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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
At Last, Movies to Keep Arrive on the Internet — Six major studios plan to begin selling movies over the Internet today that buyers can download and keep for watching at any time. — Until now, the only downloads the studios have offered have been online rentals, which can be watched …
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GigaOM, PaidContent.org, Fast Company Now, The Technology Liberation …, IP Democracy, Newsome.Org, Techdirt, unmediated and Hacking NetFlix
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Associated Press:
Hollywood to sell movies online — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood studios will start selling digital versions of films such as "Brokeback Mountain" and "King Kong" on the Internet this week, the first time major movies have been available online to own. — The films can't be burned onto a disc for viewing on a DVD player.
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
The Word in Hollywood, "Download" — Fearful of the same digital piracy that humbled the music industry, two online vendors are poised to start offering recently released flicks via the Web — It's the Steve Jobs effect. Hollywood studios, facing intense pressure from the Apple Computer CEO …
Anil Dash / Six Apart:
The New York Times Redesigns, Influenced by Blogs — Today, the New York Times launched its site redesign, announced by a prominent editor's note on the homepage. There's a few lessons for bloggers to learn from the redesign, as well as some evidence that the Times itself has been learning from bloggers.
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Every Click You Make, They'll Be Watching You — WOULD you trust a company enough to let it follow your every click online? — Claria, a company once vilified for raining pop-up advertisements across the Internet through its Gator software, is betting its business that the answer is yes.
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Claria abandons adware — really! — and raises $40 to push PersonalWeb — Claria, that Redwood City company that we and others criticized for its adware software that tracks your surfing patterns, has repented and decided to do something completely different.
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Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
iotum and Asterisk — Asterisk is a huge phenomenon. I had no idea how big, actually, until about six weeks ago, when Stephan Monette, the owner of Unlimitel and an iotum business partner, told me that we should think about targeting Asterisk users with iotum.
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Tuan Nguyen / dailytech.com:
Apple Addresses MacBook Pro Issues … Users feel the pain of being early adopters, thankfully Apple gives hope — Apple has been doing quite well lately, especially when it comes to drumming up support for new products. It's MacBook Pro is no exception to the rule — but rightly so.
Michel Marriott / New York Times:
Mitsubishi Harnesses Colored Lasers to Produce New-Generation Lightweight HDTV — As if shopping for new flat-panel, high-definition television is not hard enough, Mitsubishi is scheduled to announce this week that it has developed commercial television that uses colored lasers to display bright …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
As Magazine Readers Increasingly Turn to the Web, So Does Condé Nast — Getting married and wondering how you would look in a mermaid-style sheath? Brides.com, a new Web site, takes you to a virtual fitting room, lets you pick from one of four body types and examine how each would look in six different styles of gowns.
Google Blogoscoped:
Marissa Mayer Interviewed — German Spiegel reprints an interview with Google's Marissa Mayer by Galore. Some key points: — There are many factors why Google is the most successful search engine in the world, but results relevance is the key. "Is the most relevant result for my search query really on top?"
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
AND THE SEARCH GOES ON...A YEAR OF COVERAGE IN ONE POST — Well, chalk one up for wishful thinking. Back in December I did my annual predictions post, and in it I wrote: … Well, I'm still not writing another book (though I will admit, I miss the process of writing terribly) …
Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
Doc Searls: Business as Morality — In the middle of an email conversation with Doc Searls, I mentioned that I was having trouble with the whole "Web 2.0" concept. A laundry list of features or concepts doesn't encapsulate the real change for me: the real key to success is treating the person …
Google Maps API Official Blog:
Google Maps API Version 2 — Maps API Version 2 is officially launching! We're starting the beta-test of the new version that many of you have already been playing with these past few weeks. — Version 2 Features — Version 2 cleans up much of the API and improves performance …
Robert Manor / Chicago Tribune:
Papers, Web sites in scrape on stories — Unpaid use angers some publishers — Not only is advertising moving from newspapers to the Internet, but newspaper stories increasingly are migrating as well. — Whether they like it or not, newspaper publishers are seeing stories, or "content" …
Earthling / EarthLink blog:
But I Don't Have An E-mail — Back when the Apple iMac launched in the Fall of 1998, the world of e-mail and the internet was still fairly young. But it was a bit of a stretch for Apple to produce a TV ad at that point in time that featured Hollywood's Jeff Goldblum feigning complete confusion at the word e-mail.
