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• VideoSift Builds Sister Site ScrapeUp To Give A Little More Variety

  http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/videosift-scrapeup/
  50 minutes

  VideoSift, a smallish user-curated aggregation engine with some 1 million visitors per month, has introduced a larger service still, called ScrapeUp. Simply put, the new item brings together clips from an array of seven unique sites, including Digg, reddit, College Humor, LiveLeak, Fark, GameTrailers, and of course, VideoSift

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• New Zealand TV Teams With YouTube For Fall Election Debate

  http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/nztv-youtube/
  50 minutes

  It (kind of) worked for the American presidential primaries. Will it be a hit with the New Zealander crowd? New Zealand TV, or TVNZ for short, will be following the semi-Web-enabled model originally set by CNN in the United States in 2007. According to Tom Pullar-Strecker of The Dominion Post, the television network of the South Pacific will

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• NBC Universal Buys The Weather Channel With Help From Big Money

  http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/nbc-weatherchannel/
  50 minutes

  The Weather Channel has over the years turned into a peculiarly popular attraction. Whether by viewer habit or by the simple fact that its name describes precisely what it is, it has become the preeminent source for weather readings and forecasts. And NBC Universal evidently likes what it sees in TWC, because it,

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• New Hey!Spread Video Distributor Unleashed

  http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/heyspread-distributor/
  50 minutes

  Video producers naturally want to spread their content far and wide in order to reach the largest audience possible. And right now there are several services on the Web that help make that happen. TubeMogul is perhaps the most oft referenced of them all. Hey!Spread is another. First launched in July 2007, Hey!

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• French Government Seeks To Disconnect Pirates From All Of EU

  http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/france-eu-piracy/
  50 minutes

  It was in late 2007 that the French government first signed a pact with ISPs and content owners to combat piracy. Now the Sarkozy administration has proposed an continental expansion of such a system. The idea is based on the president’s conviction that the Internet should not be a “lawless zone.” As Jan Libbenga of The Register describes the

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• Are IP Addresses Personal? Hell Yes.

  http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/ip-addresses-personal/
  4 hours

  I’m referring, again, to the Viacom - Google lawsuit, the latest development of which is Google giving IP addresses (and other personal data) of users to Viacom on court’s order. I’ve written on the subject at length, and Paul has addressed it, too, so why do I feel the need to revisit it? Well, mainly because of this blog post by Google

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• Adobe Lays Claim To AIR (In The Web Domain Space)

  http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/adobe-air-tm/
  4 hours

  Adobe has trademarked AIR. Yes, according to James Whittaker, creator of the freshAIRapps.com directory, Adobe has delivered a legal letter laying claim to the three-character noun in all its capitalized, Helvetica-bound form. (Or is it set in Gotham type?) The company’s position can be summarized in a single sentence:

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• Microsoft To Do MSN Israel Solo, Parting Ways With Internet Gold

  http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/msn-israel/
  6 hours

  Since 2000, Microsoft has partnered with Internet Gold, a company described as a “leading communications group” based in Israel, to operate the MSN Israel portal, which the Redmond-based software giant has owned a 49.9% share in. Internet Gold maintained a 50.1% share itself. This arrangement is no more, according to Microsoft

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• Young Female-Focused Network EMwomen Aims High

  http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/emwomen/
  11 hours

  Networks built for women are becoming more and more a popular resource. And no wonder. As far as the general supply social services on the Web are concerned, the female demographic exceed males in the number of bloggers, Facebook memberships, etcetera. The trends of the last few years are clear. Women are making waves in the business

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• 5+ Ways To Watch The Tour De France

  http://mashable.com/2008/07/05/le-tour-de-france/
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  Okay, so we’re a tad late on this one. The Tour de France began earlier today out of Brest, Valverde raised his fists in triumph, and we haven’t told the cycling fans among you how to watch the action. Apologies. Here’s a belated rundown. First, props to Michael Learmonth of Silicon Alley Insider. He put together a mixed list of audio and

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