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Dis-Apple pact upsets affiliates — The Walt Disney Co.'s pact with Apple to repurpose primetime programming on its new video iPod generated a mix of confusion and concern among ABC's local affiliate stations as the news spread Wednesday. — The prospect of the new device distracting …
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USA Today:
Deal has some ABC affiliates feeling uneasy — NEW YORK — Less than two weeks after replacing Michael Eisner as Disney's CEO, Bob Iger began to put his stamp on the company Wednesday with a potentially precedent-setting deal that impressed several company analysts — but created anxiety among …
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.
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.
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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Lester Haines / The Register:
Coming soon: the mp3 breast implant — Here's an appealing thought: an mp3 breast implant which will allow surgically-enhanced girls to store and play back their entire music collections from their 36DD assets. — We kid you not. According to UK tabloid the Sun - ever watchful …
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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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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.
Thomas J. Fitzgerald / New York Times:
Tablet PC's Reach for the Masses — Tablet PC's, the portable computers with pen-based abilities, have been around since November 2002, but so far have not been widely embraced by consumers or businesses. The devices made up fewer than 2 percent of the notebook computers sold worldwide in 2004 …
emarketer.com:
Web Growing Faster Than Ever — The World Wide Web, as measured by the number of domain names, is growing faster than at any time in its history, reaching nearly 75 million sites. — The Internet stock bubble may have burst, and certainly no one is going to put it back together again …
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Tim Flight:
Rotating YPN and AdSense is a Bad Idea — Most people who have been able to compare YPN and AdSense on the same site have reached a similar conclusion; earnings per click (EPC) are much higher on YPN however click through rate (CTR) is lower resulting in similar revenues.
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?
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
NY Times v. Wall St. Journal on Hotel Internet Fees — The two big papers duke it out over paying for Wi-Fi in hotels: On Sept. 27, New York Times business travel columnist Joe Sharkey wrote about the tendency for big hotels to charge big bucks for in-room and public space Wi-Fi and wired broadband.
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Chris Preimesberger / eWEEK.com:
OpenOffice.org Delays Version 2.0 Release — Updated: The planned fifth-anniversary release of the ODF-compliant MS Office alternative has been pushed back to allow time for key bug fixes. — Although OpenOffice.org had planned to release the final 2.0 version of its open-source office suite on Oct. 13 …
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