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Los Angeles Times:
News Corp., NBC pull together to challenge YouTube — Several media giants are teaming up to challenge Google Inc. and its YouTube video-sharing service, seeking to blunt their incursion into the entertainment business. — News Corp. and NBC Universal plan to announce as soon as today …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
News Corp, NBC May Announce Distributed YouTube Competitor Tomorrow — There have been rumors of a TV network led joint venture to compete with YouTube for months - the first time we heard it was just a couple of days after the first rumor of Google's acquisition of the company.
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:More on Youtube-Rivals JV: Fox, NBC and Sony; Distribution on MySpace, MSN and Yahoo
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple TV Has Landed — In the technology world, conventional wisdom says that we'll soon be saying R.I.P. for the DVD. Internet downloads are the future, baby. No driving, no postpaid envelopes. Any movie, any TV show, any time. — Only one problem: once you've downloaded the shows to your computer …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Mossberg reviews Apple TV: "simple and elegant"
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Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally, SearchViews, MacRumors, Mark Evans, Crave and Thomas Hawk's Digital …
Tony Smith / The Register:
Ten reasons why you should buy a Mac — Receive the days biggest stories by email, sign up here — Yes, you can accept Apple's logic that "it all just works" straight out of the packaging, but there are better reasons for moving to a Mac than a factor that's just as true of modern PCs these days.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
CIOs Spurn Web 2.0 Startups - Enterprises Want Suites and Large, Incumbent Software Vendors — Forrester Research has just released two reports concerning 'web 2.0' in the enterprise. Forrester recently surveyed 119 CIOs on the topic and their answers illustrate what IT honchos want …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Kongregrate, the online social game hub — Kongregate, of San Francisco, launches tomorrow with a host of Web games targeted at young males with social networking components pushing new bounds. — Kongregate is signifiacant because it targets a group that until now hasn't been served by online social games.
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Kongregate Gets $1M, Launches User Generated Games — We covered Kongregate when they were in private beta, but they're officially public with a new wad of cash from some big names to back them up. They've created a gaming community around Flash games developed by other users …
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The Huffington Post:
Phil de Vellis, aka ParkRidge47: I Made the "Vote Different" Ad — Hi. I'm Phil. I did it. And I'm proud of it. — I made the "Vote Different" ad because I wanted to express my feelings about the Democratic primary, and because I wanted to show that an individual citizen can affect the process.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge's decision leaves RIAA with lose-lose situation in Elektra v. Santangelo — The case of Elektra v. Santangelo has been one of the more closely followed cases in the RIAA's crusade against suspected file sharers, due in no small part to the aggressiveness of Patti Santangelo's defense.
Emre Sokullu / Read/WriteWeb:
How To Market Your Web App — So after 1 year of fund-raising, planning and development, your shiny new beta web app is finally ready... and now you think it's marketing time. You want to reach thousands of users as quickly as possible. Aha, you think, the cheapest and shortest path is viral marketing …
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Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Sales of Music, Long in Decline, Plunge Sharply — Rise in Downloading — Fails to Boost Industry; — A Retailing Shakeout — In a dramatic acceleration of the seven-year sales decline that has battered the music industry, compact-disc sales for the first three months of this year plunged 20% …
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Techdirt, Publishing 2.0, Ars Technica, Podcasting News, Paul Kedrosky's …, Joe Duck, The Next Net, Listening Post, OnoTech, Furdlog and Geek News Central
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Good News! CD Music Sales Down 20% from 2006
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Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
User Community and ROI — Every time I give a talk, someone always asks, "That's all good and nice that helping users learn is the key to creating passionate users... but who's going to do all that extra work? Who's going to make the extra tutorials and better docs?" Answer: your user community.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft says Xbox security wasn't breached — Microsoft found no evidence of a security breach on its Xbox Live or Bungie.net online gaming services, and gamers who had trouble with their accounts were likely duped into giving up their details to fraudsters, the company said Wednesday.
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Grant Robertson / Download Squad:
Linux MCE looks hot — MythTV, the popular Linux based PVR project, has been around for some time. It's nice, and it functions well, but it's only as functional as Windows Media Center Edition plus, it can be difficult to install and configure. Linux MCE, which wraps MythTV up into a nice package …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Did Google turn down the revenue knob? — Tonight at Jeff Pulver's awesome party I met a Google employee who I'll keep nameless. He works closely with the advertising team and found it interesting that I noticed that Google is putting fewer advertisements on each page than its competitor.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft severs Live Search from the rest of the Windows Live family — Live Search is no longer part of the larger Windows Live services family, in terms of engineering and development. — One by-product of the March 21 Microsoft announcement of the creation of a new Search and Ad Platform group got relatively little play.
Jay Fortner / Read/WriteWeb:
Dekoh Challenges Apollo As Desktop/Web Platform — After the tremendous build-up and response to Adobe's Apollo platform, which aims to integrate desktop apps with the Web, we must also remember there are other products trying for the same thing. Dekoh is one such competitor and …
Gizmodo:
AppleTV First Unboxing — Packaging is one of the only things about the AppleTV that we haven't seen already. I was lucky enough to get one early. Biggest surprise? No cables in the box. — NOAH ROBISCHON
