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As Internet TV Aims at Niche Audiences, the Slivercast Is Born — ANDY STEWARD, a successful London computer consultant and sailboat racer, became exasperated when trying to watch his favorite sport on television. There were a few half-hour recaps of some major sailing races, but they were always shown late at night.
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Smart Mobs, Cinema Minima, The Kelsey Group Blog, IP Democracy, Mike's Blog, Seth's Blog, David Card and @ Alex Moskalyuk Online

AOL's Blog King — After selling his Weblog network for millions, Jason Calacanis speaks up for rebel journalism. — March 20, 2006 issue - Last October, the question of whether blogging could be a business was pretty much decided when AOL paid a reported $25 million for Weblogs, Inc. …

Feature: Blogging Down the House — The games writer for Salon and the embedded journalist in Second Life rallies Kotaku readers in a war to save games from their worse enemy—the gaming press. This is an expanded version of a talk delivered March 11 at South by Southwest's ScreenBurn Fest in Austin, Texas.

Chinese Bank's Server Used in Phishing Attacks on US Banks — A web server belonging to a state-operated Chinese bank is hosting phishing sites targeting U.S. banks and financial institutions. Phishing e-mails sent on Saturday (March 11) targeting customers of Chase Bank and eBay were directed …

Exclusive: Google Payments Seller Reputation Screenshots — A few weeks ago here on Techcrunch we revealed more information about Google's new payments system along with some screenshots of how it looks and works. One of the questions at the time was what Google would do about buyers …
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Playing with Wordpress.com New Sidebar Widgets … Hideously named "WordPress Widgets" is the method of accessorizing your Wordpress.com sidebar on WordPress Themes which permit such interaction. Through the use of Javascripts and Ajax, you can simply click and move boxes representing content elements within your Theme's sidebar.
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Where The Girls Aren't.... Christine Herron is one of the blog panel participants. First I added Christine to the panel because of what she's not. She isn't a VOIP blogger. She isn't looking at VOIP the way we have covered it in the past, and oh yes, she's not a guy.

Getting started with Quicksilver: understanding the basics — Prompted by a TUAW reader comment on my post the other day about some Quicksilverfundamentals, I thought I would take a crack at posting some short tutorials on what Quicksilver actually does, andhow to get started with it.
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Government Sides Against EBay in Patent Dispute — The federal government yesterday took a position against eBay Inc. in a patent dispute that threatens to shut down one of the online auction site's popular shopping features. — The Office of the Solicitor General said in a brief filed …

How to learn about Second Life before learning Second Life — Here we are in Austin for SxSW, and you'll notice that there's some Linden Lab folks around. Pay attention and talk to them about Second Life. Before you do, allow me to start my series about Second Life, what it is and why it's important.
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Cinema Minima, GigaOM, Clickable Culture, Newsome.Org, Scobleizer and a weblog by Tom Coates

edgeio launches "instant listings" — The product manager at edgeio, Matt Kaufman, has been working hard with the engineering team since the launch to support instant listings on edgeio. Last night they pushed the first release. Now all you have to do is enter the url of your blog …

Langberg: Net giants create 'personal playgrounds' — Google, Microsoft and Yahoo no longer aim to confine you in a ``walled garden'' — the online equivalent of a gated community where you only use the owner's services. — Instead, they are now pursuing a more subtle approach I'm going to call a ``personal playground.''
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CeBIT: An Origami With a Via Processor — The SmartCaddie is the first announced Origami device without Intel inside. — HANOVER, GERMANY — Via Technologies is a company that takes pride in bursting illusions, such as the idea the new ultramobile PCs would only come equipped with Intel microprocessors.

Technorati T100 Gets A Tweak — I just noticed that the Technorati T100 list, which is a list of the 'top' blogs, has been tweaked recently and bears no resemblance to it's former self. Many of the top blogs have dropped out of the list (including Techcrunch) and have been replaced …
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