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Government Agencies Make Friends With New Media
Posted: March 25th, 2009, 6:00pm EDT by Chris Snyder
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Goverment agencies are now clear to start using Web 2.0 tools, thanks to recent agreements that clear up legal issues. That means the stodgy old .gov sites will soon be sharing videos and Tweeting their every move, just like all the rest of us. -
Google's Data Culture Drives Designer Crazy, and Out
Posted: March 20th, 2009, 3:04pm EDT by Chris Snyder
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Douglas Bowman was ready to change the world when he signed up with Google as visual design lead. But three years later he's leaving in a huff, and with some parting shots at an engineer-driven culture that doesn't understand his creative field at all. -
Google's Data Culture Drives Designer Crazy, and Out
Posted: March 20th, 2009, 3:04pm EDT by Chris Snyder
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Douglas Bowman was ready to change the world when he signed up with Google as visual design lead. But three years later he's leaving in a huff, and with some parting shots at an engineer-driven culture that doesn't understand his creative field at all. -
Sony-Google E-book Deal A Win for ePub, Openness
Posted: March 19th, 2009, 10:33am EDT by Chris Snyder
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Sony and Google join forces on ebooks, in a major endorsement that makes more than half a million public domain books from its digitization project available for free on the Sony Reader in its e-book store. -
Sony-Google E-book Deal A Win for ePub, Openness
Posted: March 19th, 2009, 10:33am EDT by Chris Snyder
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Sony and Google join forces on ebooks, in a major endorsement that makes more than half a million public domain books from its digitization project available for free on the Sony Reader in its e-book store. -
Amazon's E-Books Re-Kindles Debate on Open Standards
Posted: February 25th, 2009, 10:55am EST by Chris Snyder
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While many salivated over this week's arrival of "the iPod of the book world," supporters of open e-book standards are opining anew that the Kindle’s proprietary format is not only bad for readers but, in the long run, probably for Amazon as well. -
Twitter Could 'Go for Years' Without Earning a Dime, Investor Says
Posted: February 13th, 2009, 6:09pm EST by Chris Snyder
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Twitter just received another $35 million in funding, and one investor claims the company is now well-positioned to grow without nailing down a business model for years to come. -
Kindle 2 Slims Down, Adds Audio
Posted: February 9th, 2009, 11:36am EST by Chris Snyder
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Amazon unveils a slimmer version of the Kindle with a major endorsement from Stephen King, whose announces a Kindle-only novella he wrote specifically for Amazon. -
Pandora Sees iPhone Gold in the Palm Pre
Posted: February 4th, 2009, 7:20am EST by Chris Snyder
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Pandora founder Tim Westergren thinks being broad isn’t necessarily the best strategy for development in the smartphone industry and that betting on a single (what he calls a "hero") platform could be the way to go. Hint: it's not a Blackberry or Google's Android. -
Super Bowl XLIII Ads: Teased, Remixed and Too-Hot-for-TV
Posted: January 30th, 2009, 12:39am EST by Chris Snyder
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The most sacred of American annual rites is upon us: sitting through an over-hyped football game to see cutting-edge TV ads that occasionally rival feature films for production value and creativity. But this year it isn't just about television -- the spotlight's online. -
Obama Urges DTV Delay as Time, Money Runs Out
Posted: January 9th, 2009, 2:55pm EST by Chris Snyder
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The deadline for switching to digital-only TV is 39 days away, but the move is in serious trouble. Millions of households aren't ready for the conversion and a government program to subsidize the hardware needed by many is out of money.
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Five Things Google Could Do To Save Newspapers
Posted: January 9th, 2009, 9:13am EST by Chris Snyder
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Google thrives on curating the flow of information from media outlets, so it has a stake in the future of newspapers. But should the internet behemoth necessarily intervene to try and save newspapers? Some think not. But here are five things it could do, if it wanted to.
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App Developer Strikes E-book Deals With Major Publishers
Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 12:15am EST by Chris Snyder
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ScrollMotion, a mobile-app developer, partners with major publishers to produce new release and bestselling e-books as applications for the iPhone and iPod touch.
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Mahalo Answers Pays Cash for Your Two Cents
Posted: December 15th, 2008, 7:52am EST by Chris Snyder
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Mahalo, the human powered search engine, is launching a crowd-sourced Q&A feature Monday to compete with sites like Yahoo Answers and Wiki.Answers. But unlike those already out there, Mahalo Answers is creating a marketplace for your knowledge.
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What is the Value of a Virtual Gift?
Posted: December 11th, 2008, 11:20am EST by Chris Snyder
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More and more social networks are jumping on board with selling virtual gifts, but it’s difficult to imagine users paying any amount of money for something that doesn’t really exist, especially during a recession.
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E-Books Have a Future in iTunes
Posted: November 25th, 2008, 2:35pm EST by Chris Snyder
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company plans on amping up its e-book efforts in the iTunes store with DRM-protected best-sellers.
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Poll: Internet, Fox News Are Most Trusted News Sources
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 3:47pm EST by Chris Snyder
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A new IFC Zogby poll shows that the internet is today's most trusted news source, but that Americans overwhelmingly distrust the news media.
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Will Oprah do for the Kindle What She's Done for Books?
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 10:00am EDT by Chris Snyder
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Oprah is expected to give e-books a major boost by endorsing the Amazon Kindle on her show with special guest and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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Learn to Profit From Piracy at PopTech
Posted: October 20th, 2008, 2:02pm EDT by Chris Snyder
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A former radio DJ, Matt Mason argues that piracy can be beneficial to businesses if they learn to use it as a marketing tool in a presentation at the annual PopTech conference this week in Camden, Maine.
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Twitter to Get Down to Business in 2009, Investors Say
Posted: October 17th, 2008, 3:43pm EDT by Chris Snyder
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Major leadership changes Twitter renewed questions about its business prospects -- was the replacement of CEO Jack Dorsey by fellow co-founder Evan Williams a shuffling of deck chairs on the Titanic? But VC backers of the microblogging service interviewed by wired.com insisted they remain bullish, and Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Twitter backer Spark Capital, revealed that new revenue models will be unveiled in the first half of next year.
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Whitman Sampler — Pick a Silicon Valley Exec for Treasury Secretary
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 4:20pm EDT by Chris Snyder
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At last night’s debate John McCain was asked who he might choose as his Treasury Secretary. He dropped the name of billionaire Warren Buffett but his top pick in all seriousness was former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Who else do you think the new president should consider from Silicon Valley, if anyone? Vote early and often, and suggest your own choices.
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Google's 'Mail Goggles' Combats Drunk Emailing
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 9:44am EDT by Chris Snyder
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Google releases a useful new Gmail feature which could help prevent the intoxicated from sending embarrassing late-night emails they might regret in the morning.
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EBay To Drop 1,000 Employees, Picks Up Two New Businesses
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 9:11am EDT by Chris Snyder
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As rumored, EBay is cutting 1,000 employees -- 10% of its workforce. The company also announced the acquisition of an online payments business, Bill Me Later, for $820 million in cash and $125 million in options, and two online classified sites based in Denmark for about $390 million.
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Plotting E-Book Plunder?
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 9:05am EDT by Chris Snyder
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Peter Sunde, one of the founders of Pirate Bay, writes a mysterious blog post asking for someone in the United States to send him an Amazon Kindle, and hinted that he might be working on a new project involving e-books.
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Google Dream Phone Makes Its Debut
Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 12:25am EDT by Chris Snyder
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The T-Mobile G1 with Google powered by Android was unveiled this morning in New York with a list price of $179 -- undercutting Apple's iPhone -- and confirming many of the rumors that had been floating around about the device over the past few weeks.
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Veoh Prevails in Infringement Lawsuit
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 8:33am EDT by Chris Snyder
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A California court dismisses a copyright infringement case against Veoh, ruling that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act could not possibly require sharing sites to be solely responsible for vetting the content they host. This could be good news for YouTube, which is facing a $1 billion lawsuit with similar facts by Viacom.
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Can the Kindle Break the E-book Curse?
Posted: August 12th, 2008, 12:00am EDT by Chris Snyder
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A Citigroup analyst has given a big boost to Amazon's Kindle eBook reader, calling it to "the iPod of the book world." Sales of the gadget are healthy, but we've been here before. For whatever reasons, eBook readers have traditionally had no traction among consumers. Is the Kindle the game changer?