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4:15 PM ET, April 9, 2008

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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo in Talks With Google To Handle Some Search Ads  —  Yahoo Inc. is close to announcing that it plans to carry search advertising from Google Inc. as part of a test that could lead to a broader partnership, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  The short-term test …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Search May Test Google Ads  —  Yahoo in Talks With Google To Handle Some Search Ads from the Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo may be testing Google ads on the Yahoo search result pages.  —  The Wall Street Journal said this is a very limited test, triggered by a “very limited percentage of Yahoo's Web search queries.”
Nate Westheimer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon  —  There's no shortage of stories about Google's newly launched App Engine, but almost all of them get it wrong — because they compare the new service to Amazon's EC2 and S3 services (AMZN).  —  If the Silicon Valley echo chamber wants …
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:   Red Dog: Microsoft's Answer to App Engine and AWS?
Bret Taylor / Bret Taylor's blog:
We need a Wikipedia for data  —  I just started blogging.  I am not sure what I want to write about, but I think one theme will be “things I want but want someone else to build.”  This article describes one of those things.  —  At Google, I worked on a number of projects that required data from third party data sources.
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:   Open-sourcing factual data, Wikipedia style
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Yahoo! buys web analytics service IndexTools
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
I Saw The Future Of Social Networking The Other Day  —  Anyone who's been reading this blog for more than a few months knows I'm bullish on mobile social networking.  —  The space is wide open at this point - no one has created an application that has gotten enough traction to go mainstream.
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Nsyght tries to crack the social search nut
Preston Gralla / Computerworld Blogs:
Five reasons why Vista beats Mac OS X  — IT TOPICS:Desktop Applications, Enterprise Software & Services, Macintosh & Apple, Operating Systems, Software, Windows & Microsoft  —  The conventional wisdom, that Mac's OS X is superior to Windows Vista, is flat-out wrong.
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Mac security not so much about the Mac  —  SAN FRANCISCO …
Discussion: The Mac Observer
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
New RIAA Argument: Throwing A Promo CD In The Garbage = Unauthorized Distribution  —  from the next-up:-picking-your-nose=distribution dept  —  Last summer, the EFF sued Universal Music Group, after UMG had eBay takedown the sales of certain CDs.  The CDs were promotional CDs …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
UMG Says Throwing Away Promo CDs is Illegal
Discussion: joegratz.net
BBC:
BBC announces Nintendo Wii deal  —  The BBC's iPlayer video service will soon be available via the Nintendo Wii.  —  The video download and streaming service that lets people catch up with BBC programmes will soon be a channel on the hugely popular game console.
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Symbian Smart Phones World:
Exclusive: Latest update on the hotly anticipated Nokia Tube - The Rumours are over - Hands on the Nokia “Tube”  —  + Exclusive: latest update on the hotly anticipated Nokia Tube  —  Hands on the Nokia “Tube”  —  The Rumours are over!  —  Now whether the phone was inadvertently …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Former Yahoo Exec to OpenX; OpenX to L.A.  —  Former Yahoo Senior Vice President Tim Cadogan will take the CEO job at OpenX, the popular open-source ad server start-up, backed by Index Ventures, Accel Partners and others.  —  As part of the change, the company will move from its London HQ to Los Angeles.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Latest iPhone 2.0 beta reveals 3G chipset  —  Hidden away in the latest test firmware for iPhone developers is the mention of the chipset that will power third-generation cellular Internet access in Apple's next generation of the device.  —  Discovered by the creators of the popular ZiPhone jailbreak …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Study Gives High Marks to U.S. Internet  —  South Koreans played video games in Seoul last month.  South Korea rose 10 places to ninth in the ranking of network services for the World Economic Forum.  The United States was fourth.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Contradicting earlier studies …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
US is #4 on Network Readiness Index—despite broadband woes
Discussion: Michael Geist Blog
Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Legg Mason Wades Into the Yahoo Fray  —  Manager Says Shareholder Would Back Independence If Microsoft Lowers Its Bid  —  A major Yahoo Inc. shareholder said Microsoft Corp. “blundered” last weekend by threatening a hostile Yahoo takeover at a lower price.
Adobe:
Adobe Media Player Now Available  —  For immediate release  —  New Adobe AIR Application Redefines Next-Generation TV Experiences for Viewers and Broadcasters  —  Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software.
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
Last.fm's Free Music ‘Boosts Sales’; Unlimited Services ‘To Kick In By 2012’  —  Last.fm claims its 12-week-old free, full-track music streams have resulted in 119 percent more CD and download sales through its Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) click-through partnership.
 
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CNNMoney.com:
Cell phone alert system proposed
Discussion: dailywireless.org
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Research Reveals Internet “Black Holes”
Discussion: uwnews.org, DSLreports and TG Daily
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Enterprise Takes A Page From Salesforce—Launches Its Own App Marketplace
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
IE8 beta 1 is released in Chinese (Simplified) and German
Discussion: eWeek and Microsoft Watch
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed
Discussion: Hardware 2.0
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Teen iPhone share seen doubling as iPod, iTunes flatten
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Jason Perlow / Between the Lines:
The Open Source Commandments
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Stiffs Nonprofits, Launches Second Rate Widget Builder With No Hosting
Discussion: Beth's Blog
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Defendants: RIAA's private eyes are watching us—illegally
Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
Xbox 360 HD DVD Add-on Gets Updated
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Web Advertising Spending Has Weakened—RBC
Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:
Inevitable: The Bastard Offspring of a Fridge Magnet and Digital Photo Frame
Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
iPhone to Interface With PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Movie Playback
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Economy Has Become a Drag on Silicon Valley
 

 
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