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9:40 PM ET, October 15, 2007

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David King / Official Google Blog:
Latest content ID tool for YouTube  —  A few months ago, we announced the initial development of a highly complicated technology platform — content identification tools for YouTube.  Today, we are pleased to launch, in beta form, YouTube Video Identification.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google unveils YouTube antipiracy tool  —  BURLINGAME, Calif.—Google says it has a new system for identifying pirated video on YouTube as it gets uploaded, but the system puts the burden on movie studios and other content owners to provide YouTube copies of the content first.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
YouTube Announces Tool For Angry Copyright Holders  —  After many many months of saying the company was "working on it," Google has finally released the details of its tool to help angry copyright holders deal with their content being shared on YouTube.  The tool doesn't sound all that surprising.
Elinor Mills / Webware.com:
Google unveils YouTube antipiracy tool
John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Google unveils copyright protection tools
Discussion: Googling Google
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Google Reader Stats are Bulls**t (With Proof)  —  Google Reader stats, in case you don't know, are bulls**t.  In fact, all Feedburner stats for most top blogs are bulls**t due to the effect of default feeds.  Want 80,000 free subscribers?  How about 200K or more?  Read on.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Why RSS is "Broken"
Discussion: Mashable!
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL Layoffs Letter From CEO Randy Falco  —  More to come on this story, but AOL will lay off 2,000 employees.  Here is the letter to AOL employees that went out at 11 a.m. EDT today from CEO Randy Falco:  —  Dear AOL colleague,  —  Just over a year ago, AOL embarked on an incredibly complex …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Google's sneak attack?  Adsense for Facebook  —  Is Google-the-Goliath sneaking into the Facebook building — via the basement?  —  Google is actively recruiting third-party developers with applications on Facebook to run Adsense ads within applications pages, VentureBeat has learned.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Facebook: Three term sheets to the wind
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Hatebook Embraces the "Evil" Side of Social Networking  —  We all have bad days (or weeks/months) but many of us may be wary of venting our frustrations online using Facebook, especially since our parents and bosses can now see our status updates and wall posts.
Nick / Rough Type:
Caterpillar: Web 2.0 giant  —  There may well be a time when Facebook, YouTube, Digg, and the other Web 2.0 fashion plates make some real money, but for the moment their results pale in comparison to those of the most unexpected beneficiary of the web's recent evolution, the industrial-age stalwart Caterpillar.
Will / New Scientist Invention Blog:
Microsoft mind reading  —  Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your mind too.  —  The company says that it is hard to properly evaluate the way people interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers.
Discussion: Rough Type, Boing Boing, Crave and Valleywag
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Could EEGs have prevented Clippy?  Microsoft taps brain scan for UI work
Discussion: Ryan Stewart
phx.corporate-ir.net:
DIRECTV INVESTOR RELATIONS  —  DIRECTV HD(TM) Revolution Begins  —  DIRECTV Customers Now Have Access to Over 70 National HD Channels - Significantly More Than Any Other Television Provider In The Nation  —  DIRECTV (NYSE:DTV), the nation's leading satellite television service provider …
Discussion: 1080eyes.com
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Karl / DSLreports:   DirecTV Hits 72 HD Channels - Still insists 100 by year's end...
Virtual Earth:
New Live Search Maps Features Coming  —  At Searchification a couple of weeks back, the new features coming in Live Search Maps were shown for the first time to some press and bloggers in anticipation of the release.  The bits are finally aligned and in the hands of our ops team for deployment this week.
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Live Maps to incorporate Birds Eye view into 3D maps
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Is Scribd a Porn Document Network?  —  Please note that this post is NOT SAFE FOR WORK (NSFW).  While I have not embedded any offending images, some of the content and links is objectionable.  —  One of the most popular services for bloggers is called Scribd, a so-called "YouTube for Documents".
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
AdBrite: Full Page "Skip This Ad" Units Now Available for Everyone  —  Ad network AdBrite announced this morning that they have begun selling full-page ad units of the sort that you've no doubt seen on some of the bigger, more old-school web sites like PCMag and the New York Times.
Discussion: Sam Harrelson and Clickety Clack
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Adobe Partners with BBC on Streaming Video  —  The BBC's much-maligned iPlayer online video player will be getting a companion streaming version later this year.  Through a partnership announced this afternoon with Adobe, the BBC will begin offering streamed versions of its television programming via …
BBC:
BBC online to go free over wi-fi  —  The BBC's online services will be made available free of charge at thousands of wi-fi hotspots around the UK.  —  The corporation has agreed a deal with wi-fi firm The Cloud, which operates 7,500 hotspots around the country.
Discussion: TechCrunch UK
 
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
DE.LICIO.US + GOOGLE WEB HISTORY = HOOEEY
Discussion: Mashable!
Matt Peckham / Game On:
The Sims Creator to Become BAFTA Fellow
Discussion: CNET News.com
Sarah Lai Stirland / Wired News:
MoveOn.org Reverses: Allows Critical Ads on Google
Julie Sloane / Epicenter:
CurrentTV Re-Launches Its Website To Boost User Generated Content
Discussion: Bits and Podcasting News
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Secret manual shows Comcast (gasp!) protects customers' privacy
Discussion: DSLreports
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Tipsheet: Information security on the cheap
Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
Twitter: show me the money!
Salon:
Hitachi hatches a humongous hard drive
 Earlier Items: 
Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
Yet another Ajax toolkit: Eclipse RAP 1.0
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Attention - NewsGator and Bloglines Join APML Workgroup
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Supreme Court dumps Microsoft, Best Buy appeal
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
1,200 Marketers Can't Be Wrong: The Future Is in Consumer Behavior
Discussion: A Media Circus, Channel 9 and cgm
Oliver Starr / blognation:
Jiglu is a Smarter Way to Tag Your Content
USA Today:
Google's GPhone strategy could keep user costs low
Rob Mead / Tech.co.uk:
Pirates take over anti-piracy website
 

 
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