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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Million Dollar Homepage Becomes Multi-Million Dollar Homepage — Alex Tew, the mastermind behind The Million Dollar Homepage is most certainly pressing his luck. Tew sold one million pixels worth of advertisement for $1 per pixel and made $1 million. It worked so well that he thinks …
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Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
Pixelotto: From The Creator Of The Million Dollar Homepage — Bookmark This: CyberMark - del.icio.us - Furl - reddit - StumbleUpon - Yahoo — The creator of the Million Dollar Homepage is at it again with a whole new venture. Previously Alex Tew sold 1 pixel for $1 and in the end he sold all 1 million pixels on his site.
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Ben Harrington / Telegraph:
Hitwise eyes up £180m sale — Website monitoring firm Hitwise, founded by two Australian internet entrepreneurs, is the latest dotcom business to put itself on the auction block for around £180m. — Hitwise is understood to have appointed investment Deutsche Bank to advise on a potential sale.
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:Traffic Monitoring Firm Hitwise On The Block; Asking $350 Million: Report
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CNET News.com:
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool — update The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
Timothy Burke / Terra Nova:
The History of Virtual Worlds — I'm going for a first-time event here: a triple cross-post at Easily Distracted, Cliopatria and Terra Nova. I'm at a meeting on law and virtual worlds at the New York Law School, and there's a really interesting panel discussion of methodologies in virtual worlds.
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Yahoo's Deal With Current TV In Jeopardy, Two Months After Launch — This is a surprise, but not really, considering the troubles Yahoo is going through now: Current TV's distribution/joint venture deal with Yahoo is in peril, reports News.com. "Current is exploring better opportunities …
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Gamasutra:
Question of the Week: Does Size Matter? — Gamasutra's latest Question of the Week asked our esteemed audience of game industry professionals, educators and students for feedback on the importance of a game's play length, particularly in terms of monetary value.
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Shawn Fanning's New Social Network Will Comply With WoW — A representative for Shawn Fanning called TechCrunch today to make it clear that the social networking site that the Napster founder plans to launch next year will indeed be compliant with World of Warcraft's (WoW) terms of use.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ok, Now I Get JPG Magazine — JPG Magazine relaunched last month with a new business model: Get users to upload photos to their website, and then have the community vote on and rank photos. The winners are published in a bi-monthly print magazine and get $100 plus a free one-year subscription.
John Gartner / Marketing Blog Bent …:
Podcasting's 15 Minutes Almost Up — Podcasting probably will never become an "impact media" like online video or satellite radio, and deservedly so. — According to the most recent survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, only 1 percent of Internet users download a podcast on a given day.
Michael Mahemoff / Ajaxian:
Death of Page View Metrics? — Steve Rubel says page view metrics have four years to live. … The question then becomes: What alternatives will be used? Ryan Stewart suggests more emphasis will be placed on how much time people spend with a website, and also an "interaction rate" …
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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
WikiMatrix Allows Side-By-Side Wiki Comparison — Like it or not, wikis are a dime a dozen these days. So when (and if) it comes time to choose one, WikiMatrix is a good place to start. It's a site that allows you to compare any and all wikis on the market in a side-by-side grid.
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Kotaku:
JPN Wii Launch: The GETs And The GET-Nots — Everything starts moving fast. Showing my ticket, getting a new ticket, putting the old ticket in a yellow basket, and then being escorted to an empty elevator, getting in an empty elevator, which fills up like that and takes us to the 5th floor …
Leo Lewis / Financial Times:
Sony sidelines PS3 mastermind Kutaragi — Ken Kutaragi, the maverick Sony engineer behind all three generations of PlayStation games consoles, will on Friday become chairman and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment in a management reshuffle that underscores Sony's difficulties in the video games market.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Open-source group wants educational patent reversed — A legal center is trying to overturn a patent it says threatens three open-source educational projects, a sign of the tension between patent holders and the collaborative programming community. — The Software Freedom Law Center …
Joe / Techdirt:
Paging William Shatner: Restaurants To Let You Name Your Own Price — from the seen-this-before dept — There have been several attempts at selling things using the "name your own price" model, including many failed experiments at Priceline.com alone. Now a company is hoping to try it again …
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
BenQ uses WTC & 9/11 imagery to sell devices — We're not exactly what you'd call sanctimonious — we try not to take ourselves or what we're doing too seriously — but we feel obligated to call BenQ out for using an image of a crumbled World Trade Center in an ad for its new MusiQ campaign.
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Derek / .:UNEASYsilence:.:
Parallels - IE7 & Firefox in "coherence" mode — OS X Parallels Desktop users will rejoice knowing that the latest beta build of Parallels includes a slew of new updates including the ability to resize the virtual machine window (with resolution adjusting automatically) and my personal favorite - "coherence".
