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12:10 PM ET, March 24, 2008

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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
How I Blew My Google Interview  —  Another form of web literature is emerging: stories of job applicants rejected by Google (GOOG).  Google makes all applicants sign NDAs, of course—can't have future applicants boning up!—but unlike the standard Googleplex NDAs, these apparently don't bar tales …
Discussion: Susan Mernit's Blog and PSFK
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Corey Trager / Bug Tracker Blog:
Google interview … Last summer I was interviewed …
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
mike Shields / Mediaweek:
ESPN Turns Off Ad Nets  —  Moves to protect brand, content; other publishers mull  —  Top Web publishers are planning a revolt.  Even as more prominent sites experiment with selling remnant inventory through online ad networks, and in some cases ad exchanges, ESPN.com is saying thanks, but no thanks.
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
ESPN Pulls The Plug On Ad Network; Millard Warns About Treating Ads …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mozilla vs. Apple on Safari flap: It's about the Google search box  —  Apple pushes Safari to you when you update iTunes.  Mozilla CEO John Lilly blasted the move.  Meanwhile, there's enough hubbub to last a few weeks over these dueling point of views.  But what this spat really comes …
Evelyn Nussenbaum / New York Times:
The '80s Video That Pops Up, Online and Off  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The women's basketball game at Eastern Washington University on March 8 started out like any other, as the Eagles of E.W.U. faced off against the Montana State Bobcats.  —  But a routine timeout turned into a 1980s flashback …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Quotably: The Perfect Tool To Make Sense Of Twitter  —  A new service called Quotably may be the best third party Twitter-related service so far.  That's because it reformats Twitter messages into threaded conversations, making it significantly easier to follow actual discussions that are occurring on Twitter.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The secret to Twitter  —  I've been talking to lots of people about Twitter.
Discussion: WinExtra and Evolving Web
Grace Won / AVING:
All-in-one device ‘Hybrid Dual Portable Computer’  —  SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — <Visual News> MIU(www.miubit.com) introduced its new wireless IP-based hybrid portable device dubbed ‘HDPC (Hybrid Dual Portable Computer)’ in Korea market, which is equipped with dual OS(Windows XP/Windows CE 5.0 or Linux Qplus).
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is OpenID Being Exploited By The Big Internet Companies?  —  OpenID, a distributed single sign on solution that allows people to sign into different services with the same login credentials, gained significant momentum over the last year as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL all pledged their support for the initiative.
Discussion: JasonKolb.com and The Real McCrea
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Blist Socializes, Opens Public Beta  —  WebProNews interviewed Blist ahead of the update  —  New social networking features complement the opening of the public beta of Blist, a site that wants to make the database as easy to use as any kind of list.  —  Today marked the debut of Blist …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Heavens!  Professor Imperils Blu-Ray's Future  —  The latest outrage circulating in the blogosphere is over the US International Trade Commission's (ITC) announcement Thursday that it is investigating numerous companies involved in the development of Blu-ray disc players …
Discussion: TGDaily.com, Joystiq and Switched
Sam / Go Big Always:
Media execs are asleep at their own wheel  —  Why media execs still don't get social media is beyond me.  —  Yes, I get their business model: serve as many pages as possible so they can have enough media “inventory” to sell lots of ads.  And then there is subscription.
Discussion: Online Media Cultist
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
The inevitability of the iPhone  —  I walked into my local AT&T Wireless store on Saturday fully expecting and prepared to get a Blackberry 8820.  My Blackberry 8800 died while I was in London last week, and both Visa and American Express tried to protect me from fraud by disallowing my attempts to order a new phone over the web.
Discussion: Business Logs and broadstuff
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
A New Tool From Google Alarms Sites  —  Retailers and publishers have fought hard to work their way up in the ranking of Google's search results and refine the search features of their own Web sites to help users once they arrive.  Now, Google is taking a greater role in helping users search within particular sites.
Larry Dignan / Zero Day:
Microsoft confirms Word attacks  —  Microsoft has confirmed reports of vulnerability in Word that allows an attacker to exploit a system via the Microsoft Jet Database Engine, which shares data with Access, Visual Basic and third party applications.  —  Microsoft in its advisory said the potential for attack is “very limited.”
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Review: T-Mobile's Blackberry 8820  —  What isn't there to love about T-Mobiles UMA VoIP Wi-Fi solution?  Like mini-bar cashews and a nice upgrade to business class, T-Mobile knows what makes travelers happy, especially international financiers with a Spitzerian mistress in every port and a burgeoning Falstaffian gut.
 
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USA Today:
Comcast, Time Warner cable cry foul on Verizon
Discussion: DSLreports
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
Acer expected to beat Asus Eee pricing
Jack Neff / AdAge:
Study Finds Mixed DVR Effects
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
The Need For the Social Media Manager
Discussion: Mashable! and Micro Persuasion
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
PS3 2.20 update to offer portable copy of Blu-ray films to PSP?
Brian Garrity / New York Post:
DIGITAL DESTINY  —  SONY BMG, WARNER NEAR DEAL WITH MYSPACE
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google-DoubleClick: The next phase
Discussion: paidContent.org
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Can Microsoft make Silverlight shine?
 Earlier Items: 
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo inks cloud computing research pact with Tata unit
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
2,433 Unread Emails, I feel your pain..
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
MetaCarta: Mapping the news
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
JPMorgan in Negotiations to Raise Bear Stearns Bid
InfoWorld:
Fujitsu plans speedy 320GB laptop drive
James Chapman / Daily Mail:
Lost in MySpace: How a generation of children are being raised …
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and Digg
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
My Lack of Confidence in Vista SP1
Discussion: Computerworld
Grant Gross / IDG News Service:
Tech Workers Favor McCain, Obama
Discussion: A VC, Slashdot, Valleywag and Digg
 

 
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, sets out on a media blitz, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 Minutes

Financial Times:
Sources: New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is close to striking a deal to buy The Telegraph for £550M+, more than what others like National World offered

Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:
[Thread] CBS News leaders told staff that Tony Dokoupil's interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Israel-Hamas war did not meet impartiality standards

 
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