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Striking Writers Turn To Internet

The ongoing fight between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood studios will lead to some of them exploring the possibilities of the Internet for their work.

Facebook CEO on Beacon

For the first time in over a year, there’s a serious enough issue with Facebook that CEO Mark Zuckerberg was compelled to write on the company blog (normally handled by lesser underlings developers and directors).

Google's JotSpot Will Turn Pages

A flood of information about Google's plans for its JotSpot acquisition and Google Apps met attendees at an Ann Arbor presentation.

Music 2.0 Shifts To Facebook, Others Turn Up Volume

MySpace has been the hub of Music 2.0 promotion for more than a year, but recently Facebook has been stealing the social networking spotlight and the new music industry is following.

Turn Winds Up With $8 Million In Funding

$8 million might buy thousands of newspaper ads, or perhaps three or so Super Bowl commercials.  But in this case, the $8 million will go towards funding Turn, the self-proclaimed “world’s first automatic targeting ad network.”

Google Says It's Time To Turn Japanese

Phone and cable companies are losing the Net Neutrality debate, and losing it badly. And Google's Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Richard Whitt doesn't mind pointing that out.

Fake Steve Jobs Hunt Takes Creepy Turn

It has elements of mystery, the tenets of paparazzi defense, and the feeling of a prank gone too far. In a blogosphere-wide attempt to unmask blogebrity – well, it may not be an exaggeration to call him/her a cyber cult leader – Fake Steve Jobs, digital espionage has turned a fun cat-and-mouse game into something Fake Steve calls "creepy."

Yahoo, eBay Turn Out Toolbar

It’s not elegantly named, but it’s here nonetheless: eBay Toolbar Featuring Yahoo! has been released.

Yahoo To Turn Away From Search?

When a little kid loses, what does he do?  He cries, screams, and - hopefully those checkers won’t scratch the wall - he hates the game.  Now, I’m not accusing Yahoo of crying or screaming, but the company may not love search as much as it used to - one exec, Tapan Bhat, said, “Search is no longer the dominant paradigm.” "Yahoo To Turn Away From Search?"

Did Doubleclick Turn Down Microsoft Money?

John Battelle reports that Microsoft was actually offering more money than Google was for Doubleclick and that Doubleclick went with Google anyway.