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DocumentCloud Gets Funding to Create Research Memory Bank in the Sky
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 17, 2009 1:22 PM / 2 Comments
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A team of journalist-engineers from ProPublica and The New York Times has been awarded the Grand Prize in this year's Knight News Challenge and will receive $700k to build DocumentCloud, Continue reading »


Study: Piracy Does Not Deter the Production of Music, Films, Books
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 17, 2009 12:00 PM / 20 Comments
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According to a new study (PDF) by economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard) and Koleman Strumpf (University of Kansas), file sharing and weaker copyright protections generally benefit societies more than they hurt Continue reading »


ComScore: Bing is Still Going Strong
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 17, 2009 10:27 AM / 14 Comments
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Right after Microsoft launched Bing, we already saw some indications that users were quickly warming up to this new search engine. Just a few days after its launch, Bing had Continue reading »


MLB.com's iPhone App Could Be a Model For Media Saving Itself
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 17, 2009 10:08 AM / 8 Comments
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MLB.com's already wildly successful iPhone app will begin streaming live video of baseball games today. Baseball fans are excited, but there's plenty of reason for even non-sports fans to pay Continue reading »


Retrial: Jammie Thomas vs. RIAA Goes Into Its Last Round
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 17, 2009 9:23 AM / 3 Comments
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Jammie Thomas vs. Capitol is probably the most infamous and longest running illegal file sharing case in the U.S., and while a judge declared a mistrial last September, the two Continue reading »


Will Apple Break Pre's Ability to Sync?
Written by Sarah Perez / June 17, 2009 8:18 AM / 19 Comments
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In order to compete with the iPhone, you not only have to have a multi-touch interface and a slew of apps, you also have to offer the music and media Continue reading »


Where Does Real-Time Matter? In Viewing the Stream or Searching It? (Facebook Bets on the Latter)
Written by Sarah Perez / June 17, 2009 7:30 AM / 6 Comments
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"Real-time" - as in the "real-time web" - has certainly become the buzzword du jour. It's even possible that the move of web services to support a real-time, immediate flow Continue reading »


Wired's First "Geeks in Suits" Event Was Great
Written by Bernard Lunn / June 17, 2009 7:00 AM
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On Monday, Wired held its first-ever business conference, titled "Disruptive By Design." A stellar cast was on stage and, perhaps more interestingly, in the audience as well. The audience had Continue reading »


Sub.DiggerPlus Finally Makes Digg's Social Network Useful; Too Bad People Are Afraid to Use It
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 16, 2009 8:55 PM / 4 Comments
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A new service called Sub.DiggerPlus vastly improves the user experience for social news mega-site Digg and its social networking features. The service shows a Digg user's friends' link submissions in Continue reading »


VIDEO: Online Reputation Management As Seen From The Outside
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 16, 2009 8:45 PM / 10 Comments
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In a recent panel on online reputation management, a group of real-world recruiters and consultants convened to discuss how they saw social media use in both the general populace and Continue reading »


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