chat on cellphones after all  —  The once-highflying idea of letting passengers use their wireless phones on airplanes is about to be grounded.  —  Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is recommending the FCC drop its tentative plan to lift …
RELATED:
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
FCC hits brakes on in-flight calling (for now)
Discussion: TechSpot News
Brandon Badger / Google Maps API Official Blog:
KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API  —  Posted by Nigel Tao, Software Engineer, Google Maps Team  —  One of the things I love most about Google Maps and Google Earth is that it's easy for anyone to create and display new geographically referenced content.
RELATED:
Light Reading:
Google Earth Mash-Up Helps Mesh Mumbai
Discussion: WebProNews
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Google Earth Meet Wi-Fi Mesh
Discussion: Wi-Fi Networking News
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
DMCA takedown backlash: EFF sues Viacom over Colbert parody clip  —  Viacom's DMCA takedown notices continue to generate controversy.  The media giant fired off more than 100,000 notices to YouTube earlier this year, but it appears to have caught numerous legitimate videos in the crossfire.
RELATED:
EFF: Breaking News:
Free Speech Battle Over Online Parody of 'Colbert Report'
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Om Malik / GigaOM:
HP goes web 2.0, buys Tabblo  —  Now this is one Web 2.0 acquisition that makes sense!  Hewlett-Packard has acquired Tabblo, Massachusetts-based company that makes it easier for consumers to upload and printing their photos from the web.  Think of Tabblo as iPhoto rest of us …
RELATED:
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:   When Social Web Tools Get Creative
Yahoo! Widgets Blog:
It's Here!  —  Yes!  Yahoo Widgets 4 is now available for download.  This version has a lot of cool new features for users as well as developers of Widgets.  —  For those that think we've been sitting around drinking tequila and not really focusing on Konfabulator/Yahoo Widgets …
RELATED:
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:   Yahoo Widgets vs Google Desktop
Andy Patrizio / internetnews.com:
Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS  —  UPDATED: Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities.  But Symantec (Quote), no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems …
Jon Murchinson / Google:
Michael Moritz Will Not Seek Re-Election to Google's Board of Directors  —  Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that Michael Moritz has informed the company that he will not seek re-election to its board of directors at the 2007 stockholder meeting.  Moritz, who has been a director since May 1999 …
Discussion: Valleywag, WebProNews and VentureBeat
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Oracle sues SAP; alleges 'corporate theft on a grand scale'  —  IN FOCUS » See more posts on: Oracle  —  The war between Oracle and SAP is about to move beyond enterprise applications to the courtroom.  —  Oracle said Wednesday that it has sued SAP "about corporate theft on a grand scale" seeking undisclosed damages.
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One  —  The "wisdom of crowds" is a popular web 2.0 buzzword, popularized by James Surowiecki's book of the same name.  At its most basic, the term means that two heads are better than one, and that still more heads will yield even better results.
Discussion: digg
Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
Political group asks Bono to halt Mercs 2 production  —  Venezuelan Solidarity Campaign speaks out  —  Political activisits are calling on U2 singer Bono, as an investor in Pandemic Studios, to halt the development of forthcoming shooter Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 12:20 AM ET, March 23, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few  —  Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Zoho:
Zoho Assist makes remote support easy on Linux Wayland devices  —  Let's face it—Linux users are a league of their own.  With their customizable setups, cutting-edge tech choices, and slightly smug “I don't use Windows” …
Genesys:
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots  —  How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
Kongregate Announces Funding, Launches
Stephane Dion / ClicZune:
Pink Zune on May 1st! Confirmed!
Nat Torkington / O'Reilly Radar:
The Future of Web 2.0  —  I've been in Singapore this week …
Inside AdSense:
Referrals, now with Google Checkout
Discussion: Googlified and JenSense
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Leopard not ready for April—"Barely beta, not final or Gold Master"
Louis Hau / Forbes:
Semel: Yahoo! Will Play Nice
Discussion: Valleywag and rc3.org
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
How Google Books is Changing Academic History
Discussion: Nick
 Earlier Items: 
Gizmodo:
Apple TV: Worth It?
Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
Google's Privacy Policy Is Clearer, Not Tougher
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
'World of Warcraft' bans raise players' ire
Discussion: Blue's News
BBC:
Xbox Live accounts 'not hacked'
Fred Aun / ClickZ:
Online Video Ads Leave GIFs and JPGs Standing Still, Says DoubleClick
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo names click fraud czar