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CBS Acquires CNET For $1.8 Billion
via Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog by Stan Schroeder on May 15, 2008
CNET Networks, and all of its properties, including CNET, ZDNet, GameSpot.com, TV.com, CNET News, UrbanBaby, BNET, CHOW and Search.com, are being acquired by CBS for a total price of $1.8 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of CNET Networks for $11.50 per share, representing an equity value of approximately $1.8...
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Putplace: Digitze and Distribute Your Life [Sun Startup Review]
via web 2.0 by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
... 100 word description: In our lifetime, we’ll probably own 10 digital video cameras, 20 PCs, 30 MP3 players and 40 cell phones. There’s a lot of stuff–email, documents, photos, audio and video–on all those devices.All that digital stuff runs amok when it comes to organizing, finding and backing up the files we create in our lifetime. That’s why we made PutPlace, a software plus serv...
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Google Maps New API, in Flash!
via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on May 14, 2008
Here’s the moment all you map mashup junkies have been waiting for: Google Maps for Flash is now available for development through its new API. What a maptastic week it’s been. Flash graphics can be used for each title layer, maker and information windows, meaning you can create more dynamic map mashups. Even throw in some animation and video. For the user experience, however, the...
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How Investors Feel About Green Tech, and How You Feel About Investors
via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on May 13, 2008
Green tech is something that’s becoming more and more mainstream, thanks to television programs, Al Gore, and the upcoming presidential election. And a slew of web-based services are helping to form communities around green lifestyle initiatives, taking a grass roots approach to the permutation of such efforts that can one day bring about great change. Outside of political figures and a few...
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Apple adds HBO to iTunes, but only by caving on pricing [Online Video]
via web 2.0 by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
As a a part of a deal to bring HBO shows to the iTunes store, Apple will allow a content producer to break its $1.99-per-show price structure for the first time, HBO employees involved in the deal told Portfolio. Last summer, Apple CEO Steve Jobs refused to allow NBC to do the same, so NBC boss Jeff Zucker took his shows elsewhere — to Microsoft and the Zune, specifically. Why did HBO get the...
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Mashable’s Guide to Upcoming Web 2.0 Conferences and Events
via web 2.0 by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Here’s our latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. Not included on this list? Email us and let’s establish a media sponsorship!May 12, 2008: SF Green is a networking event that brings together the Bay Area GreenTech community to see demos from the hottest green companies, including Tesla Motors and SmartCar - who will be bringing prototypes to display.The event...
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Google's Friend Connect bad news for Marc Andreessen [Social Networks]
via Valleywag by Jackson West on May 12, 2008
By offering a suite of tools for websites to add a social network layer, Google isn't challenging established players like Facebook and MySpace, but instead sites offering customizable, turnkey social networks. In other words, look out, Marc Andreessen: Larry and Sergey just declared themselves the Microsoft to Ning's Netscape. [News.com]
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Your iPhone Can Record Videos, Too
via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on May 12, 2008
In an effort to make the iPhone a truly ultimate machine, DreamCatcher has created an iPhone Video Recorder, which takes audio and video recordings at a frame rate of up to 15fps to the compressed mpeg4 format, according to Podcasting News. The video will encode at the end of a recording session. And here’s something that’s convenient: the encoding can be paused at any time, and finished...
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Is Digg Going to Announce Plans for Series C Funding at Town Hall Tonight?
via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on May 12, 2008
In the days of seemingly inflated valuations, there are a number of companies that are taking this as a sign to sell quick, or seek out yet another round. When you’re a bigger, more established company, however, getting that third or fourth round of funding can be a blessing and a curse, because the culprit behind getting that latest round of funding is often a result of being unable to sell. ...
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Tips for Building Next Gen Web Apps
via web 2.0 by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
... the workshop session I'll be giving at Web 2.0 Expo next week in San Francisco on building next-generation Web 2.0 applications. What does "next generation" mean compared to what we were doing a couple of years ago with Web 2.0? A good number of things as it turns out.Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 We're currently seeing that newer Web applications are much more federated than in the ...
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