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Jason / Hulu Blog:
Doing hard things — “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.” — Walt Disney — Later this week, Hulu's content will no longer be available through Boxee. While we never had a formal relationship with Boxee …
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Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
the Hulu situation — we love Hulu. they have built a great product and brand (including one the best Superbowl ads this year). since our early days in private alpha, Hulu was the most requested site by our users. so we built support for browsing Hulu on boxee, reached out to Hulu …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Content Owners Force Hulu To Kneecap Boxee — Boxee, the powerful software package that can convert computers, Apple TVs and other popular products into media centers, has just been kneecapped by major studio content owners. One of the product's most popular features since its implementation …
Fred / A VC:
Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee — For those that don't know, Union Square Ventures is an investor in Boxee and I am on the board. For the past several weeks I have watched Boxee's management try their hardest to convince Hulu that Boxee is a big step forward for Hulu and Hulu's content partners.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
DEMO Gets Desperate: Shipley Out, Marshall In — Things are changing at DEMO, the startup and product-launch conference owned by IDG that competes with our own TechCrunch50 conference. After 13 years, conference organizer Chris Shipley will make way for Matt Marshall, editor of VentureBeat.
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VentureBeat, the Econsultancy blog, The Guidewire, bub.blicio.us, VentureBlog, DEMO.com and PE Hub Blog
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:DEMO Producer Chris Shipley to Pass the Torch to VentureBeat's Matt Marshall
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Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Tumblr Ditches Anonyblogger Ban Amidst User Revolt — That was fast. Yesterday, blogging service Tumblr moved to ban five accounts the site's admins judged were “harassing” users — the so called “anonybloggers.” But after receiving “several hundred responses from users who are upset,” …
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Chris Davies / iPhone Buzz:
Google demo offline GMail webapp for iPhone: Video Demo — Vic Gundotra, VP of engineering at Google, demonstrated an offline-capable webapp for the iPhone 3G this morning that allows full access to a user's GMail even while the handset is in airplane mode.
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Mashable!, VentureBeat, Engadget, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, MacBlogz, Neowin.net and The Apple Core
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Kelly Winters / Facebook Developers:
Sharing your best practices for making money on Facebook Platform — We launched Facebook Platform to give you the opportunity to create innovative new experiences for our users, and with that gave you the flexibility to monetize those experiences in the ways you best saw fit.
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Twitter creator Jack Dorsey illuminates the site's founding document. Part I — Twitter's prehistoric document, circa 2000. An early temporary name was “Stat.us.” — Credit: Jack Dorsey. — Sitting in the Flickr archives is a nearly 10-year-old document uploaded a couple of years ago by its author …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Hacker pokes third hole in secure sockets layer — Moxie Marlinspike's man-in-the-middle — Free whitepaper - The Register Guide: Taking stock of the IT environment — Website encryption has sustained another body blow, this time by an independent hacker who demonstrated a tool …
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Kathleen Richards / East Bay Express:
Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 — Local business owners say Yelp offers to hide negative customer reviews of their businesses on its web site ... for a price. — Send a letter — The phone calls came almost daily. It started to get creepy. — “Hi, this is Mike from Yelp,” the voice would say.
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Anne Loucks / OLDaily:
The Agreeable Cat — How often have you been presented with unplesant click-through license agreements like this one from the Adobe website: — It is disturbingly common for people to click right on through such barriers without even looking at the agreement. I totally understand this attitude.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
GeeMail puts offline Gmail on your desktop — GeeMail is a standalone Gmail client that runs on Adobe AIR. It looks and feels exactly like Google's Gmail, or at least how it did before the introduction of labs last year. It's big feature is that it lets you view and reply to Gmail messages while offline.
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Judge strips class-action status from Vista Capable lawsuit — In a ruling issued this afternoon, U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman reversed her earlier decision granting class-action status to the lawsuit over Microsoft's Windows Vista Capable marketing program.
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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:Split decision on major Vista Capable ruling; decertification …
BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Testing A More Integrated Search Experience — Search and Trends in Twitter for a fraction of folks. — Twitter Search has been growing ever more popular despite the fact that it lives on a subdomain of our site. Today, we've placed Search and Trends into the signed-in home pages …
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TechCrunch, Pulse2, bub.blicio.us, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and Online Marketing Blog, Thanks:atul
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
T-Mobile USA tests $50 unlimited call plan — NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile USA, the No. 4 U.S. mobile phone service, said on Wednesday it is offering a $50 per month service plan to long-time customers in San Francisco, in the latest sign that U.S. operators may be facing a price war.
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
The Apple Mafia — In Silicon Valley, Apple's quirky culture goes far beyond its walls. — Whether it's Apple's iPhone or Yahoo!'s home page, travel to the far corners of the world and the products created by Silicon Valley's companies will win recognition wherever you go.
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Marketing Nirvana
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Black hat, blank face: researchers crack biometric scanners — Multiple OEMs have positioned their face-recognition software packages and supporting laptops as offering a higher level of security than a conventional login/password system. At Black Hat DC this week, however …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Yahoo Shows Search Ads With Images and Video — Yahoo is introducing a new type of search advertising that integrates images and video in paid listings, the company plans to announce Thursday. — Search advertising typically shows only text advertisements and links.
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Etan Horowitz / Etan on Tech:
While you were sleeping, three local stations shut off analog; here's how it looked — I just got back from watching three Orlando stations — WMFE-Channel 24, WVEN-Channel 26 and WRDQ-Channel 27 shut off their analog transmissions as part of the nation's transition to all digital broadcasting.
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Apple Slows Down Mac Upgrades, in Sync With Economy — Apple isn't going to roll out a revamped Mac desktop anytime soon, because you wouldn't buy one anyway, analysts say. — Tough economic times, a shrinking desktop market and strong notebook sales make the idea of a sexy …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
ShareThis.com Aims to Become A Big Data Platform in the Next Web — Have you noticed those little links next to blog posts and news stories that say “Share This”? Click on that link and you get a pop-up with options to share an article on Delicious, Facebook, StumbleUpon or other services.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Tremor Media Raises $18 Million For Web Video Ads — Web video ad network Tremor Media has raised $18 million in series C financing. — Meritech Capital Partners led the round. Previous investors include Canaan Partners, Masthead Venture Partners, and European Founders Fund.
Douglas MacMillan / Tech Beat:
The Complaint Almost Filed Against Facebook — Even after bloggers and consumer rights groups kicked up a cloud of suspicion around changes Facebook quietly made to its service agreement in weeks prior, the social networking site didn't back down. Instead, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stuck up for these changes on the company's blog.
Bloomberg:
Baidu Says Sales Will Grow at Record-Slow Pace as Advertisers Cut Spending — Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — Baidu Inc., operator of China's most- used Internet search engine, forecast sales will grow at a record-slow pace of 36 percent, missing analyst estimates, as the economic slump discourages companies from advertising.
