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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Content Businesses Don't Scale Anymore — Can anyone think of a content business — meaning a company that produces original content — that has scaled dramatically in recent years? I can't. Look at the businesses that have scaled — Google, MySpace, YouTube — all platforms for content, but not producers of content.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
The Economics of Disaggregation — Peter Brantley pointed on a private email list to "a nice article in slate on the disaggregation of content in newspapers, with several nice insights, including a remark on the lack of novelty of some of the problems facing the industry." He quoted:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Gets Trashed By Users — Yahoo took a beating by users angry over the new Yahoo TV product in the comments to their own blog post announcing it. Even a former head of Yahoo Entertainment, Erik Schwartz, chimed in with his own bashing and suggesting that Yahoo has lost its way.
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Don't F**k With Simple — Especially when "simple" is synonymous with "useful". — Alternative title for this post: Let Users Preview Changes! — If you haven't been following the uproar, Yahoo! TV recently released a new design without offering up a beta test or preview …
Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Open-Source Spying — When Matthew Burton arrived at the Defense Intelligence Agency in January 2003, he was excited about getting to his computer. Burton, who was then 22, had long been interested in international relations: he had studied Russian politics and interned at the U.S. consulate in Ukraine …
Froosh / HipMojo.com:
Why We Are Not in a Bubble (Again) — Many inside and outsiders (i.e those who work on the Web or simply write about it) have started to talk about the Web experiencing a sort of Bubble 2.0. — They point to things like Google's stock crossing $500 as a sign.
David Taylor / Gaming Target:
Can the Wii Save the Adventure Game? — In the 1980s and early nineties, the adventure genre was the king of computer games. In the 80s, if you were a PC owner not playing King's Quest then you might as well be a communist. However, with the rise of home console's popularity combined …
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Gifttagging Widget Helps You Get Gifts You Actually Want — Last Christmas my dad gave me "Love Smart" by Dr. Phil. It was horrifying. This year, I am taking the necessary steps to make sure something like that never happens again! — I started with UK-based Gifttagging.com.
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Google: $31 billion local winner? — Is Google destined to be the defacto leader in the $31 billion global local search and online classified advertising market opportunity? — Many still believe Google will dominate any opportunity it sets its sights on, and it is eyeing seemingly all of them.
Loren / Incremental Blogger:
Inkable Sidebar Gadget in Vista using WPF — I decided to take a break from setting up my new Vista development system and try out some coding for a bit instead. — Today, I played around wtih Vista Sidebar Gadgets. I wanted to see if it was possible to leverage Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in a sidebar.
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage:
The Second Annual Life On The Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards — In preparing for The Second Annual Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards, I realized that it would be tough to write anything better about my motivation for creating them than I did in year one. What I wrote then is still …
Roland Piquepaille / Roland Piquepaille's …:
A new wide-angle lens for video surveillance — If you're a photographer, chances are high that you bought one day a wide-angle lens, commonly called a 'fisheye' lens. And if you're like me, you might have used it to take a dozen of pictures before putting definitively the lens into a drawer …
MICHAEL VERDI:
Parallels Screencast — The latest beta of Parallels Desktop for Mac is out and it's super cool. Check out this screencast of some of the new features in action. You can download the latest build here or from a mirror setup by uneasysilence.com (I used the mirror last night because the Parallels site was getting hammered!).
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Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Video Visionaries Meld Traditional TV and the Web — Is TV moving onto the Internet or is the Internet moving onto TV? As the lines between the two begin to blur, it's getting harder to tell. — Fans of Comedy Central's "South Park," for example, can still watch the latest episode by tuning in on Wednesday nights.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Acer's AT3705 becomes first LCD TV to receive Viiv certification — While we're still firm believers that nobody is exactly certain what all this Viiv fuss is about, Acer has been labeled the first producer of a Viiv-certified LCD TV, which "tests for compatibility of networked media devices …
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Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
LG debuts "ebook" concept laptop with OLED screen, liquid fuel — As much as we like to write about the play-by-play of gadgetry innovation, it's a sad truth that some devices, like laptops, really haven't changed much since their debut in the 1980s. LCDs, a mainstay of all laptops since that period …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Updates From VoIP World.. — It has been quite a hectic few weeks in the VoIP world. New products, new services and well updates. Instead of dwelling on the whys and hows, I bring to you some of the more important news from the world of new voice: — Fonality says about 1.5 million calls …
