“The New York Times’ Saul Hansell has now written three articles defending the Associated Press and their attempts to broaden content rights beyond what copyright laws allow. The A.P., in short, doesn’ t want anyone quoting more than four words from their articles without paying, and they’ ve been threatening to sue (and actually suing) parties who [...]”
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Archive for June, 2008
The NYTimes Is Conflicted And Wrong About The A.P. And Needs To Stop Defending Them
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Tracking Former Yahoo Execs – Where Are They Now?
Thursday, June 19th, 2008“Out of pure curiosity we started tracking Yahoo execs who’ ve left the company since January 2007. It’ s hard to believe, but at least fifty of them have bailed out in the last year and a half. Some went to work for Google. Others went to startups. Many just left without saying what’ s next. We aren’ t able [...]”
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Technorati Launches Blog Ad Network, Technorati Media
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008“Blog-focused advertising networks are all the rage right now, with both Federated Media and Glam pulling down big valuation financing rounds in the last few months based very early growth metrics. Other startups, like Six Apart, have launched their own blog advertising networks as well. As we predicted, Technorati now joins them with the launch of [...]”
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It’s Firefox 3 “World Record” Download Day, But I’m Still Waiting
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008“Today’ s the big day for the official, no-longer-beta release of the Firefox 3 browser. There is even a campaign to make today, June 17, Download Day and set a Guinness World record for most downloads in 24 hours. They are shooting for 5 million. Although, I’ m not sure that there was a [...]”
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Move Over iGoogle, Feedly Launches Public Beta
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008“If you use iGoogle or Netvibes, I suggest you pay attention. The latest news and RSS feed aggregator to enter the “homepage” ring is Feedly. Created by the founders of DevHD, Feedly has officially launched it’s public beta release today. What is Feedly? It is self-described as “an attempt at creating a more social and magazine-like [...]”
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Today Is The Day, Firefox Fans
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008“Normally, we would have waited for the actual launch of the final version of Firefox 3 – which will happen today at 10 AM PDT – but the folks at Firefox have a record to break, so we’ ll help out by hyping them up in advance. Since they basically invented the most software downloaded in [...]”
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The Ultimate Guide To What’s Good In Firefox 3 Final
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008“Ok, so Firefox 3 final is out. You don’ t really care that much about its compatibility with every standard under the sun; you just want to know which new features are actually useful? Good, so do we. Here’ s our rundown of the stuff that makes the latest iteration of this cool Web browser worth your [...]”
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30+ Tools For Cheap and Convenient Air Travel
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008“With airfare on the rise, planning a trip can be expensive and complicated. We’ ve lined up over 30 tools that let you do everything from finding more affordable tickets to predicting the best time to buy them, and even using a 3d map of your plane to select your seat. Domestic CheapAir.com – Searches for all regular and [...]”
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Bottomfeeder
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008“The author is Taras Grescoe and the subtitle is “How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood,” buy it here. Yes this is one of the best non-fiction books this year so far and yes I say that…”
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Is the Google Toolbar a Trojan Horse for Ad Targetting? (Ballmer Plays The Privacy Card).
Monday, June 16th, 2008“Is Google getting ready to serve up display ads to people based on their Web surfing habits (as opposed to their Web searching habits)? Ever since the DoubelClick acquisition closed, industry watchers have been waiting to see how Google would dip its toes into behavioral ad targeting. One rumor going around is that [...]”
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