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6:50 PM ET, June 14, 2007

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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Frames a Video Search Engine  —  Google Video, now a video search engine, shows a frame similar to the one from Image Search when you click on a search result.  The frame lets you rate the video, share it, and watch related videos.  You can also watch the previous or the next search result …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Now a Video Search Engine  —  Google Video went through many reincarnations in the past.  It allegedly started out as one of those 20% side projects within Google, and Larry Page admitted, "We're not quite sure what we're going to get, but we decided we'd try this experiment."
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Veoh Hosts $26 Million Round  —  Updated Veoh may no longer host popular adult videos, but that hasn't stopped venture capitalists from backing up the Brink's truck. peHUB has learned that the San Diego-based company recently raised around $26 million in Series C funding …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Veoh Goes for the Big Money
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Valleywag:
Housekeeping: Owen Thomas is the Valleywag  —  Owen Thomas, the Business 2.0 editor whom we've lured to run Valleywag, is all smiles.  But don't be deceived.  This Silicon Valley gossip rag, after he takes over in July as managing editor, will remain as obnoxious as ever.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The (B)Log-Rolling Post  —  Why have a blog, I say, if you can't write about people you actually like in it every now and then.  —  First, the news that Owen Thomas, who writes the most excellent blog Beta for Business 2.0 magazine's Web site, where he has worked in a variety of reporting and editing jobs …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Business 2.0 vs. Valleywag
Discussion: Bloggers Blog
Microsoft Connect:
We have just reached a new milestone, Release Candidate 1!  —  Welcome to the Windows Home Server page on Microsoft Connect - Microsoft's community destination for downloading beta products.  —  If you wish to participate in Windows Home Server evaluation program and/or to participate …
Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Explores Options for WiMax  —  Sprint Nextel Corp. is exploring new options for financing its ambitious plan to build a wireless broadband network known as WiMax, including forming a partnership or joint venture with cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw and seeking an infusion of cash from cable providers …
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Business Wire:
Clearwire Partners with DIRECTV and EchoStar
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Satellite TV guys say: Why not WiMAX?
Discussion: Gizmodo
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
YouTube Passes Debates to a New Generation  —  The quadrennial ritual of presidential debates has long followed a tried and true format.  —  A guy in a suit asks mostly predictable questions of other people in suits.  The voter is a fixture in the audience, motionless until he or she gets to address the candidate, respectfully.
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Vanessa Fox. Nude.:
a few changes  —  For the last two years, I have had a fantastic time helping to build Google Webmaster Central.  I have loved working with the (ever-expanding!) team, writing about search on the blog and for the help center, and designing features for the webmaster community.
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Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Expanding the webmaster central team
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple releases Windows Safari 3.0.1, squishes security bugs  —  Looks like Apple's issued a new version of the public beta of Safari for Windows today — highest on the list of fixes were patches for thee three separate security vulnerabilities that cropped up mere hours after launch.
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BBC:
FBI tries to fight zombie hordes  —  The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals.  —  The initiative is part of an ongoing project to thwart the use of hijacked home computers, or zombies, as launch platforms for hi-tech crimes.
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
FBI: Over one million computers working for botnets
Discussion: Neowin.net and Network World
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Taking a detailed look at Windows Vista DVD hologram  —  An astute Windows user was intrigued by the holographic image on the face of the Windows Vista Business DVD and decided to take a much closer look, discovering in the margin a microscopic photograph of three men.  Just who they could be?
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone sighting?  —  Looks like they're out there, and no, we don't just mean in Walt and David's hands...we mean out there.  Check out this flick of someone using what almost definitely appears to be an iPhone.  He's all listening to Journey probably, reminiscing about The Sopranos season finale.
Sprint:
Customers Get High Speed Multimedia and Industry-Leading Walkie Talkie Services With Newest Sprint PowerSource Phone  —  The Motorola Deluxe™ ic902 provides customers with industry-leading Nextel® Walkie-Talkie services, powerful Sprint Power Vision(SM) voice and data services …
BBC:
The Tech Lab: Dave Winer  —  Dave Winer, considered by many to be the father of blogging and a pioneer of RSS feeds, offers his personal view on technologies he would like to see in existence one day.  —  I'm a blogger, therefore I like to write short two or three paragraph essays on things I care about.
Discussion: Podcasting News
 
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Jane J. Kim / Wall Street Journal:
Managing Your Money In Public View
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Bush administration attacks 'shield' for bloggers
Joe Weisenthal / Techdirt:
eBay Experiment Demonstrates Frailty Of Google's Monopoly
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Boston U student fights RIAA attempt to discover names behind IP addresses
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
AMA chimes in on gaming/violence connection, gaming addiction
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Business Wire:
Simon & Schuster and TurnHere Premiere Author Videos on YouTube and Bookvideos.tv
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John Solomon / Washington Post:
FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data
Discussion: Threat Level and Slashdot
Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Microsoft Signs Another Linux Deal
Discussion: p2pnet, Epicenter and Inquirer
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GPU-Tech Releases GPU Computing API, Benchmarks
Russ Mitchell / Portfolio.com:
Dark Days for Terry Semel
productdose.com:
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Triston McIntyre / MAC.BLORGE.com:
The tawdry truth about the iPhone, WiFi, and EDGE
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Xing integrates with ZoomInfo, in move to overtake LinkedIn
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
NBC Developing Web Site for Students
InfoWorld:
iPhone disappoints mobile developers
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The 3D Real/Virtual World Hybrid: How Far Away?