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Scott Kirsner / Variety:
Academy threatens YouTube — Site removes unauthorized Oscar clips — Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscarcast via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips of the kudocast.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Oscars.com vs Youtube.com and the value of hosting on Gootube — Comscore released data saying that 139k people visited Oscar.com on Oscar Sunday. Seperately, Mashable reported that the Oscars asked Youtube to remove videos from the show that had been uploaded.
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comScore:
And the Oscar goes to... "The World Wide Web" — Two-thirds of Oscar.com Visitors came from International Locations on Oscar Sunday; — Significant Traffic Spikes Reported at Other Related Movie Sites — comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today reported the results …
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Stuck in traffic? — There's nothing worse than getting stuck in traffic when you have some place to go, so I'm happy to tell you about a new feature on Google Maps that can help. For more than 30 major U.S. cities, you can now see up-to-date traffic conditions to help you plan your schedule and route.
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Google Maps adds real-time traffic data — Google has added real-time traffic data for several major cities to its mapping service, the company said Wednesday. — The traffic information is integrated with Google Maps and is available in more than 30 American cities, including San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago and New York.
CNET News.com:
Adobe to take Photoshop online — Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday. — The new online service is part …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:Adobe Photoshop Going Online: Death to Online Photo Editors?
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Reuters:
CompUSA Closing More Than 50 Percent of Stores — CompUSA, the computer and gadget retailer owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said on Tuesday it would close more than half of its U.S. retail locations over the next two to three months to focus on top performing locations.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Is Spotplex a Better Digg? — A new site called Spotplex launched today that arguably sorts news in a better way than Digg does. I've been testing the service for the last couple of weeks and like what I've seen. — News stories are not submitted by users, as with Digg.
Ben Fritz / Variety:
ITunes is all 'That' to indie producers — Store opens doors to low-profile videos — ITunes has cracked open to independent video producers for the first time. — Apple's digital content store on Tuesday started selling "That," a snowboarding action pic made for DVD by Forum Snowboards.
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Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google's Gadget Numbers Revealed — Widget developers take note. If you weren't certain the development time for a widget would be worthwhile or not the numbers are in. Google has released the daily rendering numbers of Google gadgets. To see the numbers for an individual gadget go to the Gadgets For Your Webpage directory.
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Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips:
34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog — Thanks to everyone who has added their thoughts on why they unsubscribe from a blog's RSS feed. There have been 109 comments left on that post so far and some interesting recurring themes have emerged. — I've attempted to categorize them below.
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Tom McNichol / Business 2.0:
A startup's best friend? Failure — From Dogster to Google, Web companies are finding that mistakes can be shortcuts to success, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — Few niches crashed more spectacularly during Web 1.0 than the pet sector.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Will Outside.in nail the community Web site? Maybe — How do you build the perfect local community Web site — with news, events, comments and more? — If you manage to, it will be a grand slam. It becomes the talk of the town, people spend more time going there, and local advertisers spend money there.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google: Click Fraud Is 0.02% Of Clicks — Finally, we have a click fraud rate from Google itself: less than 0.02 percent of all clicks slip past its filters and are caught after advertisers request reviews. That low figure is sure to bring out the critics who will disagree.
Grant Gross / InfoWorld:
RIAA opposes new fair use bill — New bill would let customers make limited numbers of copies of copyrighted works — A new bill in the U.S. Congress aimed at protecting the fair use rights for consumers of copyright material would "legalize hacking," the Recording Industry Association of America said.
