Around the Web 6.2.08: Google Maps dodgers and Supreme Court fantasies
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-- Why were Supreme Court justices spending time on fantasy baseball last week? They’re tackling a case that could have huge ramifications for websites, Major League Baseball and the entertainment business, David Savage tells us. UPDATE: Major League Baseball lost the case today, giving fantasy baseball sites the right to use players’ names without paying a licensing fee.
-- YouTube acts as a memorial to sets and rides that burned in Sunday’s Universal Studios blaze. Web Scout
-- Microsoft’s Live Search will be the default search engine on all Hewlett-Packard computers in North America. Search Engine Land
-- A Minnesota town keeps out the prying eyes of Google Maps. Star Tribune
-- Choose your own adventure: Sci-Fi Channel is working on an online game whose play affects the plot of a related TV show, Geoff Boucher reports.
-- The Internet, where hip hop and chess collide. TechCrunch
-- Semiconductor sales rose a better-than-expected 5.9% in April. News.com
-- The NYT profiles the economists behind Google’s multibillion-dollar search monolith.
-- Two huge Chinese telecom companies merge. WSJ
-- Alana Semuels profiles NextMedium, an LA-based product placement company that has created an online service to help answer how much it’s worth to have a rapper mention your beverage in a music video.
-- Prince: Get that Radiohead song off YouTube. Extended Play
-- Are we becoming a nation of cyberchondriacs? SF Gate
-- Chris Gaither