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Steve Busfield / Guardian - 10 hours, 15 minutes ago
SXSW: aggregated coverage - Sadly my colleague Jemima Kiss is not at the SXSW conference, but for those who are interested, Poynter is liveblogging the debate on The Future of Context in Journalism, featuring Matt Thompson, Staci Kramer and Jay Rosen.

In-Depth
Victor Agreda, Jr. / Download Squad - 11 hours, 43 minutes ago
DLS @ SXSW - Opera - Filed under: Browsers, Mobile, sxswWhile we can't show you video of the app for iPhone known as Opera Mini, I did get a chance to briefly play around with it.


Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider - 1 day, 10 hours, 8 minutes ago
Steve Jobs And Eric Schmidt: We Hate Each Other Now - Brad Stone and Miguel Helft of the NYT provide a good recap of how Apple and Google became the best of enemies: IT looked like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Read the rest of this story »
PC World, Macworld, 9 to 5 Mac

Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 19 hours, 30 minutes ago
High-tech event crowd urged to save the planet - AFP - Techno-hip trend-setters that design online services, software, buildings and other components of modern life have been told to "get off the sidelines" and start saving the planet at a key high-tech event.
Search Engine Land

Search Engine Watch Blog - 3 hours, 59 minutes ago
Must Read: Matt Cutts Interviewed by Eric Enge - Sit back, relax, and digest this thing.Click to read the rest of this post...

Mike Masnick / Techdirt - 5 hours, 27 minutes ago
Judge Rules P2P Legal In Spain Yet Again - Spain continues to be one of the few countries out there that seems to not have its judges lose their critical thinking abilities the second anyone mentions the word "piracy." We've pointed out a few times in the past that Spanish courts...

Eric Savitz / BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online - 5 hours, 43 minutes ago
Sirius: Refinance Extends Maturities; One More Merger With XM - A pair of analysts today weighed in with bullish comments on the implications of the $800 million debt offering Sirius XM (SIRI) announced after the close on Friday.BGB Securities analyst Murray Arenson asserted in a research note today...

Seattle Times - 6 hours, 33 minutes ago
Starbucks adds USA Today to newspaper lineup, but which paper is on top? - For years, Starbucks has offered just The New York Times and a local paper or two at its company-owned stores, which don't include shops in airports and grocery stores.

Business Week - 7 hours, 7 minutes ago
PayPal to Introduce Cheaper Way to Process Small Transactions - PayPal Inc., the payment processor owned by EBay Inc., plans to introduce a cheaper way for businesses to handle online transactions that are less than $10, a company executive said.

Tamar Weinberg / Mashable! - 9 hours, 5 minutes ago
Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Web Events - It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences.

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 5 days, 11 hours, 38 minutes ago
Amazon Seeking Kindle Browser Refresh? - An Amazon job posting for a browser developer may signal changes to the top-selling e-reader's Web browser.
PalmAddicts, Wired Top Stories, Electronista, All Things Digital, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Yahoo! News (Wire Services)

Electronista - 3 hours, 24 minutes ago
AMD outlines Open Stereo 3D standard - At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, ATI's owner AMD shed some more light on its Open Stereo 3D Initiative.

Macworld UK News - 2 days, 8 hours, 9 minutes ago
Steve Jobs may finally have approval to tear down house - After an extended battle Steve Jobs has approval to pull down his 1920's mansionSteve Jobs is accustomed to bringing the house down—unveiling remarkable devices like the iPad, the iPhone, and the original iPod make that a pretty...
Macworld, 9 to 5 Mac

Cody Barbierri / VentureBeat - 7 days, 20 hours, 47 minutes ago
Citysearch partners with OrangeSoda for online local advertising - Citysearch, a directory of local stores and services, today announced a strategic partnership and investment in OrangeSoda, an online search marketing service, to offer customers a more complete local online advertising service called...

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land - 11 days, 17 hours, 39 minutes ago
Does SEM = SEO + CPC Still Add Up? -
Silicon Alley Insider

Chris Crum / WebProNews - 5 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes ago
StumbleUpon Launches New Advertising System - StumbleUpon has launched a new advertising system, which the company says helps cost-effectively deliver advertiser content to targeted audiences, while increasing the opportunity for content to go viral.

Ryan Tate / Valleywag - 6 hours, 4 minutes ago
Twitter Still Doesn't Know How it Will Make Money - Everyone expected Twitter to unveil an advertising strategy at the South by Southwest conference in Austin today; instead, the microblogging startup plotted further media domination Actual...

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider - 11 days, 13 hours, 56 minutes ago
Facebook Going Public, But Not Now, And Will Do ~$1.5 Billion Of Revenue This Year - The WSJ's Jessica Vascellaro has a long profile on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and the forthcoming IPO. Here are the highlights: Mark confirms that Facebook is going public, but not for a while Accel partner Jim Bryer says that the IPO...
BloggingStocks, Inside Facebook, Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker

Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook - 7 days, 7 hours, 23 minutes ago
RockYou Affirms Monetization Services Focus with Expanded Platform - RockYou has been running advertising for other applications on Facebook and social networks for years, but the social application developer is increasing its effort in this direction.
VentureBeat

Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 3 hours, 3 minutes ago
Yahoo loses revenue chief to Web content start-up - Reuters - Yahoo Inc's head of North American revenue and market development is leaving the company to join private online content start-up Demand Media, becoming the latest executive to depart the Web giant's ranks.

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land - 12 hours, 10 minutes ago
Cutts: Redirects Don’t Pass Full PageRank & More Takeaways -

Claudiu Murariu / Search Engine Journal - 3 days, 11 hours, 52 minutes ago
3 Tricks on SEO & User Engagement - I rate search engine optimization on content accessibility, popularity, and usability. We can say that content is well optimized for search engines when it is accessed as soon as it published, generates links from trusted sources, and...

Mike Masnick / Techdirt - 3 days, 2 hours, 39 minutes ago
Reuters Social Media Policy Gets It Half Right, Half Wrong - Just a couple of months ago, I wrote about something that I thought was really impressive by Thomson Reuters. A Reuters blogger wrote a blog post on his official Reuters blog questioning Reuters itself after rumors started spreading that...
Ars Technica, GigaOM, iMedia Connection, SmallBusinessNewz, Mashable!

Samuel Axon / Mashable! - 5 days, 8 hours, 33 minutes ago
YouTube Deploys Ads on Mobile Site - YouTube will now display banner ads on the mobile version of its website. Google made the announcement in a blog post today, enticing would-be advertisers to sign up by saying that users of its mobile video website are tech-savvy early...
AdWeek, Official Google Blog, Advertising Age, paidContent.org

Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 4 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes ago
Gaming Will Drive MySpace, Execs Say - PC Magazine - How will MySpace regain its footing in the social networking space? A month after losing Owen Van Natta as chief executive in favor of two co-presidents, the News Corp.-owned site announced Wednesday that its new focus will...
Los Angeles Times, Mashable!, Network World

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land - 11 hours, 5 minutes ago
Meet The 25-Year-Old Who Saved “SEO” From Being Trademarked -

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) / Between the Lines - 6 days, 3 hours, 25 minutes ago
Jonathan Schwartz: How to play patent games with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates - Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz chimed in on patent lawsuits, threats from the likes of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and how to manage a staredown properly.
Workbench, AppleInsider

Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts - 5 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes ago
1-Click and Social Network Patents and a Jet Pack - ...