Top Web News Stories : Week Ending 10-12-2007

The following are the top voted Web news stories on for the week ending October 12th, 2007. Share the news (industry articles, blog posts, tutorials and more) that you find important and noteworthy at comScore is about to issue September 2007 user engagement and page views data, and it seems like the SVFurby, I mean Facebook unique visitors took a little dip.

: The Interactive Advertising Bureau has released a new set of guidelines for rich media ads.

: The roman alphabet will lose some of its dominance of the Internet beginning Monday when the organization overseeing website addresses starts testing 11 new languages for domain names.

: The Associated Press filed a lawsuit against VeriSign over its Moreover news aggregation services in a case reminiscent of a dispute between news services and Google News.

: Jaiku, the Twitter (and Pownce)-like service from Finland, has been bought by Google.

: Hoping to woo shoppers who say eBay Inc. has lost its folksy appeal, the world's largest online auction plans to launch its own version of a social networking service Wednesday and is promising other customer-friendly features by year's end.

: MSNBC Interactive News LLC has acquired Newsvine Inc., operator of a Web site that encourages users to link to their favorite news of the day, submit comments, and write their own stories.

: Intel has launched a new website called CoolSW that's basically a Digg-clone focused on software and tech companies.

: A recent paper explores how a knowledge base of articles, like the pages of the wikipedia could possibly be used to identify different named entities.

: Short summary: we are serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to mobile devices.