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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Bombshell from RealNetworks: Rip/Save/Burn "All" Online Video Fomats with New Player...Clips from YouTube and Yahoo Are Easily Downloaded — Just a few minutes ago at the "D" conference in Carlsbad, California, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser made a bombshell announcement about a new product from RealNetworks.
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TechCrunch, Business 2.0 Beta, PR Newswire, D: Notebook, Gizmodo, Brier Dudley's blog, Wall Street Journal and Reel Pop
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
NEWS: Real Networks Takes YouTube (and other Flash) videos offline — Real Networks new Real Player now will take YouTube videos offline. Here's an interview I did with Real's Vice President, Jeff Chasen where he gave me a demo of the new player (coming soon, I'll let you know where it's up).
John Paczkowski / D5:
VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Highlight Reel — A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference. — The complete Steve Jobs and Bill Gates interview videos: — Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Prologue
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IP Democracy, GottaBeMobile.com, Ars Technica, Things That, Todd Watson, Connecting the Dots, Wall Street Journal, Publishing 2.0, Gizmodo, The Tech Report, Valleywag, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Tech~Surf~Blog, Apple 2.0, www.rahulsood.com, D: Notebook, Epicenter, Microsoft News Tracker, CinemaTech, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Laughing Squid, The Apple Core, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Engadget, Marketing Nirvana, Paul Mooney, TechSpot News, jkOnTheRun, Guardian Unlimited, MacDailyNews and digg
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
With success, a kinder, gentler Steve Jobs — Success, they say, mellows out even the fiercest of tyrants, making their dictates seem almost benevolent. Steve Jobs, the enfant terrible of yesteryears, whose unrelenting quest for perfection has driven many to Ole Tennessee or an asylum …
Jaime Schopflin / emigroup.com:
EMI Music, Google and YouTube strike milestone partnership — Fans to have on-demand access to videos from EMI Music's roster of artists on YouTube — EMI Music - one of the world's leading global music companies, Google and YouTube, the leader in online video - today announced …
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Peter / PR. Differently:
WHAT THE IMMERSIVE MEDIA PHOTO-CAR LOOKS LIKE! — You've all heard about what Google is doing with street-level views, right? — What you probably all DIDN'T know, however, is that the company actually shooting the majority of the photos for Google's datasets, is named Immersive Media.
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Alan Dunton / Multiverse:
THE MULTIVERSE NETWORK COMPLETES $4.175 MILLION SERIES A ROUND — The Multiverse Network, the company building the world's leading network of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) and 3D virtual worlds, today announced that it raised $4.175 million in Series A funding.
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
TiVo prepping a "mass appeal" HD DVR priced below Series 3 — Everyone knows that true DVR nirvana requires support for sweet, sweet HD video. Yet while the cost of HDTVs has dropped sharply in the last 5 years, the cost of getting an HD TiVo up and running has not.
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:TiVo's Q1 Call: Series3 Lite, Comcast Rollout, Down Under
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Seeking Alpha, Associated Press, Reuters, PVRblog, Gadget Lab, Engadget and paidContent.org
Between the Lines:
D5: YouTubers and Viacom CEO weigh in on copyrights — Before coming on stage at the D conference, a cute video about the making of YouTube was shown, where co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are talking about coming up with a business idea while they are eating huge burritos, and how they wish their friends could watch them eat.
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Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog:YouTube Guys at D: All Things Digital
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BBC:
Online and offline worlds merge — Google has launched a tool designed to make it easier for computer users to use online applications offline. — One of the key limitations of web services such as e-mail, word processing and calendars, is that they require a net connection to function.
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Valleywag:
Linden Lab: The virtual world just got a little more real — TIM FAULKNER — Second Life may face a new threat, the need to apply and enforce real law in its virtual world. A Pennsylvania court has denied two requests by Linden Lab, which would have effectively ended the first legal challenge …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt — Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter.
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Antiphonal, Compiler, Mashable!, community.livejournal.com, femmequixotic.livejournal.com, Boing Boing and digg
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Will music industry dance again to Apple's tune? — news analysis Apple has plunged into uncharted waters by stripping security software off some of its music. — Never before has Apple sold songs without attaching antipiracy software—the digital rights management systems that prevent file sharing and are hated by many music fans.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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David Sacks / TechCrunch:
The New Portals: It's the Bread, Not the Peanut Butter — This guest post is written by David Sacks, the founder and CEO of new startup Geni. Previously, he was COO of PayPal. He also produced the movie "Thank You For Smoking." — For the last several years, Yahoo …
Jeffrey M. O'Brien / Fortune:
Wii will rock you — Fortune's Jeffrey M. O'Brien explains how Nintendo's new game machine won over the world - and beat the pants off Sony and Microsoft. — (Fortune Magazine) — Nintendo's legendary videogame designer Shigeru Miyamoto is lying face down on the floor in Kyoto, Japan …
Derek Slater / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Campus Lawsuits Against P2P != Stopping File Sharing — The NPD Group's latest music stats provide yet another reason that the RIAA's war on college students is misguided: … This data suggests offline sharing is growing, and that's to be expected. Along with burning CDs and DVDs for each other …
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
'Spam King' suspect seized — Feds say arrest may lead to sharp drop in illegal e-mail — The Seattle man is accused of illegally clogging the planet's inboxes with billions of illegal e-mails using hijacked computer networks. — You've probably heard from him, federal authorities say.
