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CBS Pays $1.8 Billion for CNet: CNet Shows How It's Done
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on May 15, 2008
In a deal that was surprising only in its price, CBS has announced that it will buy CNet, owners of everything from News.com to Download.com to our competitors Webware, for $1.8 billion.That's 10% more than Google paid for YouTube, and that deal was all for stocks. CBS paid a 45% premium over CNet's closing stock price and it paid it mostly in cash. CBS buying CNet is a big, complicated...
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Thoughts on Privacy
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
As developers, you’re probably curious about the recent initiatives we and other companies in the industry have taken to help you build applications that let users take their information around the web. We wanted to give you a little more information on how we’re thinking about these projects and get your feedback in the forum. At Facebook, we always look out for the privacy of our users. ...
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Now with 100% more Twitter & OpenID!
via AideRSS Blog by Ilya on May 15, 2008
Are you missing the buzz and all the hot stories on Twitter? Not anymore! Earlier today we launched the integration of PostRank and our Twitter monitoring service, which processes all public tweets, extracts the links, and reports them as a metric to our users.To get started, simply type in your favorite feed, and look for the Twitter logo in the list of metrics on the right. If there is a...
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don’t I get an E for effort?
via Lx7 - The Something In That Square by vveerrgg on May 14, 2008
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Introducing Google Doctype
via Google Code Blog by DeWitt Clinton on May 14, 2008
By Mark Pilgrim, Google Code TeamThe open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications. You can access the open web with open source and proprietary browsers, on open source and proprietary operating...
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Praise for CastRoller’s episode filtering on the AideRSS blog
via The CastRoller Blog by Will Spaetzel on May 13, 2008
AideRSS offers an API to filter RSS feeds by their popularity which is used by CastRoller for our Filter Channel Episodes Feature. They just published an enthusiastic entry to their blog about the filtering feature. Check the post out here.If you haven’t been able to check out the new feature enter your e-mail address at castroller.com/beta to get into the private beta.
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CastRoller Partners with Leschinski Design.
via Leschinski Design Notebook by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by William Spaetzel Glad to be working with Lechinski DesignOver the next three months Leschinski Design will develop a comprehensive identity system and redevelop the user interface for CastRoller, an online podcast discovery and subscription tool.CastRoller makes it easier to discover, subscribe to, and manage online audio and video content. You can search titles and descriptions to...
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XML: The Angle Bracket Tax
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Shared by Benjamin Golub XML doesn't suck; JSON just sucks a lot less.Everywhere I look, programmers and programming tools seem to have standardized on XML. Configuration files, build scripts, local data storage, code comments, project files, you name it -- if it's stored in a text file and needs to be retrieved and parsed, it's probably XML. I realize that we have to use something...
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Firefox 3 Release Candiate 1 Code Complete!
via Mozilla Developer News by schrep on May 10, 2008
Thanks to all the hard work of the Mozilla community as of 9:15 AM PDT today we are code complete for Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New nightly builds are available - if you are a nightly tester/Minefield user you can help test these builds by selecting “Check for Updates” from your help menu.Assuming no new issues are found today the build team will start official prep work for...
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No User-Generated Content
via Satori by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
This is one of the best icons ever. From the website "Wreck A Movie", which is a site to help connect people over the Internet to work together on films.
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