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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Paying the top DIGG/REDDIT/Flickr/Newsvine users (or "$1,000 a month for doing what you're already doing.") — When Brian and I started Weblogs, Inc. the idea of paying bloggers—heck, even making money from blogging—was considered offensive to many. Blogging was, as the case was stated …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Huge Red Flag at Netscape — A little known Digg-fact is that a relatively small group of users submit a large percentage of the stories that end up on the Digg home page. Netscape, which recently relaunched as a Digg-clone, wants to pay those top users to switch over to them.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Calacanis offers to buy out digg users — Netscape boss Jason Calacanis has offered to essentially buy out the top users on Digg, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit for $1000 per month: … This offer is open to about a dozen people initially. You've got to hand it to Calacanis …
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Robert MacMillan / Reuters:
Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many people see Web journals or "blogs" as alternatives to the mainstream media, but most Americans who run them do so as a hobby rather than a vocation, according to a report released on Wednesday.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Finding Home Values in Web Search — With all the recent discussion on where home prices are heading, we saw a great opportunity to improve our home valuation product on Yahoo! Real Estate. We've integrated our product with Zillow.com to provide users with free instant home value estimates …
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Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:
No joy for Yahoo — World's No. 2 search engine reports results and guidance that disappoint investors; stock tumbles after-hours. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It looks like Yahoo! investors won't have any reason to yodel following the company's slightly disappointing second-quarter results …
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Jennifer DeLeo / Gearlog:
Move Over Movielink: CinemaNow Launches Burn To DVD Service Today — Jeez, online movie sellers move FAST. Apparently, Movielink didn't move fast enough. On Monday, I reported that Movielink partnered with Sonic Solutions to offer on-demand DVD burning.
Sony:
SONY UNVEILS FIRST BLU-RAY DISC DRIVE BURNER — Burns up to 50 GB of Data and Keeps Video in Native HDV 1080i — NEW YORK, July 18, 2006 -Sony Electronics today unveiled its first internal Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) rewritable drive for the computer aftermarket.
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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Four Big Ideas About Open Source — In my O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing next week at OSCON, I'm focusing on four big ideas about open source: — The architecture of participation beyond software. Software development was the canary in the coalmine, one of the first areas to show …
New York Times:
Wall Street Journal to Run Ads on Front Page — The Wall Street Journal calls it a "jewel box," but readers of its front page will know it by its common name: advertising. — The Journal today confirmed long-time speculation that it would open its front page to advertising, probably in September …
Sony:
SONY DELIVERS MUSIC WIRELESSLY THROUGHOUT THE HOME — New Streaming Audio System Plays Music Across a WiFi Home Network — NEW YORK, July 18, 2006 - Continuing to enhance the world of home audio, Sony Electronics today announced a wireless streaming music player and 2.1 channel home theater system.
Peggy Mihelich / CNN:
Price of virtual living: Patience, privacy — (CNN) — The virtual worlds depicted in the movies "The Matrix" and "Minority Report" can often seem far too real in today's world of computers, e-mail, instant messaging, MP3 players, cell phones, laptops, Wi-Fi and RFID.
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Sun CTO: Incremental open-sourcing of Java is the way — Java virtual machine, runtime environment, and Web services stack given as examples of components that could be incrementally open sourced — Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language to be done in incremental steps …
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Jobster, the Web 2.0 company on steroids, brings total bounty to $50M — Seattle's Jobster, a site for job seekers and employers wanting to converse with them, has raised $18 million from investors. The private company is now valued above $100 million. — There's a big lesson in this story, which we'll get to shortly.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Dealplumber Launches - Free Coupons and Deals — Santa-Clara based Dealplumber, which went live yesterday, is a new service from the makers of iNods. The site has been in development for six months, and aims to make it easy to find and share deals using a community-based approach.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Image navigation, with a sci-fi touch — Taking a page out of a science-fiction novel, Microsoft's research labs have come up with a way for people to navigate computer images using their hands to change their point of view. — However, borrowing in equal measure from its business handbook …
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Hans Mast / The (not so) Daily Me:
Yahoo! Music to offer unrestricted MP3s? — Everyone who has been following the tech scene knows that the first company to offer mainstream music in unrestricted MP3 format will see a huge spike in their business and may garner lasting dominance. There is widespread dissatisfaction …
