links for 2009-08-18

• Big noises join chorus behind Twitter TweetDeck >> Times Online
• Microsoft's First Big Newspaper Partnership >> Seeking Alpha
• Breaking: MySpace Close To Acquiring iLike For $20 Million >> TechCrunch
  MySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, we've confirmed with multiple sources. The deal, which should close this week, will …
• The five biggest paid content myths >> Econsultancy
  There's a lot of talk about paid content these days for obvious reasons and there's only going to be more of it now that Rupert Murdoch has announced plans for News Corp. to go all in.

  http://econsultancy.com/blog/4378-murdoch-s-new-monetization-plan-somebody-had-to-do-it

• Huffington Post and Facebook Go “Social News,” With Connect on Steroids >> Kara Swisher, BoomTown, AllThingsD
  In an unusually robust collaboration using Facebook Connect, the Huffington Post is launching a feature on Monday called "HuffPost Social News," which lets readers create a personalized social networking-like news page on the Huffington Post itself. While the Huffington Post had already been using Facebook Connect since January–which allows readers of the site to log in using their Facebook identity to interact, which is mostly used to leave comments–this essentially takes Facebook Connect and puts it on steroids. While the use of "social news" will be seen by some as simply a clever PR term, it is an interesting development for both the popular online news site and also the social networking giant.
• Hackers Put Social Networks Such as Twitter in Crosshairs >> Business Center – PC World
  Web sites such as Twitter are becoming increasingly favored by hackers as places to plant malicious software in order to infect computers.
• The Media Equation – AOL Builds Content as Mainstream Media Falters >> NYTimes.com
  Its 300 producers in New York are backed by hundreds of freelancers and programmers across the globe who churn out copy and edit photos.
• The Evolution of Blogging >> GigaOm
  Blogging has evolved, becoming more than just a source of straight information or opinion, but of rich context. But that's …
• The Paper That Doesn’t Want to Be Free >> NYTimes.com
  With few signs that advertising is rebounding, other publishers are moving to imitate The Financial Times by erecting so-called pay walls for online content.