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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Exploding TV: KA-BLOOM! … TV has finally exploded. And if other media — newspapers, magazines, and even online companies — don't watch out, they may lose the broadband internet to TV companies. — In big news today, Disney said it will make episodes of its shows available online …
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ClickZ Internet Marketing …, Terry Heaton's Weblog, mathewingram.com/work, Good Morning Silicon Valley, paidContent.org, Between the Lines, B2Day, michael parekh on IT, Mark Evans, The Jeff Pulver Blog, Paul Kapustka's Blog, Life On the Wicked Stage, Peter Adams Weblog, Church of the Customer Blog, Marc Policani's Digital …, TechBlog, A VC, Rational rants, David Card, Lost Remote TV Blog, Marc's Voice, Ramesh Jain's Blog and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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John Holusha / New York Times:
Disney to Offer Some ABC Shows Free on the Web — In an effort to extend its broadcast economic model to the Internet, the Walt Disney Company said today that it would offer some of its most popular ABC television shows free on its Web sites but with commercials that cannot be eliminated.
Reuters:
Disney to make TV shows available free on Web — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co.'s ABC Television will offer some of its most popular shows, such as "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost," for free on the Internet in a two-month trial, the company said on Monday.
Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab:
How Not to Think Strategically About the Future of Media, pt 193941 — Disney to release TV shows online free the day after they broadcast (with ads, of course). — Good move? — You might think so - everyone in the industry is applauding Disney for having the courage to be so 2.0.
Discussion:
Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter, paidContent.org, POP! PR Jots, Like It Matters and Cameron's Brain
John Markoff / New York Times:
A Laptop Comes Preloaded With the Web, Abridged — SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 — While Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are busy building legions of data centers to capture the contents of the Web, a fledgling company has decided that it will squeeze the essential Internet onto a single laptop.
Discussion:
TechCrunch, Engadget, Cameron's Brain, Digital Inspiration, SiliconBeat, John Cook's Venture Blog, JD on EP and Search Engine Journal
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Mark Ward / BBC:
Service to preload web on laptops — Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — A hi-tech start-up called Webaroo is aiming to shrink the web so that it can fit into a laptop. — The company has designed its service so that people will not have to go online to access information found on the net.
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TechSpot
Craig Pringle:
Now is the time for Tablets — The cosmic forces are aligning for the Tablet PC and I believe that 2006 and 2007 will be the years that the Tablet PC really makes the big time. Yeah, I know people have been saying that since 2002 when Microsoft first launched Windows XP Tablet Edition.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Laptop thieves descend upon wireless cafes — Grab-and-run robbers find pricey computers easy to resell — A San Francisco finance manager stopped in at a Mission District cafe and was tapping on his laptop as he enjoyed his coffee just before noon on a Thursday. Suddenly, he was under siege.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
SEO as the new newsstand — The Times discovered the value and necessity of search-engine optimization (SEO) for news and media yesterday. (I found it surprising that they gave scant credit to About.com, the Times company where — full disclosure — I consult, for About is the first media company built …
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
Cable Companies Bulk Up in Wireless Phone Services — ATLANTA, April 9 — In the race with the Bell companies to become one-stop shops for communications services, the country's biggest cable companies are developing wireless products, the missing piece of their so-called quadruple-play bundle.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google settlement or not, click fraud won't go away — With a planned $90 million settlement, Google could soon dispense with a class-action lawsuit involving so-called click fraud. — But while that may be good for Google, it doesn't mean the problem of bogus clicks on online ads …
bobparsons.com:
The .EU landrush fiasco. A bumbling registry allows Europe's very own domain name to be highjacked! — Europe's .EU domain is being hijacked! — What happens when you match an inept registry with crafty businessmen? The answer is a really large scam.
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Neowin.net
Seth Kugel / New York Times:
A Web Site Born in U.S. Finds Fans in Brazil — RIO DE JANEIRO — Ask Internet users here what they think of Orkut, the two-year-old Google social networking service, and you may get a blank stare. But pronounce it "or-KOO-chee," as they do in Portuguese, and watch faces light up.
Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
Cat, Meet World — Well, it looks like my post last week on the mesh forum contained a tidbit of gossip. According to it, b5media will soon announce that we're going after funding, or so says Blog Network Watch. — Several folk have weighed in on this, including Blog Herald, Paul Montgomery and alarm:clock.
Business Wire:
Clearwire Becomes First International Wireless Broadband Company to Offer Simple, Reliable Internet Phone Service — KIRKLAND, Wash. & STOCKTON, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 10, 2006— Affordable, Feature-Rich Service With Superior Call Quality And Clarity Launched Today In California
Jenstar / JenSense:
YPN launches their own Yahoo Publisher Network Blog — You heard it here first! YPN has launched their own YPN blog to keep publishers (and want-to-be publishers!) up-to-date and in the loop with the very latest about the program. … I must admit, this is one of the coolest search engine blogs out there.
Discussion:
Yahoo! Publisher Network, Conversion Rater, Bloggers Blog and The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Dell exec: We're not Wintel's lapdog — BOSTON—To some, Dell marches to the beat of Intel and Microsoft drums, dutifully following their research and development plans. But to hear Kevin Kettler tell it, the PC maker often takes its own lead. — Not only is the company active …
Ted Wallingford / The VoIP Weblog:
Mini-white paper: Overcoming cultural challenges to the VoIP revolution — A few days ago, I took a phone interview for the local newspaper. The reporter, who was certainly no tech geek, seemed very interested, and perhaps even excited, by the idea of Internet Telephony.
