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Tom Mohr / Editor and Publisher:
SPECIAL: "Winning Online" — A Manifesto — NEW YORK Newspapers must win online, or face a future of painful contraction. — To win, industry leaders must adopt a Marshall Plan embodying two key objectives: the migration to common platforms, and the acquisition of the ability to sell top-quality online product to our advertisers.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to roll-out iTunes movies and 'one more thing' — The charismatic leader and co-founder of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs, plans to summons the worldwide media to a special event this month in which he'll usher in a new chapter in the company's digital media strategy, AppleInsider has learned.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Finally, a Sirius IPod Threat — Remember Howard Stern? He's that guy who used to be on the radio. As everyone knows, that was before the Federal Communications Commission edged him off of the "public" airwaves and into the welcoming arms of Sirius satellite radio.
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Chris Leckness / Mobility Site:
HP iPAQ rx4000 Mobile Media Companion Announced — Mobile Entertainment in Your Grasp — Breaking new ground in design for handheld devices, HP launched the HP iPAQ rx4000 Mobile Media Companion series. Its compact, palm-sized smart design will enhance consumers' entertainment experience …
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Software Notebook: Microsoft tries a new model for device team — 'MEDX' team shares desks, ideas on the look Microsoft wants — With long, shared desks and a wide-open interior, one work space at Microsoft is an unexpected sight inside a company that has traditionally championed individual offices.
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Simon Perry / Digital-Lifestyles.info:
SanDisk Forced to Remove MP3 Players From IFA:Exclusive — SanDisk have been forced to remove all of their MP3 music players from their stand at the huge CE show, IFA in Berlin, Digital-Lifestyles can exclusively reveal. — Societa Italiana per lo Sviluppo Dell' Elettronica, S.p.A. …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
WebWorkerDaily, for the Web 2.0 Worker — Om Malik's blog network is starting to take shape as he launches WebWorkerDaily this afternoon. The new site is a blog for the distributed worker, where the office is wherever their laptop happens to be. Cell phones, Skype, laptops and other tools …
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Style with substance: tribal art, ethnic decoration define the latest models of Nokia's L'Amour Collection — Nokia unveils three new mobile phones for the fashion-conscious, including the first 3G fashion phone — Espoo, Finland - Building upon the success of last year's highly popular …
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Digg that Fat Belly! — Chris Anderson in his book, The Long Tail (read Chris' book), divides the power law distribution curve into only two segments... the hit-driven head (Big Head) and, obviously, the long tail. What's missing is actually the most important part... the section in the middle of the curve The Fat Belly.
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Open Data: Small Pieces Loosely Joined — Chris Messina's blog entry about Gdata, entitled Building a Better Mousetrap, shows how people are waking up to the new platform wars. Chris singles out Google in his post: … I don't know that Chris is right to point the finger at Google …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Top Italian Web Apps — As well as being reigning world football champions, Italy has a number of world class web apps. Yes, Italy is the 10th country to be profiled in Read/WriteWeb's Top International Web Apps series. The others so far have been Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, China and Turkey.
Aaron Swartz:
Who Writes Wikipedia? — Wikimedia 2006 Elections — Part 2: Who Writes Wikipedia? — Part 3: Who Runs Wikipedia? (coming Wednesday) — If you translate this essay, please contact me. — Vote for me in the election for the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Directors.
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Vonage Hits the Two Million Mark — The New York Times Matt Richtel has this piece today on Vonage, which includes a rare interview with high-profile co-founder Jeff Citron (whom Richtel misidentifies as CEO of the company — Citron is actually Chairman and Chief Strategist.
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
Apple pays woman to "de-Pod" her product — In a move that will be seen as gracious by some, extortionist by others, Apple has offered to pay a New Jersey woman an undisclosed sum to rebrand a laptop bag she sells so that it no longer includes the word "pod" — but not before reminding …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Start-up pays people to answer questions online — A new social search site that pays people to answer questions from visitors will become publicly available on Monday. — ChaCha.com will pay "guides" up to $10 per hour spent searching for Web sites that contain answers to user questions.
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Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
Some thoughts about FOO and elitism... I'm going to try over the next few days to capture retrospectively my FOO experience in a little detail. I didn't think I'd have enough time to do it, but it turns out that when you're trying to avoid writing your talk for major conferences in the US there's …
