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Paul Miller / Engadget:
PlayStation Home revealed — Good news for the PlayStation camp, full details of Sony's PlayStation Home have been revealed, and it ain't no slacker. Alongside those avatars and achievements we heard about earlier, the "service" seems to be a new-gen Second Life killer, with public hangouts …
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Jared Rea / Joystiq:
PlayStation Home, the free virtual world of PlayStation 3 — Sony has validated the "blackball rumor" with the unveiling of PlayStation Home — a free to download, virtual world for the PlayStation 3. While earlier murmurings mentioned customizable avatars and achievements …
Gizmodo:
PlayStation Home Combines the Best of Nintendo's Miis, a few Xbox 360 Achievements, Second Life, and the Sims — Turns out the rumor was spot on. Sony's officially announcing the Home—or PlayStation Home as it's less confusingly known—feature for the PS3.
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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:Sony to Add Online Bells and Whistles for PlayStation 3
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Tim Hames / Times of London:
YouTube banned in Turkey after video insults — A court in Istanbul has issued an order denying access to the video-sharing website YouTube. The state owned Turk Telecom implemented the ban today after an escalating dispute between Greek and Turkish users of the site.
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BBC:
Turkish court bans YouTube access — Access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube has been suspended in Turkey following a court order. — The ban was imposed after prosecutors told the court that clips insulting former Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had appeared on the site.
Google Blogoscoped:
Super-Close Google Maps Zooms — Holy moly that is a close up zoom of a camel (see my screenshot above) - and it works for other place on Google Maps too! Yes, it turns out that you can zoom in much more deeply onto Google Maps by doing this: — Select a location and switch to satellite view
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Google Maps Send to Car — On the Google Maps team, our goal is not only to help you find local businesses, but also to enable you to quickly connect with those businesses, wherever you are. To that end, we recently introduced the ability to call businesses in the U.S. directly from Google Maps …
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Gartenberg / GartenBlog:
And Back to Analyst... This is a difficult post to write. But after much of thought, I have decided not to remain with Microsoft and I am returning to JupiterResearch as of Monday 3/12. — At my core, I am an analyst. It's what I do and I do it well and after much thought …
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft's top search executive leaving company — The Microsoft Corp. executive who led the company's challenge to Google is leaving the company. — Christopher Payne, the corporate vice president for Microsoft's Live Search initiative, plans to launch a Seattle-based technology firm unrelated …
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Valleywag:
ADVERTISING: Facebook 'consistently the worst performing site' — So Facebook, which has been letting people know it's on track for $150m in revenues in 2007, must be an awesome advertising platform. Well, sorry to rain on the parade, but no. Media buyers — the agency people who book campaigns …
Marla Nitke / Interactive Advertising Bureau:
IAB/PwC RELEASE FOURTH-QUARTER AND FY 2006 INTERNET AD REVENUE FIGURES — Internet Advertising Revenues Estimated at $16.8 Billion for Full Year 2006 — Q4 2006 Totals Nearly $4.8 Billion, Setting a New Industry Record — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers …
MediaShift:
DIGGING DEEPER — Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff — BY MARK GLASER, 12:15PM — Whenever journalist-programmer extraordinaire Adrian Holovaty speaks at a conference, newspaper executives approach him to ask, "Where can we find another person like you?"
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Jaanus / Skype Blogs:
Skype Prime™ Beta — introducing the global expertise marketplace — Today, we put out an update of Skype 3.1 beta for Windows. Download here. It contains the typical bugfixes and such from the previous release — thanks to everyone who's been helping us with the reports. Keep them coming.
Google Watch:
Mark Cuban's Magnolia Pictures Subpoenas Google over Pirated Videos — Magnolia Pictures, an independent film studio owned by entrepreneur Mark Cuban, has subpoenaed Google to reveal the identities of users who uploaded Magnolia's copyrighted videos to both Google Video and YouTube, Google Watch has learned.
Mike / CrunchNotes:
Destroying Sites on Launch Day — As TechCrunch traffic continues to grow, a problem is popping up more and more often - the traffic we send to a site when we write about it on its launch day can (and often does) take it down. It's not that TechCrunch traffic is that massive …
