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InternetNews July 25, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	YouTube User Puts Legal Lash to Universal The Electronic Frontier Foundation takes up mother's charge that Universal Music violated her fair use rights over dancing toddler video.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Joost in Time Video-streaming upstart Joost hits a milestone. The company plans an official launch later this year. An IPO is probably not too far away.
InternetNews July 24, 2007 Clint Boulton	Nokia Gets Social With Photo-sharer Twango In a bid to add more multimedia services for its mobile phones, Nokia agreed to buy photo-sharing specialist Twango for an undisclosed sum.
InternetNews July 20, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google, Viacom Lawyers Square Off on DMCA Viacom and Google go to court July 27 to decide which of the two companies should bear the cost of keeping Viacom's copyrighted content off YouTube. The outcome could impact blogs and photo-sharing sites, and stifle Web 2.0.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Orbitz Earns Its Ticker Symbol Orbitz's IPO opens below expectations, and there is not much reason for optimism at the travel portal in a changing online travel landscape.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Parakey Wanna Cracker? Facebook lands a Web-based operating system company with pedigree papers. So, when is the IPO?
InternetNews July 19, 2007 David Needle	Facebook Makes Its First Acquisition With Parakey buy, Facebook gains two founders of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Parakey describes its offering as a means of building applications that merge the best of the desktop and the Web.
Wired June 26, 2007 Annalee Newitz	Looking High and Low: Who Will Be the Google of Video Search? The Web has gone wacky for video. The problem is search engines can't index video files as easily as text. So the race is on to become the Google of video search. And guess what? It might not be Google
Wired June 26, 2007 Clive Thompson	Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense This application allows users to send you constant mundane updates on their whereabouts and happenings. Over time it provides users with a better insight into their friends lives.
Wired June 26, 2007 Evan Ratliff	Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World Volunteer cartographers are helping Google detail their satellite images around the world.
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