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Evan Blass / Engadget:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network to be unveiled tomorrow — We're still reeling over the fact that BitTorrent — the same company that invented every pirate's favorite "sharing technology" — has signed deals with numerous content providers to offer for-pay movie, TV show, and video game downloads …
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:BitTorrent Entertainment Network Debuts Monday
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Great Media Industry Schism — The once monolithic media industry is undergoing a radical schism, dividing itself into content creation, on the one hand, and content aggregation and distribution on the other. — The nature of this transformation suddenly crystallized …
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Hollywood Disrupted — Reading through the LA Times, as I do before The Oscars every year, I came across a fantastic Op-Ed written by a respected Hollywood author by the name of Neal Gabler. The opinion piece, titled "The Movie Magic is Gone", explains how Hollywood is losing its place …
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Jason Pontin / New York Times:
Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them — THE World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can't find the videos we want or browse for what we might like. — That's a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become the content …
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PRWeb:
Oscar Nominations - Wordtracker Predictions — The movie and gossip columns today are awash with speculation on the Oscar nominations. Asking who will walk away with the prizes is great fun not only in the US but throughout the world. But is there anyway to really get an inside track?
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Six cool things you can build with OpenID — I've posted the slides from my Future of Web Apps talk on OpenID, minus the demo videos. I'm planning to put together a video that combines the slides, demos and audio once the official podcasts have been published.
Pranam Kolari / UMBC eBiquity:
The I's of the Blogosphere — The token "I" (1, 2) can provide interesting cues on the Blogosphere, other than signifying the obvious personal nature of blog posts. "I" sometimes use it to study the growth of the blogosphere (between David Sifry reports ofcourse), or just for fun …
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Plusbox — While searching Google for nightwish videos, Razvan Antonescu spotted this video plusbox* (ignore the blue link bars in the screenshot, they're from a Firefox extension). Alongside a snippet from Google Video, a plus icon appeared with a link reading "show video" …
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Dan Lurie / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Fire.app Closes Shop — After almost 8 years in production, the open-source instant messaging application Fire has come to an end. Pre-dating even iChat, Fire was the first multi-protocol client on the platform, and has long had a dedicated user base. The loss of multiple key members …
Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Publisher Network's Trojan Horse — Google has a hefty lead in getting small publishers to put Google-powered ads on their websites. There is no negotiated deal - advertisers agree to take whatever Google decides to give them. Revenue share terms are not disclosed to these small publishers.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple iPhone Teaser Ad Airs During Oscars [Updatex3] — Apple aired their teaser ad for the Apple iPhone during the Oscars tonight. The ad has run multiple times during the Oscars. — The advertisement started with a collection of scenes from television and film with actors saying "Hello" on a telephone.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
The Best Anti-PS3 Song of the Weekend — Watch it. You'll either laugh, cry, or want to start a flame war, but this is a perfect example of an audience talking back to a massive corporation that has lost its way. Sony — watch this multiple times and send a translated version to Tokyo, just so they get all the nuance.
Spencer Kelly / BBC:
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0 — With a growing demand for a better browsing experience on our mobiles, there is, according to the industry, demand for Web 2.0 on the go. — While text blogging on a mobile is still seen as a minority sport, the explosion of camera and videophones now allows us …
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Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
Gamer busted for "borrowing" library WiFi after hours — We're well aware of WiFi bogarting from unsuspecting neighbors or coffee shops, but who knew there'd be a crackdown at the local house o' books? Cops couldn't leave well enough alone when they rolled up on 21 year-old Brian Tanner jammin …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Windows-based ATM machine hacked, gets Painted — Although we wouldn't expect to find the latest release of Photoshop on your neighborhood ATM, it's not so far fetched to think that Paint would be left on a Windows-based ATM. We've seen a recent boost in cash machine hacking of late …
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