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5:25 PM ET, July 12, 2007

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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
FACEBOOK: $6 BILLION?  NAH.  —  Look.  If you're Facebook, why on earth would you sell to Microsoft for $6 billion if you didn't sell to Yahoo for $1 Billion last year?  You just wouldn't.  You don't NEED anyone right now.  Do you?  Mark and his senior team has probably already been …
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Luke / Reach Students blog:
Facebook advertising brings poor results  —  Facebook is the website du jour, but in Reach Students' experience it delivers appalling ad clickthroughs.  —  We've run four targeted campaigns this year using its flyer ads, and each time the results have been disappointing.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Court declines to postpone Internet radio royalty hike  —  Internet radio broadcasters' best hope to avoid the onset of higher royalties beginning Sunday, July 15, fell by the wayside as the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit denied a motion to postpone the onset of the new royalty regime.
Electronista:
Apple patenting Zune-like sharing, wireless buying  —  Apple may be ready to not only bring wireless file sharing to the iPhone and iPod but could affect Microsoft's Zune as well, according to the details of a newly publicized patent.  The filing would allow fully mobile devices such as cellphones …
Discussion: Gizmodo, CrunchGear and Listening Post
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Fortune iMeme: Building New Internet Platforms; Facebook Has 1000s Of Third Party Apps  —  I'm at the opening session of the Fortune iMeme conference at the Ritz-Carlton of San Francisco, where the hotel has no parking left.  But I am sitting on a cushy Aeron chair - someone from Herman Miller came …
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Jimledbetter / The Browser:
And a 17-year-old shall lead them
Discussion: CNET News.com
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:   Fortune iMeme: MyYearbook.com
Mike / CUPS:
Article #475: CUPS Purchased by Apple Inc.  —  In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS.  —  CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.
Associated Press:
Sony BMG sues CD software firm  —  Sony BMG Music Entertainment is suing a company that developed antipiracy software for CDs, claiming the technology was defective and cost the record company millions of dollars to settle consumer complaints and government investigations.
Discussion: p2pnet and Boing Boing
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Sony seeks closure on MediaMax DRM fiasco by suing developer  —  Although Sony's rootkit fiasco was arguably the most harmful bit of DRM to ever come from Big Content, the MediaMax copy protection software deployed on other Sony discs also caused problems for consumers.
Discussion: Inquirer
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
And if your playlist is Heavy Metal, you're just asking to get zapped
Discussion: Inquirer
Deborah Fallows / Pew Internet:
China's Online Population Explosion  —  There are now an estimated 137 million internet users in China, second in number only to the United States, where estimates of the current internet population range from 165 million to 210 million.  The growth rate of China's internet user population …
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Chris Williams / The Register:
BBC Trust to hear open sourcers' iPlayer gripes  —  Exclusive The BBC Trust has asked to meet open source advocates to discuss their complaints over the corporation's Windows-only on demand broadband TV service, iPlayer.  —  The development came less than 48 hours after a meeting between …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's 'Cloud OS' takes shape  —  DENVER—Microsoft is in the early stages of a plan that will see virtually its entire lineup of underlying Internet services opened up to developers, the software maker made clear this week.  —  In addition to making available its existing services …
Discussion: TechFold and One Microsoft Way
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
The GPL and Software as a Service  —  Linux Magazine's article The GPL Has No (Networked) Future recognizes a point that I've been making for years: that free software license requirements to release source code are all triggered by the act of distribution, and that web applications …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Warner streams entire catalog of music for free on imeem  —  Warner Music Group is offering its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on imeem, a Web site focused on letting users share music playlists.  —  The music is currently live on the San Francisco startup's Web site, the company told VentureBeat Wednesday evening.
 
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Grant Gross / InfoWorld:
FBI: Expect more spam prosecutions
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Future Apple iPods, iPhones may talk to each other
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Outsource Your Brain for Science
Stevie Smith / Monsters and Critics:
Microsoft movie downloads will harm DVD sales?
Discussion: Valleywag
Katherine Conrad / Mercury News:
Google leases historic HP building
Sharon Springell / Computerworld:
Bootable disc eliminates viruses for safer banking
Stoney deGeyter / Search Engine Land:
Can Small Businesses Really Afford SEO?
Joe Weisenthal / Techdirt:
Whole Foods CEO Caught In Embarrassing Message Board Brouhaha
Discussion: The Stalwart
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Sphinn: Our Social Site For Search & Internet Marketing Professionals
Gerry Block / IGN:
E3 2007: Nyko Wii Party Station
John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Microsoft's Bach sold stock as Xbox woes surfaced
Canada NewsWire Group:
First Book Ever Written Using Mobile Phone is Published
Discussion: Pocket Picks, EMAC and mocoNews.net
Scott Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
IBM Releases AIX 6 Beta to the Masses
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Tailgate: Fully Transactional Web 2.0 Banners
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ACCC home:
ACCC alleges misleading and deceptive conduct by Trading Post and Google