Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:50 PM ET, February 25, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Evan Blass / Engadget:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network to be unveiled tomorrow  —  We're still reeling over the fact that BitTorrent — the same company that invented every pirate's favorite "sharing technology" — has signed deals with numerous content providers to offer for-pay movie, TV show, and video game downloads …
Discussion: digg
RELATED:
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network Debuts Monday
Discussion: Mark Evans
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:   BitTorrent service is built to fail
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Hollywood Disrupted  —  Reading through the LA Times, as I do before The Oscars every year, I came across a fantastic Op-Ed written by a respected Hollywood author by the name of Neal Gabler.  The opinion piece, titled "The Movie Magic is Gone", explains how Hollywood is losing its place …
RELATED:
Neal Gabler / Los Angeles Times:
The movie magic is gone
Discussion: IP Democracy and Digital Markets
Jason Pontin / New York Times:
Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them  —  THE World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can't find the videos we want or browse for what we might like.  —  That's a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become the content …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Great Media Industry Schism  —  The once monolithic media industry is undergoing a radical schism, dividing itself into content creation, on the one hand, and content aggregation and distribution on the other.  —  The nature of this transformation suddenly crystallized …
RELATED:
Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Silicon Valley has become Media Valley - someone should tell NYC
PRWeb:
Oscar Nominations - Wordtracker Predictions  —  The movie and gossip columns today are awash with speculation on the Oscar nominations.  Asking who will walk away with the prizes is great fun not only in the US but throughout the world.  But is there anyway to really get an inside track?
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Six cool things you can build with OpenID  —  I've posted the slides from my Future of Web Apps talk on OpenID, minus the demo videos.  I'm planning to put together a video that combines the slides, demos and audio once the official podcasts have been published.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Plusbox  —  While searching Google for nightwish videos, Razvan Antonescu spotted this video plusbox* (ignore the blue link bars in the screenshot, they're from a Firefox extension).  Alongside a snippet from Google Video, a plus icon appeared with a link reading "show video" …
Discussion: Googling Google
Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Publisher Network's Trojan Horse  —  Google has a hefty lead in getting small publishers to put Google-powered ads on their websites.  There is no negotiated deal - advertisers agree to take whatever Google decides to give them.  Revenue share terms are not disclosed to these small publishers.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Windows-based ATM machine hacked, gets Painted  —  Although we wouldn't expect to find the latest release of Photoshop on your neighborhood ATM, it's not so far fetched to think that Paint would be left on a Windows-based ATM.  We've seen a recent boost in cash machine hacking of late …
Discussion: digg
Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
Gamer busted for "borrowing" library WiFi after hours  —  We're well aware of WiFi bogarting from unsuspecting neighbors or coffee shops, but who knew there'd be a crackdown at the local house o' books?  Cops couldn't leave well enough alone when they rolled up on 21 year-old Brian Tanner jammin …
Discussion: digg
Spencer Kelly / BBC:
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0  —  With a growing demand for a better browsing experience on our mobiles, there is, according to the industry, demand for Web 2.0 on the go.  —  While text blogging on a mobile is still seen as a minority sport, the explosion of camera and videophones now allows us …
Discussion: MoCoNews
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple To Get Into Ringtone Business  —  This video presents a fairly compelling case that Apple will be getting into the Ringtone business with the release of the iPhone.  Ringtone sales are big business, accounting for 10% of so of the global music market, and well over $1 billion per year in sales …
Discussion: MoCoNews, Joe Duck and Gizmodo
New York Times:
In Big Buyout, Utility to Limit New Coal Plants  —  Under a proposed $45 billion buyout by a team of private equity firms, the TXU Corporation, a Texas utility that has long been the bane of environmental groups, will abandon plans to build 8 of 11 coal plants and commit to a broad menu …
Discussion: Fractals of Change and BookBlog
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 10:50 PM ET, February 25, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Airtable:
Meet Airtable ProductCentral  —  The unified solution for managing your entire product development process in the AI era.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
Zoho SalesIQ turns 10: Transforming customer experiences since 2014  —  October marked a remarkable milestone for Zoho SalesIQ—our 10th anniversary.  What began in 2014 as a simple live chat tool has evolved …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Ben Vershbow / if:book:
gift economy or honeymoon?
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar and KarmaWeb
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
CTO of Google Earth On Adding Web Search
Discussion: Traffick
Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
Starbucks Chairman Fears Tradition Is Fading
 Earlier Items: 
Darren / Digital Camera Reviews, Ratings …:
Olympus to Release DSLR/s on 5 March
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Darryl K. Taft / eWEEK.com:
Ubuntu Wants a Bigger Piece of Desktops, Servers
Discussion: Channel 9
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Hi-tech entrepreneurs mull build or sell
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The Times Tech Guild, representing NYT developers, data analysts, and more, goes on strike ahead of the US election; management offered a 2.5% annual wage rise

Max Tani / Semafor:
At an internal meeting, NYT editors shared what they thought of internal and external feedback, “explicit threats from Trump about us in the media”, and more

Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives:
PEN America: 10,046 school books bans across 29 states were recorded from July 2023 to June 2024, up ~200% YoY; Florida had 4,500+ bans and Iowa had 3,600+ bans

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page