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John Cook / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
New York Times adds sharing tool — The New York Times unveiled a new service today that allows readers to quickly post stories that they find on the newspaper's Web site to Digg, Facebook and Newsvine. — It marks the first time that the country's third-largest newspaper has added …
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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
New York Times Surrenders To Social News — The New York Times has decided to let users post stories directly from their site to Digg, Facebook, and Newsvine. As of Monday, the paper will embed links to all three sites to most of their online stories. — The new link will not be embedded …
Maria Aspan / New York Times:
YouTube Adds a Layer of Filtering to Be a Little Nicer — When the video-sharing site YouTube.com was sold to Google, many of its users worried that corporate ownership would restrict the content of its videos. But now one of YouTube's corporate partners is changing the ways that users comment on those videos instead.
Peter Edmonston / New York Times:
In Web Traffic Tallies, Intruders Can Say You Visited Them — In late May, more than five million Web users vanished. — The disappearing act came when Nielsen/NetRatings, a leading company in measuring Internet traffic, sharply cut its previously reported statistics for the financial Web …
blog.memeorandum.com:
Scan and search a five-day-long "River" of headlines — Today I'm introducing, for each site, a page offering an extended reverse-chronological listing of posts that attain headline status. Techmeme River, memeorandum River, WeSmirch River, and Ballbug River each include about five days of headlines.
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New York Times:
Times Sq. Ads Spread Via Tourists' Cameras — Advertisers have long been drawn to Times Square as a valuable place to reach consumers, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for space on billboards and blazing video screens. — But recently they have discovered that down on the ground …
Marshall Kirkpatrick:
I'm Joining Splashcast — I've been offered and have decided to accept a full time position as Director of Content at a pre-launch Portland startup called Splashcast. Splashcast is a multimedia platform that I believe is going to change the web in some important ways. TechCrunch broke the news.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Understanding Mobile 2.0 — Written by Rudy De Waele of m-trends.org and edited by Richard MacManus. This kicks off a mini-series of posts on the topic of Mobile 2.0, which we will explore on R/WW this week. — On the eve of Le Web 3 in Paris - and one month after the Web 2.0 Summit concluded …
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m-trends.org
Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
Sales of iPods and iTunes Not Much in Sync — Apple's ubiquitous iPod and its iTunes music store were intended to be a kind of perpetual motion machine, with iPods helping to sell iTunes and iTunes helping to sell iPods. — Although both are successful, the relationship may not have worked out exactly as expected.
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Deck the halls with... WiFi blocking decorations? — It sounds like something the MythBusters "Build Team" could have busted or confirmed in a couple of hours. Holiday decorations... Christmas lights, garland, those big blow-up snowmen... they're all putting the hurt on WiFi?
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CrunchGear
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Public beta of Adobe Creative Suite 3 may boost Mac sales — Exclusive: Sales of Apple Computer's professional Mac line could receive a shot in the arm later this month if Adobe Systems proceeds with plans to release an early public beta of its Creative Suite 3.0 software bundle.
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Infinite Loop
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox TV Commercials Go Live: Interview with Mozilla's Asa Dotzler — Later today Firefox will begin broadcasting, for the first time, four "fan-produced" commercials on prime time television. Initially the ads will only run in the San Francisco and Boston regions, but this will be expanded over time.
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David Cohn / NewAssignment.Net blogs:
You Can't Beat YouTube Without the Users — The latest buzz circulating through Web forums has a group of media companies teaming up to develop a YouTube killer. PaidContent.org has a nice wrap-up of the developing rumor here. — "The theory is that if you were to aggregate enough exclusive content …
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The Utube Blog
Joe McKendrick / Service-Oriented Architecture:
Why are we building 'enterprise' SOAs with 'LEGO blocks'? — Two expressions that get used thousands of times over within a single conference or even single seminar are 'enterprise' and the famous 'LEGO block' analogy for SOA. What exactly do we mean by those terms? — Building 'enterprises,' one LEGO block at a time
Fred / A VC:
Pre-Roll Prediction — Pre-roll ads are going the way of popups and other intrusive ads. They won't be around in a couple years. And the online video services that use them to monetize their audience won't be around either. — Because the thing you have to understand about digital media is its pervasive and abundant.
