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Mike / Jumpcut Blog:
Jumpcut Joins the Yahoo! Family — Jumpcut is excited to announce today that we are being acquired by Yahoo! — We have worked hard to pioneer great online video editing technology that can truly enhance the online video world by enabling anyone to become a creator.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Yahoo! has acquired Jumpcut — The Yahoo! family expanded again today with the acquisition of online video editing service Jumpcut. Here's the Jumpcut post on the announcement and here's the Yahoo! Search post. Based in San Francisco and launched just six months ago …
Official Google Blog:
Our approach to content — The Internet has broken down many of the barriers that exist between people and information — effectively democratizing access to human knowledge. By typing just a few keywords into a computer you can learn about almost any subject.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:GOOGLE CLARIFIES PHILOSOPHY RE: CONTENT
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Jim Louderback / Gearlog:
Bono At DEMO? Oh No, U Noob — So with 70 new companies and all kinds of technology, what was the biggest buzz at DEMOfall this week? The apparent appearance of rock-star / investor Bono of U2 fame. Our own reporter Natali Del Conte was blinded by the starlight, as you can see from the last photo in her Demo photo blog.
Ross Miller / Joystiq:
MS announces Halo Wars, a new RTS [update 1] — A real-time strategy game based in the Halo universe has been announced. The project, entitled Halo Wars, will be designed by Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires) "exclusively for Xbox 360" (read: no PC). — This announcement comes weeks …
comScore:
MySpace Leads in Number Of U.S. Video Streams Viewed Online, Capturing 20 Percent Market Share; Yahoo! Ranks #1 in Number of People Streaming — comScore Releases U.S. Video Metrix Rankings — comScore Media Metrix, the leader in digital media measurement, today released an enhancement …
Newlaunches.com:
Sharp triple view display the best accessory for your car — Sharp amazed everyone last year by developing the the first two-way viewing-angle LCD and the switchable viewing-angle LCD. This time they have developed the Triple Directional Viewing LCD, a display that controls the viewing angle …
Cory Doctorow / InformationWeek:
Opinion: High-Definition Video—Bad For Consumers, Bad For Hollywood — Digital rights management gadgetry has turned high-definition video into a lumbering dinosaur that consumers won't want to buy. And a good thing, too—because Hollywood doesn't know what to do with HD, says Cory Doctorow.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Carolyn Abram / Facebook Blog:
Welcome to Facebook, everyone. — Mark would have written this post himself, but is busy helping out with everything going on right now, so I've been asked to explain why we're launching this expansion. — You've heard it before, and you'll hear it again; here at Facebook, we want to help people understand their world.
Randfish / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog:
11 Best Practices for URLs — I could have sworn that someone has already a great post or forum thread on this topic, but I can't seem to find it (no matter how advanced my operators). I'm sure Mr. Malicoat has it in his bookmarks, but since blog posts are one of my personal systems for public bookmarking, here goes.
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
The Future of Television, Revision3 Launches — Note: to view my SmartSet of photos from last night's Revision3 launch party click here. — Well those that have read this blog for a while know that I have written a lot in the past about the future of television.
Boston Jon / Bostonist:
It's not Firefox, it's Comcastic — It appears that there is a disconnect between Google and Comcast going on right now (breaking news?). We've gotten a number of field reports from users of Comcast's cable internet service across the state who are unable to connect to Gmail, Google, and Blogspot.
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HotHardware Article Channel:
Intel Developers Forum Day 1: Quad-Core, 45nm, and More Cooling/Misc — Paul Otellini, Intel's president and CEO, kicked off this season's IDF by coining the phrase "It's what's inside that counts", and spoke about why processing power matters again. A few years ago, he noted …
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
AOL CEO Miller: The long tail is real, but only a handful are cashing in — Speaking here, today, during the MIT Emerging Technology Conference's second presentation, AOL Chairman and CEO John Miller referred to the current period as the Golden Age of Entertainment and talked at length …
Don Woligroski / Tom's Hardware Guide:
The Best Gaming Video Cards for the Money: October 2006 — The Best Gaming Video Cards For The Money — Video card specifications and reviews that really get into the nitty-gritty are great - that is, if you have the time to digest everything. At the end of the day …
Indeed.com / Blog Indeed:
Indeed Salary Search (beta) — Yet another salary survey? No. — Here's what makes Indeed Salary Search unique and different from the salary tools already available: — 1. It's Objective. Most salary tools are based on salary surveys and related research and analysis; by their nature, they are subjective.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
DEMO Day One: The Post Game Show — Some thoughts on the first day of DEMO: — BuzzLogic: wants to dig deep into the dynamics and implications of online conversations! Brand monitoring, of course, is extremely useful for marketing and PR and research, so the company has signed …
Gizmodo:
Rumor: Microsoft to Cut Premium Bundle in Anticipation for HD DVD Player — Digitimes, the premier news source in usual bulls**t rumors, has a new one today that actually seems a legitimate, kind of. They are reporting that there will be a $100 price cut on the Xbox 360 Premium bundle …
investor.shareholder.com:
JPMorgan Introduces Algorithmic Trading Alert Service — JPMorgan's Electronic Client Solutions (ECS) announced today the launch of AlgoAlert, an instant messaging service that provides unique charts as well as real-time updates of algorithmic trading performance and trading conditions such as halts and oversized orders.
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Reuters:
Judge tosses part of AMD suit against Intel — A federal judge has dismissed a large portion of Advanced Micro Devices' antitrust lawsuit against Intel, saying that U.S. law does not cover many of AMD's claims. — The decision by Judge Joseph Farnan of the U.S. District Court …
