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Never Fear, Space Kimchi Is Here [Space]
via Gizmodo by Mark Wilson on February 25, 2008
... microbes into dangerous entities. Yes, that line sounds straight out of a comic book. According to astronaut Ko San, the national efforts were worth the price.This will greatly help my mission. When you're working in space-like conditions and aren't feeling too well, you miss Korean food.It's like Mom is sending him into space with a lunch packed. We love it. [iht via boingboing]
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Is Take-Two distracting Electronic Arts from opportunities like Facebook gaming?
via VentureBeat by Dean Takahashi on February 25, 2008
Hello folks. I’ll talk more about my role at VentureBeat soon. In my transition to this new job, I haven’t weighed in on Electronic Arts‘ $2 billion bid for Take-Two Interactive. Bear with me as I draw a connection between this and Facebook gaming. The issue is whether EA should grow organically or by acquisition. I don’t think it’s easy to do both well.Maybe EA is trying to score...
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Former Bolt.com Owner Launches Casual Gaming Ad Network, Gamers Media
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on February 25, 2008
... the likes of NeoEdge, Mochi Media and even Google itself, already claims to reach nearly 20 milion unique visitors across 40 sites. The company insists that these unique visitors are particularly attractive targets for advertisers since they earn high salaries and spend substantial amounts of time per visit on casual gaming sites.Gamers Media has chosen Adify to power its ad network. Adify, w...
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Mobile applications are either dead or ready to explode
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on February 25, 2008
There’s a healthy debate going on right now about the direction mobile applications going forward. While the norm on mobile computing devices for a long time was native applications, the rise of Internet-enabled devices has brought with it access to web applications - and those web applications are increasing being specifically built for mobile usage.On one hand, former Palm executive Michael...
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Friendfeed, the best software for conversations, raises round and launches publicly
via VentureBeat by Eric Eldon on February 25, 2008
FriendFeed is like Facebook’s news feed. But it’s more of a dynamic conversation among close friends about what they’re up to all over the web — and not so much a social network.I’ve been using FriendFeed religiously this year, after reviewing it in detail last month, and I’ve been consistently impressed. So I’m pleased to report that the company is launching in public beta today,...
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If You've Got A Platform Strategy, It Helps To Put Out The Welcome Mat For Third-party Developers
via Techdirt by Timothy Lee on February 25, 2008
The New York Times Saul Hansell takes a look at the business model behind the Chumby, an Internet-age replacement for your alarm clock. Apparently, the plan is to keep the price of Chumbies low and make money by demanding a cut of any ad revenue generated by third-party applications. Hansell seems skeptical of this business model, and so am I. Chumby did the right thing by making its device...
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Can FriendFeed Compete With Newsfeed?
via All Facebook by Nick O'Neill on February 25, 2008
One of the big news items today is Friendfeed receiving a $5 million round of funding and their public launch. There has been a significant amount of discussion surrounding FriendFeed and whether or not it can compete with Facebook. Eric Eldon accurately sums up the current differentiation between the two feeds: The Facebook news feed is already chock-full of your friends activities on...
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Apple's iTunes Second Biggest Music Retailer in U.S., By Volume
via paidContent.org by Rafat Ali on February 25, 2008
Just when everyone else is cutting CD floor space at retail, Apple's (NSDQ: AAPL) digital media store edged out BestBuy and Target to become the second-largest U.S. music retailer, behind Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), according to NPD data, reported by AP. This is by unit volume data, meaning the number of times people shop at a retailer...tough to compare digital piecemeal sales with physical...
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Openads Now OpenX; Former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller Joins As Chairman
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on February 19, 2008
London-based startup Openads has changed its name to OpenX and former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller has joined as chairman. OpenX is an increasingly popular open-source ad server (we use it here at TechCrunch). Since his departure from AOL, Miller has become quite active in the startup world as an investor and board member. He is a partner in the Velocity Interactive Group with former Fox...
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Mobile application provider Motricity to lay off many of its workers
via VentureBeat by Matt Marshall on February 24, 2008
Wherever investor Carl Icahn treads, there’s usually turmoil.Now, one of his companies, Motricity, a Durham, N.C. provider of mobile content applications for telecom carriers, is preparing to lay off up to 200 of its 650 employees, according to a North Carolina business publication WRAL.We haven’t written about Motricity yet at VentureBeat, but the big-name investor Carl Icahn and other...
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