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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Creative Video Blogging and The New "Instant Journalism" — With all that is going on this year at CES, an event I'm going to for the next few days it's going to be the independent news sources, not the main stream media where a lot of the "breaking news" and more interesting stories get told.
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Skype Journal, hubbub, Thoughts on VoIP, technology, Social Media and The Jeff Pulver Blog
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Technology Evangelist:
Ask your questions at CES — We're experimenting with getting your audio and video into our daily netcasts. Being the tech junkies we know you are, you probably have about 40 different RSS feeds with all the CES info available on the web. With all that info you probably have a lot …
New York Times:
Companies Pay Dearly for Tech Trade Show — For a small technology company called Digeo, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is one of the biggest opportunities of the year. For the next few days, the city will be jampacked with potential customers, partners and press — but the price of participation is daunting.
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Gizmodo:
CES First Blood: We're Inside — Everyone says CES doesn't start until Monday. But we went to the Las Vegas Convention Center today, disguised as construction workers, and got to take all sorts of cool photos before we started getting dirty looks from the CES rent-a-cops.
Peter / The Local Onliner:
Management Team Quits BackFence — The management team of BackFence has resigned en masse from BackFence, including CEO and CoFounder Susan DeFife, and VPs Amanda Graham and Bob Kelly. "Ultimately, we did not share the same strategic vision for the company as the Board of Directors," says DeFife.
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Mathew Ingram, Frank Barnako, MediaVidea, Search Engine Watch Blog, media blog, Kelsey Group Blogs and Digital Markets
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
CEO Leaves Local News & Community Startup Backfence; Other Layoffs — Perhaps symptomatic of the difficulties in developing the local news, community and citizen journalism ventures as a business, especially a venture backed on: Backfence, the local news venture, has seen its co-fouder …
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Rupert Murdoch Doesn't Read This Column — This is my 2007 predictions column, where I first examine my predictions from 2006 to see how well or poorly I did (my multiyear average is around 75 percent) then provide a list of predictions for the current year that are sufficiently vague …
Stefan Constantinescu / Ring Nokia:
Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Unboxing! — Don't want these hogging up all my bandwidth by being on the front page so just click "continue reading" below to look at 14 pictures of this little beauty! — Here is one image to get your mouth watering:
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Anything But iPod:
SanDisk Video Player & Flash Player to be Announced at CES 2007 — Here are a few pics of the upcoming MP3 player from SanDisk. Many of us thought there would be a follow up to the e200 series player, possibly the e300. But from what it looks like SanDisk will be releasing a full …
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
Any Video Converter — When you start dabbling with video files on a PC, one of the first things that happens is you realize that you need to convert a file from one of the myriad of video formats to another one. Then, as you start investigating how to go about doing that …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft pulls four planned patches — Microsoft has pulled four bulletins from its announced list of Patch Tuesday fixes, but did not specify why it was backpedaling on the security releases. — It now plans to issue four security bulletins on Tuesday, rather than the eight originally announced …
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Music Fans: Dismantle DRM — New lawsuits are using antitrust law to challenge media giants' music download policies, claiming they unfairly restrict users' purchases — When it comes to legal action over downloaded music, the defendants are often individuals: The lone user downloads …
Gizmodo:
CES 2007: Xbox 360 Announcements Leaked: IPTV, DVR, VOD — Xbox 360 Announcements Leaked: IPTV, DVR, VOD — Dean T. of the Mercury News just made an oops and leaked some Xbox 360 announcements Microsoft was planning on dropping next week at CES. Not only does he mention the improved Xbox 360s …
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
E-Paper Display Company Plastic Logic Receives $100 Million Funding — In one of the biggest venture capital rounds ever in Europe, UK electronic paper display technology company Plastic Logic has received $100 million in venture funding. The new round was led by Oak Investment Partners and Tudor Investment Corporation.
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Kotaku:
Slamdance: Columbine Pulled on Moral Grounds — I've written up a piece about the reasoning behind Super Columbine Massacre RPG being pulled from the Slamdance festival for the Rocky Mountain News. — In it the festival president Peter Baxter says that he made the decision free …
Bruce Gain / Wired News:
PCs Get Set to Scream in 2007 — Flash-memory-aided hard drives and software that harnesses the full power of multi-core CPUs will make PCs speedier and more convenient in 2007. — Next-gen computers will boot up and load applications more quickly as speedy flash memory helps alleviate …
Muhammad Saleem / The Mu Life:
Why Social Sites Need Forums — One thing that socially driven news and content sites are sorely lacking, across the board, are forums. This is regrettable, because it is becoming more and more apparent that forums, that allow interaction between the community and the site owners, are what these sites need most.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Will digg die the death of 1,000 cuts? — Someone speculates today that digg is going to take a hit from the hundreds of smaller sites that are going vertical in the social news market place. They make a really nice long list of all the social news sites (let's not call them digg-clones …
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Lyndonantcliff / Cornwall SEO:IS THIS THE THING THAT WILL DESTROY DIGG?
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