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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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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.
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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.
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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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 …
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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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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who Needs Big Music on YouTube? The Best Video of 2009 is Homegrown — YouTube and the big music labels are spending a lot of time and effort trying to figure out how make money off of music videos. If only they were as inventive as Kutiman. — Who? I hadn't heard of Kutiman until today, either.
Andrew Keen / The Great Seduction:
We are all Scoble now — Last night A-list twhirler-in-chief Loic Le Meur, twittering from a Burger King dinner with some of Silicon Valley's most illustrious networkers, sent out an intriguing couple of tweets: — “There are very few people like me with so many friends and followers” just said @scobleizer
Ken Gagne / Computerworld Blogs:
AT&T predicted the future. Can Microsoft? — The past century was filled with optimistic predictions of how quickly technology would progress. Flying cars? Moon colonies? Robotic servants to free humanity of day-to-day drudgery? None of that's happened yet, much to our ancestors' chagrin.
DCEmu.Com:
The State of the Homebrew Scene 2009 — Its now March 2009 and time for a new State of the Homebrew Scene for 2009. — Because we are the only dedicated homebrew Network on the web covering just about all scenes, I feel its a good time to give a low down on each scene and some pointers …
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld Blogs:
Google CEO hints Google/Linux netbooks may be coming — People have been speculating about Google getting into the desktop business ever since Good OS, an Ubuntu-based Linux built around online Google applications showed up in 2007. Then, the rumor-mill really got churning when it was shown …
John Naughton / Guardian:
How Kindle brought technology to book — Know the old joke about the drunk and the lost keys? A policeman finds a guy scrabbling under a lamp-post and asks him what he's doing. “Looking for my keys,” he replies. “Is this where you dropped them?” asks the cop.
