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New York Times:
With New IPod, Apple Aims to Be a Video Star — SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 12 - Having conquered the world of portable digital music, Steven P. Jobs set his sights on television Wednesday, unveiling an Apple iPod that can play video - along with an online shop to fill it with TV shows, short films and music videos at $1.99 apiece.
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diveintomark.org:
HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software — This guide is licensed under the GNU General Public License. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License or (at your option) any later version.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
POKER TIME: AOL IS THE FLOP — I'm in Vegas right now, so allow me a poker metaphor as I consider the whole Yahoo/MSFT IM and Google/Comcast/AOL thing. — The more I think about this, the more I believe that these two deals are linked, intentionally or not.
C.K. Sample, Iii / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Video Quality: What $1.99 will buy you — So, I finally managed to get the full copy of Lost that I purchased off the iTMS to download successfully yesterday, and I've been watching it on my Mac, so I thought I'd share what $1.99 per episode will get you, and where the video quality is lacking.
Google Blogoscoped:
How to Make 1 Million Friends on MySpace — Why do you get 2,533 results when you enter [site:myspace.com "samy is my hero"] into MSN search? Well, someone by the name of Samy wrote a social network popularity worm... and made over a million new friends, all of whom now had the text …
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Peter Rojas / Engadget:
The Clicker: Apple's real plan for iPod video? — Every Thursday Stephen Speicher contributes The Clicker, a weekly opinion column on entertainment and technology: — You've got to love Apple. Crazy like a fox they are. Oh sure - some of their decisions regarding the new iPod might seem …
highrankings.com:
Get Hands-on Search Marketing Training and Advice in our SEO/SEM Workshops — On day two of the event you will learn to apply the information you learned on day one to actual Web sites. Our speakers will be conducting hands on workshops in small groups so that you can get the personal SEO/SEM training that you've been looking for.
prweek.com:
10 media trends to watch — Erica Iacono PR Week USA Oct 5 2005 17:06 — From the rise of transparency to the decline of newsprint, every PR pro needs to remain on top of the ever-changing media landscape. — Portability of video content — "It's an understatement to say that the news media …
support.microsoft.com:
Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 — SUMMARY — Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 enhances the stability and performance of Media Center 2005. This update fixes several known issues. The update also adds the following new functionality to Media Center:
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Lifehacker:
Subscribe to free, del.icio.us video in iTunes — Two great tastes that taste great together: now that del.icio.us offers feeds by filetype and iTunes has full video support (including "vodcasts," or video podcasts), you can load up iTunes with free video files bookmarked and tagged in del.icio.us.
Fred / A VC:
Our Web Site Is A Blog — Yesterday we flipped the switch and turned our website, UnionSquareVentures.com, into a blog. — Like most things, we should have done it a year ago when we first launched our firm's website. — But better late than never. — Why did we do it?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Memeorandum is Changing the Web — I've previously profiled Memeorandum, and there are no major announcements or feature releases to spur this new post. — However, something much more significant is happening because of Memeorandum, and I am not the only person to notice it.
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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
The Vonage Sales Watch — Months ago I speculated to a Wall Street sell side analyst that Vonage's ideal suitor was Bell South. Everyone told me I was nuts. Then in mid summer Rich Terhani speculated Bell South was going to buy Vonage. People started saying he was nut. Even I began to question it.
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost Publications:
New Search Engine Will Give Users Premium Content, For Free — A NEW SEARCH ENGINE, CONGOO, is currently partnering with premium content providers so that upon its projected launch a month from now, it can give that content away free. — In a nutshell, consumers will be asked to fill …
