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Archive for December 3rd, 2007

Photobucket, Picasa bring photo-sharing to TiVo (Caroline McCarthy/CNET News.com)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Photobucket, Picasa bring photo-sharing to TiVo  —  Apparently, fast-forwarding through commercials just isn’t enough.  TiVo announced on Monday that users of select photo-sharing services are now able to access their image collections through its set-top boxes.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Caroline McCarthy
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9827800-36.html

The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America (Mark Sullivan/PC World)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America  —  These groups line up against tech interests in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country.  —  Their names keep coming up over and over again in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country—those groups whose interests always seem …

Source:   PC World
Author:   Mark Sullivan
Link:   […]

NBC pulls its TV shows from Apple iTunes (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/CNN)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

NBC pulls its TV shows from Apple iTunes  —  No more ad-free episodes of The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs or Friday Night Lights for $1.99 each.  —  As promised, NBC (GE) removed all its content and that of its affiliates from the iTunes Store over the weekend after its contract with Apple (AAPL) expired.

Source:   […]

Marc Orchant Suffers Massive Coronary (Oliver Starr/blognation USA)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Marc Orchant Suffers Massive Coronary  —  THIS IS NOT AN ATTEMPT AT HUMOR  —  PLEASE REPOST  —  At some time between 7:30 and 8:10 AM on Sunday Morning December 2nd, 2007, Marc Orchant, my fellow author on this blog, as well as one of my closest friends sustained a massive heart attack while working in […]

Online Fame Easy; Ads Harder to Get (Daisy Whitney/TVWeek.com)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Online Fame Easy; Ads Harder to Get  —  Income for Web Video Creators Varies From ‘Retire’ to ‘Keep Your Day Job’  —  Some Web video stars, like the “Ask a Ninja” guys, are raking it in.  Some, like Beet.TV video blogger Andy Plesser, are earning a hefty supplement to their day jobs.

Source:   TVWeek.com
Author:   […]

Vivendi and Activision to Create Activision Blizzard - World’s Largest … (Business Wire)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Vivendi and Activision to Create Activision Blizzard - World’s Largest, Most Profitable Pure-Play Video Game Publisher  —  Combination Brings Activision’s Best-Selling Video Games, Including Guitar Hero(R), Call of Duty(R), and Tony Hawk, Together With Vivendi Games’ Portfolio of Leading Franchises …

Source:   Business Wire
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071202/20071202005060.html

NEW NOKIA 6 OR 8 MEGAPIXEL IMAGING SLIDER IN THE WORKS? (Staska/Unwired View)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

NEW NOKIA 6 OR 8 MEGAPIXEL IMAGING SLIDER IN THE WORKS?  —  It’s been a while now since Nokia came up with an interesting phone form factor innovation in an actual phone, instead of patent applications.  —  You know, something along the lines of Nokia 7380 “lipstick”, Nokia N92 TV phone or Nokia N93 Camcorder/imaging […]

Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal (Ginger Tulley/Six Apart News)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal  —  Acquisition of LiveJournal, creation of new operating company and investment fund by SUP promise new innovation and expansion for pioneering online community  —  San Francisco, CA - December 3, 2007 - Six Apart, the world’s leading independent …

Source:   Six Apart News
Author:   Ginger Tulley
Link:   http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2007/12…

Microsoft Boosts Tools for adCenter, Live Search (Clint Boulton/eWEEK.com)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Microsoft Boosts Tools for adCenter, Live Search  —  Microsoft unveils online ad and search utilities to help advertisers and search engine experts do their jobs better.  —  Microsoft said Dec. 3 it has created two new utilities, one designed to improve the way partners …

Source:   eWEEK.com
Author:   Clint Boulton
Link:   http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2225872,00.asp

Oops! Yahoo dumps Britney (Elinor Mills/CNET News.com)

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Oops!  Yahoo dumps Britney  —  You’ve got to give Yahoo credit for trying drag the collective mentality out of the celebrity gossip gutter.  —  Every year, the company releases a top 10 list for Web searches.  Last year, Britney Spears was the No. 1 most popular search term.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Elinor Mills
Link:   […]