Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:40 PM ET, October 24, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Source: Microsoft wins Facebook bid battle  —  Update: 12:30 p.m. see bottom.  —  After weeks of speculation, Microsoft appears to have won a battle with Google over who would get a stake in Facebook, according to a source familiar with the situation.  —  Microsoft and Facebook were close to a deal, according to the source.
RELATED:
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
ONLINE FACEOFF  —  M'SOFT AND GOOGLE DUKE IT OUT OVER HOT SITE  —  Google is threatening to once again beat rival Microsoft to the deal punch, this time in the white-hot Facebook investment sweepstakes.  —  Microsoft and Google are each vying to take a stake of between 5 percent and 10 percent …
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Is Close to Choosing Microsoft or Google for Deal  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Inc. is close to choosing between Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to sell ads for the social networking service outside the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook opens developer platform for mobile  —  Facebook has announced that third-party developers can integrate features from web-based applications to work on mobile devices.  —  Most of the world uses mobile devices, and in many countries, people use cell phones more than they do computers.
Eric Savitz / Barron's Online:
Google Analyst Day: Ads and Enterprise Panel  —  At Google (GOOG) analyst day, next we get a panel lead by Omid Kordestani, the SVP of Global Sales and Business Development.  We have a new theme in attire: jackets and even a tie.  There are five panelists besides Kordestani.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sorry, Microsoft, Google Has Already Won Facebook War  —  The Post suggests that our prediction of a month ago is coming true: Either Google will run off with Facebook, leaving a jilted Microsoft (MSFT) fuming at the altar, or Microsoft will have to pay a king's ransom to win the bidding war—just as it did with aQuantive:
Bloomberg:
Facebook Gets Bids From Google, Microsoft, People Say
Discussion: The Utube Blog
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Rumormonger: Facebook goes to Microsoft?
Discussion: WebProNews and Between the Lines
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Microsoft wins Facebook bid? Here's the insider scoop on why...
Discussion: CNET News.com and WebProNews
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Is Facebook about to be bought?
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Declares Jihad On Blog Link Farms  —  A major Google page rank update has punished large scale blog link farms and similar sites indulging in heavy cross linking by dramatically cutting their Google page rank scores.  —  There is some suggestion that the changes may be related …
RELATED:
Andy Beard / Niche Marketing:
Digg Favorites Slapped By Google  —  For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn't take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation.  Google has just slapped their biggest fans.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google's PageRank Update Goes After Paid Links?  —  Seems like there is a PageRank update taking place now that seems to be impacting sites that sell links.  Can't say that we were not warned about this?  Danny Sullivan wrote Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings …
Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips:
ProBlogger - PageRank 4  —  Wow - this is an interesting one.  —  ProBlogger's page rank is currently at a 4 - and so is Digital Photography School.  —  I'd heard blogs had been penalized in their page rank recently for selling text links - bizarre thing is that neither of these two blogs sell links.
Daniel / Daily Blog Tips:
Google Changing the PageRank Algorithm?
Discussion: kottke.org
Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP  —  There are two online petitions I've signed in my life.  One was for a "Xena: Warrior Princess" movie.  The other, which I signed a few months before starting at Google, was for Gmail IMAP.  As some of you know, IMAP is the best way to access …
RELATED:
Germano Caronni / Official Google Blog:
Free IMAP for Gmail
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
Interop: Citrix XenSource Flys as Google Crashes
Discussion: The Register and Mashable!
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
In Foray Into TV, Google Is to Track Ad Audiences  —  Google, which dominates the market for advertising on the Internet, seems to be hoping to do the same thing on television.  —  The company is set to announce a partnership today with the Nielsen Company, the voice of authority …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Let open access reign: Verizon relents on legal challenge to FCC  —  In a surprise move, Verizon has dropped its lawsuit challenging the open access requirement for next January's 700MHz spectrum auction.  Earlier this week, the telecom filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss the case filed …
Discussion: WebProNews and eWEEK.com
RELATED:
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Google Analyst Day: Jonathan Rosenberg On Search, Apps; New Versions Of iGoogle, Gmail And More  —  The first session at Google (GOOG) analyst day is focus on search and apps.  CFO George Reyes is giving the introduction.  He'll be followed by Jonathan Rosenberg on search and apps …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook Announces Facebook Platform for Mobile; Facebook for Blackberry  —  This just in - today at CTIA, Facebook is announcing Facebook Platform for Mobile.  With Facebook Platform for Mobile, current Facebook Platform developers will be able to extend their applications to work on mobile phones and devices as well.
Discussion: Computerworld and The Register
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 4:40 PM ET, October 24, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few  —  Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Zoho:
Zoho Assist makes remote support easy on Linux Wayland devices  —  Let's face it—Linux users are a league of their own.  With their customizable setups, cutting-edge tech choices, and slightly smug “I don't use Windows” …
Genesys:
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots  —  How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
MarketingVOX:
Social Networking's Explosive Growth to Plateau in Five Years
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Insider Domain Name Snatching Probed
Paula Rooney / The Register:
XenSource preaches the joy of platform virtualization
Discussion: eWEEK.com
InfoWorld:
Microsoft gives interoperability progress report
Discussion: Matusow's Blog
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
JibJab Raises $3 Million
Andrew / Union Square Ventures:
Tumblr  —  I have many locations on the internet where I can point …
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
CG Exclusive: Samsung F700-variant coming to Verizon
Discussion: Gizmodo
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Blu-ray outsells HD DVD nearly 2-to-1... then came Transformers
Discussion: Gadgetell
 Earlier Items: 
Live Search:
"Do what I mean, not what I say!" [Part 1 of 2]
Discussion: WebProNews and Mashable!
Glenn Fleishman / Seattle Times:
Q&A |  Fake Steve Jobs — how alter ego took over a portion of journalist's life
Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
Why Enterprise Software Sucks
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Storm Worm Botnet Lobotomizing Anti-Virus Programs
Discussion: Sophos and WinBeta
Nick / Rough Type:
Platforms want to be free  —  The network effect is being repriced to zero.
Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
What's wrong with Facebook
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Elcomsoft turns your PC into a password cracking supercomputer (gulp)
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Liam Scott / Voice of America:
RSF says 23 journalists were jailed in Syria and 10 others were missing as of December 9; press freedom groups call for accountability for Assad's government

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sources: Patrick Soon-Shiong told LA Times opinion leaders not to publish an editorial critical of Trump's cabinet picks without publishing an opposing view

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
The WGA demands studios take “immediate legal action” against companies that used writers' work to train AI, in a letter to CEOs of Disney, Netflix, and others

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page