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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
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.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
The business lessons of World of Warcraft — AUSTIN, Texas—"World of Warcraft" is a game. There's no doubt about it. More than 6 million people around the world have signed up to go questing, kill beasts, search out loot, and have fun with friends and strangers alike.
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Newsweek:
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. …
Wagner James Au / Kotaku:
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.
Rich Miller / Netcraft:
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 …
Lorelle VanFossen / Lorelle on WordPress:
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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Michael Addicott / Cognitive Labs Blog:
Mental Typewriter and Game Controller Becomes a Reality — 'Mental typewriter' controlled by thought alone — A computer controlled by the power of thought alone has been demonstrated at CEBIT in Germany. As we have speculated here, rapid advances in cybernetics are now ocurring …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
MySpace Messenger Coming — Update: So this has been something which has been whispered for a while, but Pete Cashmore has discovered actual screen shots of MySpace Messenger. Even though the screen shots have been around for a while (as pointed out by eagle eyed readers) …
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
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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Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
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 …
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
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.
Keith Teare / Keith Teare's Weblog:
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 …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
We're All Gatekeepers — Who's a gatekeeper in this world of distributed information? Jeff Jarvis hopes that the citizen journalism is an antidote to professional gatekeeping. Others, like Andy Plesser think that PR pros are the new gatekeepers. My feeling is that all of us - press …
