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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
YOUTUBE WORTH $1 BILLION? BUT WHO WILL BUY IT? — This NY Post item caught my eye - YouTube was the toast of Herb Allen's Sun Valley conference, and therefore is now worth $1 billion. I don't buy it. I don't think the founders are smoking this s**t, I think the media is - at least I hope that's how it is.
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Valleywag, Open (finds, minds …, Digital Micro-Markets, ben barren and Technology Evangelist
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New York Post:
$KY'S THE LIMIT — SUN VALLEY BUZZ BOOSTS YOUTUBE TOWARD $1B — July 23, 2006 — WHAT is a week at investment bank Allen & Co.'s annual Sun Valley confab worth? — For Chad Hurley, the founder of the hot online video company YouTube, it might be $400 million.
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Mike / Techdirt:
YouTube Tries On The Skype Billion Dollar Buyout Plan For Size — from the hype-hype-hype dept — A year ago, we were amazed at how Skype's founders and investors more or less manipulated the press into claiming the company (which had made very little money) was worth $1 billion …
Dave Sifry / The Technorati Weblog:
Technorati turns 3, rolls out a major update — After months of work and weeks of testing, we just released an updated version of technorati.com. I hope after spending some time with the updated service, you'll join me in celebrating its release. — For those of you with ADD …
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Technorati redesigns for the MySpace crowd — Summer is here, meaning it must be time for a new site design from Technorati. — The four major Technorati redesigns have each tried to welcome a different type of crowd to the site without alienating existing users.
socialtext.com:
Socialtext Releases First Commercial Open Source Wiki — Socialtext, the first Wiki company, releases Socialtext Open at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). Available for immediate download, Socialtext Open is the first open source wiki with a commercial venture as its primary contributor.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:Socialtext launches its commercial open source wiki
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Platform Wars
Ars Technica:
AMD + ATI and CPU/GPU integration — Now that the merger is official, AMD has a set of pages up with information on the combined company's future plans. AMD execs also gave a conference call, in which they covered some of the reasons behind the merger. In short, the stated reasons …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Instant Messaging and Trashing Google — The user numbers coming out on Google Talk are staggeringly terrible. Comscore usage numbers show that nearly a year after launch Google is a distant, distant 4th after MSN, Yahoo and AIM. They hold a pitiful 1% of total instant messaging market share …
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Kazaa, Skype, and now "The Venice Project" — Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net — Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created the pioneering Web applications Kazaa and Skype …
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IP Democracy, Skype Journal, paidContent.org, Mathew Ingram, 21talks, Techdirt, Download Squad and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Gotuit - YouTube for Premium Content? — Boston-based Gotuit is a new video portal that went live on Sunday night. But unlike YouTube, MySpace Video, Google Video and their ilk, Gotuit isn't about user-generated content. Instead, the site serves up mainstream music videos, news, sports and other professional media - all for free.
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
JotSpot pretties up wikis — JotSpot has updated its wiki software to better resemble traditional desktop applications and is preparing an on-premise edition of its hosted service. — The two-year-old company said it will on Monday introduce JotSpot 2.0, a version of its hosted software …
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ShoutBlog
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:JotSpot's nascent wiki-based office suite
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David Robinson / Freedom to Tinker:
Rethinking DRM Dystopia — Thanks to Ed for the flattering introduction — now if only I can live up to it! It's an honor (and a little intimidating) to be guest blogging on FTT after several years as an avid reader. I've never blogged before, but I am looking forward to the thoughtful …
Kevin Bullis / Technology Review:
Powering the $100 Laptop — An efficient handheld generator could help bring computing to the world's poor. — As the One Laptop per Child project, a nonprofit effort based in Cambridge, MA, nears the completion of its rugged and versatile laptop designed for school children in poor countries …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple's Mighty Mouse finally gets Bluetooth — Looks like Apple forgot to file for ye olde confidentiality agreement, but today an FCC filing showed off Apple's latest device: the Mighty Mouse with Bluetooth. If anyone's surprised, well, that'd be pretty silly of you being that a wireless …
AdAge:
Amazon Readies Launch of Ad-Free Video Download Service — Like a Digital Version of the Netflix Rental Model for TV Shows and Movies — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) —As Apple and Microsoft duke it out over music, Amazon is focusing its attention on video. — August launch
Wade Roush / Technology Review:
The Internet Is Your Next Hard Drive — New Web-based services don't just store your data online — they keep it synchronized across your laptop, desktop, and mobile phone. — The forecast for the future of the PC: partly cloudy. — Online storage systems that can automatically synchronize …
Dan Warne / apcstart.com:
Inside Vista's new image-based install — Vista's installation process is dramatically different to any previous version of Windows: rather than being an 'installer', the install DVD is actually a preinstalled copy of Windows that simply gets decompressed onto your PC. — So how does it adjust to your hardware?
