Submitted by Bwana
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Out-Of-The-Box Windows 7 Install Vulnerable To 8/10 Viruses? Duh! NPD says Windows 7 sales 234% Higher Than Vista. Modern Warfare 2 Pushed Back on Steam. The 10 PC Games You Must Own. Netflix PS3 Discs Ship Today. Verizon Offers Pay-As-you Mobile Broadband. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer Beta Exclusive To PS3 (Read More)
Social Media:
I just finished up my second day of reporting at ad:tech in New York for ad:tech, a conference about the digital side of the advertising industry. The event happens ten times a year all over the world and I last reported on the event for ad:tech in San Francisco.At this year’s New York conference I saw many of the same thin (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Slide, which started in photo-sharing, moved into Facebook widgets and then raised funding at a reported $550 million valuation last year, shifted gears this year and went aggressively into virtual goods. The company’s looking to become a mainstream version of Second Life, where there’s a virtual economy at work of real pe (Read More)
BBC:
How much do you know about all the data you have stored out there on the web? And how much control do you have over it? Questions prompted by Google's latest move to deal with concerns about privacy.The search company has today launched its Dashboard, which it says will allow users to view and control all the data associate (Read More)
New Comm Biz:
Image via CrunchBasePosterous has been gaining a lot of attention lately. Most people see it as a great way to fill that gap between a tweet and a blog. Some people see it as a next generation content management systems for the Web. Other people see it as a lifestream. Whatever you want to call it Posterous is gaining in po (Read More)
Blogging from the Alley:
Photo from Photos8.com on flickrAdam Curry (from the Mevio Network) said he has three podcasters that will make between $500,000 to $1,000,000 this year. If you are a podcaster, don’t deny yourself the opportunity to learn, at any level or audience size, how to make money with your show. Even if your show is a part time gig (Read More)
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media:
It's NTEN appreciation month and I can think of no better way than to say thank you to all the NTEN members (and non-members) who have contributed to the WeAreMedia project. It is time for the community to write the Hollywood ending! I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the We (Read More)
Submitted by Bwana
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Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Available. Modern Warfare 2 is Gamestop's Most Pre-Ordered Game Ever. TwitterPeek Gets official. Ribbit Launches Google Voice Challenger. Windows 7 SP1 Due In Less Than A Year. Left 4 Dead 2 Pre-Orders Get TF2 Hat. Watch For Battlefield Bad Company 2 Phishing! Adobe Sends Apple Passive Aggressive M (Read More)
Submitted by Renesilva
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The sale of ads is one of the primary sources of revenue for blogs, allowing the owners to continually pump out great content by covering the time required to maintain their websites. It also gives a platform for companies to promote their products and services to specific niches, delivering great results. In this post the (Read More)
Submitted by Competent
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An example of using podcasts to structure a class is described by Planet Money. A New York City economics class instructor selected a series of podcasts from that program, then built lesson plans around them. (Read More)
radical trust:
The “blog” is well-understood, having become a household word in the Americas and Europe, but in a Monrovia, the capital city of the west African nation of Liberia, you may not even recognize them.Liberia has suffered two decades of civil war. Here, television and radio have all but been destroyed. The internet is very expe (Read More)
Submitted by Courane01
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A growing number of businesses are using podcasting as a means to increase brand awareness, to connect with their target audience, and to grow their online presence. But to get the most out of podcasting, you need to make sure you’re doing all of the right things to give your audience a professional show every time. Here ar (Read More)
Engadget:
Tired of all the DROID talk? Well, tough cookies, mister. Nilay, Paul and Josh have a lot to say on the subject, and you're just going to have to sit there and take it. Or you could skip the first 40 minutes of this week's podcast, but that's just a recipe for regret. If you do stick it out you'll be treated to some unusual (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze how Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks the Web will evolve, review Hulu's latest plans to make money, investigate use cases for Google Wave, ask why VCs aren't investing in Augmented Reality, review the latest Mobile Web s (Read More)