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Techcrunch is reporting on Twitter’s decision to pass on an acquisition by Facebook and a lot of people are tracking this like a major news story.  I think it’s just the continuation of the hype machine.
I’m not the biggest fan of Twitter … I consider it interesting, yet frustrating given their sheer lack of concern [...]

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Thanks to Jaiku and GerryMoth I just learned about a new release of Sportstracker which offers a real map of your location as you track your progress.  Previous versions showed a visual progress, but based on coordinates rather than a real map.  i believe this is the first integration of Navteq data outside the Maps [...]

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If you live in the US, the NBC Olympics site is really an excellent way to keep tabs on athletes and events. I can’t quite figure out how they determine what makes it to the site in video vs text, but the coverage has been excellent for the major events. I re-lived last [...]

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In my experience the ability to begin broadcasting, inform your friends and maintain a dialog is both incredibly social but amazingly powerful! I’ve been dabbling with Qik and Flixwagon and this area of mobile development is simply fantastic. When I covered the Web2 Summit last fall, my coverage was limited to 1 min [...]

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I’ve been checking out the NYT’s new HQ on my daily commute and was finally able to get inside to see how things are progressing. The building has been under some sort of construction for quite a while now and looks like it’s getting close to completion. The outside is a very modern [...]

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If you’ve wanted to know more about what’s happening in Darfur, Sudan, allow me to suggest you download the AAAS Darfur layers for Google Earth. Amnesty International and the US Holocaust Memorial have collaborated to provide rich multimedia coverage of the area to cover the latest attacks as well as provide coverage of what’s [...]

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Yahoo and Reuters are launching YouWitness tomorrow and it should be interesting to see how it pans out. This looks like it will be a pretty high profile move into crowdsourcing with two substantial partners. I hope Yahoo and Reuters integrate this with their main news sections rather than simply creating yet another [...]

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This is the most disgusting and disturbing news I’ve read in a very long time.

Technorati Tags: news, OJ Simpson

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BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » How to kill newspapers in one easy lesson
Jeff Jarvis points to what has to be the worst idea I’ve ever seen by an old media thinker… especially given we are way past mass-adoption of the internet… essentially, the genius at the SF Chronical is thinking it’d be great to develop [...]

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The term hyper-local has been getting a great deal of use lately in describing the ever-changing Newspaper (and news reporting in general) landscape. As papers begin to realize that they are news organizations not limited to just printing a single edition a day their existing credibility opens the doors to a very deep relationship [...]

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digg.com (out of service)
Well worth a click – just for the super-awesome midi rendition of The Final Countdown.

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TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Digg 3.0 To Launch Monday: Exclusive Screenshots and Stats

technorati tags:digg, techcrunch, netscape

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So Jason Calacanis (Weblogs Inc) has been hard at work on a stealth project within AOL which rears it’s head today as Netscape Beta. It’s essentially DIgg, plus editors, but for much more than simply tech news. It looks interesting… I am not sure that I’ll be that intrigued to use it more than [...]

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Congrats to Kevin Rose and team!  I really like the Diggnation pod / vid cast and enjoy using the site as well.  I’d describe it as Slashdot 2.0 (ala Web 2.0), and you’ll find a good mix of stories – though mainly tech.
Digg, a new San Francisco Internet start-up, seeks to rank news items by [...]

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Very cool – the Washington Post goes video.
This video podcast includes news and documentary video from washingtonpost.com.In the first video Washington Post personal technology columnist Rob Pegorarodiscusses his initial impressions of the latest iPod which can play video and TV shows.
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Technorati Tags: Podcast, iPod, 5G, Video

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Dilbert takes on our wonderful world of news in this week’s Sunday piece. Great for anyone paying attention.

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Two different emails arrived this afternoon about the same event…
From the WSJ:
TECH ALERT: Amazon’s Net Sinks on Tax Charge
and from CBS Marketwatch:
Bulletin: Amazon revenue of $1.9 bln tops analysts’ forecast
Not exactly taking the same perspective are they?

Technorati Tags: Amazon, News

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Yahoo! News unveiled their new beta and I really like it quite a bit. You can easily see the topics and from within a topic the main subtopics available. There’s heavy RSS and My Yahoo integration and you can do quite a bit of customization on the whole thing – even adding [...]

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via TUGW… New CNET Google Blog
And I received an email today announcing a new Google blog called Google Tutor, which seems like a pretty good place to learn about the Google tools and services

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I just read a pretty fascinating NYT Cover Story on how our current administration is utilizing video news releases and and fairly extensive distribution network to assist networks and local affiliates, not too mention the American public in understanding current events. It’s actually pretty sickening and makes me think we live in a socialist [...]

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