links for 2008-04-01

• Virgin Media takes fight to illegal downloadersThe trial by the UK's largest residential broadband supplier will go live within months and disconnecting customers who ignore warnings, a sanction favoured by the record BPI, remains an option. Source: Telegraph
• How Apple sells 45m iPhones in 2009A detailed analyst report lays out the steps by which Apple is expected to quadruple 2008 sales. Source: Fortune Apple 2.0 blog
• My social map is totally decentralised but I want it back on my blog"Everything we post is totally decentralized this is why tools like Mybloglog, Friendfeed and Socialthing start to gather all of these for us and it is a great idea." Source: Loic Le Meur
• Yahoo to aid Chinese dissidentsUnder fire from civil-rights groups for its indirect role in human rights abuses in China, Yahoo is answering critics by setting up a fund to give victims of government censorship legal and other assistance. Source: Variety
• Why original blog thought is so difficult"Why does there seem to be so much me-too blogging as opposed to people contributing different perspectives?" Source: Mark Evans
• Yahoo targets women with new 'Shine' siteThe new site feature original blogs and content from major publishing partners including Conde Nast, Hearst, and Time. Source: CNET
• What MicroHoo might be likeDoes the conspicuous silence at Microsoft and Yahoo mean a deal is edging closer? Source: AllThingsD
• Record labels seek $2.5m in damages from Pirate BayGottfried Svartholm Warg, one of four founders of The Pirate Bay, said Monday that "record companies can go screw themselves" in response to a music-industry demand for $2.5 million in damages. Source: Wired
• Sony/BMG under investigation for software piracyA small software company has accused major label Sony/BMG of software piracy, in a reversal of the normal orientation of piracy cases between major labels and the rest of the world. Source: Wired
• Annelies van den Belt leaves ITV.com for Russian firm SupAnnelies van den Belt is leaving ITV.com after 15 months to run Sup, the Russian online publisher that bought blog network LiveJournal last December. Source: Guardian
• Hi5 social network opens up developer platformThird parties will now be able to develop applications for the site that has over 1.5m UK users. Source: New Media Age
  
• No one has any idea how much Facebook applications are worthHow can Facebook's own video app have only 807 users? Source: Valleywag
• Facebook and CareerBuilder collaborate on targeted job adsCould it be yet another blow to newspapers' classified revenues? Source: paidContent
• Facebook adding 22 more languagesAsian languages being added on top of English, French, German and Spanish. Source: TechCrunch
• IOC puts pressure on Beijing over internet accessInternational Olympic Committee inspectors have told Beijing organisers that the Internet must be open for the duration of the 2008 Olympics. Source: Reuters
• Mobile broadband subscribers increase by 850 percentThere are now more than 32m connections worldwide, compared to 3m a year ago. Source: InfoWorld