1 day ago

Submitted by Rexhammock from Google Reader: Google, accused by some as being a book thief, now has company — the Associated Press. The AP patted itself on the back in an internal memo that detailed how it scanned a copy of Sarah Palin’s book without permission, to make it searchable.The irony is rich. The AP hasn’t taken a stance against Google Book Search that I k (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Rexhammock from Google Reader: Bonnie Fuller has finally launched the first salvo in her attempt to cross over to new media: HollywoodLife.com. It is in the running for worst website design of the year. (Read More)

3 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home The holiday shopping season is almost upon us, and it’s just about time for that new pre-shopping-season tradition: updating your Amazon wish list. Better get on it early, before your friends, relatives, or kindly-disposed strangers start doing their shopping!Or, all right, your wish list on whatever shopping site you like (Read More)

3 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home The New York Times is mysteriously killing the wonderful “Extra” option, which, if you turn it on, will turbo-charge the home page with blog headlines blended in with news stories. December 1 is when the option will vanish. Without offering an explanation, a home-page notice directs readers to the  Blogrunner aggregation (Read More)

4 days ago

Scripting News Tim O'Reilly is going to give a keynote at the Web 2.0 conference about the War of the Web. You should read his piece, many good points, I agree with most of it. The tech industry sure loves its wars. And death. This is dead that is dead, everyone is dead, but me. Isn't that every child's fantasy -- to have all the world to (Read More)

3 days ago

paidContent:UK The troubled UK B2B publisher Haymarket is closing down two of its media-focused titles, Mediaweek and the digital media-focused Revolution Magazine.It couldn’t hold back the tides of poor advertising revenue and structural change in the B2B magazine industry any longer: today (Read More)

5 days ago

A VC Back in the early days of web video, it wasn't clear who would win the competition for video upload to the web. There was YouTube, Vimeo, and the big dog was Google Video. I tried all of them. YouTube was by far and away the best experience.Google Video required you to wait for days to see the video you uploaded. It was so (Read More)

4 days ago

New York Times The Web site will announce a new tool to make it easy for users to submit clips that companies can then choose to highlight. . (Read More)

4 days ago

paidContent.org The troubled UK B2B publisher Haymarket is closing down two of its media focused titles, Mediaweek and the digital media focused Revolution Magazine. Release after the jump and more to come…17 Nov 2009 11:39Haymarket Business Media to restructure Brand MediaHaymarket Business Media is to restructure its Brand Media Group, w (Read More)

5 days ago

New York Times There are lots of reasons to loathe the New York City subway, but one very good reason to love it — Helvetica, the typeface that’s used on its signage. (Read More)

7 days ago

Daggle: Danny Sullivan's Blog So Google wants to speed up the web, to the degree of saying if your site isn’t fast enough, you might suffer a ranking penalty. I’m all for speed. So here’s a suggestion. Google, take a leadership role in developing a web tracking API, so I can have one script that does it all.Here are tracking scripts I currently consid (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

Lifehacker Click a direct iTunes link in a browser, and Apple has traditionally opened the music app automatically, or asked you to download it at a blank landing page. That landing is now more soft and helpful, though missing song previews. iTunes Preview, as it's known, drops browsers at a page with artist, track, and album informat (Read More)

7 days ago

paidContent.org Prosper.com, a peer-to-peer lending and loan marketplace, has raised $1 million worth of a $2 million round of funding, per an SEC filing. QED Investors led the funding; managing partner Nigel Morris is a co-founder of Capital One. Loan-seekers, private investors and PE firms (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

Daggle: Danny Sullivan's Blog My fifth grader is having to learn US geography — in particular, to look at a blank map and write in the correct name for each of the states. I think that’s great. I love maps and geography. But that’s a lot of states. I’ve been sharing with him a number of ways I’ve somehow remembered where states are located, and I’m cu (Read More)

Nov 09, 2009

Hacker News I’m sure you split stories like this into two pages for a good reason: to save my bandwidth. After all, the remaining 3,126 characters of the story’s body (1,530 bytes as transferred with gzip compression) would have increased the page’s total size by 0.32%.No, I’m just yanking your chain. I know you’re double-charging your (Read More)

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