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Archive for April 6th, 2008

Scrabble Tries to Fight a Popular Impostor at Its Own Game (Heather Timmons/New York Times)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Heather Timmons / New York Times:
Scrabble Tries to Fight a Popular Impostor at Its Own Game  —  RealNetworks is quietly introducing a version of Scrabble on Facebook, despite pledging to save Scrabulous, the wildly popular, unauthorized online version of the board game.  —  In recent weeks, Gamehouse, a division of RealNetworks …

Yahoo Reveals Details of Its New Ad Sales System (Miguel Helft/New York Times)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo Reveals Details of Its New Ad Sales System  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo is beginning to pull the wraps off an online advertising system that the company said would help it and its partners drive sales of graphical and other premium ads.  —  Yahoo said the system … […]

Yahoo Reveals Some Details of Its New Ad Sales System (Miguel Helft/New York Times)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo Reveals Some Details of Its New Ad Sales System  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo is beginning to pull the wraps off an online advertising system that the company said would help it and its partners drive sales of graphical and other premium ads.  —  Yahoo said the system […]

Joost Denies: No “Major Retrenchement”, Or “Sole U.S. Focus” (Rafat Ali/paidContent.org)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Joost Denies: No “Major Retrenchement”, Or “Sole U.S. Focus”  —  Joost, the online video service which has had more than its share of troubles since its founding, had another story this weekend to contend with, this time a sketchily-sourced story from Times UK.

Relax, Chill and maybe Blog (Om Malik/GigaOM)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Om Malik / GigaOM:
Relax, Chill and maybe Blog  —  The blogosphere’s reaction to the attention grabbing headline in The New York Times is equally attention grabbing.  Having lived through a health scare, I have a different perspective on not only this whole blog thing but on life, some of which I have shared in […]

Facebook Chat Launches - Tour & First Impressions (Justin Smith/Inside Facebook)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Chat Launches - Tour & First Impressions  —  Facebook has just turned on Chat in a “few networks” this morning and I think it’s a great implementation.  While Facebook hasn’t announced an official rollout schedule, Chat will be gradually rolling out over the coming days.

Anatomy of a ‘Blogging will kill you’ story: Why I didn’t make the cut (Larry Dignan/Between the Lines)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Anatomy of a ‘Blogging will kill you’ story: Why I didn’t make the cut  —  I read the New York Times’ take on how the stress of blogging and how it can kill you with great interest: I was interviewed for it.  But I pretty much knew I wouldn’t […]

New York Times: blog trolling 101 (Mathew/mathewingram.com/work)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
New York Times: blog trolling 101  —  I’m sure someone at the New York Times has to be feeling pretty smug right now — after all, look at all the attention the paper’s story on bloggers is getting from the blogosphere.  Obviously, the Times has learned the first rule of getting attention […]

Coming soon: superfast internet (Jonathan Leake/Times of London)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Jonathan Leake / Times of London:
Coming soon: superfast internet  —  THE internet could soon be made obsolete.  The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.  —  At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection …

The New York Times covers blogging (Marc Andreessen/blog.pmarca.com)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The New York Times covers blogging  —  Actual New York Times headline for Sunday, April 6, 2008: … Reworded for brevity: … Future New York Times headline submissions from yours truly: … And of course, the inevitable, perennial favorite: … p.s.  The Judy Miller memorial New York Times blogging story headline: