Portfolio |
August 5th, 2008 |
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--Intel will today announce details of a new line of super-fast microchips, dubbed Larrabee, designed first to make video game graphics better, but ultimately destined for your desktop. [NYT] -- The old-media fogies at Time Warner appear finally ready to break up AOL and lose the "mental drag" the one-time [...]
Portfolio |
August 5th, 2008 |
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-- For Sale: Facebook shares! Don't let the lack of a business plan scare you off. [Portfolio.com]-- Lenovo unveiled a low-cost "sub-notebook" computer, priced at $399. Right in time for the recession! [Dow Jones Newswires]-- Cablevision has won a court ruling allowing it to proceed with its plans for "network [...]
The Technium |
August 5th, 2008 |
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The web is pretty big. Researchers at Google won't say how many pages Google indexes, but they recently said that their inspection of the web reveals that it has more than one trillion unique urls. It's difficult to know what to count as a unique page, because as they explain, [...]
Amazon, the online retailer, wants to sell more goods and digital downloads for loyalty programme points rather than money, as it builds on its experiences supporting a points-redemption promotion for Pepsi[...]
CEO Jerry Yang looks pleased in this company photo (Yahoo.com) After weeks of watching the likes of Carl Icahn, T. Boone Pickens and others treat Yahoo like a punching bag, executives at the Internet giant hit back Friday, with chairman of the board Roy Bostock noting that the company still [...]
Google is mulling the creation of a venture-capital investment arm, according to the Journal. But while I gather that is true as far as it goes, I don't get the sense this is a big shift in strategy for the[...]
In 10 years—given that clouds will be evaluated based on transactions, user experience, and presence—Amazon, eBay, Apple, and Microsoft will likely be top[...]
Friendster raises $20 million in cash and hires a new chief executive from Google.[...]
Capital Group, one of Yahoo's biggest shareholders, has asked for an examination of whether its votes were properly counted in the run-up to the company's annual meeting[...]
MediaShift |
August 5th, 2008 |
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I just wanted to update readers on changes that are happening here at PBS MediaShift and Idea Lab. In early June, I put out a call for new correspondents and "embeds" to write for MediaShift. I want to add more voices to this blog besides mine, open it up to [...]
MediaShift |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Recently, MediaShift started running reports from "embeds" at various media outlets and educational institutions. This report comes from Alfred Hermida, an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia. "Multidisciplined" and "flexible" were just two of the words in a recent ad for a [...]
MediaPost |
August 5th, 2008 |
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AOL is relaunching its AOL Video portal today with new features and increased integration into the Web giant's varying programming sites. Timed to the second anniversary of the original launch, the newly redesigned site provides access to over 200 million videos and a new feature to assist in finding relevant [...]
MediaPost |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Expanding their examination of online ad targeting and privacy, lawmakers Friday requested detailed information from dozens of companies about their advertising techniques. Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) reached out to 33 companies -- including broadband providers like Comcast and ATandT [...]
Do digital songs from Amazon.com work on an iPod, and if so, how do you get them onto the thing from the Web?[...]
NY-New York City, Description: Web Developer - New York Positions available in New York, NY. The area: User Experience We follow a simple but vital premise in the User Experience group: "Focus on the user and all else w[...]
FL-Tampa, The Winston-Salem Journal, a Media General property, and Journalnow.com is searching for a high level Interactive Account Manager to be a key catalyst for revenue generation for Media General's relati[...]
The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're[...]
Security Operations Project Manager - Mountain View This position is based in Mountain View, CA. The area: Operations & IT In little more than a decade, Google created one of[...]
