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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Interview with Gabe Rivera, founder of Memeorandum — Tech Memeorandum is part of my daily reading list, actually I read it several times a day. There are several other "clipper" services out there that approach the problem from a slightly different angle. Blogs have exploded in growth and popularity over the last year.
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mathewingram.com/work, Mark Evans, Read/WriteWeb, Message, TechCrunch, Search Engine Watch Blog, Darwinian Web and ben barren
Benjamin Cohen / Times of London:
Rumours mount over Google's internet plan — Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial negotiation with the company.
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Tomorrow's games, designed by players as they play — LOS ANGELES—Game budgets are skyrocketing. Development teams are swelling almost to film studio's proportions. The only way out of this trap is to enlist players to help create their own worlds, a pair of top game creators said Thursday.
CNET News.com:
Verbatim: Search firms surveyed on privacy — update To find out what kind of information the four major search companies retain about their users, CNET News.com surveyed America Online, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. — We asked the same seven questions of each company.
Wall Street Journal:
The Type-A Bathroom — For workaholics, it's the new home office. Jon Weinbach and Peggy Edersheim Kalb on showerproof computers, mirrors with stock quotes and the latest water hazard: 'BlackBerry dunk.' — With a BlackBerry, two mobile phones, three office computers and wireless Internet for his car …
Business Week:
James Cameron's Game Theory — Get kids hooked on a multiplayer game, then show them the movie — James Cameron has transported film audiences to worlds inhabited by carnivorous aliens, time-traveling assassins, and passengers on an ill-fated ocean liner.
Forbes:
Google's China portal inaccessible in Shanghai, Beijing — SHANGHAI (AFX) - Google Inc's recently launched China portal was inaccessible in the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Beijing on Friday, although the US-hosted Google.cn site could still be reached from outside China.
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
The iPod Ecosystem — In the weeks leading up to last month's Macworld conference, few people knew what the notoriously secretive Steven P. Jobs was going to announce. — Gavin Downey, the director of product management at the Belkin Corporation, listened to all the rumors leading …
Valleywag:
Tony Perkins' embarrassing web stats — To turn around the phrase on its head, on the web, everyone knows you're a dog. The internet may provide anonymity to individuals, but it leaves publishers nowhere to hide. A reader emails in about Tony Perkins, 'creator' and editor-in-chief of AlwaysOn …
pcpro.co.uk:
Microsoft puts Windows into Fiat cars — The first four-wheeled fruits of the partnership between Fiat and Microsoft, to co-design and build a telematics platform, are to emerge at the Geneva motor show later this month. — The two companies initially shook hands on the project in July 2004 …
Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Building a business based on copyright infringement (or, "Bad business idea #487") — YouTube.com gets some ink in the New York Times today. The piece spends a decent amount of time explaining the success of the site: it's makes money off other people's IP. — How do you build a business by stealing other people's content?
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Blogebrity
Ian Youngs / BBC:
Libraries fear digital lockdown — Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future. — Many publishers put restrictions on how digital books and journals can be used.
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Boing Boing
Poynter Online:
Craigslist Turns Revenue Spigot on Low — As reported by (fellow E-Media Tidbits contributor) Peter M. Zollman in his Classified Intelligence Report, Craigslist has finally decided to institute a fee for apartment brokers who post on the New York site as of March 1.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge postpones Google subpoena hearing — Google's attempt to fend off the government's request for millions of search terms will move to a federal court in San Jose, Calif., on March 13. — U.S. District Judge James Ware on Thursday delayed the hearing, originally scheduled for Feb. 27 …
