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7:20 PM ET, October 11, 2007

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook Traffic Tanks - This can't be real?  —  comScore is about to issue September 2007 user engagement and page views data, and it seems like the SVFurby, I mean Facebook unique visitors took a little dip.  See the little decline on the red line.  I can't exactly tell how many and how accurate the data is, but it looks like a dip.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Facebook Funding: A Yahoo Bovine Update?  —  "Why," said a sharp Silicon Valley figure to me last night, "would Facebook give away the cow for a price of quart of milk?"  —  Why, indeed, although it would be a $15 billion quart of milk.  —  But it was an interesting point he was making …
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Facebook Traffic Declines - Abandon Ship or Deja Vu?
Discussion: GigaOM, Valleywag and All Facebook
Amin Charaniya / Google LatLong:
Now Playing: YouTube videos in Google Earth  —  I love watching videos on YouTube.  Every once in a while I'll see something so good that it makes me stop and wonder where it was recorded or how I can find more videos from that particular location.  For instance, just the other day I stumbled upon …
Associated Press:
Comcast rollout of TiVo box begins  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. - After more than two years of promises and delays, Comcast Corp. has finally begun the commercial rollout of its first cable set-top boxes that run TiVo's digital video recording technology.  —  As expected, New England is the first market …
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
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Meg Tirrell / Bloomberg:
TiVo Introduces Service for Comcast Following Delay
Discussion: DSLreports and Zatz Not Funny!
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Radiohead still needs major label to let world see its "Rainbows"  —  Radiohead is apparently not quite ready to follow Nine Inch Nails into a life without record labels.  Although the group has made its new album In Rainbows available for download on its website for whatever price fans are willing to pay …
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Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Madonna Heads for Virgin Territory
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Founders Pick Up Another Big Plane  —  Google's billionaire founders, owners of a Boeing 767 that has been the talk of Silicon Valley, are apparently adding another unusually large private jet to their fleet: a Boeing 757.  —  Like the Boeing 767, and two other jets operated …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / FORTUNE: Apple 2.0:
Report: Apple Gains 29% Share of $$$ Notebooks  —  Drilling down into Apple's (AAPL) recent string of boffo quarterly reports, analyst Toni Sacconaghi Jr. of Bernstein Research finds both strength and vulnerability in Steve Jobs' relentless pursuit of high-margin computer sales.
Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Prediction: Starbucks Wi-Fi will soon be free  —  The for-pay Wi-Fi model at Starbucks feels old and stale, says Mike Elgan  —  Editor's note: This article headlines our TechGear section and newsletter. … Starbucks, the giant coffee chain with 13,168 locations worldwide …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Electronic Arts pays $860 million for BioWare, Pandemic Studios  —  Video game mega-publisher Electronic Arts has agreed to pay $860 million to purchase VG Holdings, the parent company of video game companies BioWare and Pandemic Studios.  —  This deal, expected to close in January, is the largest in EA's 25-year history.
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
TiVo HD Lifetime Transfer Arrives  —  In time for the holidays (yet prior to the real shopping season), TiVo pulls the trigger on a promotion many folks have been eagerly awaiting: Transfer Lifetime Service onto a TiVo HD... for $199.  At the end of the day it may not be a bargain but …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Technology innovation and policy: The power of "we"  —  "The future is all about the power of "we" and how to collaborate with Web 2.0," said Cisco CEO John Chambers, reprising his gospel of broadband connnectedness.  He was speaking at the Technology Innovation Summit held at the University of California, Berkeley.
Fred / A VC:
In Rainbows  —  I knew I was going to buy this new Radiohead record.  Just for the experience of buying music at whatever price you want to pay was enough to do it.  But beyond that, I've listened this morning and I am happy to have bought it because it's wonderful music too.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
From Google to Facebook  —  "On Friday July 13th, 2007 I resigned from Google in search of new challenges and risks.  This was a hard decision to come to and I have been seriously thinking about it for the last few months.  In the end I decided (with support from my wife) …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Facebook Reality Check: It's not worth $100B, and it won't crush MySpace or Google (but it does rock)  —  At the Social Graphing conference on Tuesday our industry went in full-blown madness.  A panel filled with Facebook fans (and some investors) got so worked up they claimed—among other things—that:
 
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Rocky Mountain News:
Documents: Qwest was targeted
Discussion: DSLreports
David Kravets / Wired News:
Court Clears Way for Mobile-Phone-Unlocking Lawsuit Against T-Mobile
Discussion: Techdirt
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
A Script for Every Surfer
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple puts up iPhone Web app directory
Discussion: Download Squad
Charles Knight / Alt Search Engines:
Google's People Search - Spock speaks out
Dan Ackerman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Dell's tablet chatter
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FCC stands pat on 700MHz auction rules in face of criticism
Discussion: Reuters
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google, Mozilla and the Open-Source Phone
 Earlier Items: 
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Anna Lagerkvist / Tech.co.uk:
Internet ads? Sure. Mobile ads? No way!
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Hard times for hard drives: US may ban popular imports
Discussion: Gizmodo and Gadget Lab
24/7 Wall St.:
Would Reuters (RTRSY) Or Yahoo! (YHOO) Buy SeekingAlpha?
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
NY Spotlight: UpNext - The Future of Local is Here Now! Yelp who?
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft's mobile team reorgs, focuses on Live services
Discussion: msmobiles.com
Nick / Rough Type:
Storage: too cheap to meter?
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPod touch now running Mail, Google Maps, and more