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Diller's IAC Acquires CollegeHumor Website

IAC/InterActiveCorp has acquired a majority stake in the popular Collegehumor. August 16, 2006

Google's Trademark Lawyers Take Aim At Googling

We knew it. August 16, 2006

Gunter Grass Can Keep His Nobel Prize

German author Gunter Grass will keep his Nobel Prize for literature, despite his recent admission that he was a member of Hitler's SS during World War II. August 16, 2006

YouTube Suffers Unplanned Outage

Reuters reports that YouTube. August 15, 2006

XuQa Adds Games and Peanuts

GigaOM reports that the XuQa, a college social network with a party atmosphere, has turned into a giant game or contest with the new XuQa 2. August 15, 2006

Google Upgrades Blogger With New Layout and Privacy Tools

Google has upgraded its Blogger service. The new features include new layout editing tools and privacy tools. August 15, 2006

Website Lets Workers Complain About Bosses

Boss Bitching calls itself a user driven social content website that allows anonymous postings of stories about bosses. August 15, 2006

Monty Sarhan Relaunches Cracked Magazine

Cracked Magazine, the 48-year-old national publication, officially re-launches today as a general humor magazine for 18- to 34-year-olds. August 15, 2006

Jill Carroll's Hostage Story on Christian Science Monitor

Jill Carroll is writing about her experience as a hostage in Baghdad for the first time in an eleven part series on the Christian Science Monitor located at csmonitor. August 15, 2006

Blogging The Da Vinci Code Part 2

The Da Vinci Code can still be found in many theatres since opening nearly three months ago. August 14, 2006

Netvibes Raises $15 Million

Netvibes, which bills itself as a custom made web 2. August 14, 2006

Developer Blog Shows Construction of Virtual Hotel

Aloft Hotels, a new brand of Starwood Hotels, is launching a preview of its new hotels inside the Second Life game before opening the actual hotels to the public in 2008. August 14, 2006

England Faces Homegrown Terrorists

The source for terrorism is no longer found in the caves of Afghanistan. August 14, 2006

Google Worried About Potential Trademark Issues

The Independent Online reports that Google is concerned about google being used as a verb. August 14, 2006

All Beowulf, All the Time

Those who are fans of the 1,000 year-old epic poem Beowulf have a real treat in store for them this fall: there are is a veritable avalanche of Beowulf projects in the works. August 14, 2006

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Starts a Blog

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has started a blog at www. August 13, 2006

Write on Water

Someday we may all be able to write on water thanks to a new invention. August 13, 2006

Healthcare Blogging Summit This December

The Medical Blog Network is debuting the Healthcare Blogging Summit this year. August 12, 2006

MTV Buys Atom Entertainment

MTV Networks has acquired Atom Entertainment, a publisher of web games, films and funny video clips for $200 million. August 11, 2006

UGC Sites Among Fastest Growing Web Brands

A new Nielsen//Netratings study has found that user-generated content (UGC) sites like ImageShack, Heavy. August 10, 2006

PodTech Acquires Geek Entertainment TV

Podcasting is growing rapidly and a few companies are starting to emerge as possible leaders in the category. August 10, 2006

Jasper Fforde and the Fourth Bear

Jasper Fforde discusses his new book The Fourth Bear, the latest in his Nursery Crime series, with Rob Thomas of The Capital Times. August 9, 2006

AOL Searcher No. 4417749

AOL's accidental unleashing of hundreds of thousands of AOL customer's private searches has already resulted in the discovery of at least one specific person. August 8, 2006

Celebrity Blogging Site Has a Blogmobile

https://www. August 8, 2006

Starbucks Embraces Mitch Albom

Starbucks announced that it will be promoting and selling Mitch Albom's new novel in Starbucks stores. August 8, 2006