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Archive for December 3rd, 2007

Nick Show Captures Bigger Audiences Online Than on TV (Andrew Hampp/AdAge)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Nick Show Captures Bigger Audiences Online Than on TV  —  ‘Yo Gabba Gabba’ Has Turned Into a Viral Sensation With 17.8 Million Streams — by More Than Just Kids  —  Either kids have gotten really web-savvy (quite likely) or adults are starting to spend more time watching shows geared toward the preschool set (even likelier).

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More Facebook Advertisers Bail From Beacon. Plus, New Concerns. (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

More Facebook Advertisers Bail From Beacon.  Plus, New Concerns.  —  The backlash against Facebook’s Beacon advertising program just gets worse every day.  First, advertising partner Coca-Cola got cold feet over privacy issues.  Now Overstock is bailing from the program, and Travelocity is having doubts.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/03/more-facebook…

More Facebook Advertisers Bail From Beacon. Plus, New Concerns. (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

More Facebook Advertisers Bail From Beacon.  Plus, New Concerns.  —  The backlash against Facebook’s Beacon advertising program just gets worse every day.  First, advertising partner Coca-Cola got cold feet over privacy issues.  Now Overstock is bailing from the program, and Travelocity is having doubts.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/03/more-facebook…

Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard in 100 pictures (The Boy Genius Report)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard in 100 pictures  —  Can’t believe we missed this!  The brand new Motorola Q9 with Wi-Fi we just got?  Yeah, that has Windows Mobile 6.1 on it!  We’re getting the video up soon, but for now, check out our full Windows Mobile 6.1 gallery, and the new things we found!

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Images and new categories launch tonight (Kevin Rose/Digg the Blog)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Images and new categories launch tonight  —  Hey everyone.  Believe it or not, the dedicated images section you’ve been waiting for finally goes live later tonight.  Lots of changes in this release:  — New Universal Taxonomy  —  Now you can submit news, images, or videos to any category on Digg!

Source:   Digg the Blog
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The Crunchies Awards - Nominations Open (Richard MacManus/Read/WriteWeb)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

The Crunchies Awards - Nominations Open  —  Nominations are now open for the first annual Crunchies, the competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.  The Crunchies is a collaboration project between GigaOm …

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
Author:   Richard MacManus
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…

Two More Facebook Advertisers Say No To Beacon (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Two More Facebook Advertisers Say No To Beacon  —  Now, it’s not just Coca-Cola who is holding off on using Facebook’s Beacon.  Travelocity and Overstock have also reportedly decided to sit on the sidelines (MediaPost via paidcontent).  —  Meanwhile, after applauding Facebook …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Henry Blodget
Link:   http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/12/two-more-facebook…

Time Warner Won’t Bid on 700 MHz Spectrum (Cynthia Brumfield/IP Democracy)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Time Warner Won’t Bid on 700 MHz Spectrum  —  Time Warner, a key player in a coalition of cable operators that succeeded in buying broadband wireless spectrum during the last FCC auction process, won’t participate in the 700 MHz auction, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said this morning.

Source:   IP Democracy
Author:   Cynthia Brumfield
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Microsoft’s sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children (Chris Williams/The Register)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Microsoft’s sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children  —  The Register Desktop Support Seminar .  Live & Online 11th December (10am PST)  —  Disturbing news has reached our Yuletide youthful innocence bunker that Microsoft’s new artificial intelligence-powered Santa bot is subjecting …

Source:   The Register
Author:   Chris Williams
Link:   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/03…

At Wikipedia, Illustrators May Be Paid (Noam Cohen/New York Times)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

At Wikipedia, Illustrators May Be Paid  —  The foundation that runs Wikipedia has finally agreed to pay contributors to the online encyclopedia a modest fee for their work.  But it won’t pay the thousands of people who participate in creating the wiki pages — just artists who create “key illustrations” for the site.

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