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3:15 PM ET, March 8, 2009

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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Wolfram Alpha — it's like plugging into an electronic brain  —  Scientist Stephen Wolfram has built a new engine, called Wolfram Alpha, that apparently can compute answers to factual questions more powerfully than Google.  —  Wolfram has just posted about the effort, which has taken years …
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Twine:
Wolfram Alpha is Coming — and It Could be as Important as Google  —  Stephen Wolfram is building something new — and it is really impressive and significant.  In fact it may be as important for the Web (and the world) as Google, but for a different purpose.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011  —  I had a surprisingly candid lunch conversation last week with a big music label executive, and a good part of our talk focused on the future of music.  I asked the usual question: Why are you guys so damned clueless?
Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Amazon VOD in HD on TiVo - Coming Soon?  —  After reading my post wondering where Amazon VOD in HD is, multiple sources have confirmed for me that TiVo's implementation is currently in testing.  While I still don't have concrete timing details, and suspect we're waiting on Amazon.com at this point …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Pay-For-Play Comes To Online Radio.  Is That a Bad Thing?  —  When it comes to promoting new music, pay-for-play schemes are generally frowned upon.  The practice, which involves music labels or artists paying radio stations to play their songs in heavy rotation, dates back to the beginnings of terrestrial radio.
Discussion: Digital Noise
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Verizon Customers - Just Say No!  —  It is easier to seek forgiveness than it is to get permission according to Verizon, which has once again shown us what large corporations should not be doing when it comes to customer service.  —  David Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto …
Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
The Neokast Mystery  —  What happened to Neokast?  It's a mystery to me.  But I suspect the answer will surprise us all soon enough.  —  Neokast, as readers of my old PBS column will recall, was a peer-to-peer live video streaming application developed by graduate students from Northwestern University near Chicago.
Matt Rosoff / Digital Noise:
More free on-demand audio with Muziic  —  I love covering music software because the pace of evolution is so fast.  I guess everybody's looking for the next billion-dollar business (after iTunes) to help replace declining CD sales.  —  Last week, I blogged about Spotify …
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Bloomberg:
Yahoo Wins Court Approval of Severance Plan That May Aid Buyout Offers  —  Yahoo Inc., owner of the second most-popular U.S. Internet search engine, won a judge's approval of a settlement mandating changes to the company's severance plan that investors contend will make it easier for Microsoft Corp. or other potential suitors to buy it.
Randall Stross / New York Times:
When Everyone's a Friend, Is Anything Private?  —  FACEBOOK has a chief privacy officer, but I doubt that the position will exist 10 years from now.  That's not because Facebook is hell-bent on stripping away privacy protections, but because the popularity of Facebook and other social networking sites …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs  —  It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose.  Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer, and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below).
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who Needs Big Music on YouTube?  The Best Video of 2009 is Homegrown  —  YouTube and the big music labels are spending a lot of time and effort trying to figure out how make money off of music videos.  If only they were as inventive as Kutiman.  —  Who?  I hadn't heard of Kutiman until today, either.
DCEmu.Com:
The State of the Homebrew Scene 2009  —  Its now March 2009 and time for a new State of the Homebrew Scene for 2009.  —  Because we are the only dedicated homebrew Network on the web covering just about all scenes, I feel its a good time to give a low down on each scene and some pointers …
Discussion: Slashdot
 
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon's global 3G modem from ZTE spotted in FCC
John Naughton / Guardian:
How Kindle brought technology to book
Ken Gagne / Computerworld Blogs:
AT&T predicted the future. Can Microsoft?
Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com and 9 to 5 Mac
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld Blogs:
Google CEO hints Google/Linux netbooks may be coming
Discussion: OSNews and Liliputing
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
A peek at Apple's new QuickTime X interface
Discussion: MacRumors
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Keen / The Great Seduction:
We are all Scoble now  —  Last night A-list twhirler …
Discussion: Gawker and Susan Mernit's Blog
James Urquhart / CNET News:
Has ‘cloud computing’ lost its VC luster?
Discussion: GigaOM
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Police Take the Fight Onto the Web
Evan Williams / New York Times:
For Twitter C.E.O., Well-Orchestrated Accidents
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Paul Graham:
How to Be an Angel Investor
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Tencent Music reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $971M and a $198M profit; in 2023, paying subscribers rose 21% YoY to 107M and net profit rose 36% YoY to $735M

 
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