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3:30 PM ET, April 15, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google's Don't Be Evil Not “Ordained Motto” Says Marissa Mayer  —  Google's “Don't Be Evil” motto, first uttered by Googler Paul Buchheit (now founder of FriendFeed) in 2001, has long been the pillar of their self-imposed code of conduct.  It was amended somewhat in 2006 when CEO Eric Schmidt …
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Don't Be Evil or don't lose value?  —  Google vice-president Marissa Mayer in Sydney last week.  —  Asher Moses  —  As Google comes under ever increasing scrutiny for the power it has over our lives, the web giant is tiptoeing back from its long-held corporate motto, Don't Be Evil.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Amazon's MP3s not affecting iTunes  —  Amazon.com's MP3 service is growing but not at the expense of Apple's iTunes, according to a report issued Tuesday by market researcher NPD Group.  —  About 10 percent of the people who shopped at AmazonMP3 in February were previous Apple shoppers, NPD said.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Amazon MP3 store's gains not coming at iTunes' expense
Discussion: Coolfer
Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire blog:
Facebook is Dead.  I'm Not Being Facetious  —  Either there's a glitch in Facebook, or else it's dead.  Well, not dead, exactly, but I noticed that, at nearly 10 pm, none of my friends have done anything today to merit appearing on the News Feed of stuff (see above).
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Twitter Testing Advertising In Twitter Streams  —  Twitter was down tonight, nothing really unusual for the San Francisco based startup (to be fair though downtime has improved since they dumped Joyent), but what was different is some reports of users spotting ads in their Twitter stream during the service difficulties.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Elusive ‘Twitter ads’ spotted in the wild...or not
Discussion: The Blog Herald
Omri / fring:
fring for your iPhone - it's a fringing world first!  —  OK.  So if you're one of the first lucky *#@$%&s to get your hands on an iPhone, you just got even luckier.  We've just made a special pre-release R&D version of fring for your iPhone - a mobile VoIP app publicly available for the iPhone?...yep that's a world-first!
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Fring's Jailbroken iPhone App Now Live
Danny Mendez / Download Squad:
Parenting 2.0: Mom pranks son's MySpace as punishment  —  A sassy 13 year-old Virginian laid the smack-down on a vacuum instead of doing his chores and then was caught looking at porn by his tech savvy mother, who stumbled upon some very suspicious looking cookies (not pictured above) stored on the computer's browser.
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Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Kid Breaks Vacuum to Play Xbox Instead of Doing Chores; Mom Sells …
Discussion: Destructoid and Kotaku
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Windows XP SP3 now set for April 29 debut  —  Officially, Microsoft has been saying “the first half of 2008” whenever the company is asked to put a date for the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3.  However, various sources have been expecting the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) …
Discussion: TG Daily and Computerworld
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Paul Glazowski / Mashable!:
Facebook Launches Lifecasting Feature, Auto Imports To Mini-Feed  —  If you're reading this, chances are you have a Facebook profile.  You might not spend every waking moment on the network, but you've got your own page.  And we're also willing to assume many of you have accounts with other Web services, too.
Discussion: Facebook Blog
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook News Feed Reports on You Behind Your Back
Discussion: All Facebook
Dennis R. Mortensen / VisualRevenue:
IndexTools (Yahoo!) Web Analytics goes FREE!  —  Hi there, a bit of news for you who follow the Yahoo! IndexTools integration steps.  But first, THANK YOU very much for all the positive feedback I received in blog comments, separate blog posts, emails, phone calls etc.  I truly appreciate that.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Buys Sphere's Blog Content Engine  —  Tomorrow AOL will announce the acquisition of San Francisco-based Sphere, a blog content engine that launched in 2006.  The price is not being disclosed, but sources are suggesting it's in the $25 million range, or possibly a little more.  More details from Om Malik
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Tony Conrad / Sphere Blog:
Our New Address @ AOL.COM  —  Unlike the rumor that Sphere …
Nintendo:
NINTENDO NEWS: WII FIT TO KEEP AMERICANS MOVING AT $89.99 MSRP  —  In anticipation of the U.S. launch of Wii Fit™, the new interactive fitness game for the popular Wii™ system, Nintendo of America Inc. has announced pricing details for this groundbreaking release.
Discussion: Digital Trends, Joystiq and Engadget
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Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
CrunchArcade: Nintendo officially prices Wii Fit
Discussion: Opposable Thumbs and Joystiq
Audioholics Home Theater Reviews and News:
Blue Jeans Cable Strikes Back - Response to Monster Cable  —  Not long ago we reported that Monster Cable had issued a cease and desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable about their Tartan cables.  Little did the lawyer drones over at Monster know that Kurt Denke, the president of Blue Jeans was, in a former life, a lawyer by trade.
Paul Graham:
Why There Aren't More Googles  —  Umair Haque wrote recently that the reason there aren't more Googles is that most startups get bought before they can change the world. … This has a nice sound to it, but it isn't true.  Google's founders were willing to sell early on.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly laws  —  Psystar, a Miami-based OEM which is now offering OS X on generic PC hardware, claims that Apple's restrictive licensing terms violates U.S. monopoly laws.  Whoa, bold claim there.  Better have some deep pockets if the company wants to take the fight to court.
InfoWorld:
MySQL upgrade now slated for June, Sun says  —  Sun pushed out a “near final” version of MySQL 5.1 on Tuesday, but is holding back the production release of the open-source database until it irons out some remaining bugs, officials said Tuesday.  —  Sun wants to avoid issuing another buggy release …
Discussion: Open Source
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Comcast to spearhead creation of P2P Bill of Rights  —  Comcast has just announced its plan to lead an industry partnership in the creation of a “P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” that would apply both to users and to ISPs.  Comcast spokesperson Charlie Douglas tells Ars that the cable giant …
Discussion: IP Democracy
 
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Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
Google Book Search on the rise
Discussion: WebProNews
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
Fun and games with the ‘Easy Tiles’ phone
Discussion: PalmAddicts
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
There's more than one way to mesh  —  On April 15, startup Syncplicity, was hatched.
Farhan Memon / The AOL Search Blog:
AOL Mobile Search Meets the iPhone
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Study: Google Lost Share of Search Ad Dollars to Yahoo
Discussion: Digital Daily
Mobile Today:
O2 and Carphone to cut £100 from price of the iPhone
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Top Hard-Drive Maker Files Suit Against Rival
Fred / A VC:
Ten Questions About Entrepreneurs
Discussion: SmoothSpan Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Bill Ray / The Register:
Patent holders take 4G pledge of allegiance
Discussion: Nokia and Digital Trends
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Local Business Center Allows Free Form Categories Now
Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts:
Your Analytics Data Is Very Wrong
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Look Ma, I'm on CIA.gov
Mark Evans:
Who's Louis Gray?
John Markoff / New York Times:
Tesla Motors Files Suit Against Competitor Over Design Ideas
John Cook / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Farecast sold in $75 million deal
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Mashable!