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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Price as Signal — Forbes: "EMI Group boss Alain Levy said at press conference today that he believed Jobs would introduce multiple price points for iTunes music within the next year." — The story they're trying to tell you is that "older, less popular songs could be discounted …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Will small publishers still have game? — At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco seven months ago, there was an undercurrent of fear. — Would sharply rising development costs, game developers worried, make designing games for the impending next-generation consoles …
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Oblivionabyss / It's a Mad, Mad Mind:
Back Off, Porky. — OKAY FOR THE READING IMPAIRED (PSSST, AOL EXECUTIVES THIS MEANS YOU) I WILL BE WRITING MOST OF THIS EXACTLY IN THIS FORMAT, JUST SO YOU CAN SEE EACH AND EVERY WORD. I EVEN NIXED MY FAVORITE COMIC SANS MS FONT. — NOW, ON WITH MY JOURNAL ENTRY.
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gameshout.com:
Wal-Mart only has three Xbox 360 units per store — According to some latest information, Microsoft has only sent three Xbox 360 units to smaller Wal-Mart stores, while the super centers only got 10. — The information comes from various GameSHOUT users and members who went around to each store from their own local cities and state.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
VCS VS. THE PLATFORMS — This morning (London time) I was on a panel featuring Simon Levene of Yahoo, among others. The focus was Web 2.0 and venture capital (fittingly, it was sponsored by FirstCapital). Simon, who is MD here for Yahoo in Business Development, mentioned something …
Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:
Early Xbox reviews: so-so — Early reviews of Microsoft's Xbox 360 are starting to appear and so far the reaction is: eh, it's okay. — "Good, but not great," says CNN. "Don't buy the Xbox," The New York Post. — Most of the complaints seem to be surrounding the machine's high price, as opposed to its technical prowess.
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Xbox 360 Hits a High-Def Homer — I lean back in my chair, press a button on my game pad, and the console turns on. Why hasn't anyone ever thought of this before? — Well, now they have. On Tuesday, Microsoft unleashes its next-generation video-game console, the Xbox 360.
Regina Lynn / Wired News:
You're Only a Newbie Once — Researching last week's column about adult webcam chat made me nostalgic for the online community I used to belong to. The conversations in the webAffairs book could have taken place in my chat room, and I examined the screenshots closely to see if I recognized any faces or other body parts.
USA Today:
CD woes may have had roots in merger — It sounded like music to record executives' ears. — Copy-protection software that would to do the impossible: make CDs that couldn't be repeatedly copied. — Britain's First 4 Internet landed meetings with the four major record labels, trying to sell software called XCP.
Martha Graybow / Reuters:
Online daters sue matchmaking sites — NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court. — Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp. …
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Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
Following the Lead to a More Transparent Future — Come along on a trip to the cutting edge, where we join some of the smartest folks in Internet marketing as they work to realize a very far-out (to use San Francisco lingo) vision of online lead generation's future. — First, some background.
computerworld.com.au:
IPv6 Forum chief: the new Internet is ready for consumption — IPv6 is not a pipedream. Founder of the IPv6 Forum Latif Ladid took time out from the IPv6 summit in Canberra to talk to Computerworld about why the new Internet Protocol is a pie to be consumed here and now.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Skype to make U.S. retail debut — Net telephone service Skype Technologies is set to make its first appearance in a U.S. retail store. — The Luxembourg-based Net telephony company, founded by the people behind the Kazaa peer-to-peer service, is expected to announce on Monday that it has struck …
Phillip Torrone / makezine.com:
Laser etched Powerbook! — I didn't really plan using a $20,000 laser cutter on my 17" Powerbook to etch a 19th-century engraving of a tarsier, a nocturnal mammal related to the lemur (also the vi book cover image, from O'Reilly), but it seemed like it had to done. The results are stunning - photos and more...
