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Around the web this week

Spending the last few days in Amsterdam for The Next Web was great. European entrepreneurs have embarked on the bandwagon and are far from trailing behind. Anyway, I’m still processing the massive amount of information gathered during the conference, all the startups seen, the talks and chats of the last few days. I’ll have something up, hopefully, this week on the event, but in the meantime check their blog with a brief recap of what was covered.

While we were listening to the conf, here is what happened on the web this week:

• Apple enters legal dispute with New York City over their logo
• Talking about sueing, just saw this company getting added to CrunchBase: HelpMeSue.com. Based in California, it seems to have been started in December 2007. 400 requests for help are listed, available only for the States.
• The news have been pouring in for women-centric content. Yahoo announces Yahoo Shine, a new magazine targeted for women from 24 to 54. SheZoom, a new video site for women, received $2m in funding. New video gaming site targeted at women gamers, wowOwow, was announced about a month ago.
• Tired of all those Vampire and Fun Wall applications? Facebook finally allows us to ignore selected app invitations.
• Microsoft is getting angry (or it seems) with Yahoo non-responsiveness and they threaten, kind of: “If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders”. Original letter addressed to Yahoo’s board here, covered on TechCrunch, Slashdot, Mashable and everywhere else.
• Last but not least, if you are a micro-blogger, Seesmic (video micro-blogging startup) acquired the twitter’s desktop client Twhirl.