LG sold 6.6 million flat panel TVs this quarter

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Looks Like BoingBoing Got Hacked (NSFW)

Something is definitely up at uber nerd site and “Directory of Wonderful Things” BoingBoing.net. A trip to the front page brings up the charming image above, which seems to be some sort of vulgar message from someone called “the|one” to site editorCory Doctorow. The hack also ingeniouslyincorporates the “Jessi Slaughter ‘You Dun Goofed’” viral video.

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MySpace Debuts ‘Social Entertainment’ Site Redesign

Los Angeles - News Corp.’s (NYSE:NWS) MySpace online social network on
Wednesday unveiled a long-awaited redesign of the site in beta, which now
positions itself as a ’social entertainment’ service. The redesign includes a
new logo that does away with the capital letter "S" — and in some
iterations, the word "space" entirely, in favor of an empty bracket
– in addition to a new black-focused color palette. Read the rest of this entry »

3 mobile confirms dominance of Facebook

The latest data from mobile network 3 clearly shows that social networking website Facebook and casual gaming firm Zynga (they of FarmVille fame) dominate mobile broadband use in the UK.

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Here’s the Public Google Doc With All Of MySpace’s Traffic Analytics

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Travel industry opposed to Google-ITA deal

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Digg Faces Accusations Of Gaming Itself

The darkest fears of every Digger (or, as is increasingly common, former Digger) may be coming true: some very compelling data mining by a concerned user has turned up evidence that dummy accounts under Digg auspices have been promoting certain sources to the front page with almost no activity from real users. The information was gleaned from Digg’s own records of front-page stories and associated Diggers.

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WSJ: MySpace, Apps Found to Leak User IDs to Advertisers

Los Angeles - Following similar revelations about Facebook,
News Corp.’s (NYSE:NWS) MySpace online social network has been found to have been
transmitting personally identifiable data on users to advertisers, The Wall
Street Journal reported. As with Facebook, the information is being transmitted
via MySpace user IDs, a unique number that associates a MySpace account with
its owner. Read the rest of this entry »

VLC Media Player finally arrives for the iPhone

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Old Meets New As Groupon Partners With eBay

Groupon may not turn out to be the next eBay according to our own Mike Arrington, but the social buying site is on a veritable tear. Coincidentally, the latest Internet giant to partner with the ecommerce startup is … eBay.

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