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The Wizards of Buzz — A new kind of Web site is turning ordinary people into hidden influencers, shaping what we read, watch and buy. — This winter, many parents across the country are sitting on the floor with slabs of cardboard, box cutters and special rivets, and building pirate ships for their kids.
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The transformation of IDG — For over four decades we've had print blood running through the veins of the corporate body. But over the last few years we've seen dramatic change. Today the absolute dollar growth of our online revenues now exceeds the decline in our print revenues.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Rapid Transformation Of Publishing Economics — The death of print publishing is coming, it's just a matter of whether it happens in 5 years, 10 years, or 15 years. I'm betting it happens sooner than anyone expects. Colin Crawford, the SVP of online for IDG, posted some stunning figures:
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Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
Vista successor "Vienna" planned for late 2009 — Now that Microsoft has freed Windows Vista from the shackles of a five year development process, the company is attempting to [the] wow [starts now] us by revealing that it plans to have its next major operating system ready within the next …
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Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
In India, the Golden Age of Television Is Now — GHANSHYAM P. SHAH, an 82-year-old widower, spends up to eight hours a day in front of his television watching prayer services, soap operas and financial news. But one afternoon last December, he was completely disconnected from his favorite pastime …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Wikipedia's got 3-4 months to live?!?! (and Wikipedia's technological blocking of consensus) — Very strange stuff going on in the Wikipedia world... first I get beat down by all kinds of Wikipedia folks for suggesting that Wikipedia place an OPT-OUT advertisement on the Wikipedia …
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Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
VMWare video hints at full DirectX virtualization in OS X — Mac users, listen up: a video has appeared on YouTube that shows an internal beta version of VMWare running Windows games at full speed from within Mac OS X. Accompanying this intriguing video is a blog post from Regis Duchesne …
Steve Yegge / Stevey's Blog Rants:
The Next Big Language — There seems to be a long period of initial obscurity for any new language. Then after that comes a long period of semi-obscurity, followed by total obscurity. —Paul Bissex — People are always asking me to comment on their new programming language they're designing.
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Consumerist:
Comcast Customer Uses "Unlimited Service" Excessively, Gets Disconnected For A Year — Comcast asked Frank to cut back his unlimited internet usage. Frank was confused. He thought unlimited meant, well, unlimited. Frank was wrong. Very wrong. — Comcast replaced Frank's faulty cable modem in November.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Encounters Hurdles in Selling Radio Advertising — When Google acquired dMarc Broadcasting, a company whose software allows marketers to place ads on radio stations, for up to $1.24 billion early last year, it was seen as a clear sign of Google's ambitions to extend its dominance over Internet advertising to other media.
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Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:
Barack Obama launches social network — Barack Obama, the Democrat presidential hopeful, has launched his own social network which he's calling MyBarackObama.com. The site invites supporters to create a profile, blog their campaign experiences, plan and attend events, find other supporters, and help raise funds for the campaign.
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
RIM applies for triangular keyboard layout patent — Big, tactile, and fast QWERTY keyboards are the Blackberry's defining characteristic: why then is RIM showing signs that it's going to mess with their tried and tested formula? In the second patent application to surface from the United States Patent …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Mega hands-on: Virgin America's Airbus A320 with Red in-flight entertainment — Not-yet-airborne Virgin America invited us to check out the way-decked Airbus A320 with Red prototype in-flight entertainment system that's parked at SFO right now. (Naw, we didn't get to take it up …
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Sprint Is Getting It Right — As many readers know Martin Geddes and I both have had our share of issues with T-Mobile on different sides of the Atlantic, so it's somewhat ironic that the exact opposite type of customer service experience occurred with his former employers, Sprint in my life.
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Google Potential Deal To Buy AdScape Hits Dead-End; Looking At Others — We reported last month on Google's serious talks with AdScape Media, the in-game advertising firm, in an attempt to buy it and enter the lucrative market. Now, the talks have hit a dead-end and possibly fallen through …
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