• Facebook Plans: Portable Data, Ad Platform – Yahoo! News
  “Facebook Inc. wants to make the data its members enter into the social network’s profiles portable, so that they can move that data to other online services if they want, the company’s CEO said Wednesday.”
  (tags: facebook identity Data socialsoftware)
• eBay’s Skype Conundrum
  “According to one source, the remaining Skype/eBay management team is holing up in London this week to try to figure out how to actually make money from Skype.”
  (tags: ebay Skype Business Acquisitions)
• Counterstrike: Murdoch, DeWolfe Announce MySpace Platform and New Privacy Controls
  “$300 million in profit next year for MySpace? In response to a question, Murdoch said News Corp. should generate $5 billion or so in ebitda next year “if the economy half holds up.” He then said MySpace should contribute “$200-$300 million” of th
  (tags: myspace NewsCorp platform facebook applications API web2.0 stats)
• Even Free Can’t Compete With Music Piracy
  “Despite the potentially free download, over 240,000 users got the album from peer to peer BitTorrent networks on the first day of release, according to Forbes. Since then, the album was downloaded about 100,000 more times each day, totaling more than 500
  (tags: Radiohead Music P2P piracy DRM Business)
• Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? – WSJ.com
  “Such changing habits could have implications for the Internet portals, which rely on email for much of their traffic and to bring in consumers who will use their other Web services.”
  (tags: Email socialsoftware trends facebook myspace)
• iTunes Plus Now Offers Over Two Million Tracks at Just 99 Cents
  “DRM-Free Tracks with Higher Quality 256 kbps AAC Encoding — Apple® today announced that it has expanded its iTunes® Plus offering to over two million tracks and lowered the price of all iTunes Plus tracks to just 99 cents.”
  (tags: Apple DRM iPod iTunes Music)
• Official Google Blog: Latest content ID tool for YouTube
  “Video Identification is the next step in a long list of content policies and tools that we have provided copyright owners so that they can more easily identify their content and manage how it is made available on YouTube.”
  (tags: youtube video Google identity copyright)
• Led Zeppelin – Robert Plant – Digital Music – New York Times
  “Digital downloads of songs from the band’s eight studio albums and other recordings are expected to be available through Verizon and digital-music services, including iTunes, on Nov. 13.”
  (tags: Music digital online iTunes)

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