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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Nominees Picked for New Emmy for PC and Hand-Held Shows — LOS ANGELES, April 10 — Two years ago, few entertainment executives would have guessed that the performances of a sexy female detective, a 40-something single guy ordering a steak sandwich and Madonna as a college professor would be worthy of an Emmy.
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Michele Greppi / tvweek.com:First Nontraditional-Platform Emmy Nominees Announced
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Momus / Wired News:
Hell Is Other People's Music — "Hell," said Jean-Paul Sartre, "is other people." I'd qualify that slightly. People are fine; it's their music that's hell. — When I moved to New York my first year was sheer bliss; I spent my second in the inferno. Just one thing changed …
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Microserfs, Revisted — Nearly a dozen years ago, Douglas Coupland published his third novel, Microserfs, at a moment where everyone knew the future was about to happen, but no one knew quite what it would look like. — After moving to Seattle a month ago to work on the campus depicted in the novel …
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Woodrow / The Ponderings of Woodrow:
JBoss gets acquired...but not by Oracle and not for $500 million — Open source app server leader, JBoss, was acquired by Red Hat [RHAT] for $350 million in cash and stock, with an additional $70 million in earn outs. It's hardly news that JBoss was up for sale, or at least willing to listen to offers.
Claire Atkinson / AdAge:
ABC Readies Non-Skippable Online Video Commercials — Blue-Chip Advertisers Buy Into Network's New Web Programming — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — ABC fleshed out details of its new online service of free programming today, outlining exactly how advertising will be embedded in broadcast video versions of its TV programming.
Lifehacker:
Copy and paste between computers — Web site cl1p.net lets you copy and paste text between any number of computers. … You can easily create your own cl1p by typing whatever you feel like after cl1p (for example, http://cl1p.net/life_hacks). After you paste your text into cl1p …
Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
The MySpace Economy — Tens of millions of people show up regularly at MySpace, News Corp.'s suddenly popular virtual hangout. That's good news for News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch, who raised eyebrows by shelling out $580 million for the Web site last summer.
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Tracy Staedter / dsc.discovery.com:
Tiny Flyer Navigates Like Fly — April 11, 2006— An ultralight autonomous aircraft that mimics the navigational abilities of a fly could one day become a real fly on the wall. — The 10-gram microflyer, being developed by a team of researchers lead by Dario Floreano at the Swiss Federal Institute …
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Exclusive: Google Fire and Google Wheel Launched — It seems we just can't get enough of Google these days. Yesterday's news that Google had hired a new employee - and acquired some early stage technology as a result - generated a crazy amount of buzz. It seemed lost on most people …
Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily:
Internet, Media Outfits Could Bid For Spectrum — Analysts are speculating that Internet and media companies could team up to bid for radio spectrum in order to launch wireless broadband services, as a way around the phone companies. — Rumors that nontelecom companies could bid …
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Creating a feed syndication platform at Microsoft — Starting next week I will join Microsoft's Windows Live division to create a new product team around syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom. I will help build a feed syndication platform leveraged by Microsoft products and developers all around the world.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Best Buy to stock shelves with ThinkPads — Lenovo has agreed to sell its ThinkPad notebooks and new Lenovo 3000 series PCs at Best Buy, in the company's largest move into the U.S. retail market since it acquired IBM's PC business, CNET News.com has learned.
Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
Subscription Music Services Compared: Part 2 — We've analyzed the services that sell digital music and are presenting the results in a two part post. This Part 2 compares the subcription music services that let you access an entire music library of up to 2 million songs for a single monthly fee.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
EXCLUSIVE SCREENSHOTS OF GOOGLE CALENDAR / CL2 — A reader passed along these screenshots of Google Calendar (code-named CL2). I'm not going to speak towards their authenticity, just pass 'em along to you guys. — Lets say these are the real thing. If so, we're seeing …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
A Home Where Bloggers Can Plumb Those Obscure Passions — IT'S not easy making a living as a beef jerky authority these days. — The jerky publishing industry churns out precious few books on the topic, magazines and newspapers never give dried meat its due and reality television hasn't quite caught up to it.
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Hack Attack: Build your own DVR — Ever since TiVo came around, I was eager to jump on the time shifting bandwagon. After all, nothing makes a productivity junkie happier than turning an hour-long show into forty minutes. But for all its loyal fan base, TiVo never seemed like the right fit for me.
