Techmeme @ 4:50 PM ET, March 8, 2006

4:50 PM ET, March 8, 2006

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Nick / Rough Type:
iTunes tests subscription pricing

What I said — 3:40 a.m. is an ungodly time to be answering questions fired at your through and earpiece while staring into the bright lights of a camera. Intrepid communicator that I am, though, I undertook the challenge—with only one cup of coffee in me, no less—when I answered questions this morning on CNBC's Squawk Box.

Discussion: Micro Persuasion, mathewingram.com/work, Syndicator Blog, The Social Software Weblog and Weblogs Work

Wall Street Journal:

A New Way to Avoid the Video Store — We Review Digital Gadget — Prestocked With 100 Films; — Selection Is a Drawback — After a long day at work, there's something calming about filling a bowl with popcorn and watching a movie at home. But the experience can be diminished …

Discussion: IPcentral Weblog

Mail&Guardian:

Brain-controlled device could help the disabled — Researchers in Berlin have come a step closer to developing a device that will enable people to write and manipulate objects by reading their mind. — The so-called mental typewriter that translates thoughts into cursor movements …

Discussion: Gizmodo

gizmag.co.uk:

Hot-swappable micro Fuel Cell System can run laptop for two days — March 8, 2006 UltraCell demonstrated its UltraCell XX25 micro fuel cell system at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco today. Powered by a reformed methanol fuel cell technology, the UltraCell XX25 is a pre-production unit designed for the military.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Ubergizmo and Engadget

Fred / A VC:

The Future of Media (continued) — I said in my Future of Media post that they key to media in the online world was four things: — 1 - Microchunk it - Reduce the content to its simplest form. — 2 - Free it - Put it out there without walls around it or strings on it.

Discussion: Rational rants, Adrants and Jaffe Juice

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:

ETech 2006 Trip Report: Simple Bridge-building — These are my notes from the Simple Bridge-building session by Ray Ozzie. — Ray started of by talking about how he sees RSS as having the potential to be the connective tissue between web sites. The increased usage of RSS and mashups …

Discussion: Software as services, cubicgarden.com, Somewhat Frank, Guardian Unlimited and TechCrunch

Tim Oren / Due Diligence:

Cui Bono? A Case in Point: Yahoo! — Earlier I concluded that the beneficiaries of the 'Web 2.0' movement would be Yahoo!, Google, and other large services platforms. I had not anticipated how well some of today's events at the eTech '06 conference would make the point for me.

Discussion: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, Conversion Rater, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Marc's Voice and Search Engine Journal

Ina Fried / CNET News.com:

Microsoft readying Vista marketing blitz — SAN FRANCISCO—Aiming to re-create the excitement that accompanied the launch of Windows 95, Microsoft is gearing up for a massive campaign to launch Windows Vista. — Chairman Bill Gates has tasked the Windows marketing team with repeating …

Discussion: Neowin.net and Bink.nu

Ryan Singel / Wired News:

Build Your Own PVR, Then Trash It — First, the good news. Plummeting storage costs and the availability of special hardware have finally made it cheap and easy to shrug off the shackles of TiVo and build your own personal video recorder out of an old PC.

Discussion: PVR Wire

IGN:

Top 10 Tuesday: Most Memorable Villains — Meet the faces of evil. — March 7, 2006 - Welcome to IGN's weekly countdown of the exceptional, fascinating, and absurd: something we like to call Top 10 Tuesday. Every week we'll feature the top ten games, characters, fashion statements …

Melanie Tan / mobilemag.com:

Seagate launches new hard drives at IDF — It's raining hard drives from Seagate folks. — At the upcoming Intel Developer Forum in the United States, Seagate is all set to launch not one or two, but four different types of hard drives. Let' get to it shall we?

Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo

Paul R. La Monica / CNN:

Google's latest goof — Shares slip after search engine discloses that certain slides presented on the Web during its analyst meeting shouldn't have been there. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Search engine Google disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Tuesday …

Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley

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