Mark Cuban has taken the time to offer Rupert Murdoch some solid (and extremely detailed) advice on bundling News Corp.'s content for news junkies. The nearly maniacal attention to detail could help out any Foxies working as this, as all they need to do is cut and paste and build the pay walls. Now, Mark, about giving away all this free advice...

For the moment, it looks like Web users will have plenty of option when it comes to shortening their url's. Praise the Twitter Gods, URL shortening service Tr.im is not shutting down.

Continuing its long tradition of failed attempts at successful products outside the realm of search, Google's Knol is looking unlikely to ever put a dent in Wikipedia's popularity, let alone kill it.

Facebook the movie?! Who'll play Zuckerberg?! Listen to Aaron Sorkin tell the tale of the fateful moment he said "Yes." Sorkin adds, "It's the fastest I've ever said 'Yes' to anything." Maybe that's because he's unconsciously aware of the project's fantastically short shelf life and just thinking of all the fast walking in the halls he can film.

Welcome to Condé 2.0. For better or worse, Condé Nast -- or at least in its living form as a bastion of editorial self-indulgence -- is dead, claims The New York Observer. Exhibit A? Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter was spotted in the cafeteria.

Can't Facebook just leave Twitter and its microblogging niche alone? Apparently not, as the social networking leader has begun testing a new service dubbed "Facebook Lite," which, by all appearances, could be quite the little Twitter killer. Judging by screen-shots taken by some lucky members selected to test the service, "Lite" is a completely stripped-down version of the Facebook platform. Like a Twitter stream, users can see their most recent status updates and the updates of friends.Word is that the new service was only designed for regions of the world with spotty and prohibitively expensive broadband …

Four years after the fact, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter is wishing he hadn't sold to Yahoo, and he's saying so publically.

Daisy Whitney talks to Jason Witt of MTVN, who tells her that MTV has found in research that the most effective ad unit is the five-second pre-roll and video overlay.

Video sharing is killing the porn star. While, porn is hardly the only segment of the media industry struggling with these issues, its problems appear to be more severe. Whereas online piracy has forced big changes in the music industry and is starting to affect movies and television, it has upended adult entertainment. But then Fast Company wonders if mobile can save porn.

Could the worst be behind us? Yahoo VP of ad platform strategy Josh Jacobs says he sees "green shoots" in ad sales. "In the very short term, we are seeing people coming back, we are seeing budgets coming back up," he told an audience at the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum Monday.