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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Waiting for the Dough on the Web — NOW and then, an executive whose brain I'm siphoning will turn the tables and pose a question. And lately, I've been getting a few versions of this: "You talk to a lot of the traditional media companies. Who do you think has got this Internet thing figured out?"
Rafat / paidContent.org:
The Next Big Step: Announcing Our Funding, from Patricof's Greycroft Partners [by Rafat] — The biggest step till now was me deciding to go full time with the blog, back in early 2003. This tops that: — The news: ContentNext Media, the parent company of our three sites - paidContent.org …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ningbar Launches, Plus Ning Stats — Palo Alto based Ning made a significant change to their application interface on Friday, removing the mandatory sidebar on applications and replacing it with a fully customizable javascript bar across the top of the page. — I met with CEO Gina Bianchini a week ago to see the changes.
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Gina Bianchini / Ning | Blog:
Introducing the Ningbar — Good Morning! Last night, while small children and dogs slept, the social web apps running on Ning got a little facelift and a ton of new features. — We've replace the Sidebar, formerly hogging the right hand column of every Ning app, with the new Ningbar …
Brian W. McCallister / Brian McCallister:Ningbar Baby! — Last night (well, in the wee hours of this morning …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Akimbo, On Cusp Of Big Time? — If venture investors are any indicator then both Akimbo and video on demand over broadband is about to hit big time. — The San Mateo-based start-up has raised $15.5 million in series C financing from new investors, Cisco Systems, AT&T and venture capital firm, Blueprint Ventures.
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Cisco leads $15.5 million investment in IPTV start-up, Akimbo — Cisco Systems, perceived by some as a faceless, somewhat boring Internet router company, wants to get more personal. — There's nothing it would rather do than enter your living room, plop itself down on your couch …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Look, New Name For Gada.be — Tag metasearch engine Gada.be (TechCrunch posts describing the service are here) is getting a name change and a redesign at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle later this week (Chris Pirillo founded the company and also runs the conference).
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
TagJag: The New Name for Gada.be — Gada.be, Chris Pirillo's RSS metasearch engine, is to be redesigned and renamed "TagJag". The relaunched site will appear at TagJag.com - it will be unveiled at Chris' Gnomedex Conference in Seattle, which starts on June 29th.
Stuart / Popgadget:
Egokast video belt buckle — Oh, decisions, decisions. What belt shall I wear tonight to set off my new outfit? Hmm, the traditional leather? The one with the clamp fastener or the metal buckle? I guess I'll just settle on the one with the 3" video display where I can insert an SD card …
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Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Zombie builders send out phone texts — Hackers are trying to lure people to a malicious Web site using cell phone text messages, a security company has warned. — The blended attack uses social engineering techniques in its attempt to trick people to the site, security vendor Websense said in an advisory.
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
The Incredible Shrinking Newspaper — Newspapers are dying, but the news is thriving. — That high-pitched squealing you hear in the background is the sound of the American newspaper shrinking. — The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times …
Carlfish / The Fishbowl:
WE COME TO BURY WINFS... The first thing to strike me about the blog post announcing the end of WinFS as a Vista feature is how totally un-blog-like it is. — Every comment (bar one) got the point. WinFS is dead. Its carcass is being split between SQL Server and ADO.NET …
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Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Apple to play integral role in Best Buy Mac sales — June 24, 2006 - Apple will staff Best Buy locations selling its computers with its own employees in a similar fashion as the company has done with its displays at many CompUSA stores. — The Apple-badged workers, or Apple Solutions Consultants …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Advertisers: You're next — I'm seeing a lot of avoidance of the elephant that isn't quite in the room yet but is banging at the door: — Advertising is the next big industry to suffer huge upheaval thanks to the internet. They may think they're already there, but they're not, not by a long shot.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Production values debate breaks out during videologger session — I just listened to the video blogging session at BloggerCon. — In the discussion it was clear that there is a coming conflict between people who "do it for love" and those who are doing video to build an audience …
