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Fair use laws, which, among other things, allow for people to take clips from broadcast TV and add their own commentary, have been an important part of the development of the political blogopshere. Alas, Fox News doesn’t find it amusing, and has forced the shutdown of ProgressIllinois’ YouTube channel, claiming copyright v (Read More)
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Their fortunes are poles apart and yet inseparable - one is reeling in buckets of from advertising, the other losing it at an alarming rate. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) sympathizes with the newspaper business' predicament and continues to say it can help, but, sadly for NYT-Google acquisition speculators, CEO Eric Schmidt says he i (Read More)
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MySpace, Yahoo, and Intel have unveiled a joint plan on CES to offer consumers a way to use their favorite social network directly on the TV. Imagine a tiny application that shows up on TVs and other devices equipped with Intel’s special chipset that enables consumers to access MySpace and interact with their buddies (Read More)
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Brian Wallace is a social media consultant. He authors a blog at nowsourcing.com/blog.With the economy showing no signs of bouncing back in 2009, consumers will inevitably be searching for channels of escapism, means to momentarily forget their everyday woes, financial and otherwise. Although most e-businesses are bracing f (Read More)
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FlyCast is a nifty little iPhone application that lets you stream over 1200 radio channels, with a little twist: it can preload music while you have an internet connection and then play it even while you’re offline. Today at CES the company has unveiled several major upgrades to the product. First, there’s Andro (Read More)
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It's Robbie Bach's turn at the mike as the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) keynote turns to content. Among the highlights:—New content: Xbox Live will launch its own channel, Primetime, with a real-time game show called "1 vs100"—all live. A sort of virtual "Who Wants to be Millionaire?" without money. "It's all about the mob ..." (Read More)