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» MySpace may relaunch as an entertainment portal. If the new guys (and they are all guys) can rescue the lost cause, they will go down in history, that’s for sure.
» “Its stimulating but not uncomfortably challenging,” says Virginia Postrel, in an NYT review of Chris Anderson’s “Free”.
» Silverlight 3 launched yesterday, and apparently, some people care. NBC Sports for example, which continually sucks at online live sports coverage.
» Local TV stations’ hopes for a business turnaround in the rest of ‘09 are fading fast.
» The ninth Adwords related lawsuit filed against Google (NSDQ: GOOG), this time by Rosetta Stone.
» “Redboxs low price…is less a reflection of a permanently superior distribution technology than of Hollywoods reluctance to fully embrace alternatives to discs, like video-on-demand.” Well said.
» Twitter as the disseminator of fake celeb deaths.
By Rafat Ali
» MySpace may relaunch as an entertainment portal. If the new guys (and they are all guys) can rescue the lost cause, they will go down in history, that’s for sure.
» “Its stimulating but not uncomfortably challenging,” says Virginia Postrel, in an NYT review of Chris Anderson’s “Free”.
» Silverlight 3 launched yesterday, and apparently, some people care. NBC Sports for example, which continually sucks at online live sports coverage.
» Local TV stations’ hopes for a business turnaround in the rest of ‘09 are fading fast.
» The ninth Adwords related lawsuit filed against Google (NSDQ: GOOG), this time by Rosetta Stone.
» “Redboxs low price…is less a reflection of a permanently superior distribution technology than of Hollywoods reluctance to fully embrace alternatives to discs, like video-on-demand.” Well said.
» Twitter as the disseminator of fake celeb deaths.
By Rafat Ali
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