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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Why I Stopped Using Twitter — There's a lot of Twitter hype in the blogosphere today, and I've contributed plenty of my own Twitter hype in the past. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to offer some anti-hype, derived from my own experience using Twitter — an explanation of why I STOPPED using Twitter.
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Andrew Martin / New York Times:
Penthouse Buys Group of Social-Networking Sites — While the influx of free and low-cost video has hurt the sale of pornographic videos, the chief executive of the Penthouse Media Group remains so bullish on the sex-related entertainment industry that he is investing $500 million in a group of social networking sites.
Rich Brown / CNET News.com:
A new face in HTPCs — When we first opened the PDF containing the concept images of Omaura's concept TT chassis, we thought for a second it was a large, TV-stand-ready all-in-one PC whose display had a seriously distorted aspect ratio. We'll confess to a little disappointment once we realized …
Maryanne Murray Buechner / Time:
50 Top 10 Lists of 2007 — Top 10 Gadgets — #1. Apple iPhone — The iPhone changed the way we think about how mobile media devices should look, feel and perform. The design is exceptional inside and out: It's got a slick glass-and-stainless steel case and an elegant touch screen loaded with eye candy.
Anne Zelenka / GigaOM:
The Next Social Network: WordPress — Could open-source blogging platform WordPress serve as your next social networking profile? Chris Messina, co-founder of Citizen Agency, thinks so. He's started a project called DiSo, for distributed social networking, that aims to "build a social network with its skin inside out."
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Mahalo takes a step forward with human-powered search engine — Jason McCabe Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, believes that humans can outwit the machines. This is not a replay of Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Terminator" movies. Rather, Mahalo is a search engine that is powered by human judgment, known in Web 2.0 circles as "curation."
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Forget the SanDisk Deal, NBC Direct Will Soon Have Free Downloads in HD — While NBC Universal is making deals left and right to try to make up for the fact that it is no longer distributing its digital TV shows through iTunes, don't get distracted by all the small-fry announcements.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:NBCU: SanDisk Fanfare = Our New iTunes Store
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Jason Szep / Reuters:
"w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary — BOSTON (Reuters) - "w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary. — Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said "w00t" — typically spelled with two zeros …
Frank Dorman / Federal Trade Commission:
FTC And Seven States Sue Payment Processor that Allegedly Took Millions from Consumers' Bank Accounts on Behalf of Fraudulent Telemarketers and Internet-based Merchants — The Federal Trade Commission and seven state attorneys general have charged a payment processor with violating federal …
Katie Allen / Guardian:
Online, in touch, up to speed: UK's social network obsessives are European leaders — One in four UK adults do it 23 times a month. And Britons do it more often than anyone else in world, except for Canadians. The obsession is with social networking, which according to a report published today …
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Chris Sorensen / Toronto Star:
Rogers website messages irk Google — Critics say corporate notices violate `Net neutrality' — Search engine giant Google Inc. says it's "concerned" about efforts by Rogers Communications Inc. to insert branded corporate messages into third-party websites, a move critics say is a case …
InfoWorld:
Commodore 64 celebrates its 25th anniversary — An Apple II PC being sold by Commodore International in 1982? It came very close to happening, but luckily for Apple, Commodore rejected the idea, instead going with its revolutionary Commodore 64. — Apple was one of the companies …
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Tech-On! : tech news:
Toshiba's New Secondary Battery Squashed ... No Explosion, Fire ... Why? [Video] — Kouji Kariatsumari, Nikkei Electronics — Toshiba Corp developed a Li-ion secondary battery "SCiB (Super Charge ion Battery)." The life cycle of the new battery is more than 10 years even if it is rapidly charged and discharged many times.
Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
Is All This Talk Of 'Open' Just Lip Service? — Open, open, open. It's the buzzword of the moment in mobile, thanks to the likes of Google and Verizon. Operators are talking about how they're open, how they want to foster innovation and new business models, and how they love openness and so on.
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The Venus by LG Gets Dressed Up in Pink for Verizon Wireless — The Venus features a 2.0 megapixel camera, VZ Navigator(SM) capability, a microSD(TM) memory slot that can support up to 8 GB of additional memory, and dual-screen displays, the lower with touch navigation.
Reuters:
NBC refunds advertisers as ratings plunge — NEW YORK (Media Week) - Fourth-ranked broadcaster NBC has quietly begun reimbursing advertisers an average of $500,000 each for failing to reach guaranteed ratings levels, the first time a network has taken such a step in years, media buyers said.
