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The OpenID movement lands a whale in Yahoo. See how it will work here. Recent rumors had Google and others joining the party - stay tuned.

Scientology demands that a cuh-razy video of Tom Cruise be taken down. Google obeys, Gawker refuses.

Gawker has also incurred the wrath of Facebook for publishing images and more from its site. Gawker’s editor says he doesn’t care because he’s bored with Facebook - but the New York Times says his readers may be bored with him.

The Wall Street Journal may not become a free site after all.

Compete.com tracks the biggest gainers and losers in Web traffic. Bolt.com, Netscape, and Nextag are out; Porn is in. Oh - so are TechCrunch, LinkedIn, and WebKinz, among others.

The Library of Congress joins Flickr, and is so psyched that it’s blogging about it. But you can find a lot more of its images on its site.

Who said middleware was nowhere? BEA sells to Oracle for eight and a half billion dollars.

And Sun snaps up MySQL for a cool billion. Many applaud.

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