TechCrunch:
The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that it’s open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself. Unfortunately, most people aren’t ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Google’s recently open-sourced co (Read More)
Boing Boing:
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyo (Read More)
Lifehacker:
The preview edition of Gina and Adam's new book, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now available in PDF form for your offline, ebook-reading pleasure. Google Wave is a young tool that's not terribly easy to understand for a lot of folks, but at least a couple of your Lifehacker editors are completely nuts for Wave and i (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At our Real-Time CrunchUp today in San Francisco, we are hosting a panel titles “Media Streams: Are These The Utlimate Marketing Vehicle?”Panelists include Sean Rad, CEO of Ad.ly; Ryan Amos, co-founder of DailyBooth; Jesse Engle, CEO of CoTweet; Robin Bechtel, a celebrity agent and Philip Nelson, SVP of strategic developmen (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Today at the RealTime CrunchUp we saw the launch of VideoLobby, a new service founded by Peter Urban that’s looking to make it easier to create professional-looking webcasts, complete with custom branding. The service is an extension of Urban’s “sales software for real people” service Smibs.Urban says that while some othe (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Frustrated with the fact that Pandora does not provide its streaming service in Canada, Vancouver-based Jeff Anderson set out to build a community-driven Internet radio service of his own along with other music fanatics, and dubbed the project Listen.fm. Currently still in private beta, Listen.fm is not going to be a ‘revol (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re here at the second TechCrunch RealTime CrunchUp in San Francisco, where we’ll be taking a deeper dive into realtime technology and where the streams are taking us. Kicking off the event is a conversation with Twitter COO Dick Costolo. And we’ll have much more real-time goodness coming your way throughout the day (see (Read More)
Lifehacker:
It won't affect your PS3, Wii, TiVo, or other licensed YouTube partners, but Google's streaming video service will start blocking access to TV-connected devices as of Dec. 2. The COO of set-top box maker Popcorn Hour writes that the firm tried to negotiate with YouTube to retain the service, but YouTube/Google seems to be s (Read More)
Boing Boing:
A company called Volomedia just got the US Patent Office to grant them exclusive rights to patent podcasting. Say what? The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting. Snip:The Volomedia patent covers "a method for providing episodic media." It's a ridiculously broad patent, covering something that many folks have been doin (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today the startup is launching Knx.to, a real-time search engine capability and API that looks up most recent social information about any of your friends, from th (Read More)
BBC:
This morning I joined a clutch of damp, sleepy and dishevelled hacks - sorry, bright-eyed and enthusiastic fellow journalists - at a briefing at the Department of Business in Whitehall about the Digital Economy Bill.In brief, this sets out to take Lord Carter's Digital Britain report and turn some of it into law. Amongst t (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Looking for a change of scenery? There are several new opportunities posted on the Silicon Alley Insider job board. Recent listings include positions at The Huffington Post, AdBuyer.com, TechWeb, and more:Account Executive, The Huffington PostProduct Manager of Search, SynacorPHP Developer, TechWebManager, Account Operati (Read More)
Shoemoney:
onlineprofits.com is an online training program to teach you how to create your own online business, or improve your existing one through internet marketing. On their homepage you can sign up to receive the free newsletter and trial of the program with the first two lessons free.If you would like to see your website or comp (Read More)
Shoemoney:
Its been a while since we did a Q&A. I asked Jamie to grab some random questions that were submitted to us from our contact form.In this q&a session we discuss a wide variety of topics everything from my recent scuffles to the state of the economy. This Post Is From ShoeMoney’s Internet Marketing Blog Violence, FTC Regula (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
The Cyberus Smart Info Engine may sound like a steampunk computer which connects to the Victorian Internet (which would actually be awesome) but it is instead the most full-featured digital photo-frame ever.To be fair, the manufacturer, Sungale, wouldn’t describe it like that. The company (which does make LCD photo-frames) (Read More)