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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Rocketboom Founder Puts His Twitter Account On Sale — How much is a Twitter account with nearly 1,500 followers worth? Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron wants to find out, and launches a publicity stunt that will spark a debate about trust and privacy: He's selling his Twitter account, including the followers.
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chrisbrogan.com:
Is Your Community For Sale — Andrew Baron might or might not be joking about putting up his Twitter account for sale. If he's joking, he's gone to the effort of putting it up on eBay. Baron's influential, known for creating and running Rocketboom, and a strong supporter of the video community.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sorry, I'm Not Buying This New Touchy-Feely Approach To The Music Tax — Ethan Kaplan writes a beautiful tribute to the value of music, and how we as a society must come to terms with how we will value it as the business model around recorded music continues to disintegrate. — I call BS on the whole post.
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Ethan Kaplan / blackrimglasses.com:
Reducing Back to Art — I've been in the music business for about two years now, nearly two and a quarter. So long as I've been in this business, there has been discussion about the issues of piracy, value and monetary exchange in a world rapidly converting to digital distribution.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Era of blogger's control is over — Louis Gray, who is now my favorite blogger who covers what's happening in the social media space, writes a blog post about how bloggers are getting worried about the fracturing of their comments. It is currently on the top of TechMeme, and since today's Saturday …
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Steven Hodson / WinExtra:
Advertising for bloggers has to change — Disclaimer: I doubt very much that this post will be of any interest to those bloggers out there who blog for the self-professed joy of blogging itself, or to any blogger who feels that advertising has no place on blogs, or to bloggers who think it's okay …
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Secret of the iPlayer's Success: No DRM — It's been a great week for the BBC's iPlayer project: The Beeb has just announced that the iPlayer is now attracting 550,000 daily views on average. The iPlayer is also now officially available on the Wii, making it the first streaming service …
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Mike Gunderloy / Web Worker Daily:
GroupTweet Enhances Twitter — One of the persistent complaints about Twitter is that it doesn't offer any sort of “group” functionality: messages from everyone you follow come in as a big heap, and anything you say goes to all of your followers. GroupTweet provides a solution for the second half …
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Fred / A VC:
Plugin Functionality - In the browser or on the page? — I love firefox extensions and use a bunch of them. The plugin architecture has made the browser much more powerful. There are many things that you can do with a browser plugin, but the two most obvious things are add functionality …
David Krug / The Blog Herald:
Gridjit,A Social Portal for Twitter — I recently stumbled upon a great social portal called Gridjit that allows you to view your Tweets in a far different fashion. This is great for me as I don't always check Tweets like the rest of my social network. Over on the their blog …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Craigslist Competitor OLX Raises $13.5M — According to co-founder Fabrice Grinda, “OLX is probably the largest classified site no one has ever heard of.” And now it's also the most funded classified site no one has ever heard of, having secured an additional $13.5M in Series B funding today …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
“Yahoo-Microsoft Done Deal, Only Question is Price.” Unless MSFT Walks — Eric Savitz at Barrons filters all the noise and comes back to the [likely] conclusion: Nothing has changed, Microsoft's offer is still much more than Yahoo shareholders are likely to get elsewhere, especially if the price goes up.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
How Much Money Does Apple Get From Google? — Om Malik wonders just how much money Apple gets from Google for search engine referrals from Safari. When I reported last June that Apple's revenue from Google was around $25 million per year, that number came from, as they say, a source with knowledge of the situation.
