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9:55 AM ET, August 16, 2007

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Takes Down Blogger Site With Leaked Facebook Code  —  FacebookSecrets, the blog that posted the accidentally released source code for the Facebook main index page, has been taken down.  The blog was hosted on the Google-owned Blogger blog network and was removed pursuant to a DMCA take down notice from Facebook.
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Soso Sazesh / Techomical:
Facebook Secrets Blog Shutdown By Google?  —  The anonymous blog Facebook Secrets, that posted Facebook source code not once, but twice, has been shut down, either by author or by Google.  But one would have to assume it was by Google since the anonymous author had no method of contact on the blog …
Discussion: CNET News.com and Mashable!
Tai Adelaja / The Moscow Times:
AllofMP3 Survives First Test In Court  —  Moscow's Cheremushkin District Court cited poor work by prosecutors Wednesday in finding Denis Kvasov, the former owner of digital music site AllofMP3.com, not guilty of violating intellectual property laws.  —  Kvasov was the general director …
Discussion: Slyck, p2pnet and TechSpot News
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Former AllOfMP3 boss found "not guilty" in Russian court
Discussion: Techdirt and P2P Blog
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Online Video Site Bolt.com Shuts Down  —  We just received a tipoff that Bolt.com, the online video site that settled a lawsuit with Universal in March, has ceased operations and closed its website.  More on this as it develops, but for now this is the message on Bolt's website:
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
The Great Advertising Share Shift: Google Sucks Life Out Of Old Media  —  [From Silicon Alley Insider] Everyone talks about advertising dollars shifting online, but when you're fighting all day in the trenches it's tough to get a handle on what this really means.  Here's what it means:
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Meebo releases iPhone web app  —  Meebo, the reigning champion of web-based chat, has just released their entry into the iPhone app arena.  I had a chance to speak with meebo's CEO, Seth Sternberg, earlier today about the release, and they truly do have a surprisingly innovating iPhone app on there hands.
Marc Graser / Variety:
Industry pair to dish help on website  —  Tercek, Edelman set to launch PeopleJam  —  Dr. Phil's about to face some serious competition online: Hollywood execs Robert Tercek and Matt Edelman are prepping to launch PeopleJam, a website set on helping people improve their lives.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
New robots.txt feature and REP Meta Tags  —  We've improved Webmaster Central's robots.txt analysis tool to recognize sitemap declarations and relative urls.  Earlier versions weren't aware of sitemaps at all, and understood only absolute URLs; anything else was reported as Syntax not understood.
Discussion: Search Engine Land and WebProNews
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Sun and IBM promise operating system surprise  —  Sun Microsystems and IBM look set to hold a whopper of a press conference tomorrow with CEO Jonathan Schwartz and IBM's systems chief Bill Zeitler all geared up to talk.  —  What exactly will be the topic of discussion?  Who knows?
Discussion: PC World and Zoli's Blog
Joosep / Heartbeat:
Problems with Skype login  —  UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging in to Skype.  Our engineering team has determined that it's a software issue.  We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours.  Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon …
David Weiss:
Numbers  —  One of the great benefits of working at Microsoft is that when you add a new little one to your family, you get 1 month of paid paternity leave.  Recently, we've had the opportunity to take advantage of this benefit.  Since our little baby was born, I've been home working as Mr. Mom.
Discussion: MacUser
M:Metrics Home:
Mobile Social Networking Has 12.3 Million Friends in the US and Western Europe  —  MySpace has largest mobile network in the United States and UK; MSN/Windows Live Spaces is preferred in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.  —  M:Metrics, the mobile media authority, today released …
Glenn / Coolfer:
EMI's New Digital Strategy May Have Prevented A Worse June/July Slide  —  About a month ago I posted a graph that showed EMI's year-to-date market shares for digital albums and CDs.  The cumulative figures showed EMI's digital market share had increased in the month after the company dropped DRM at iTunes.
Phone Arena:
Verizon prepares 15 still unannounced phones for release  —  We got our hands on a document showing the product line of Verizon Wireless for the whole 2007 and there are plenty of new phones in there!  There are photos of both already available phones and of ones that are still not announced even by the manufacturer.
Discussion: Engadget Mobile and Mobility Site
Robert Block / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Expand Domestic Use Of Spy Satellites  —  The U.S.'s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the nation's vast network of spy satellites in the U.S.  —  The decision, made three months ago …
Discussion: Chris Pirillo, All Points Blog and digg
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
New zero-day bug smacks Yahoo Messenger's Webcam  —  Third bug in the IM software since June  —  A bug in Yahoo Messenger that first surfaced on a Chinese security forum can be used to hack a Windows PC, McAfee Inc. researchers confirmed today.  —  The vulnerability, apparently a heap overflow bug …
Discussion: avertlabs.com
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Wei Wang / avertlabs.com:
More on the Yahoo! Messenger Webcam 0day....
 
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Universal to track DRM-free music online via watermarking
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Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica:
FM power to the people: FCC to offer noncommercial licenses
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Boston Globe:
Verizon asks FCC to stop reduced rates for competitors
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Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
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