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You could call it a learning experience, a far cheaper lesson for the rest of the world than for Ray Lam, a Vancouver political candidate who withdrew his nomination after racy pictures of him surfaced on Facebook.

Beaumont, TX, earned the distinction of being the testing ground for metered Internet service for the heaviest users of network capacity.

When was the last time you listened to a radio ad?  Thanks to satellite radio, they simply don't exist for some people.  Others make a reflexive lunge for the remote or head unit every time the music stops.  Yahoo's trying its luck, however, with new promotional spots.

As we reported yesterday, Network Solutions has been in a lot of deep-water after many people discovered the company was guilty of "front-running"–the practice of registering a domain name after someone has checked on its availability.

The Network Solutions practice of registering domains being searched by visitors to the registrar has domainers demanding action by ICANN.

Had a great conversation on Friday with CEO Paul McNamara and Sarah Franklin from Coghead as a run-up to Web 2.0 Expo this week. (Disclosure: Coghead is a customer.) Some key bits they shared:

YouTube is Google's new big stick, but the used-to-be-a-search company better learn to walk softly or lose the droves of devoted viewers. A new poll from Harris Interactive shows that while nearly a third of YouTube users are sacrificing TV time for online video, almost three-quarters of them won't take kindly to pre-roll advertisements.

Google has announced a second limited test run of its music video/AdSense program, distributing videos from Sony BMG and Warner Music that contain ads.