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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Interview with Gabe Rivera, founder of Memeorandum — Tech Memeorandum is part of my daily reading list, actually I read it several times a day. There are several other "clipper" services out there that approach the problem from a slightly different angle. Blogs have exploded in growth and popularity over the last year.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
It's a different world today — Adam Green: "Microsoft long ago mastered the trick of calculating exactly the minimal feature set needed to suck the air out of a market it wants to enter." — Like me, Adam is a dinosaur who walked the earth in the days when little software animals …
Discussion:
Scobleizer
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
The iPod Ecosystem — In the weeks leading up to last month's Macworld conference, few people knew what the notoriously secretive Steven P. Jobs was going to announce. — Gavin Downey, the director of product management at the Belkin Corporation, listened to all the rumors leading …
Wall Street Journal:
The Type-A Bathroom — For workaholics, it's the new home office. Jon Weinbach and Peggy Edersheim Kalb on showerproof computers, mirrors with stock quotes and the latest water hazard: 'BlackBerry dunk.' — With a BlackBerry, two mobile phones, three office computers and wireless Internet for his car …
Jeff Chester / The Nation:
The End of the Internet? — The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.
Discussion:
TeleRead, technology filter, Mark Evans, a shel of my former self, IP Democracy, Moogle1, robhyndman.com and Smart Mobs
Heather Green / Blogspotting:
Dabble This — Om Malik has a great post on Dabble, a new service that Mary Hodder is developing. I spoke with Mary for some other reporting and talked to her about Dabble, which uses a set of technologies to wade through video online and share your finds with other people using the service.
Valleywag:
Tony Perkins' embarrassing web stats — To turn around the phrase on its head, on the web, everyone knows you're a dog. The internet may provide anonymity to individuals, but it leaves publishers nowhere to hide. A reader emails in about Tony Perkins, 'creator' and editor-in-chief of AlwaysOn …
Erick Schonfeld / B2Day:
What Comes After the Blockbuster? The Nichebuster — I am at the Entertainment Gathering conference in LA and there is a lot of talk about the death of the blockbuster. Wired editor Chris Anderson showed some nifty charts from his upcoming book on the Long Tail documenting the decline in hit albums …
Reuters:
Have a cell phone? Make a movie — Eight cell phones, $160,000 and a good idea—could this be the future of filmmaking? — South African director Aryan Kaganof thinks so. And to prove it, he made "SMS Sugar Man," which is billed as the world's first feature film shot entirely on mobile phones.
Benjamin Cohen / Times of London:
Rumours mount over Google's internet plan — Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial negotiation with the company.
Discussion:
Smart Mobs
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Tomorrow's games, designed by players as they play — LOS ANGELES—Game budgets are skyrocketing. Development teams are swelling almost to film studio's proportions. The only way out of this trap is to enlist players to help create their own worlds, a pair of top game creators said Thursday.
Business Week:
James Cameron's Game Theory — Get kids hooked on a multiplayer game, then show them the movie — James Cameron has transported film audiences to worlds inhabited by carnivorous aliens, time-traveling assassins, and passengers on an ill-fated ocean liner.
Poynter Online:
Craigslist Turns Revenue Spigot on Low — As reported by (fellow E-Media Tidbits contributor) Peter M. Zollman in his Classified Intelligence Report, Craigslist has finally decided to institute a fee for apartment brokers who post on the New York site as of March 1.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge postpones Google subpoena hearing — Google's attempt to fend off the government's request for millions of search terms will move to a federal court in San Jose, Calif., on March 13. — U.S. District Judge James Ware on Thursday delayed the hearing, originally scheduled for Feb. 27 …
jkOnTheRun:
30 boxes is coming- social calendaring — I have to admit when I first heard about 30 boxes a while back my initial reaction was "so what"? An Ajax-based social calendar just didn't seem very useful to me but as I hear more details about how it works I am beginning to change my tune.
Ben Z. Gottesman / PC Magazine:
Symantec Roadmap Includes Massive "Genesis" Suite — This summer, the company will release a standalone transaction security product based on technology the company acquired when it purchased anti-phishing vendor WholeSecurity last year. — At around the same time, Symantec will release …
Discussion:
Download Squad
Gary / memoria technica:
The Best PowerPoint Slide. Ever. — Click here for big, click here for PowerPoint Show file version. — "Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely" - Edward Tufte. — So, if PowerPoint is evil; the fightback begins here. Think of this as a wholesome, good karma form of industrial sabotage.
