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Music Industry Downfall, Part II: The Rise of Social Streaming
via Compete Blog by Alex Patriquin on May 12, 2008
If any industry has felt the brunt of the internet as a disruptive technology, it’s the music industry, which has been dealt a heavy blow by the onset of digital music distribution. On the April 28, the RIAA again confirmed this state of affairs when reporting that CD sales, the mainstay of the business for the last 15 years, were down a whopping 20.5% in 2007. Then on May 2, a Federal Court...
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Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 12, 2008
Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They’ve launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web crawl. For now, Powerset queries only Wikipedia and augments results with data from Freebase. The product launch comes just a day after reports that the company is being shopped to potential buyers by...
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Wii Fit: the 30 day test starts today
via Engadget by Ryan Block on May 09, 2008
Filed under: Gaming, PeripheralsSince about 20,000 people -- the overwhelming majority of voters in yesterday's poll -- apparently want to see me in pain trying to get in shape with Wii Fit, it looks like it's time to suck it up and do this thing. Although I'd like to start by disclaiming that I've never really worked out with any regularity, I'm not exactly known for my...
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What I Learned From Kanye West
via SheGeeks by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble I like approaching the world this way: what can I learn from studying other people?J. Phil is a guest author who maintains the blog scribkin - where code and culture converge. I don’t follow many “famous people” blogs. Robert Scoble is about as big as I get. But recently I found myself landing on kanYe’s blog. At first I was skeptical that it was, in fact, a blog...
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Nintendo Channel for Wii goes live
via Engadget by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Benjamin Golub I just used this today. No exactly amazing but you can submit what games you like/don't like to Nintendo so they can recommend games in the future. It asks you things like your age, gender, etc.Filed under: GamingIt didn't exactly launch with much fanfare but, as anyone's who's already flipped on their Wii today will know, the Nintendo Channel is now...
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Yoono browser plugin makes Firefox more like Flock
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on May 06, 2008
Filed under: Internet, Social SoftwareLike the idea of having a web browser with Twitter, Facebook, and instant messenger integration, but don't want to install a whole new browser to get those features? Yoono is a browser plugin that makes Firefox behave a bit more like Flock, the social web browser built from the same Mozilla code. But instead of downloading and installing a whole new...
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Think Apple Would Dare To Take On the Movie Theaters?
via louisgray.com by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by kskobac Is Mark Cuban reading this post?With the addition of movie rentals on iTunes, Apple has given my wife and me a new entertainment outlet, letting us essentially have video on demand from a wide library, for only 3 or 5 dollars, at any time we wish. Just recently, Apple made more headlines by signing a pact where new DVD releases would simultaneously debut on iTunes. But this...
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PicLens Updates with YouTube, Firefox 3 Support [Video]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 07, 2008
Windows/Mac (Firefox and IE7): PicLens, the Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 plugin that lets you flip through photo sets in full-screen splendor, just added YouTube support to its latest version. That means searching and parsing through YouTube videos in the same elegant interface as with photos, making it far easier to spot just the clip you're looking for, and playing the videos,...
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Global View - WSJ.com
via online.wsj.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
... Nations resolutions, decisions and reports condemning this or that country for this or that human rights violation (real or alleged). Between January 2003 and March 2008, tiny Israel � its population not half that of metropolitan Cairo's � was condemned no fewer than 635 times. The runners-up were Sudan at 280, the Democratic Republic of the Congo at 209, and Burma at 183. North Korea...
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Talking Mavs
via Blog Maverick by Mark Cuban on May 02, 2008
There is no worse feeling in sports than being eliminated in the playoffs. It's an exclamation point on a disappointing season. Like everyone else, I try to look back and see what we did right and wrong and look forward to see where we stand for the upcoming and future seasons. We made mistakes, no question. We took the start of the regular season for granted. The entire staff wanted to avoid...
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