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Chris Albrecht / GigaOM:
Warning Sign: Metered Broadband Already a Hassle — We've talked before that metered access is a boneheaded idea that is bad for innovation, bad for Microsoft and Google, and ultimately bad for you. Until today, the idea seemed like an eventuality, not an immediate reality.
Fred / A VC:
Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns — The comments on my initial post on this topic went right at the VC's compensation - management fees and carry - and their impact on returns. So at Ken Berger's suggestion, I will change my planned post for today and address the issue head on.
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Steve Johnson / E-Commerce Times:
Television's Future Could Be ‘Horrible’ … Song, Dance and Destruction — Made by Whedon and many of his regulars during his frustration with the writers strike, the tale of a hapless villain/song-and-dance man sparkles with all the knowing pop culture glory of “Buffy.”
Ellen Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Startups bring Web 2.0 to Chinese masses — Two summers ago, Tudou CEO Gary Wang handed cans of spray paint to his workers and told them to go wild. — They coated the office's white walls with bold colors, doodling happy faces, hearts, paw prints and high-tech terms like “Java” and “Ajax.”
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Adam B. Kushner / Newsweek:
This Bug Man Is a Pest — George Ledin teaches students how to write viruses, and it makes computer-security software firms sick. — The Virus Professor … In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age.
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David Rothman / TeleRead:
Lesson for Kindle fans and other e-bookers? ‘What if Apple stopped issuing DRM keys?’ Same danger? — Paul Biba, a valued TeleBlog contributor, was spot on when he praised the Kindle's easy of use. — No need for geekdom. No transfers from your PC. You use the Kindle to shop for books and download them, not just read 'em.
Serkan Toto / TechCrunch:
Taking social networks abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan — Sized at an estimated $5.6 billion in 2007, Japan boasts one of the biggest online advertising markets in the world - a huge potential just waiting to be tapped by foreign social networks.
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Adam Tow / Voices:
iPhoneDevCamp2 — This weekend in San Francisco, the second annual iPhoneDevCamp2 is underway. Whereas the first confab focused primarily on Web applications, this one has a definite native application flavor, thanks in large part to the fact that the iPhone software development kit (SDK) …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Google Sites to Replace Google Page Creator — Google Pages is still a part of Google Labs but this web page creator software will never get a chance to graduate from labs as it is getting replaced by Google Sites - a new product similar to Google Pages but with a wiki.
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AppleInsider:
Ten step guide to sharing your iPhone's connection with NetShare — A tiny company called Nullriver today released what is arguably one of the most useful iPhone applications to date: NetShare. With a tiny bit of configuring, the $10 software allows you to share your iPhone's EDGE …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
AOL's Tacoda To Terminate Inventory Contracts With Publishers; Clarizio: ‘Expanding, Not Shuttering’ — AOL (NYSE: TWX) behavioral targeting unit Tacoda will terminate the existing inventory contracts with web publishers within 30 days, the company said in e-mail to clients last week.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:AOL shutters Tacoda, forces customers into low-end Ad.com
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William Patry / The Patry Copyright Blog:
End of the Blog — I have decided to end the blog, after doing around 800 postings over about 4 years. I regret closing the blog and I owe readers an explanation. There are two reasons. — 1. The Inability or Refusal to Accept the Blog for What it is: A Personal Blog
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
How to Get Out of a Cell Contract Without Paying an ETF in Many Not-So-Easy Steps — If you try to get out of your cellphone contract without paying one of those blasted (and newly illegal in California) early termination fees, you're going to need a meticulously planned and researched counterargument for everything they throw at you.
