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Netgear:
NETGEAR® Announces 'Digital Entertainer HD,' First Media Receiver with HDMI for Streaming HD Movies, YouTube Videos, iTunes Music and More from PCs, Storage Devices and the Internet to Home Entertainment Systems — Product Demo at 2007 CES; Streams BitTorrent Movie Downloads from PCs …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Live coverage of Netgear's press hoedown — We're here at Netgear's press conference, with Debbie Williams, CMO, introducing us to what Netgear does, and then to Vivek Pathela, VP Product Marketing. — They're starting us off fast, Vivek introduces Netgear's new Digital Entertainer HD …
Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
Netgear knocks it out of the park at CES — Opening disclosure: I am working on a consulting project with Netgear, but that work is unrelated to my blogging about them. I was invited to their press conference and chose to attend and got to see three new products that I was previously unaware of.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Web 2.0 bubble bursting: Peerflix cuts workforce, carnage mounting elsewhere — This year has become the "show-me" year. Internet start-ups showing no traction are getting shut down, or trimmed — abandoned by once wide-eyed investors. — The Web 2.0 bubble is bursting …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bubble, Bubble, Bubble — The startup ranks are starting to thin. We've added three companies to the TechCrunch DeadPool in the last week (Raw Sugar, FilmLoop and Browster). Even Google got into the spirit of things when they shut down Google Answers at the end of the year.
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Live from the Bill Gates keynote — 6:20 (PST) - The connection is spotty as hell, but Ryan and I are here at the Bill Gates keynote, which should be starting shortly. Stay tuned for updates — at least barring a failure of our EV-DO lifeline. — 6:22 - They're asking us to take our seats
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Gizmodo:
Me and Bill Gates: Talking 'Bout Porsches, Breakin the Law, and Small "Gadget" Jokes — We just had a sit down with Bill Gates. And when I say we, I mean myself, Brian from Kotaku, Robert Scoble, Ryan from Engadget, and Chris from Joystiq. All friendly rivals.
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Vecosys
Pew Internet:
Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview — A social networking site is an online place where a user can create a profile and build a personal network that connects him or her to other users. In the past five years, such sites have rocketed from a niche activity into a phenomenon …
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apophenia, Unit Structures, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Enterprise Web 2.0 and UMBC eBiquity
Nick / Rough Type:
The new new journalism — I have seen the future of journalism and his name is Andy Abramson. — I happened to be looking at Techmeme last night, and I saw that the lead story - at the very tippy top of the heap - was a piece by Abramson, from his blog VoIP Watch.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Live coverage of Verizon's press conference — After LG's little oopsie earlier in the day, we'll be curious to see what Verizon Wireless has to tell us regarding its MediaFLO plans this afternoon. We've been seated in the ballroom; the conference is about to begin. — 1:08PM PST - The event has started.
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Engadget Mobile
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft revises its Windows Live developer platform vision — Microsoft is tuning its vision for the the Windows Live Platform which is at the center of its Windows Live strategy. — The Windows Live development platform that Microsoft envisions now is different in several key ways …
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LiveSide
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
BLOGGER LETS YOU USE YOUR OWN DOMAIN — Blogger added a new feature: Bring your own domain. All you have to do is buy a domain, anywhere, at any price you can find, set up your Blogger account and point your DNS at Google's server at ghs.google.com, and viola*!
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Live from the Sony CES keynote — 4:40PM PST - Looks like we're all still waiting until they get the show on the road — it's slightly behind schedule, but should start shortly. At least we've got lots of Sony recording artists to listen to over the PA in the mean time.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Success on Digg Is Just Like Success In Old Media — According to SEO Todd Mailcoat, getting three stories to the homepage of Digg puts you in the top 1% of Digg users, and it takes "months" to build up a what Todd calls a "reputable" Digg account. Those statistics struck me as stunning …
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Stuntdubl Business …
