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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Shall we Gather at the (funding) river — It's always nice to see startups — particularly those in the social-media, Web 2.0-type landscape — get some funding, so I don't want to dump on Gather.com, which has not only received $6-million in financing from Lotus founder Jim Manzi and VC group Allen & Co. …
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Kent / Newsome.Org:
Will Bloggers Gather for Gather? — The Boston Globe has an article today about a newish web site called Gather that says it wants to be the eBay for online writers. The idea seems to be that Gather will host your blog for free, sell ads to the presumably thousands of advertisers …
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Andrew / Changing Way:
I Don't Get Gather — I read about Gather in the Boston Globe online today (no link to the article, because I can't be sure that links to Globe articles will remain fresh and subscription-free). It is Boston-based. — I signed up for the beta. The main result of signing up for yet another beta …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:Gather Aims to Build a Blog Content Marketplace
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Paul Kedrosky's …, The Blackfriars Blog, Darwinian Web, Google Blogoscoped and The Blogging Journalist
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Google's Shadow Payroll Is Not Such a Secret Anymore — Shawn Hogan, the founder of Digital Point Solutions, said his company received about $10,000 a month from Google for ads placed on its online forum. It shares the revenue with users. — FEELING depressed because you missed out on Google's stock bonanza?
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Google, You Tube & Dark Side Online Video — Online video is hot, and you can judge that from the break neck growth of You Tube. The San Mateo, California company was founded in February 2005, and a year later it is serving more than 3 million video views a day, receiving about 8,000 video uploads …
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Barbara Whitaker / New York Times:
More Jobs Being Found Online, but That Doesn't Mean It's Easy — One of the first things Brooke Christiansen did as college graduation neared last spring was post her résumé on three of the largest Internet job boards: Monster, CareerBuilder and HotJobs.
Brian / brianstorms weblog:
Lessig is Wrong — There's a lawsuit under way with the Authors Guild and the American Association of Publishers suing Google Inc for massive copyright infringement. — Oh, the echoes of the RIAA v MP3.com lawsuit (full disclosure: I worked at MP3.com during that time period …
press.nokia.com:
Compact Nokia 6125 offers excellent performance in stylish folding design — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today expanded its porfolio of highly popular mid-range mobile phones with the stylish Nokia 6125 fold phone. Sleek and compact outside, the Nokia 6125 offers excellent performance …
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Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
China, Still Winning Against the Web — FOUND AND LOST A Yahoo search for "Falun Gong," a quasi-Buddhist religious sect that the Chinese Communist Party outlawed in 1999, found nearly 2 million sites. The same search on Yahoo China "did not find any related news."
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Robert McCrum / Observer:
E-read all about it — The world of publishing stands on the cusp of the greatest innovation since Gutenberg. With cheap, portable electronic readers just around the corner, what is the future of the printed book? — Every year at the Booker Prize, there's an odd little ritual …
Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
Bright and Clear Digitally — Over the Air — The future of TV looks impossibly sharp on RCA's 27F634T — except when it comes up as a blank blue screen with a "signal unavailable" message. — This unremarkable-looking cathode-ray-tube set is the cheapest digital television yet sold.
Inquirer:
Microsoft, Yahoo, others sued by Softvault over DRM — Lke Dell, Napster, Gateway, Samsung, Creative, Toshiba, Palm, Audiovox, Sandisk, Iriver, Thomson — SEPARATE CASES were filed against Microsoft, Yahoo and a spate of other tech firms in the US last week, alleging patents covering …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Microsoft working with Apple on future of Virtual PC — Just days after renewing its commitment to develop Office for the Mac, Microsoft revealed that it is also working with Apple to bring Virtual PC to its new Intel-architecture. — According to MacNN, Microsoft said any new version …
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Hey Baby Bells & Cable, We need multiple tiers of service — it always amazes me when people talk about content delivery on the internet. They discuss it as if there is unlimited bandwidth available. Well guess what. There is not. — Sure, new bandwidth is being added on networks every day.
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