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March 2008
- Web 2.0 Firms Taking Slower Route to IPOs
  
  BusinessWeek | Mar 6, 08 1:19 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Growing Web 2.0 companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slide are biding their time before going public, making sure to run up their value as much as possible to fetch top dollar with an IPO, reports Business Week . It’s a far different approach than companies took before the dot-com bubble burst, when the fast track to an IPO was the goal. More »
- Internet Activists Target Scientology
  
  Los Angeles Times | Mar 3, 08 2:10 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Scientology is increasingly under attack on the Internet, where critics and dropouts are undermining the church's traditionally tight control of its public image, reports the LA Times . Three ex-Scientologists, including the niece of the church's head, launched ExScientologyKids.com last week. Its motto: "We were born. We grew up. We escaped." More »
- Sellers, Fans at Odds Over Scrabulous
  
  New York Times | Mar 2, 08 4:10 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous is a hit online, but sellers of the original board game have cried piracy and may take their claim to court, the New York Times reports. Tens of thousands of Scrabulous players have threatened to boycott Hasbro and Mattel if they shut down the Facebook-friendly game, which was invented by two brothers in Calcutta—and has given Scrabble an unexpected popularity surge. More »
February 2008
- Previewing What's Next in Social Networks
  
  CNN | Feb 29, 08 3:57 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - What’s next for online social networking? A heavy dose of geography, writes David Kirkpatrick in Fortune ’s Fast Forward . At a real-life meeting for 100 new-media notables in New York, one hot topic was adding location information to user-driven sites so that “not only will you know what someone is doing online, you’ll know where they are doing it.” More »
- Kimmel's Revenge Scores Big
  
  Billboard | Feb 27, 08 4:57 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Take that, Sarah. A star-studded—and very much tongue-in-cheek—ode to Jimmy Kimmel's lust for Ben Affleck has become an Internet sensation, Billboard reports. The late-night host's video is a rebuttal to girlfriend Sarah Silverman's "I'm F---ing Matt Damon." The latest salvo, with Kimmel and a host of guest stars, including Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, is called "I'm F---ing Ben Affleck." More »
- The Cool Kids Take Hip-Hop Back to the '80s
  
  Chicago Magazine | Feb 27, 08 3:54 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Hip-hop sensation the Cool Kids might come off as too, ahem, cool for school, catapulting from an online hit to Pitchfork Music Festival performer and MIA's fall tour opener—without ever releasing an album. But Chicago Magazine paints Antoine Reed, 20, and Evan Ingersoll, 23, as two inexperienced Chicagolanders whose winning formula relies on staying simple and accessible. More »
- Pakistan Bans Access to YouTube
  
  Associated Press | Feb 24, 08 4:25 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Pakistan has blocked the country’s YouTube access over anti-Islamic videos on the site, the AP reports. One official conceded that a particular video offended authorities: a trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch legislator Geert Wilders. The filmmaker has said that his piece paints Islam as a fascist religion that glorifies violence against homosexuals and women. More »
- Looting Serbian 'Riot Girls' a YouTube Hit
  
  Reuters | Feb 24, 08 8:00 AM CST