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Nova Spivack / Twine:
Wolfram Alpha is Coming — and It Could be as Important as Google — Stephen Wolfram is building something new — and it is really impressive and significant. In fact it may be as important for the Web (and the world) as Google, but for a different purpose.
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Between the Lines, Wolfram Blog, TECH.BLORGE.com, ecpm blog, bytes|genes and AltSearchEngines
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Wolfram Alpha — it's like plugging into an electronic brain — Scientist Stephen Wolfram has built a new engine, called Wolfram Alpha, that apparently can compute answers to factual questions more powerfully than Google. — Wolfram has just posted about the effort, which has taken years …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011 — I had a surprisingly candid lunch conversation last week with a big music label executive, and a good part of our talk focused on the future of music. I asked the usual question: Why are you guys so damned clueless?
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Amazon VOD in HD on TiVo - Coming Soon? — After reading my post wondering where Amazon VOD in HD is, multiple sources have confirmed for me that TiVo's implementation is currently in testing. While I still don't have concrete timing details, and suspect we're waiting on Amazon.com at this point …
TheFunded.com:
The VC Apocalypse: Careful with Your Time — PUBLIC: — Fellow entrepreneurs, most VCs are unable to complete capital calls and, therefore, are unable to make new investments. This includes everyone from name brand funds to small funds, and it does not matter if they recently closed a new fund or not.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Pay-For-Play Comes To Online Radio. Is That a Bad Thing? — When it comes to promoting new music, pay-for-play schemes are generally frowned upon. The practice, which involves music labels or artists paying radio stations to play their songs in heavy rotation, dates back to the beginnings of terrestrial radio.
Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
The Neokast Mystery — What happened to Neokast? It's a mystery to me. But I suspect the answer will surprise us all soon enough. — Neokast, as readers of my old PBS column will recall, was a peer-to-peer live video streaming application developed by graduate students from Northwestern University near Chicago.
Matt Rosoff / Digital Noise:
More free on-demand audio with Muziic — I love covering music software because the pace of evolution is so fast. I guess everybody's looking for the next billion-dollar business (after iTunes) to help replace declining CD sales. — Last week, I blogged about Spotify …
Bloomberg:
Yahoo Wins Court Approval of Severance Plan That May Aid Buyout Offers — Yahoo Inc., owner of the second most-popular U.S. Internet search engine, won a judge's approval of a settlement mandating changes to the company's severance plan that investors contend will make it easier for Microsoft Corp. or other potential suitors to buy it.
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Verizon Customers - Just Say No! — It is easier to seek forgiveness than it is to get permission according to Verizon, which has once again shown us what large corporations should not be doing when it comes to customer service. — David Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto …
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Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, Boing Boing Gadgets, delawareonline and Joho the Blog, Thanks:brickandclick
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Would-be iPhone developers “pulling their hair out by the roots” — Apple's ability to process iPhone developer contracts is quickly turning into a minor crisis as what was once a smooth process is rapidly turning into a months-long backlog that threatens to keep new developers out of the App Store.
Randall Stross / New York Times:
When Everyone's a Friend, Is Anything Private? — FACEBOOK has a chief privacy officer, but I doubt that the position will exist 10 years from now. That's not because Facebook is hell-bent on stripping away privacy protections, but because the popularity of Facebook and other social networking sites …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs — It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose. Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer, and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below).
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TECH.BLORGE.com, Mark Evans, MYBLOG by Ouriel, Between the Lines, CNET News and TechFlash
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