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Nick / Rough Type:
Google and choice — I've been thinking some more about Google's attack on Microsoft for allegedly making its search engine the default engine on its new browser (see prior post). As Google's Marissa Mayer puts it, "We don't think it's right for Microsoft to just set the default to MSN.
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Mike Davidson:
ABC Full Episode Streaming is Live... and it's Spectacular — Seinfeld fans will note the Teri Hatcher reference in the title of this post, but I just tried out ABC's full-episode streaming video service which launched a few minutes ago (around 2am this morning), and it is indeed quite nice.
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Staci / paidContent.org:
First Look: ABC.com's Ad-Supported Streaming "Experiment" [by Staci] — Disney's latest experiment in online video officially began overnight with single episodes of four prime-time shows: "Lost," "Desperate Housewives," "Alias" and "Commander in Chief." The ad-supported streaming is set …
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Rex Hammock's Weblog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Blog Search Engine Sphere Launches — New blog search engine Sphere launched just moments ago and has also announced a $3.75 million round of venture financing. In addition to covering the launch of Sphere here, we have a podcast interview with CEO Tony Conrad and advisor Toni Schneider over at TalkCrunch.
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Financial Times:
Apple sets tune for pricing of song downloads — Apple Computer on Monday revealed it had renewed contracts with the four largest record companies to sell songs through its iTunes digital store at 99 cents each. The agreements came after months of bargaining, and were a defeat for music companies …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Helio launches — Alright kids, it's the moment we've all been waiting for (and by we, we mean the MVNO nerds). SK Telecom's and Earthlink's joint-venture Helio is officially lighting up today with their first two devices — the Hero and Kickflip. We're all pretty well briefed to date …
Ellen Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Video bloggers claim spotlight — Online diaries looking a lot like television — Jay Dedman's life plays out in snippets of video, captured on a handheld video camera and posted on his online diary, Momentshowing. — A Manhattan subway bomb scare spurs him to post a photo montage of Sept. 11 and the days before and after.
Nick / Rough Type:
Monetizing the wasteland — User-generated content is great stuff. Why? Because it's generated by users. And as we all know, users are natively gifted at producing great content. Users would have been generating great content for the last few millennia if they only had the right software tools.
Jonathan Watts / asiamedia.ucla.edu:
CHINA: How Google became a rude word in China — Google's adoption of Mandarin name in China opens up online debate — Gougou, Gugu, Gege, Goule or Guge? A furious online debate has opened up in China over the recent adoption of a Mandarin name by Google — the latest in a series …
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Gray Hat Search Engine News
Cisco Cheng / PC Magazine:
Samsung Q1 — With Samsung's novel Q1 device ($1,099 direct), the much-hyped UMPC platform by Microsoft and Intel has arrived. First developed as part of the Origami project, these new, tiny Windows-based PCs are supposed to redefine how you compute on the go.
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Between the Lines, Gearlog, John Tokash's Blog, Michael Gartenberg, Incremental Blogger and Channel 9
Kimberly S. Johnson / denverpost.com:
Tuning in to families' needs — G-rated packages offered, but critics say publicity, choices fall short — Comcast customer Beth Stade of Lafayette, with sons Jack, 5, and Nick, 2, says she might switch to the Family Tier when the discount on her current cable package expires.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
BlogBurst to Launch Tomorrow — Pluck's new BlogBurst product will be publicly launching tomorrow, May 2, 2006. We first had a look at it back in February, and since then the team has reached a number of important milestones: partnerships with their first mainstream publishers …
Elizabeth M. Gillespie / Associated Press:
Gates, N.Y. Times tout 'onscreen reader' — APR. 28 7:47 P.M. ET Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates told a ballroom full of newspaper editors Friday he's developing "onscreen reader" software that will make reading news digitally a lot more like flipping through a paper.
Wired News:
Ultimate Guide to Online Video — What do you want to watch? — The answer used to depend on limits — what day it was, what time it was, what channels you got. A handy little thing called TV Guide laid it all out. Television was a one-way medium - big broadcasters pushing content …
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Hackers, Get Ready! LEGO Group Announces Open Source Firmware, Developer Kits for LEGO(R) MINDSTORMS(R) NXT — Consumer-directed robotics experience creation to enter "NXT" phase with open firmware, Software, Hardware and Bluetooth Developer Kits to launch in August -
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