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PodShow And Copyright, I'm Non-Plussed — After much promotion and delay PodShow finally launched a revamped directory today. All kinds of stuff going on that I assume is aimed at the new podcaster. Not really sure of the target demographic, but my guess is the My Space crowd.
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croncast.com, Mashable*, FuzzyBlog, loadedpun, Geek News Central …, Podcasting News and Scripting News
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Podshow Hysterics — So, Podshow Plus launched today (a few hours ago). Other than the fact that the launch is a few days late, it's slower than a Win98 machine on dialup and the site is buggier than three-week old sushi, things seem to be going "well" in the Blogosphere. — From Todd Cochrane:
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Geek News Central …, Barnako.com, Scripting News, Smalltalk Tidbits … and TinyScreenfuls.com
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Lawsuits Fly Over Google Founders' Big Private Plane — Even billionaires have disputes with their contractors. — Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the low-key co-founders of Google Inc., set tongues wagging last year when they bought a used Boeing 767 widebody as an unusually large private jet.
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Lawsuits Over The Google Party Jet; Arguments Over Bed Sizes On Board — New details out now about the Google Jet we've written about before, the used 767 that Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have purchased. Turns out, there are lawsuits filed over the retrofit of the plane …
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The Browser, Good Morning Silicon Valley, SearchViews, Internet Stocks and Threadwatch.org
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AOL as Yahoo wannabe — If AOL greenlights a plan to give away e-mail, it will be taking yet another page from the Yahoo playbook. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) — AOL has a serious case of Yahoo envy. — First, AOL last year built a Yahoo-like Internet portal, putting all its content …
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AOL may give away more of its services — NEW YORK - AOL LLC may give away even more of its services, including its vaunted AOL.com e-mail accounts now limited to paying subscribers, to boost ad revenues and offset declines in subscriptions, a person familiar with the discussions said Thursday.
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AOL May Speed Shift Away From Subscribers
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ABC Looks Beyond Upfront To DVR, Commercial Ratings Issues — ABC HAS HELD DISCUSSIONS ON the use of technology that would disable the fast-forward button on DVRs, according to ABC President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw, with the primary goal to allow TV commercials to run as intended.
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ABC wants to kill DVR ad-skipping — (Warning: You may want to go to your happy place before reading this.) — ABC executives have held discussions with the people providing consumers with DVRs about a potential future feature for the devices that would disable the ad-skipping.
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Friendster Wins Patent — After emerging from debt, Friendster wins a patent on social networking. — Friendster said Thursday that it has received a patent that covers online social networks, one the company had applied for long before its decline and recent recapitalization.
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Digg versus New York Times Reality Check — Recently I've seen some posts that have hypothesized that Digg could be as big as the New York Times online, based on extrapolations from Digg's reported stats, which surely includes visitors wolrdwide. Heather Hopkins reported last month on Digg's popularity in the UK.
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Mathew Ingram, B2Day, the j. botter weblog, TechCrunch, Digital Micro-Markets, Digital Inspiration and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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The Plot To Hijack Your Computer — They watch you surf the Web. They plague you with pop-up ads. Then they cripple your hard drive — Consumers have strong opinions about Direct Revenue's software. "If I ever meet anyone from your company, I will kill you," a person who identified himself …
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Microsoft to offer open source document format — Microsoft on Thursday bowed to pressure from governments to offer new free open source software that will allow its Office suite of programmes to handle documents in rival formats. — The company said it would develop tools to build a …
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Between the Lines, Don Dodge on The Next …, Reuters, eWEEK.com, Bob Sutor, Inquirer, Consortiuminfo.org, TechSpot and InfoWorld
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Google preparing health portal; pitching WebMD and Intuit as partners — Google is planning a product that it hopes will overhaul the way patients, doctors, vendors and pharmaceutical companies manage their medical information online. Dubbed the Google Health Scrapbook …
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Video game legend criticises Sony — UK video gaming stalwart Jeff Minter has criticised Sony for being "smug" about its PlayStation 3 console. — Mr Minter, who founded Llamasoft in 1982 and developed a light synthesiser for the Xbox 360, said the machine was "expensive" and lacked launch games.
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New Windows Standard Theme in Windows Vista — How does Sidebar Geek do it? I was just putting the finishing touches on a post about the new theme when I found out that Brandon beat me to it. Well great job picking that up! I had a chance to chat with Don Lindsay on the User Experience Team …