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Heather Green / Blogspotting:
Shawn Fanning To Launch Rupture, an Online Gaming Community — Shawn Fanning of Napster fame says he plans within the next month or so to launch Rupture, a virtual social community for online gamers. He raised seed money from a group of investors, including Ron Conway and Joi Ito.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Imminent Demise of the Page View — Underneath the Internet advertising economy is a key metric that dictates how properties are valued and how online media is bought and sold - the page view. While it's not the only way to measure the health of a site (time spent and unique users are among the others), it's still very popular.
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Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:Rich Internet Applications are killing the page view metric
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JD on EP
Gizmodo:
WTF Alert: Chinese BenQ MusiQ Dog Tag Player Site Has Guy Posing In Front of WTC Ruins — These BenQ MusiQ Dog Tag MP3 players may be quite stylish, but wtf is up with their Chinese site? The splash page features some one gloved Michael Jackson guy standing in front of what looks like the WTC ruins.
Jay Greene / Business Week:
Microsoft Vista: Companies Can Wait — Corporate buyers may be slow to adopt the new operating system and Office business programs — It's been five years since the last release of Microsoft's Windows operating system, and more than three since the previous iteration of its Office word-processing and spreadsheet program debuted.
Business Week:
The Google/YouTube Come-On — Google (GOOG ) and YouTube are dangling nine-figure sums in front of major programming and network players—that is, the Time Warners, News Corp (NWS )s, and NBC Universals of the world. Google calls these monies licensing fees, according to executives who've been involved in the discussions.
Tim Lee / The Technology Liberation Front:
The Journal Fails to Do Its Homework — Neat! The Wall Street Journal appears to have cited my DMCA paper in today's editorial. (It's behind a paywall, unfortunately) Unfortunately, although I always appreciate seeing my work cited, it doesn't look like they read read it very carefully:
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Leslie Katz / CNET News.com:
Aerial search under way for missing CNET editor — update In a search-and-rescue mission involving multiple agencies, federal and state law enforcement officials are combing remote roads off Oregon's Highway 38 and Interstate 5 in search of missing CNET senior editor James Kim and his family, police said Friday.
Robert Scoble / ScobleShow:
Archive this, but do it right, Jeff Ubois warns — This is a different kind of show for the ScobleShow, one where we talk about an issue that we should think about — in this case whether companies who are scanning books and other information ...
IEBlog:
IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine — Many of you have asked how to run IE6 and IE7 in a side by side environment. As Chris Wilson blogged about early this year, it's unfortunately not so easy to do. There are workarounds, but they are unsupported and don't necessarily work the same …
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Reuters:
Sirius CEO sees live TV in cars in 2007 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (SIRI.O: Quote, Profile, Research) expects to offer a live television service in cars by late 2007, and deals with content providers may be set as early as January, Chief Executive Mel Karmazin said on Thursday.
Jon's Radio:
A conversation with John Wilkin about the Michigan/Google digitization project — My guest for this week's podcast is John Wilkin. He's the director of the University of Michigan Library's technology department, and coordinator of the library's joint digitization project with Google.
George Ou:
AMD Quad FX slaughtered by a single Intel CPU — All the reviews are in for AMD's new "4×4" Quad FX dual CPU platform and it loses nearly every single real world benchmark to a single Intel CPU while consuming more than twice the electricity. We basically see two FX-74 3. GHz processors …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Amazon Web Service Coming: "SDS" — Update: The reference to SDS has been removed from the Amazon site linked to below. The original text is saved at the bottom of this post. — A new and unannouced Amazon Web Service to be called "SDS" is referenced on this Amazon web page discussing customer YouOS …
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Jay & Silent Rob
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
In a Jam: Stories of ISP bad faith and can the government really listen in to your VoIP calls? Yes they can. — My son Channing, who is four years old, recently celebrated Pajama Day at his preschool when everyone — even the teachers — came to school in their pajamas.
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Techdirt
Mike / Techdirt:
Is Linking Or Embedding Infringing Content Illegal? — from the the-next-legal-minefield dept — There was an article in Forbes the other day about the recent growth in video hosting site DailyMotion.com. There are hundreds of video hosting sites these days, but apparently DailyMotion …
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Digital Inspiration
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Is Microsoft driving innovation? — The Wall Street Journal asks "Is Microsoft Driving Innovation or Playing Catch-up with Rivals?" People tend to confuse invention with innovation, as the WSJ has here. They use the words interchangeably, but they are very different.
