“Acknowledging its proprietary audio technology was a marketplace flop, Sony Corp. is shuttering its Connect digital music store and will open its portable media players to other formats.”
“Facebook’s fastest-growing demographic consists of people 35 or older: Every community must negotiate the imperatives of individual freedom and collective social order, and Facebook constitutes a critical rebalancing of the Internet’s founding vision of
“… Pocket Podcasts gives [Windows Mobile] a free podcatcher that, unlike many projects in this category, runs stably and offers a well-featured interface.”
“Assistant Editor and novice shooter Kathleen Davis challenges herself to take her photography to the next level. What amateurs and pros alike can learn along with her.”
“Facebook users no longer have to go “out there” in the rest of the Web to get new sites, they can pull them through Facebook, either with invites from the app providers or, more effectively, through their social network itself. The cumulative impact of t
Self-serving: “SurfControl looked at the phenomenon, and found Australian workers who keep a close watch on their Facebook profile page were costing their employers up to A$5 billion ($4 billion) a year.”
“…the downturn in stock market, helped by the continued speculation and goosing of the rumors of a Yahoo sale, could spell trouble for the Internet portal.”
“Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks said on Tuesday it struck a digital music partnership with online music service RealNetworks Inc. and Verizon to compete against Apple Inc.’s iTunes.”
“The only way such a spin-out would work would be if Digital was almost completely independent–free to use the brand and content to compete with the print publication, poach employees, make competitive acquisitions, replace NYT content with third parties
“Subcon allows you to store your essential system configuration files in a subversion repository and easily deploy different configurations to machines in a cluster.”
Note: This may not be true: “In what is by far the largest Facebook application acquisition to date, travel company TripAdvisor has reportedly acquired Where I’ve Been from Craig Ulliott for $3 million.”
I was saying this on the ODM Podcast a few weeks ago — “Google needs to own Flash because, as anyone who has used YouTube knows, this software is currently the prevalent method for playing and authoring Internet video.”
“if data needs to be distributed because there’s so much of it, and managing a lot of data is consequently difficult, but not core to most business or personal operations, a data grid is a potentially huge utility market to be part of.”
a community tool collective, co-operatively run, by its members, that provides a full bike shop, skilled “…volunteer mechanics, and access to new and used bike parts. Using our donated used parts anyone can learn, hands on, to build a bike. We also sell
“Pligg, a controversial but popular open source content management system that lets developers quickly create Digg-like clones, has put itself up for sale.”
“Kontera’s main product is in-text advertising. They’ll take popular keywords within the text of an article and put double lines below them to signify it’s an advertisement.”
“CreateSpace … The newly minted CreateSpace service line-up now includes print on demand books, DVDs, CDs, direct download video, audio books, and HD DVDs (Blu-ray coming soon).”
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