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This is now well past speculation. Owen Van Natta, Facebook's former Chief Revenue Officer and Amazon's former Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development, is the new CEO of Project Playlist. Or at least that's what he's been telling people, we've heard from multiple sources. T... (original story)
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The latest video market share figures for September from Nielsen Online's VideoCensus have been leaked to Beet.TV, and they show a huge 56 percent jump from Yahoo to 264 million videos streamed during the month. Yahoo's share still pales next to YouTube's 5.3 billion streams. But it pumped out 9... (original story)
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When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could hire as many people as it needed to and not worry about profitabili... (original story)
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Any holiday is an excuse to be a little creative. Today, Halloween, is no exception. Google, Yahoo, MSN and FriendFeed have special logos (who else?). Microsoft needs a little more inspiration in my opinion: And Twitter went one step further, allowing users to add special Halloween themed Tweets u... (original story)
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For all the complexity of the human mind, when it comes down to remembering what we've been up to for the last few weeks our memories are pretty pitiful - you might remember a few notable events, but your day-to-day activities barely make a dent. And while some of us are not prone to such bouts of... (original story)
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It's been a week since the Android Market - the primary location for downloading applications for the Google G1 Android mobile handset - opened its doors for business. And while the noise surrounding the opening of a marketplace for Android applications hasn't met with the same cacophonous reverbera... (original story)
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DataViz, makers of Documents To Go, a Microsoft Office editor app for mobile devices, has confirmed that they are developing an application for the iPhone. The application would allow for editing of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on your iPhone, or, presumably, your iPod Touch. Accordin... (original story)
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If you live in the U.K. and you have 100 British pounds to spare, you can now subscribe to the Datz Music Lounge, where those 100 pounds can buy you unlimited access to DRM-free MP3s for one year. According to Music Week, Datz features about 2 million tracks from EMI, Warner, Beggars Group, and The ... (original story)
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According to the latest data from Comscore, 6.5 million Americans watched videos on their cell phones in August. YouTube-style amateur videos ranked as the most popular type of content, followed closely by music and comedy videos. Comscore also released some data about general mobile media consumpti... (original story)
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While Twitter has been less than forthcoming on how they plan to monetize their service, there is no shortage of ideas from third parties on ways to get paid for spending time with Twitter. From pay-to-tweet to selling off the real estate on your Twitter background, there are any number of ways you... (original story)
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When Google radically changed its iGoogle homepage a little while ago, many of its users were up in arms about these changes. By updating its homepage today, AOL ran a similar risk, but instead of making radical changes to the design of the page, AOL managed to include a lot of new functionality on ... (original story)
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Google's been the lone hold out among major search engines on RSS but the company quietly enabled feeds for web search results this week. The offering is pretty limited and frustrating, you have to go through Google Alerts to get an obscure RSS URL, but we offer a tutorial and some strategic advice ... (original story)
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Today, Microsoft will release a major update for Live Mesh, its consumer oriented cloud storage and synchronization service. digg_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_updates_live_mesh_wo.php';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';Among these updates are more granular permis... (original story)
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Google just released a new beta version of Chrome, Google's first web browser, which addresses a number of issues we had noticed in earlier releases. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Releases_Third_Beta_of_Chrome';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';Besides improving the perfor... (original story)
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Blogging is fast, informal and easy to do. Spelling, grammar and factual errors happen - but do they make a material impact on the success of a blogger? A small but interesting survey run by crowdsourced copy editing service GooseGrade concludes that they do. Approximately 200 respondents told Goo... (original story)