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9:15 AM ET, April 12, 2007

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
5 lessons of Photobucket Fiasco  —  Photobucket, which started out as a plain-vanilla hosting service, cried wolf last night when it claimed that MySpace was blocking its videos.  The truth came out this morning: because Photobucket is selling ads on videos that get shown on MySpace via widgets …
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Nick / Rough Type:
The sharecroppers' tools  —  MySpace has restricted its members' ability to stream on their pages videos hosted at Photobucket.  A clear violation of the spirit of Web 2.0 - the sixties got free love; we get free widgets - the move has set off an outcry in the blogosphere.
Jon Fortt / The Utility Belt:   How MySpace's pride is destroying it
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Can PhotoBucket Survive Without MySpace?
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
R.I.P. PlayStation 3 20GB is officially no more  —  Straight from Sony: The 20GB PS3 will no longer be offered to retailers for sale in North America.  The decision was made based on consumer and retail demand favoring "the 60GB model 10 to 1."  —  Dave Karraker of Sony America states …
Discussion: Gadgets on the Go and Crave
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Forbes:
Sony in talks on commercial use for PlayStation 3 - report
Discussion: Game | Life and TIME: Nerd World
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Sony: The PS3 20GB is Dead
Discussion: TechSpot News
Ryan Block / Engadget:
20GB PlayStation 3, RIP: 2006 - 2007
Discussion: parislemon
Angus Kidman / APC:
Windows XP to be phased out by year's end despite customer demand  —  Computer makers have been told they'll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite consumer resistance to Vista and its compatibility problems.  —  By early 2008, Microsoft's contracts …
Discussion: Slashdot
BBC:
China seeks to 'limit game hours'  —  The Chinese government has clamped down on the amount of time youngsters can spend playing online games, according to the official news agency Xinhua.  —  Under-18s who play for more than three consecutive hours a day will have limits imposed on the amount …
Discussion: Techdirt and BloggingStocks
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Blake Snow / GigaOM:
China Limits Online Gaming Hours
Discussion: Game | Life
Ben Fritz / Variety:
Apple partners with MGM  —  Companies pact on catalog titles  —  Apple continues to be a go-to partner for Hollywood's movie libraries.  —  Steve Jobs-led company on Tuesday signed MGM as its latest partner to sell catalog titles, but not new releases.  —  It also revealed that …
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May Wong / Associated Press:   Apple adds MGM movies to iTunes
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple Tells Vloggers: "Fix Your Videos"  —  Apple is giving vloggers a few hints on how to optimize their videos for iTunes so that a single format will look ok on both an iPod as well as the new Apple TV, which is probably connected to a large screen HDTV.  —  An email went out today …
Paul R. La Monica / Media Biz:
Apple changes its iTune?  —  Since Apple (AAPL) launched its wildly successful iTunes music store back in 2003, CEO Steve Jobs has adamantly refused to offer a monthly subscription service.  If you want to buy music from iTunes, you do it either by the single or the album, that's it.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Macsimum News
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Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget HD:
Apple TV and HD quality: It's not the hardware
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
Why Circle of Friends Works in Social Networking  —  The most popular paradigm for social networking sites is the "circle of friends" paradigm.  This is when you connect to people by adding them as a friend, and your connection means that they are prioritized differently than those who are not.
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Dylan Tweney / Wired News:   What I Learned From Friendster: Jonathan Abrams' New Startup
Gizmodo:
Sony Demos 9mm-thick High-Def OLED Displays  —  Look and yearn folks.  This here is Sony's new OLED display.  It's an obscene 9mm thick yet it packs a 1080p resolution along with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.  Just as a recap, OLED displays are thinner and brighter than their LCD counterparts and they suck up less power.
Discussion: Crave, Gadget Lab and OhGizmo!
Chris Ulbrich / Google:
Google to Hold Worldwide Developer Event — Google Developer Day  —  Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)- today announced that on May 31, 2007, Google offices in ten countries will host Google Developer Day™, a global event featuring workshops, keynotes and breakout discussions on Google's APIs and developer tools.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Ubuntu's new Linux sports debugging tool  —  With its upcoming "Feisty Fawn" version of Ubuntu Linux due April 19, Canonical hopes to shed light on what happens when things go wrong.  —  Feisty Fawn, also known as version 7.04, comes with software that can send debugging information …
Victor Keegan / Guardian:
To the average Joe, blogs aren't cutting it  —  This month's state of the blogosphere survey by Technorati, the monitoring service, was greeted as if it were the online equivalent of the President's State of the Union address.  It undoubtedly reveals a fascinating array of statistics …
Discussion: MediaVidea
Nivi / Venture Hacks:
Track your share price, not your valuation new!  Track your share price, not your valuation … If valuation is your only pespective on a company's capital structure, you can get fooled by games like the option pool shuffle which make your valuation seem large but actually depress your share price.
Discussion: Nivi
Ryan / Skype for Mac:
Skype 2.6 Beta is here  —  Today we released Skype 2.6 for Mac Beta.  Although our main focus was on quality, we've also added a few new features.  One of them so new it's released first on Mac and only later on other platforms.  —  Download Skype 2.6 for Mac Beta now
Kyle Orland / Joystiq:
Greek interview reveals new Wii games: Music, Health Pack  —  Greece is not usually known as a hub of video game information, but an interview with George Katrinakis (Altavista translation of relevant page), CEO of Greek Nintendo distributor Nortec Multimedia, reveals some interesting information about two previously unknown Wii games.
James Meikle / Guardian:
Web bosses must block pupils' videos mocking teachers, says minister  —  Website providers have a moral obligation to stop pupils posting offensive school videos that demean their teachers or other children, the education secretary said yesterday.  Alan Johnson told teachers that companies …
Discussion: Techdirt and Virtual Economics
David Lenehan / Read/WriteWeb:
The World Of Wikis  —  WetPaint, a popular hosted Wiki solution, announced this week that they are to provide person-to-person and private messaging between users of their Wiki network.  This means that Wetpaint Wiki users can now send single or multi-person private messages …
Discussion: Webware.com
 
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