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If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpA Modest Proposal: ISPs Should Stop Any Activity That Hurts A Business Model- January 31, 2008 With the entertainment industry's new push to force ISPs to somehow filter or block the transfer of any kind of copyrighted material, Charles Arthur is wondering why other industries facing massive business model challenges can't do the same thing Newspapers, as has been well documented, are facing challenges from the likes of Craigslist and Google -- so why not have ISPs block those sites And plenty of people are discussing news articles, even to the point of copying-and-pasting articles. ...http://techdirt.com/articles/20080125/09042572.shtml Yahoo Should Buy Twitter- Yes or No- January 30, 2008 Beloved social presence platform Twitter is down again today. Yahoo doesn't know what to do with itself. Last night, at one point, we were talking about Yahoo's best advantage is in their choice of acquisitions (like Flickr, Upcoming.org, del.icio.us, and plenty more). Twitter needs to change their infrastructure and stop flipping that bird upside down. Yahoo needs a reason for people to love them again (Groups, by the way is a great product and I think that and Finance are probably their...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/chrisbrogandotcom/~3/225961931/ ROO Group Partners With Abacast and Pando Networks- January 30, 2008 NY-based online video network ROO Group (OTC: RGRP) has announced a new partnership with Abacast and Pando Networks today. The new partnership will allow ROO to offer peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming solutions to its current and future customers through the ROO Media Player. By combining forces with Abacast and Pando, ROO will be able to offer these P2P products as white-label solutions to its global network of customers -- increasing streaming quality while reducing associated bandwidth...http://www.centernetworks.com/roo-partners-with-abacast-pando Have Facebook Apps Peaked in Popularity- January 30, 2008 There appears to be evidence that Facebook users are beginning to suffer from app fatigue, and there is growing discontent about how applications are being distributed and about the amount of noise that the application platform has introduced into the Facebook ecosystem. As Mark Glaser writes on the PBS MediaShift blog, Facebook has a growing trust problem. Further, new numbers suggest that fed up users might have had enough of some of the most popular Facebook apps. This, however, could be a.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/225652760/have_facebook_apps_peaked_in_popu... What text files do you use- January 30, 2008 I started keeping text files of ideas a year or two ago, but the system quickly collapsed due to its own complexity. I am a journalist and a blogger, and so I started out with three files. blog ideas and article ideas. I also had a file called inbox for random thoughts, most of which would get turned into GTD next actions. The first difficulty I encountered was that it wasn't always clear, up front, what's going to turn out to be a blog, and what will be an article. Back then, I went by...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/43Folders/~3/225974175/what-text-files-do-you-use Al Gore's Current Files For $100M IPO- January 29, 2008 Current Media, the parent company of Current TV and Current.com, has filed for a $100 Million IPO on NASDEQ. Current was famously co-founded by ex Vice President Al Gore. IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) have been thin on the ground in the Web 2.0 era, but in Current's case the money will be used for expansion of their TV network as well as their website offering. We covered Current TV's internet plans in July last year and their new user-generated website Current.com in October. In the IPO...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/224760128/current_files_for_ipo.php A Vacation the Hard Way- January 28, 2008 Our vacation started with the rules. 1. Two dice needed: one die to determine direction traveled, the second die to determine number of miles driven in that direction 2. Drive 100 miles east from Chicago, and start the first dice roll 3. Must only drive on paved roads 4. New roll = new music 5. Game to be played for at least 10 consecutive hours 6. Map can only be used in emergencies: do not backtrack or cross a path already taken 7. Three roll vetoes allowed per person 8. Must introduce...http://gapersblock.com/detour/a_vacation_the_hard_way/ Smartphones Patented... Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute After Patent Issued- January 25, 2008 This past Tuesday, the US Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent on "a mobile entertainment and communication device." Reading the patent, you realize it describes the quite common smartphone. It's a patent for a mobile phone with removable storage, an internet connection, a camera and the ability to download audio or video files. The patent holding firm who has the rights to this patent wasted no time at all. At 12:01am Tuesday morning, it filed three separate lawsuits against just...http://techdirt.com/articles/20080124/16382062.shtml MacBook Air review round-up- January 25, 2008 Filed under: Apple, MacBook AirAh, it is that magical time after an Apple announcement: the big media reviews are starting to roll in. As you might be aware Apple loans out new hardware to technology journalists to put through their paces. The MacBook Air, being a new product, was delivered to a few tech heavy hitters (with the slightly less heavy hitters having to wait a little longer to get their review unit. And no, TUAW doesn't get any review units from Apple) sometime last week, and have...http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~3/222513208/ Carl Freer: "I'm going to resurrect Gizmondo" -- indeed he is- January 24, 2008 Filed under: Gaming We've been in contact with Hans Sandberg, the Swedish journalist who quoted Carl Freer saying unequivocally, "I'm going to resurrect Gizmondo." This, plus yesterday's teaser, is the source of the Gizmondo mongering lighting up the Intertubes yesterday. Fortunately, all the important bits from Hans' interview are now translated from Swedish into English for some good ol' fashioned global scrutiny. As unthinkable as the proposition might sound, we bring you the highlights for..http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/222170986/ |