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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 …
Kotaku:
X06 News Shocker Summary — It sounds like X06 was quite an amazing press conference, filled with the sort of surprises and delights befitting a regular carnival of gaming. — We've posted all of the news on the site, but I thought it would be best to summarize it somewhere for those not into browsing, or reading.
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David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
iPhone Rumors — Everyone's always asking me when Apple will come out with a cellphone. My answer is, "Probably never." — I have friends who worked on the Palm Treo. And to this day, my gut churns to recall the hell they went through. — The problem is that when you build a cellphone …
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Writer Zone:
New Release! Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update with Windows Live Gallery — This update to Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) features: — Tagging support — Support for Blogger Beta — Improvements to categories — And more... (details below)
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Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
SJSU: Campus OK's Skype, for now — Absent any immediate threats, and after Monday's conference call with eBay's government affairs people, San Jose State University 's University Computing and Telecommunications department (SJSU UCAT) said they will not ban Skype.
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 …
Donald Melanson / Engadget Mobile:
Mercora launches "M" music service for Windows Mobile — Mercora has joined the burgeoning mobile music fray in what looks to be a fairly big way today, launching its minimally-named "M" service for Windows Mobile 5.0-based devices. Unlike other mobile music services …
Barbarian / Forever Geek:
Debunking the MySpace Myth of 100 Million Users — The hype around the 'web 2.0' buzzword continues to grow and grow. From bulls**t statements like 85% of college students use Facebook (umm no, that was when less than half of US colleges were supported, yet everyone continues to cite that magical number) …
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.
Steve Bryant / Google Watch:
Three Conspiracy Theories (and One Black Helicopter) Concerning Comcast and Google — When I posted that bit about Comcast and Google yesterday, I swear I didn't think many folks would care. But all of a sudden I started getting these quacky e-mails about how Comcast was intentionally blocking Google …
VoIP & Gadgets Blog:
VON = Voice on the Net or Video on the Net? — I didn't attend VON, so I cannot attest to the traffic numbers or how the "buzz" was at the show just a few short weeks ago. However, I found some interesting posts from bloggers and websites that discussed the VON show.
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny:
Three New Slingboxes Formally Announced — As we've seen over the last week or so Sling has been readying three new boxes. In my mind, the major difference between the Slingbox Classic and the new models is improved hardware allowing for higher resolutions (up to 640×480) at higher bitrates (up to 8000Kbps).
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
AOL Pictures goes social and it's not pretty — The new version of AOL Pictures came out of beta today and it's thoroughly underwhelming. The new features are basically all the social things that are standard from a Web 2.0 perspective but none of them are done particularly well.
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Lifehacker:
One phone number to rule them all — GrandCentral is a brilliant new web app that lets you consolidate all of your phone numbers into one number, meaning someone can call you on your GrandCentral phone number and all of your phones (cell phone, work phone, home phone) will ring. And then it gets interesting.
Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
VideoEgg Gets a Jolt of VC — With $12 million from the Starbucks chairman's venture capital firm and other investors, the startup capitalizes on the rise of Web video — Seeing riches in the Web's sudden emergence as a mainstream vehicle for video, a venture capital firm co-founded …
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 …
Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips:
Feedvertising - Really Simple RSS Advertising - Text Link Ads — Text Link Ads have just launched a new advertising format called Feedvertising (aff). — Those of you who subscribe to my RSS feed will probably have noticed that some text links have appeared at the bottom of my posts …
Steve Yegge / Stevey's Blog Rants:
Good Agile, Bad Agile — Scrums are the most dangerous phase in rugby, since a collapse or inproper engage can lead to a front row player damaging or even breaking his neck. — Wikipedia — When I was growing up, cholesterol used to be bad for you. It was easy to remember. Fat, bad.
