Blue Mars abducts an embedded journalist from Second Life; will the rest of the virtual citizens follow? | VentureBeat

Sep 09, 2010 No Comments VentureBeat 67 Shares

Wagner James Au has specialized in writing about 3D virtual worlds. As Hamlet Au, reported from inside Linden Lab’s virtual world of Second Life for three years and he still maintains a blog about it…

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In NYT vs WSJ, Murdoch As Shark, A Broadway Dance-Off | paidContent

Sep 09, 2010 No Comments paidContent 21 Shares

You may have seen these amusing 3D news illustrations from the Far-East lately, like this one depicting Google’s Larry and Sergei as intergalactic pilots doing plenty of evil. Now creator NextMedia Animation has out-done itself…

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Bebo Adds Xbox Co-Founder Bachus As Chief Product Officer | paidContent

Sep 09, 2010 No Comments paidContent 13 Shares

Bebo has hired Kevin Bachus, who is best known as a co-founder of the Xbox, as its chief product officer. New owner Criterion Capital Partners has promised to “staff up” the social network and Bachus’ hire comes a month after Bebo added Hi5 co-founder Akash Garg as its chief technology officer and Aren Sandersen, a [...]

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Coming Oct. 18: DiscoveryBeat 2010 speakers to explain the secret recipe for getting content noticed | VentureBeat

Sep 09, 2010 No Comments VentureBeat 47 Shares

VentureBeat is gearing up for our second annual DiscoveryBeat 2010 conference and are pleased to announce our first speakers. Our conference on Oct. 18 — expanded to a full day of proceedings — will highlight the evolving landscape of discovery — the key problem of how to get your content noticed…

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First Android TV Launches Weeks Before Google TV Arrives

Sep 09, 2010 No Comments ReadWriteWeb 205 Shares

Earlier this week we looked at the upcoming launch of Google TV. It’s slated for this fall (U.S.) and will be integrated into a new line of Sony Internet TVs. Meanwhile a Swedish company has just launched its own Internet TV, built on top of Google’s open source Android Operating System…

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When Does A Company Deserve A Fresh Ethical Start?

Sep 09, 2010 TechCrunch 464 Shares

Zynga has been taking it on the chin from the SF Weekly the last few weeks. First there was a four part series about some stickers that Zynga’s ad agency put on the streets of San Francisco – lame but not exactly Third Reicht territory…

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Macworld Rolls Out Tiered Online Subscriptions | paidContent

Sep 09, 2010 paidContent 19 Shares

Macworld, the magazine and website devoted to all things Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), is launching a range of online subscription products. The various subscription plans fall under the Macworld Insider program…

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For Advertisers, Location-Based Services “Blew Up Overnight”

Sep 09, 2010 ReadWriteWeb 249 Shares

Advertisers have long talked about the mystical possibilities of using real-time location data to target customers. The technology existed; most cell phones have a GPS receiver in case of emergency. But real-time location data was off-limits to advertisers until Web-centric phones introduced people to the concept of sharing their location in exchange for utility…

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Another Instant Music Video

Sep 09, 2010 TechCrunch 463 Shares

Ok, so not only is Google Instant rejiggering how we think about search, but it is also a clever way to create instant music videos. We saw this with the official Google Instant version of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (where the lyrics on the flash cards get typed into Google and create a stream [...]

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Hackers say they can “jailbreak” iPhone 4.1 software | VentureBeat

Sep 09, 2010 VentureBeat 131 Shares

Less than a day after Apple released its iOS 4.1 operating system, hackers say they have jailbroken the software for the iPhone 4. In doing so, hackers have shown time and again that they can beat the security systems that Apple puts in place to keep control of its hardware devices…

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Android Is As Open As The Clenched Fist I’d Like To Punch The Carriers With

Sep 09, 2010 TechCrunch 1239 Shares

This past weekend, I wrote a post wondering if Android was surging in the U.S. market because Apple was letting it? The main thought was that by remaining exclusively tied to AT&T, Apple was driving some users to choose Android, which is available on all the U…

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