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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
YouTube is not a real business — YouTube is not a real business — Wow, this is kind of scary. I wrote how YouTube was a business based on copyright infringement and used all the SNL skits on their service as an example. Now SNL has come down hard on them.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Around the MashupCamp fire — MashupCamp is getting underway this morning at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. About 300 mashers have gathered to geek out on the latest innovations in Web- based applications. As my colleague and MashupCamp head counselor David Berlind said …
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USA Today:
AOL promises video search, phone calls — STERLING, Va. — America Online plans to roll out major new services over the next few months to help it compete in key Internet battlegrounds — taking on teen-networking site MySpace, voice powerhouse Skype and others, CEO Jonathan Miller said in an exclusive interview.
New York Times:
Tollbooths on the Internet Highway — When you use the Internet today, your browser glides from one Web site to another, accessing all destinations with equal ease. That could change dramatically, however, if Internet service providers are allowed to tilt the playing field …
Tris Hussey / A View from the Isle:
BlogBurst the MSM's best answer to blogs? — Late last week BlogBurst came on the scene. Brought to us by Pluck, this service (?) takes blog content and republishes it on MSM newspapers. Don't fret this isn't Pluck scraping our content, you have to apply to get in.
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Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
The Clueless Manifesto — Here's to the clueless ones. … Cluelessness is underrated. It's the newbie who does something he didn't know was supposed to be impossible. It's the naive guy asking the one dumb question any clued-in person would diss. And it's that question that leads to the answer no expert would have found.
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Nintendo Gal:
Revolution Box Mock Ups — Here are some mock ups a Livejournal user has created of the Revolution box art: — More inside! — I'm liking #2 though a mix of #1 and #2 would be great! — Source - Livejournal.com — This entry was posted by Nintendo Gal on Monday, February 20.
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Google admits Desktop security risk — Businesses have been warned by research company Gartner that the latest Google Desktop Beta has an "unacceptable security risk," and Google agrees. — On Feb. 9, Google unveiled Google Desktop 3, a free, downloadable program that includes an option …
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
The Engadget Interview: Reggie Fils-Aime, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Nintendo — I hardly ever agree to do phone interviews- there's something about actually being able to sit face-to-face with someone that makes a conversation flow- but when Reggie Fils-Aime …
Reuters:
MySpace: Murdoch's big hope, parents' nightmare — SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch saw a Web site with monster growth potential in MySpace.com, the online music and dating phenomenon that makes it easy for teens to find friends and express themselves.
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Lia Miller / New York Times:
Can't Remember Who Whacked Whom? Just Check the Map on the Web Site — Longtime viewers of HBO's "The Sopranos" know there are many places in New Jersey to dump a body. And in one of the first marketing efforts to use Google's map technology, HBO would like to show you exactly where those are.
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danah.org:
"Identity Production in a Networked Culture" — American Association for the Advancement of Science … Introduction: — I want to talk with you today about how teenagers are using a website called MySpace.com. I will briefly describe the site and then discuss how youth use …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
I.B.M. Researchers Find a Way to Keep Moore's Law on Pace — SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 — I.B.M. researchers plan to describe an advance in chip-making on Monday that could pave the way for new generations of superchips. The development, which comes from materials research in the design …
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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
Notes for groups interested in RSS — Last night I posted several notes in response to a post by Paul Montgomery. We're at an interesting point in the life of RSS, where several small companies, Newsgator, SixApart, Feedburner and Technorati may be trying to control the evolution of the format.
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Ask Dumping Jeeves, New Focus on Search Technology & User Experience — Ask Dumping Jeeves, New Focus on Search Technology & User Experience — Jeeves is 'retiring' from Ask.com in fashion as the IAC owned search company has taken a major step in rebranding its image.
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