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Archive for March 28th, 2008

Friendfeed Frenzy - Why it continues (Charlie Anzman/SEO and Tech Daily)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily:
Friendfeed Frenzy - Why it continues  —  I think we can all comfortably credit Louis Gray with carving out a neat niche and bringing the so-called numerous lifestreaming apps to the ‘significant awareness’ pool.  —  Friendfeed was very smart over the past week and they really should be […]

The Nokia N810 - WiMAX Edition (Reggie/Internet Tablet Talk)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Reggie / Internet Tablet Talk:
The Nokia N810 - WiMAX Edition  —  Ok, there’s no official announcement yet but Nokia has again let the cat out of the bag a bit too early — four days too early to be exact as we can probably guess that the new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet - WiMAX […]

Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing (Dancho Danchev/Dancho Danchev’s Blog)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Dancho Danchev / Dancho Danchev’s Blog:
Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing  —  Last week’s massive IFRAME injection attack is slowly turning into a what looks like a large scale web application vulnerabilities audit of high profile sites.  Following the timely news coverage, Symantec’s rating for the attack as medium risk …

NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years (Jennifer Saba/Editor and Publisher)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years  —  NEW YORK The newspaper industry has experienced the worst drop in advertising revenue in more than 50 years.  —  According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue …

Facebook friends not real friends: judge (Daniel Emerson/Sydney Morning Herald)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Daniel Emerson / Sydney Morning Herald:
Facebook friends not real friends: judge  —  A British judge has made official what many of us have long suspected - that being “Facebook friends” with someone doesn’t necessarily make you their friend.  —  The magistrate was presiding over a harassment case in which a woman accused …

Music Tax Details From Source: “Pay Us Not To Sue You” (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Music Tax Details From Source: “Pay Us Not To Sue You”  —  We learned yesterday that Warner Music, the third largest music label, is gunning for a $5/month music tax on U.S. residents.  —  Some of the details were in the article: they’ve hired industry veteran Jim Griffin to create … […]

Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser (Rafe Needleman/Webware.com)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser  —  This post has been corrected from the original: Mozilla has no plan to ship Firefox 4 this year; references to that effect have been removed.  —  After the product road map roundtable I live-blogged Wednesday, I had a talk with […]

PaidContent vs. TechCrunch: Two Visions of Blogging’s Future (Saul Hansell/Bits)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Saul Hansell / Bits:
PaidContent vs. TechCrunch: Two Visions of Blogging’s Future  —  Michael Arrington and Rafat Ali are both forceful, sharp-tongued, quick-tempered and plugged in, and both have built successful technology blogging ventures.  So it’s no surprise that there is more than a little sparring between them.

Apple picks trusted supplier to assemble 3G iPhone (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Apple 2.0)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple picks trusted supplier to assemble 3G iPhone  —  It should be no surprise that Apple has turned to Foxconn, the trade name for Hon Hai Precision Industries, to build the next generation iPhone.  —  China’s Commercial Times reported early Friday that Foxconn was competing for the business …

Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update (AppleInsider)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

AppleInsider:
Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update  —  Apple Inc. this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update, a third maintenance and security update to its relatively new Leopard operating system that already bundles over 75 bug fixes and code corrections.