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Fast Company:
Is the Tipping Point Toast? … —Duncan Watts, Yahoo! Research — Read the Article ›› | Archives | Subscribe — FEATURES — Is Your Marketing Strategy a Recipe for Failure? — FEATURE The Fast Interview: Marketing maven Seth Godin on why it's hard to sell meatballs and why those Bud TV Super Bowl ads fail.
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How to Change the World, louisgray.com, Virtual Economics, media landscaping, UMBC ebiquity and Advertising Lab
Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally — After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs. — With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet …
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ParisLemon, CrunchGear, Associated Press, Silicon Alley Insider, Slashdot, Advertising Lab and Digg
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
NBCU Unit Acquires Video Start-Up LX.TV; Will Expand Local Programming — Multi-platform entertainment programmer LX.TV has been acquired by NBC's Local Media Division. LX.TV began producing hi-def programming for NBC Universal's (NYSE: GE) WNBC last January.
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Silicon Alley Insider
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:NBC division acquires Web video site LX.tv
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Lost Remote
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Digital Video Content Producer LX.tv Acquired for $10M by NBCU?
Nokia:
Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy — Trolltech's Qt based technology assets facilitate application development for multiple platforms and devices — Espoo, Finland and Oslo, Norway - Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they have entered into an agreement …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Nokia acquires Trolltech — the biggest little company you've never heard of
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CNET News.com, Open Source, Associated Press, InfoWorld, Electronista, OSDir.com and Mashable!
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo (YHOO) Going Forward With “Drastic” Layoffs—Source — A source close to Yahoo reports that Jerry Yang has decided to go forward with aggressive layoffs. The source believes the layoffs will be announced on the company's conference call this week and that the final number will be likely …
theretailbulletin.com:
Woolworths backs Blu-Ray format over HD DVD — Woolworths has become the first major retailer to solely back one of the new high definition DVD formats. — The high street firm has announced that it will only stock Blu-Ray high definition DVDs from March, with HD-DVDs being dropped from stores to be sold online.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Lego Logo: Google Offers Lego 50th Birthday Wishes — Google has a special logo up on the Google home page today. The Google logo is made up of legos, to celebrate Lego's fifty-year birthday. — Google's culture has always had a special place for lego.
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InsideGoogle, Google Watch, Googling Google, Natural Search Blog, louisgray.com, Changing Way and Search Engine Roundtable
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
LEGO Brick Timeline: 50 Years of Building Frenzy and Curiosities — The LEGO brick turns 50 at exactly 1:58 p.m. today, January 28, 2008. This timeline shows these 50 years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the LEGOLAND themed sets to TECHNIC and MINDSTORMS NXT …
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CrunchGear, CNET News.com, Big in Japan, Gearlog, Texas Startup Blog, Mashable! and Slashdot
Shel / Global Neighbourhoods:
I'm Joining Scoble at FastCompany TV — In November 2003, I put up my first blog post: “Old dogs & New tricks." I had not a clue how my life was about to change. Maybe I should call this one: “Older dog. Newer trick." — I am about to become a video blogger. As of today, it is my main gig.
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Gore-Backed Current TV Files For $100 Million IPO; $63.7 Million 2007 Revs; Losses Mount — A first look into the books of Al Gore's cable network: Current Media (parent of Al Gore-backed Current TV) has filed for a $100 million NASDAQ IPO, trading under the ticker “CRTM”.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
SKYFIRE BRINGS DESKTOP-QUALITY BROWSING TO YOUR PHONE — The twice-yearly new product orgy called Demo 2008 kicks off tomorrow, but we have a few previews of presenting companies we wanted to write up before the CEOs take the stage. First up: SkyFire, a browser for smartphones.
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Electronista, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Download Squad, InformationWeek Weblog and PalmAddicts
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Sean Cooper / Engadget:Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile is game changing, does Flash
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Livescribe reveals it has a Pulse — It may not be quite as rapid as the company had hoped, but Livescribe is ready to show the world its Pulse. — The digital pen company showed off a prototype of its technology at last year's D: All Things Digital conference, but missed its goal of shipping by year's end.
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Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
Mole: 80GB PS3 dead, 120-160GB with Dual Shock 3 incoming — Our inside source of all things video gaming has been right almost every time it comes out of the shadows to give us information, so I'm going to dispense with the back story. Wherever his or her information is coming from, it's usually solid.
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ParisLemon, Electronista, Gizmodo, Engadget, Joystiq, Kotaku, PS3 Fanboy, Ubergizmo and TechSpot News
Egan Orion / Inquirer:
Windows 7 won't be released in 2009 after all — Comment Not started yet but it's already delayed — THE RUMOURS that Microsoft might release Windows 7 as early as 2009 are apparently false. — In an email to WinVistaClub, the Vole reportedly stated that Windows 7 is still in the planning stage …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Imeem Gobbles Up A Young Startup, Anywhere.FM — After less than a year in operation, the team at Anywhere.FM reached an early payday today when veteran social music service Imeem gobbled them up for an undisclosed sum, most likely in a cash and stock mix. The iTunes-style web music player …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Break.com Launches Ad Network For Dudes — At times lewd, geeky, disgusting, and most of the time funny, Break.com has managed to pull in an audience of 18 million unique visitors that stay an average of 7.5 minutes each session, says the company. (Comscore says 3.9 million uniques in the U.S.).
Market Wire:
Zvents Launches “Federated Local Search” for Advanced, Integrated, and Relevant Local Search Results — The First Local Search Engine to Provide a Localized Version of Google's Universal Search — Zvents today announced the launch of Federated Local Search, which provides users with a blended, comprehensive local search engine.
