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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Flickr Video beta due in April — In early February, in the midst of Microsoft's surprise bid to acquire Yahoo, I wrote about Yahoo's Flickr Video coming soon. It's been a long time coming. I first asked Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake about a Flickr video service in December 2005.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Video Coming To Flickr Soon. Really. — In mid 2005 I profiled YouTube for the first time. As Steve Rubel noted, the best way to describe it was “like Flickr, but for videos.” At the time few people saw the massive upside for YouTube, which was built completely on freely available Flash technology from Adobe.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
One question on Flickr Video: Why? — So Mike Arrington says in a post over at TechCrunch that Flickr is going to be adding video soon — really. This rumour has been around for awhile, as Mike himself acknowledges, and in fact Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has been talking about adding video for at least a year.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Buzz: Yahoo Reveals Stats From The First Two Weeks — Yahoo Buzz, a Digg-like service that launched on February 25, is now nearly three weeks old. We asked Yahoo to share some of the data from those first two weeks. — The big benefit for publishers is that top Buzz stories …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
WiMAX could interfere with satellite communications? — Yeah, all those sticky sweet stories about WiMAX actually happening this decade or possibly showing up in a device or two were really getting on our nerves. Now it seems the “little wireless standard that couldn't” …
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Jeff Hecht / New Scientist:
Long-range Wi-Fi threat to satellite communications — WiMAX, a long-range version of Wi-Fi, has been billed as one of the best ways to bring broadband internet connections to rural areas. But the system may have a critical flaw. According to tests by a trade body representing the satellite industry …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Why Is It So Hard To Say “I'm Sorry,” Sarah? — I've been thinking recently about how the ability to go “live” may affect many careers. Using the Sarah Lacy/Mark Zuckerberg keynote as our example, I want to share some thoughts with you. Whether you are a blogger or an entrepreneur …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Goodbye old friend! Russell Shaw, R.I.P. — In the early days of blogging there were just a few of us who blogged about VoIP and other such telecom topics. Russell Shaw was one of them, and he was very good at it. A good natured and knowledgeable fellow, Shaw had a rolodex that was thicker than most reporters.
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Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
Google Code Source Code Browser Released — Jason Robbins and Jenan Wise have released a new Ajax source code browser for Google Code project hosting: … The new system certainly feels fast, and uses jQuery to flip around in short order, jumping through the revisions of your system, expanding into new directories, etc.
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Steve Gillmor / NewsGang:
As I was saying — On The Gang this Friday, Dan Farber asked me what I was doing in this new gig - a column or a blog? No difference, I replied. Just like there's no difference between mainstream and bloggospherian journalism and commentary. This is my opinion, and in the self-contained universe …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Iceland's Largest BitTorrent Tracker Faces Permanent Shutdown — Torrent.is went to court this week and the site now faces a permanent shutdown and the possibility that they will have to compensate copyright owners. Since nearly 10% of Iceland's population were members …
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Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Swiss Apple Store page tips the 802.11n Airport Express — It's easy to envy the Swiss, what with the fine chocolate and the neutrality and such. Now, another reason to long for the refined air of the Alps: the Swiss version of the Apple Store website is indicating availability …
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Cyndy Aleo-Carreira / Profy.Com:
Numbrosia: Merit-Based News Submissions — Tired of the news you are finding on Digg and Slashdot? Convinced that you are smarter than the combined user base of those two and Fark? Numbrosia thinks they have the solution: merit-based news submissions. — With Numbrosia, gone are the …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Demonoid Tracker Moves to Ukraine — Demonoid, once one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers, has reappeared again, this time hosted in Ukraine. The website is still down but the trackers are now fully operational again, perhaps a sign that Demonoid is crawling back up to speed?
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
China now #1 in executions, population... and web surfing! — The United States is no longer #1 when it comes to warm bodies surfing the Internet. According to BDA China, a Beijing-based consulting and research firm, China has some 228 million surfers. The China Internet Network Information Center puts that figure at 225 million.
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