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2:15 PM ET, May 15, 2007

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Derek Powazek:
The Real Story of JPG Magazine  —  If there's one thing I've learned about community-building, it's this: Do Not Lie.  People are too smart and well-connected to believe a lie anymore.  So, with that in mind, the story I'm about to tell is absolutely true as I experienced it.  —  How JPG Began
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
Free Advice for the Litigious...  Years back, Sun was under pressure in the market.  Although many users loved our core Solaris operating system, others thought it was built for high end computers, not grid systems.  Our computer business had failed to keep pace with the rest of the industry …
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SAP and Novell Deliver Expanded Linux Support Options for Customers
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Gonzales proposes new crime: "Attempted" copyright infringement  —  Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including "attempts" to commit piracy.
Business Wire:
MySpace Video to Launch Branded Channels  —  World's Leading Lifestyle Portal Inks Content Deals With National Geographic, The New York Times, Reuters, The Daily Reel, Expert Village, Flow, IGN Entertainment, Octane TV, Kush TV, LX.TV, Ripe TV, Studio411, VBS.tv, and Young Hollywood
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:   Branded Video Channels Coming to MySpace
Apple:
Apple Updates Popular MacBook  —  Faster Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, 1GB of Memory and Larger Hard Drives Across the Line  —  Apple® today updated its MacBook® consumer notebooks with faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory and larger hard drives in every model.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Meebo Rooms Launched - "like a very very rich widget"  —  Tonight meebo is launching Meebo Rooms, a rich media chat room product that users can put on their blogs and websites.  They can be private or public chat rooms, and can feature video content from sources such as youtube and NBC.
Discussion: UNEASYsilence
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
Curry in London.  Weather in Jaipur  —  Yahoo! is expanding its mobile reach to a few more countries.  We just launched Yahoo! oneSearch Beta in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.  We're now in 14 countries, including the United Kingdom, France …
Discussion: The Ask.com Blog
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Forty-Eight Hours With Ask Mobile
Discussion: Ars Technica and Screenwerk
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Things Sure Are Quiet At MySpace News  —  When the largest site on the Internet announced their new MySpace News service, people expected it to get at least some traction, quickly.  But a month later, as former TechCrunch writer Marshall Kirkpatrick noted in Twitter today, the site appears to be nothing more than a ghost town.
GamePolitics.com:
V-Tech Rampage Creator Demands Payment to Remove Game  —  In the history of video games, perhaps in the history of the Internet, this is something never seen before: an audience held hostage.  —  Ryan Lambourn, the Australian man who created the highly offensive V-Tech Rampage …
Discussion: Kotaku and Game | Life
PR Newswire:
Yahoo! Appoints Blake Jorgensen as Chief Financial Officer  —  Thomas Weisel Co-Founder Brings Strong Track Record as Business-Builder and Broad Financial, Operating and Strategic Expertise to Yahoo!'s Executive Team  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Yahoo! Inc. …
fortuitous:
Some Community Tips for 2007  —  Seven tips on how to run a successful community.  —  Every year or so I write a long post or do a presentation at a conference on the subject of community.  Each time I approach the subject, I take what I've already written and add to it with recent things I've learned …
Discussion: Bokardo and Common Craft
Kellie Marks / The Third Word:
AOL Acquires Third Screen Media  —  Leading Provider of Mobile Advertising Solutions Will Expand Advertising.com's Mobile Services for Advertisers and Publishers  —  DULLES, VA - May 15, 2007 - AOL announced today that it has acquired Third Screen Media, the leading mobile advertising network …
Washington Post:
A Casualty Of War: MySpace  —  U.S. Military Blocks Popular Web Sites, Cutting Ties to Home  —  The Defense Department began blocking access on its computers to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other Web sites yesterday, severing some of the most popular ties linking U.S. troops in combat areas …
Discussion: IP Democracy and Danger Room
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Flickrvision — Twittervision's new cousin  —  Just released today, Flickrvision shows realtime, geolocated Flickr photos.  Just like Twittervision, it's hypnotic to watch.  The map moves around to show the location of the most recent tweet or photo.  Both visualizations hail from David Troy …
 
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Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Google: 10 percent of sites are dangerous
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Michael Calore / Wired News:
Twitter Cloning: Tiny Blogs Bloom Everywhere
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
AT&T: No Pre-Sale of Apple iPhones
Discussion: Ars Technica and MacDailyNews
Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
Nordic Game: PS3 is "too big", says Parappa creator
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
The Motorola RAZR 2  —  Motorola has today officially unveiled …
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Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
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Richard Wray / Guardian:
Dial M for entertainment, the mobile revolution
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Live from Motorola's Mobile Experience event with Ed Zander
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Why age verification won't cure what ails social networking sites
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Free tool offers 'easy' coding
Discussion: CrunchGear and digg
USA Today:
Sprint, ABC dial in to television on the go
Discussion: IP Democracy
USA Today:
TiVo expands search capabilities to encompass Net
Dave / Blogified:
IMified Acquires Real-Time Feed Alerts Leader Feedcrier.com
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
HP'S HALO: NOW THIS IS TELEPRESENCE
 

 
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Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:
Boston NPR affiliate WBUR to cancel Radio Boston, its midday show that spent 15 years on air, and move its staff to a new production team focused on local news

 
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