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David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
GooTube lookout: Jeremy Allaire debuts "Aftermix" as part of a re-tooled Brightcove — Shortly after Adobe's senior vice president and chief architect Kevin Lynch gave an overview of the company's roadmap for its Apollo platform here at the company's Engage event, developers who are working …
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Creating Engaging User Experiences — Adobe's holding a special product preview summit today called Engage, focused on Adobe's new tools for creating engaging user experiences. I love Adobe's framing of "engaging user experiences" as a touchstone for the web going forward.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Digital Fair Use bill introduced to US House (sans teeth) — U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA) today announced the Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 (FAIR USE Act). The bill's aim is to help put an end to the madness circulating around …
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John Fontana / Network World:
Mac OS being infused with the tools of the corporate IT trade, but can it catch on? — Users say Intel-based Macs are changing the landscape slowly. — Apple, long a ghost in the corporate-infrastructure mainstream, is beginning to cast a shadow as IT departments discover Mac platforms …
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Gallery: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard build 9A343 — Apple seeded developers last month with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard build 9A343, which remains the most recent and offered a number of improvements over its predecessor, build 9A321. — While stability remains questionable, with many applications …
Claire Atkinson / AdAge:
Google Lays Groundwork for TV Scatter Sales Sortie — Advertises for TV Ad Chief, Negotiates to Peddle Upfront Spillover — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google is looking for a head of national TV sales. The recruitment ad, posted on its website, says the winning candidate will build a …
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Sony:
SONY UNVEILS FIRST BRAVIA FLAT-PANEL LCD HDTVs WITH INTERNET VIDEO LINK COMPATIBILITY — Sony today took the wraps off seven BRAVIA™ high-definition televisions that will be compatible with the company's recently announced BRAVIA™ Internet Video Link module.
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Owen Thomas / Business 2.0 Beta:
Why Valley VCs Are Like the Mob — It's a well-established truth of today's Silicon Valley that startups don't really need venture capital. The triple-A business model of "Ajax, AdSense, and arrogance" provides most consumer Web startups with enough revenues, courtesy Google's (GOOG) advertising network, to get by.
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
WHO NEEDS A CIO? — I'm still musing over an eye-opening experience a few months ago when I spoke at CIO Magazine's annual conference. You might have expected, as I had, that most Chief Information Officers wanted to know about the latest trends in technology so they could keep ahead of the curve.
Macenstein:
Using Safari can slow your system down as much as 76% vs Firefox — In the online technology forums, there is perhaps no greater battle than the one that inevitably ensues when tech geeks get together to decide which is better, Macs or PCs. A close second to that battle, however, is which is the better web browser.
Gizmodo:
Gizmodo's Anti-RIAA Manifesto — In case you missed it, last Friday we declared the month of March Boycott the RIAA Month. We've gotten sick and tired of always seeing the RIAA pulling deplorable moves and decided it was time for us to do something about it. We're kicking the month off with this, our manifesto.
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Steve Bryant / Hollywood Reporter:
Hollywood too often misses the moment — I'm done with Sacha Baron Cohen. I've instant-messaged "Borat" clips. I've linked to the deleted scenes on YouTube. I have read and watched and blogged about him ad nauseam. — Now the "Borat" DVD will be released Tuesday, and I won't buy it.
Read/WriteWeb:
Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, February 2007 Edition — Written by Charles S. Knight, SEO and edited by Richard MacManus. The original version of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines List appeared here on Read/WriteWeb on January 29, 2007. Every month, we'll be updating the list and selecting a "Search Engine of the Month".
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Music executives lament state of industry — NEW YORK—The discussions at a music conference here Tuesday started with an all-around bashing of Apple CEO Steve Jobs before moving to the plethora of issues plaguing the music industry. — Apple, digital rights management (DRM) …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Grows the Pie — Last month we featured measurement from Compete.com of the top 20 online video sites, according to its panel. Compete ranks according to "sessions" spent on a site, but it's interesting to note that the number of unique visitors to one or more of the top 20 sites …
