links for 2008-04-16

• O2 slashes £100 from price of iPhone amid talk of slow salesRumours of new model have stalled sales. Source: Guardian
• Associated Northcliffe Digital claims it reaches 22m peopleThe publisher is the latest to try to combine print and online readership figures and the results are designed to encourage advertisers to pay for cross-media packages. Source: Guardian
• Craigslist expands without fanfareThe web empire that has wrecked newspaper business models across the world has added 120 cities. Source: Guardian Greenslade blog
• Cubans sign up for first legal mobile phonesHundreds of Cubans lined up at state-owned telephone offices on Monday to buy mobile-phone services previously available only to government officials and foreigners. Source: CNET
• France cracks down on pro-anorexia websitesFrench politicians called on Tuesday for stiff penalties of up to three years jail and heavy fines against pro-anorexia sites and publications that encourage girls and young women to starve themselves. Source: Reuters
• eBay to end live auctions with auction housesThe format represents a little-known, tiny piece of eBay's auction businesses -- most of which connect buyers and sellers online. Source: Reuters
• CBS launches mobile citizen journalism siteCBS News has quietly launched a citizen journalism site, where users can upload photos and videos directly from their mobile phones. Source: paidContent
• ISPs meddled with their customers' web traffic, study findsOne per cent of web pages have been adapted by ISPs to add targeted ads. Source: PCWorld
• Amazon DRM-free music has little impact on Apple iTunesJust 10% of Amazon's MP3 customers have previously bought digital music from Apple's online store. Source: CMP
• Music-video pros challenge YouTubeTechnology start-up PluggedIn Media is to begin letting users view for free near-DVD-quality music videos licensed from three of the four biggest music companies. Source: Wall Street Journal
• Six Apart wrestles the social-media dragonA new Facebook app called 'Blog It' allows users to update blogs and micro-blog at once. Source: CNET
• New Zealand backs legal download siteThe country's Motion Picture Association is keen to establish a movie download website, allowing locals to download movies legally and so cut internet piracy. Source: Variety
• WSJ.com gets a faceliftFirst parts of the redesign are being rolled out now. Source: paidContent
  
• Dopplr adds hotel and travel contentDopplr has quietly added content from Mr & Mrs Smith, the boutique and luxury hotel guide. Source: TechCrunch UK
• Facebook's new social net management toolA new feature that lets you add actions from other sites to the mini-feed of actions on your profile, including sites like local review site Yelp, photo site Picasa, and others. Source: VentureBeat
• How to put Google Street View to practical useStreet View is the closest thing to teleportation that you can find outside the starship Enterprise. Source: InformationWeek
• Mail Online rolls out redesign in betaMail Online today rolled out a beta version of its redesigned website for the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers. Source: Guardian
• UK music industry demands an iPod tax (and the law is still an ass)The UK's Music Business Group has proposed a levy on MP3 players to cover the cost of ripping audio CDs. Source: Guardian Technology Blog
• London Mayoral candidates quizzed on crowdsourcing siteYoosk is running an online hustings for the candidates running in next month's election. Source: Journalism.co.uk
• Google sees weakness in clicks on search adsThe number of US consumers clicking on Google's search ads was weak once again in March, renewing concerns that it can meet its estimates. Source: Wall Street Journal