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Official Google Blog:
Adieu to Google Answers — Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time — and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product. Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Goodbye Google Answers — Wow. Google is shutting down its Google Answers service. The company has announced that new questions won't be accepted after the New Year, though the site will continue to let people view the question archives. Killing off the service, which never seemed to catch on much …
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Business Wire:
BitTorrent Strikes Digital Download Deals with 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm Pictures, Paramount and Starz Media — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—BitTorrent, Inc., home to the world's leading peer-assisted digital content delivery platform …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
New Deals, Big Money for BitTorrent? — Updated: BitTorrent has signed partnerships with major media companies like 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Starz Media and Comedy Central. These deals with the established media are perhaps a sign why the company is being able to raise more money.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Plans to Test Online Films — The decade-old DVD moved two small steps closer yesterday to technology's endangered-species list. — Wal-Mart, the country's largest seller of movies, announced that next year it will begin testing a video download service on its Web site.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:Paramount, 20th Century Fox embrace BitTorrent
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BBC:
Voluntary code for blogs 'needed' — Blogs and other internet sites should be covered by a voluntary code of practice similar to that for newspapers in the UK, a conference has been told. — Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin said he opposed government regulation of the internet …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Wes Felter says that "most people" don't want to connect their computers to a TV. Well, most people, in the day in horses and buggies, didn't want to ride in an internal combustion engine-driven mobility device, but today it's impossible to live in modern society without using the darned things.
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USA Today:
What would techies do with a newspaper? First, they'd make it all digital — Over the past month, I've asked a number of Internet entrepreneurs and thinkers a pretty simple question: If you owned a newspaper, what would you do with it? — OK, we'll discount the smarty-pants quips I got …
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SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks:
When Google Crashes, The Web 2.0 Bubble Bursts — Thomas Hawk submits: Dave Winer has an interesting observation out today about the Web 2.0 bubble. Since most of the Web 2.0 companies are not going public, the question Dave raises is how will we know when the bubble bursts.
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
IAC to tie together local info services, says CEO — NEW YORK (Reuters) - IAC/InterActiveCorp. (IACI.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will unveil next week a new local information service that combines Web search, city guides, maps and event listings, in one of the conglomerate's broadest moves yet …
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Benjamin Heckendorn / Engadget:
How To: Consolize an arcade game — Every so often, that console-modding Benjamin Heckendorn wanders away from his lair at benheck.com to share some interesting projects with Engadget. — If you're like us, you probably have many fond memories of playing arcade games in your younger days.
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pulitzer.org:
Pulitzer Board Widens Range of Online Journalism in Entries — The Pulitzer Prize Board announced today that newspapers may now submit a full array of online material-such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video-in nearly all of its journalism categories.
Meridith Levinson / CIO.com:
Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X — A celebrity CIO reviews the desktop operating system contenders in search — of the next-generation office computer — Introduction — John Halamka has a penchant for experiments with new — technologies. In 2004, the now 44-year-old CIO …
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Who Wants to Be a Virtual World Millionaire? — So, it's semi-official: the Second Life avatar known as Anshe Chung, featured in a recent BusinessWeek profile of SL, is now worth over $1 million dollars. The news has already stormed through the blogosphere (as here, here, and first scooped here) …
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oxm.co.uk:
Double Dragon punches towards Xbox Live Arcade — Retro fighter leads new downloadable games — If maximum volume hair, denim cut-off jackets and a relentless fist-fight sounds like a good evening out to you, Xbox Live Arcade could well save you an ASBO!
