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ReadWriteWeb Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's release of 500 million time-stamped Twitter messages for analysis."You take this data, mash it up wi (Read More)

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NewTeeVee The Pirate Bay made headlines earlier this week with yet another dramatic announcement, this time that the notorious BitTorrent site’s tracker has been officially shut down. But the move won’t impact downloading, site admins explained on a blog. Trackers are no longer needed to facilitate BitTorrent transfers, the blog entr (Read More)

12 hours ago

Techdirt As various folks in the news business (and outside of it) continue to fret about how it could be possible to ever fund the production of news, some are taking more positive looks at the space. Jay Rosen has listed out 18 different sources of subsidies for funding journalism (or journalism-like) work. Some of them are bett (Read More)

10 hours ago

Submitted by Marcel from Google Reader: Es ist schon bemerkenswert, dass Schutzgeld.de (s. Die Schutzgeld-Story) auch ein Jahr nach seinem Aus immer noch zu den Vorzeigebeispielen und unerreichten Highlights im Live Shopping zählt. Niemand hat das Woot!-Prinzip so konsequent und mafiös adapiert wie das einstige Schutzgeld-Team. Und das ist auch das eigentlich Ern (Read More)

1 day ago

Submitted by Marcel from Google Reader: Germans love to be whiny, are risk-averse and love big institutions which half-heartedly manage their personal responsibilites. Germans simply don’t like to be individually creative so much. We like to talk about it, but at the end of the day entrepreneurship isn’t our kind of thing. Big media corporations, the state or lab (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Mahendra from blog: Searching Twitter Lists can be incredibly useful. What are the most influential tech people saying about Droid vs. iPhone? What are leading tech blogs saying about the Microsoft Azure platform? What do experienced investors think of the economy? The possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination.The problem? Tw (Read More)

2 days ago

Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest Rumors are starting regarding an imminent uber-Google phone coming in 2010. Sure, I’m interested, but the odds of personally giving up the iPhone and switching to another phone at this point are about zero plus zero, times zero, with some zero sprinkled on top.The reason? Should be obvious to anyone with an iPhone: apps.It (Read More)

3 days ago

A VC After our weekly team meeting yesterday afternoon, I hopped into a cab to the far west side of manhattan to attend the Business of APIs conference. In the cab, I opened socialscope on my blackberry to check into twitter and saw this tweet from my partner Albert:Love APIs -- so excited about @foursquare's announcement http:/ (Read More)

2 days ago

memeorandum Ever since we first plugged human editors into the automation behind Techmeme, we've been improving how we work to make the human/machine combo more and more effective. While technological innovations have contributed to these improvements, smarter and more continuous human editing has played a critical (Read More)

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Submitted by Marcel from Google Reader: Gary Vaynerchuk zeigt mal wieder sehenswert, wie es gehen kann. Je nachdem, was das Thema der Website ist, die man vermarkten möchte: Man gebe die passenden Schlagwörter bei Google ein und schaue, wer für diese wirbt (rechte Seite der Ergebnisseite). Dann rufe man diese Firmen an und zeige ihnen auf, was man ihnen zu bieten (Read More)

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Submitted by Marcel from Google Reader: Vor einigen Wochen habe ich darüber berichtet, dass sich DENIC selbst als Inhaber der Domain "de.de" registriert hat und zwar kurz bevor die eigentliche Registrierung für die neuen Domains begonnen hatte. Obwohl sich DENIC satzungsgemäß nicht am Domainhandel beteiligen darf und dies auch nicht mit ihrer Rolle als Registrier (Read More)

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Submitted by Marcel from Google Reader: Cory Doctorow wird im Rahmen der Broadband Strategy Week zum Thema Three Strikes interviewed. Das gesamte Interview ist Klasse, aber am Besten ist der Vorschlag zur Absicherung: Doctorow fordert auf, mal darüber nachzudenken, was wäre, wenn ein solches Gesetz auch anders herum gälte. Wenn also eine Firma, sagen wir Universa (Read More)

2 days ago

Ibrahim Evsan Im Wandel der visuellen Medienlandschaft. (Read More)

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