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- Reflecting on an interview with TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington, a Reddit co-founder says the site "isn't serious" — and no one inside the tech bubble understands that. [Raw Thought]
- Why Windows shows you annoying, unnecessary popups: "Not many people have gotten a raise and a promotion for stopping features from shipping." [MSDN blogs]
- Elevator-pitch presentations? Yawn. Elevator-pitch contests? Now there's a chance to make someone cry. And we all love to see a startupper cry. [PR Leap]
- Kazaa, the disappointing successor to Napster, agreed to pay $10 million to music companies in a settlement over accusations of copyright infringement. [NY Times]
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation is representing blog 10 Zen Monkeys in a lawsuit against Michael Crook, who tried to coerce the blog into taking down the photo (Crook on right) you see here. The whole thing started because Crook griefed some sexually adventurous Craigslist users and published their personal information, and 10 Zen Monkeys railed against his actions. What a whiny emo kid. [10 Zen Monkeys]
google
- Google launches a tool to show advertisers when they're getting screwed by clickfraud. Will it give the same dire results that this independent tool gives? [BusinessWeek]
- Microsoft refuses to explain to its stockholders why it supports Net Neutrality, bringing us all one day closer to a shouting match where CEO Steve Ballmer screams, "Neutrality! Neutrality! Neutrality!" and bites the head off a bat. [Reuters]
- Microsoft also enters health care by buying Azyxxi. The real reason for that is to make its media player "Zune" sound less stupid in comparison. [NYT]
- Friendster weighs the benefits of suing its more successful competitors now that it theoretically owns a patent on lists of friends. (Microsoft is buying the patent on lists of enemies from the Nixon estate.) [WSJ]
- Kazaa, one of the many replacements for Napster, promises to sell out and go legit, since anybody who actually wants free music has moved to Limewire and BitTorrent. [WSJ]
remainders
- Animal Magazine editors sneak into Apple's 24-hour store without waiting in line. Then they pull the classy move of setting its website as the test computers' home page. They also confirm that the SNL staff shouldn't head out without makeup. [Animal Magazine via Blogebrity]
- Boing Boing gets giddy over DRM protestors (pictured doing an Intel ad), because no cause is worth fighting for more than your right to play Beyonce on your iPod. [Boing Boing]
- Web 2.0 jokes make it to the hipster lit comics. LOOK WHAT YOU PEOPLE HAVE WROUGHT. [Cat and Girl]
- Jobster acquires Jobby, making the cutest headline ever. [TechCrunch]
- Streamcast, the guys behind old-and-busted file-sharer Morpheus, have expanded their lawsuit against Kazaa, Skype and Skype's founders to include Skype's new owner, eBay — or as Techdirt puts it, "Streamcast realizes eBay is the one with the money." [Techdirt]
cory doctorow
Kazaa maker Sharman Networks — the file-sharing company that once had the balls to sue the record industry for copyright infringement while they were doing the same to Sharman —
sued P2PNet for libel last week.
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Valleywag
digital music
