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Confirmed: Oodle To Power Facebook Classifieds 
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
As we speculated last month, Facebook is about to hand over its official classifieds listings to a partner, and that partner is Oodle, we have been
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Apple Announces Top 10 iPhone App Downloads of 2008 
Greg Kumparak via TechCrunch on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
With 2008 on the way out and right around 10,000 iPhone applications behind them, Apple has released a bunch of lists outlining which applications scored the most downloads since the App Store’s launch back in July.
The lists are separated by whether the the applicat
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T-Mobile G1 Net Access Can't Be Turned Off, Results in Huge Roaming Costs 
Sean Fallon via Gizmodo: Cellphones on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
According to our tipster, taking your G1 abroad may not be financially wise. Apparently, his data roaming bill rang up at $102.85—even though data roaming, data sync and 3G were turned
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MySpace CEO: Acquisition Targets Dirt Cheap And Getting Cheaper 
Eric Krangel via Alley Insider on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
One upside of the Web 2.0 shakeout: As companies with great ideas or innovative tech start to run out of money, they can be gobbled up cheap. That's what MySpace (NWS) CEO Chris DeWolfe told
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Former Pixar Exec Joins Second Life Team 
JR Raphael via The Inquisitr on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
An executive from Pixar Animation Studios has joined Linden Lab to help revitalize its Second Life virtual world program. Howard Look has been appointed senior vice president of customer applications and will be in charge
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More Gawker Layoffs, Even As Ad Revenues Climb 39% 
Nicholas Carlson via Silicon Alley Insider on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
About a month ago, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton scared the crap out of everyone saying ad revenues could plummet as much as 40% during the current downturn.
But now he tells us Gawker Media's revenues are actu
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Jon Miller Trying To Raise Money To Buy Yahoo (YHOO)* 
Henry Blodget via Silicon Alley Insider on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Former AOL CEO Jon Miller is trying to raise money to buy Yahoo, says the WSJ. A great idea at this price, but probably tough to raise the money for a full buyout at the $20-$22 mentioned below.
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CNN 'Hologram' Provider Gets Bought By News Corp. Sports JV 
Dan Frommer via Alley Insider on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Remember those bizarre "hologram" effects that Time Warner's (TWX) CNN used on Election night? They're now the property of a News Corp. (NWS) joint venture.
Sports data company S
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Creepy Ask.com Commercials Not Helping (IACI) 
Dan Frommer via Alley Insider on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Ask.com's latest TV commercials -- weird people hanging limply on other people as they ask questions -- haven't won many fans. And they haven't helped IAC's (IACI) search engine's market share, which is down alm
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Google Buys 20 Million Archived Newspaper Pages [Newspapers] 
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Google has upped its commitment to bringing newspaper archives online, first announced in September, by
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PeopleBrowsr: A Visual Dashboard for Your Online Identities 
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Imagine TweetDeck as an online application. Now imagine that you could use its paneled dashboard interface to keep tabs on your other online identities, too. With PeopleBrowsr, you can. This new application, currently in alpha, lets you update y
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YouTube Cracks Down On Sexy, Spammy Videos And Ning Closes Its Red Light District 
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
YouTube is trying to clean up its act by cracking down on sexually explicit videos that are just short of porn and spam videos with misleading titles and descriptions. (Porn has always been grounds for removal). On its most visited pages, Y
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Odadeo Means Social Help for Dads 
Allen Stern via CenterNetworks on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
We've written several times about social networks for moms including NY-based CafeMom. Today I came across a social network for dads called Odadeo whi
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Ning Bans Sex 
Eric Krangel via Alley Insider on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
The homepage of Ning invites users to "create your own social network for anything." Well, not anything -- not anymore. Starting on Jan 1, Ning is
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iTunes now holds 12.6% of US music market? 
Jonny via Distorted-Loop.com on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Digital music sales continue fast growth in the US, accounting for 18 per cent of the music market there this year, and set to climb to 41 per cent of total sales across the next five years, Forrester Research claims.
The report predicts 55 per cent of US online consumers will pay to download music in [...]
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eJamming inks licensing deal with MTV Networks 
Don Reisinger via Webware.com on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
eJamming, a service that provides musicians with collaboration technology to help them form bands or work on songs together, said Tuesday it has formed a partnership with the
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Netbooks Dominate Cyber Monday on Amazon
(PC World) 
(unknown author) via Yahoo! News: Technology News on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
PC World - Netbooks dominated the Computers & PC hardware bestsellers list on Amazon.com on Cyber Monday in the U.S., the biggest online shopping day of the year.
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Zoho opens up SQL access to (one of) its services 
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Zoho on Tuesday is rolling out CloudSQL, a layer of code that allows corporate developers to access their Zoho application data through a number of different dialects of the SQL database access l
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