• BuddyPress
  “BuddyPress will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.”
  (tags: wordpress socialnetworking socialsoftware socialmedia opensource PHP)
• Music exec: “Music 1.0 is dead.”
  Ted Cohen, a former EMI exec who used the phrase, “music 1.0 is dead.” at the opening of the Digital Music Forum East by pleading with the industry to be wildly creative with new business models but not to “be desperate” during this transitional period.
  (tags: music business drm digital media MP3 trends Entertainment Audio economics)
• IAC Cuts 8% Of Ask.com & Kills Search Engine
  “IAC’s Ask.com to Cut Staff, Outlines New Search Strategy from the Wall Street Journal reports IAC has cut 8% of Ask.com’s workforce, by letting go 40 people. Not only that, the Wall Street Journal says IAC is changing the strategy of the search engine to
  (tags: IAC Search Business)
• Coding Horror: CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA!
  “I am no fan of CAPTCHA. I view them as a necessary and important evil, one of precious few things separating average internet users from a torrential deluge of email, comment, and forum spam.”
  (tags: captcha security spam authentication)
• Kevin Kelly — 1,000 True Fans
  “…the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators. Individual artists, producers, inventors and makers are overlooked in the equation.”
  (tags: longtail economics Amazon ecommerce business marketing music online analysis)
• Official Google Blog: Google Calendar Sync
  “Google Calendar Sync, a 2-way synching application between Google Calendar and the calendar in Microsoft Outlook.”
  (tags: Google Microsoft Technology software calendar productivity)

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