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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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Some predictions for the coming 'mashosphere' — As MashupCamp gets into full swing today, I thought I'd try my hand at projecting current trends forward and seeing how the mashup world might look in the near future. The fact is that the services and data available all over the Web …

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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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.

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 …

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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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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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.

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 …

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 …

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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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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Is DRM a Legal Barrier or a Physical One? — A couple of weeks ago, in comments, I got a tongue-lashing from Solveig Singleton for my suggestion that DRM was a legal, rather than a purely private, enforcement mechanism: … But it appears that her colleague, James DeLong, disagrees with her:

"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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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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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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