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Wall Street Journal:
The 'Peanut Butter Manifesto' — An internal document by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior vice president, says Yahoo is spreading its resources too thinly, like peanut butter on a slice of bread. Full text of the document is below. — Three and half years ago, I enthusiastically joined Yahoo! …
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Yahoo's Internal Alarms Go Off; Loud Wake-up Call From SVP Splashes Onto WSJ Front Page — If I didn't already believe a major re-thinking of Yahoo's kludgy structure to be in place, I'd be sure one was on the way after reading the front page of today's WSJ —a stark picture of a company that has to reinvent itself.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Yahoo's "Peanut Butter" Memo Calls for Big Headcount Cuts — This critical, internal Yahoo memo was being forwarded all over the place late yesterday, and made the WSJ this morning. The author is allegedly Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior V.P. — I'm guessing this was written …
Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Universal Music Sues MySpace for Copyright Infringement — The Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit yesterday against MySpace, the popular social networking Web site, for allowing users to upload and download songs and music videos.
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Business Wire:
MySpace to Launch Enhanced Copyright Protection Tool — World's Leading Lifestyle Portal To Give Copyright Holders Easier, Faster Capacity to Protect Content — Tool Being Tested with FOX and MLB Advanced Media — LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—MySpace.com, the world's leading lifestyle portal …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
A Lot of User-Generated Content Is Really User-Appropriated Content — The widely-used and much reviled term "user-generated content" implies that somebody is making something. But the dirty little secret of "user-generated" sites like YouTube and MySpace is that much of the content …
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New York Times:
Not Always Full Speed Ahead — What is a megabit worth? And what the heck is a megabit anyway? These questions are hard to avoid for consumers trying to make sense of the fast-growing menu of options for high-speed Internet access. — More than ever, the nation's phone and cable companies …
Economist:
Going pro — More people are quitting their day jobs to blog for a living — ON HER blog, called Dooce, Heather Armstrong chronicles her life as a disenchanted Mormon in Salt Lake City, her former career as a high-flying web designer in Los Angeles, her pregnancy and postpartum depression, and so on.
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Gamasutra:
Question of the Week: Are Games Industry Professionals Buying PlayStation 3 or Wii? — Gamasutra's latest Question of the Week asked our esteemed audience of game industry professionals, educators and students for feedback on which next-gen hardware is actually being bought by game professionals at the end of next week, and why.
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Video Game Console's Debut Sparks Violence — First-Day Sales of PlayStation 3 Met With Shooting, Pepper Spray — Armed thugs yesterday robbed a line of people waiting to buy the PlayStation 3 in Putnam, Conn., and a man who refused to hand over his money was shot in the chest.
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Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
Gates praises iPod, labels Zune a "modest" competitor — When we report on the sayings and sound bites of higher ups at technology companies, we tend to cover them from a negative angle because, as you well know, execs are pretty fond of belittling their opponent's products.
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Jim Allchin / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Updating a Brand-New Product — Now that Windows Vista has released to manufacturing, you might think that there is no opportunity for the product to get better before you get to use it. Pre-Internet and before Windows Update, that was generally the case. But things are different today.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Add Snap Previews to Any Site For Free — One thing people really like about the Snap search engine is that it gives a large preview screen of every search result. The idea is that users can save time by seeing the site before they click to it. That can be an advantage …
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Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Polite Hackers Kick It in Korea — SEOUL, South Korea — The first international hacker conference held in this most wired of nations would never be confused with its Western forebears. Instead of jeans and T-shirts with clever slogans, attendees wore button-down shirts and pleated slacks …
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