For several weeks now, we at Mashable have been charting the gradual downfall of Toshiba’s HD-DVD technology. And looking at new developments of the last couple of days - exemplified most clearly by Wal-Mart’s choice to sell hardware and media compatible with Sony’s Blu-Ray video technology - it seems that things are finally coming to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Blu-Ray Wins HD Disc Format Battle; Will Lose War To Downloads", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/02/17/blu-ray-to-lose-to-downloads/" }); More: continued here

Fellow blogger Adrienne Zurub has written a book. It's only been out a few months but it's already been sold out on Amazon. Congratulations Adrienne! The sad part about her book coming out is that she was promptly fired from her offline job as a nurse. It could be because she talks about her job in the book. She described how doctors treat nurses and talks about some of the patients she's had. Patient advocacy is discussed and how she goes about it in her job.She took ...

A report out this afternoon in The Wall Street Journal pumps life back into the rumor that Yahoo and News Corp are negotiating a deal that would trade MySpace and other Fox Interactive properties for a significant stake in Yahoo. According to the Journal, the negotiations hinge on valuations; News Corp wants MySpace to [...] More: continued here

Facecloud is a new site that has grown from a necessity for sharing images in a faster, easier-to-consume way. The man behind this new service, David Yu, has deemed Facecloud to be the fast-food version of Flickr. If you take the general concept of Twitter, with quick updates, mobile access, and the ability [...] More: continued here

CNN has officially launched the beta of iReport, the citizen journalism site we learned about earlier this week. As Mark noted, the launch is part of an ongoing effort from CNN to integrate user-generated content both online and in the news network’s on-air coverage. According to the company, they’ve already received 100,000 [...] More: continued here