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Michael Arrington drops the banhammer on the Associated Press
A couple of bloggers have gotten their panties in a bunch because the Associated Press, a coop that offers original reporting to its 1,500 member newspapers and syndicates to other outlets, is asking that they go a little easier on the copy-paste. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is having none of it! More »
lawsuits
AP sues Moreover, but bloggers scramble the story
The Associated Press has sued Moreover Technologies, an early news aggregator. Moreover, owned by VeriSign, provides news coverage from a wide variety of sources to subscribers that it finds on websites, including AP wire stories. AP's complaint is that Moreover is "scraping," or copying, the full text of wire stories and sending them to subscribers without paying for them. AP's lawyers argue that this is far outside the realm of fair use. After Moreover ignored a cease-and-desist letter, AP decided to sue. An interesting case, to be sure, but one that's widely misunderstood by quick-on-the-draw bloggers. More »
oreilly media
Valley Residents Behaving Badly
CONFONZ — Time was, we used-ta-could out homosexuals on the front page of the tabloids. Time was, revealing people's short comings in public was a lucrative business. Time was, fat bastards could be eviscerated in public without care or thought paid to their feelings and constitutions. Times change. Thus, the ConFonz presents his quick bullet points of notable Valley residents and the gossip surrounding them. Ah, bullet points: when you just don't care enough to write up a full entry. After the jump, some silly gossip. More »
achievements in press releases
It's a bird! It's a plane! Oh, it's just a cloud.
NICK DOUGLAS — Press release titles are usually as boring as a webcam in Bill Gates's bedroom. But the headline "Quintura and blinkx to Visualize Video Search" sounded exciting. Could I search the actual visual content of videos? Navigate a pane-based grid of playable results instead of a stupid link list? Nope. "Visual search" means a tag cloud. More »
poptech
PopTech goes the weasel
Live, from PopTech — well, not quite. A few days ago, organizers from PopTech 2006, the multimedia futurist conference that started last night, told press-pass-carrying journalists: More »
youtube
Finally, a look at YouTube's third cofounder! He's boring.
With co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Jawed Karim founded YouTube. That, and making a few million here and there, are the only interesting things about him. More »
hewlett-packard
"Okay dude fess up"
Of course the headline is an obvious statement on the buck-passing execs and investigators at Hewlett-Packard over an allegedly fradulent leak investigation scandal, but am I the only one who wants these guys to get into a poking match? More »
windows
Give Microsoft some extra time, they're still in economics class
The New York Times takes a stab at turning the Windows testing program into a Dan Brown thriller with the story lede, "On a whiteboard in a windowless Microsoft conference room here, an elegant curve drawn by a software-testing engineer captures both five years of frustration and more recent progress." More »
new york post
The Post camera adds ten pounds
Why's it so great that the New York Post gave writer Sam Gustin a weekly tech column? Because only the Post can dig up the cruddiest image of its subjects, like Yahoo CEO — sorry, "Yahoo boss" — Terry Semel. A tabloid after my own heart. More »
google
Loose Wires: Well we all know Google might buy YouTube now
- Big kahuna venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla, Google co-founder Larry Page, Google CEO wife ("first lady"?) Wendy Schmidt, and eBay founder Jeff Skoll all donated money to promote Proposition 87 (which would add a tax to oil in California), embroiling them in an election-funding battle against oil companies and adding to a total $98 million combined war chest. [Mercury News]
- How do you keep a stock price up when your flagship product comes two years late? Microsoft holds its shareholder meetings the same days it launches new products. Which means the Vista shareholder meeting will happen some time after the sun becomes a dead lump of coal. [Seattle PI]
- "Microsoft exec quits to start global charity" — Bloomberg baits readers to an article that's not about Bill Gates. [Bloomberg]
- Crazy rumors in the Real Media, part 1: The LA Times covers serious accusations by a disgruntled MySpace founder. [LA Times]
- CRitRM, part 2: The NY Times confirms the rumor that Google is in talks to buy YouTube for $1.6
MB (thanks Chris). "A deal would end an almost yearlong chess game among the nation's media and technology moguls to take over YouTube," says the Times. Dude, that's not a chess game. That's the opening gambit. [NY Times] - Real estate costs, says the Mercury News, keep old expensive workers out of the Valley and attract young go-getters. So it's not that HR is ageist... [Mercury News]
eric schmidt
Valleyspeak: Eric Schmidt's new TIME interview translated
"CEO Eric Schmidt explains what's behind the company's new push for partnerships," promises TIME in its new article, "Google's Chief Looks Ahead." Great, because we've been wondering just that (see "Chaos theory: How to tell if a Google deal means anything" and "Deal or No Deal: Why is Google announcing so many partnerships?"). So what does Eric tell TIME? More »
mark pincus
Tribal war: Tribe founder vs. the Washington Post
Aw man, some shit's going down between blogger Mark Pincus and the Washington Post, and the Tribe.net founder tried to turn it into a story of Old vs. New Media. More »
sex
Perverted Justice calls Google a corporate sex offender
Ah, those anti-pedophile hunters. How can anyone criticize them without coming off as a perv-lover? Let's try. More »
google
Want to visit the garage that birthed Google? Here's the address
Google recently bought the garage where Sergey Brin and Larry Page built the company after starting it at Stanford. Future employee Anne Wojcicki rented out her garage at 232 Santa Margarita Ave. in Menlo Park, according to San Francisco Magazine. More »
henry blodget
