Quoted: The city of Seattle will be paid $45 million in exchange for letting the Seattle SuperSonics move to Oklahoma City this year as part of last-minute settlement announced this afternoon.

Quoted: We’ve got multiple sources at both Yahoo and Microsoft telling us that official talks are back on between the two companies. But we’re hearing something different than CNET - the talks are about a full buyout again, not a sweetened search-only deal.

Richard MacManus over on ReadWriteWeb wrote about InfiniteHoops. Awesome!

Quoted: Last week we started a new series called Mainstream Web Watch, in which we'll be exploring how the Social Web is infiltrating mainstream culture. We started out with NBA.com last week, to celebrate the end of the basketball season and the crowning of a new champion (Boston Celtics). In this post we look at another mainstream basketball site, but this time a small niche site created by someone with a passion for the sport - InfiniteHoops.com.

Quoted: We just got confirmation from Joshua Schachter, the founder of delicious, that he has decided to resign from Yahoo!

Quoted: Myballard.com is reporting today that Macefield, 86, died Sunday after emergency vehicles were seen coming and going from her abode on N.W. 46th St. -- the one she refused to sell to developers for $1 million.

I heard about this woman from a fave on our test server. Here's the original article:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/333917_macefield02.html

The Lakes advanced to the NBA finals tonight. Awesome.

Quoted: The Lakers became the Western Conference champions, completing an implausible seven-month run with a 100-92 victory Thursday over the San Antonio Spurs at Staples Center.
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After pushing through the tightest regular-season race in league history, the Lakers finished off the defending NBA champions, outscoring them by 21 points over the final three quarters and winning the West finals, four games to one.

Quoted: Employees at computer, phone and software company Apple have filed a patent to place solar cells on portable devices, Trade the News reported Monday.
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Outfitted with such technology, Apple’s devices, like the iPhone, could have photovoltaic cells stacked underneath LCD touch screens, thus maximizing the area available for harnessing the sun.

Quoted: In a pretty significant move, Reuters is making its news content available to the developer community through the use of a non-commercial API offering, through Reuters Labs. This means that you can now take Reuters news and create applications around it, or better fit the content into your existing applications and sites.

Quoted: A News Sitemap uses the Sitemap Protocol, with the following differences:
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A second namespace for the News schema should be added:
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Each URL may include optional news-specific tags within the News schema, as described in the table below.
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<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://mynewssite.com/article100.html</loc>
<news:news>
<news:publication_date>2006-08-17T03:19:00Z</news:publication_date>
<news:keywords>Sports, Baseball</news:keywords>
</news:news>
</url>
</urlset>