how to build a web app in four days for 10000 say hello to matt 4 people to work on the app and 5 to promote it via pr and blogs wtf......
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montrealbased mediascrape recently announced that the company has become the first canadian firm to partner with google for their new adsense for video program. with googles new tech the search giant will now be able to sell targeted and premium priced ads within live videos being shown on mediascrapes site. this new initiative is a ray of light for oftenembattled mediascrape which has faced its s...
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the viacom lawsuit against youtube has been going on for too long already and the arguments from both sides of the copyrighted material divide are becoming laboured very quickly. but up until now the case was between two huge and highly profitable companies and wasnt actually impinging on us the normal consumers and viewers of video on the web. that is now set to change after a judge made a rid...
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the recent court order directing google to hand over data to viacom about every youtube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used youtube i.e. almost everyone on the internet. google should definitely keep fighting the ruling if it can. but if it cant perhaps it should comply with it in a creative way. the data in ques...
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facebook and erstwhile rival social network connectu reached a settlement last month after a lengthy court battle. connectus founders were given facebook stock in what was a de facto acquisition of the company by facebook. but connectus founders have been trying to keep the case open theyve claimed to have new evidence that facebook lowballed the value of the stock they received for the settlemen...
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facebook and erstwhile rival social network connectu reached a settlement last month after a lengthy court battle. connectus founders were given facebook stock in what was a de facto acquisition of the company by facebook. but connectus founders have been trying to keep the case open theyve claimed to have new evidence that facebook lowballed the value of the stock they received for the settlemen...
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weve seen a number of music sites like seeqpod and grooveshark that leverage useruploaded music scattered across the web to offer free ondemand jukeboxes. these services manage to skirt legal repercussions by only serving content that is hosted on other sites which makes them harder to sue though some have tried. streamzy a media search startup that launched earlier this year has taken this app...
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below is what happened in search today as reported on search engine land and from other places across the web. from search engine land hitwise yahoo properties get more traffic from google than yahoo searchin a way it should come as no surprise that most of yahoos own properties get more traffic from google than from yahoo search according to hitwise. i would guess thats also true ...
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even back in january when microsoft agreed to pay 1.2 billion for enterprise search company fast search transfer it was mired in an accounting scandal and trading in its stock had been suspended. its aggressive accounting for phantom deals that never materialized earned it the moniker the enron of norway. but more sordid details keep coming out from some tenacious reporting by the norwegian pre...
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...p. id be psyched to work at a place that did things like this for teambuilding and morale. i participated in a startup weekend last year and had a blast it wasnt the most successful business venture techcrunch.com httpwww.techcrunch.com20080703howtobuildawebappinfourdaysfor10000say bookmark it......
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i say this with the utmost respect but judge stanton is a moron. michael arrington and why i dont ever read techcrunchfrom judge protects youtubes source code throws users to the wolves......
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techcrunch reports that moo a printing company that manufactures mini cards small business cards is now going full size. as someone who has been on the moo bandwagon for quite some time i can tell you firsthand that the quality of the product they produce is top notch. what sets them apart is that you can feature a different image on every business card. that means you can order 100 cards will ...
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the xmpp feed was really cool. why twitter wont allow relaying is beyond me. if twitter decentralized and did a nodehub based architecture with a good toolkit things would be much different. from no xmpp what is twitter protecting......
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editors note this post was originally published on hueniverse thoughts on technology open standards. the first oauth summit hosted by yahoo last week was a huge success. fifty oauth community members attended representing 20 companies large and small as well as a couple dedicated individuals. the list of companies represented is extremely gratifying to see considering that oauth remains a comm...
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there is a lot of buzz surrounding music labels agreements to sell drmfree music in marketplaces other than the itunes music store. the problem is that they miss the big picture. they dont pay attention to the two things that really matter. people want to be able to buy their music easily people want their purchased music to work on their devices the itunes music store allows people to easily pu...
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there is a lot of buzz surrounding music labels agreements to sell drmfree music in marketplaces other than the itunes music store. the problem is that they miss the big picture. they dont pay attention to the two things that really matter. people want to be able to buy their music easily people want their purchased music to work on their devices the itunes music store allows people to easily pu...
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theres bad news today for privacy advocates with wired.com reporting that a judge is ordering youtube to provide viacom with the hsitory of all of their users. they say google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by youtube users including users names and ip addresses. this is in regards to that lawsuit that viacom filed against google back in march last year for 1 billion ov...
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techcrunch blogged about a new beta tool named flowgram. it basically allows you to create demos of things you do on the web on your browser via your browser. it is very cool. here is a demo of how i used it to describe my profiles across the web. click on it to see my demo neat......
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if you wanted to keep your obsession with hyperactive youtube phenomeon fred a secret youre in for some bad news. a federal judge yesterday ordered that records of every video watched on youtube be handed over to viacom as part of its ongoing 1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against google. according to the ruling the motion to compel production of all data from the logging database conc...
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if you wanted to keep your obsession with hyperactive youtube phenomeon fred a secret youre in for some bad news. a federal judge yesterday ordered that records of every video watched on youtube be handed over to viacom as part of its ongoing 1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against google. according to the ruling the motion to compel production of all data from the logging database conc...
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if you wanted to keep your obsession with hyperactive youtube phenomeon fred a secret youre in for some bad news. a federal judge yesterday ordered that records of every video watched on youtube be handed over to viacom as part of its ongoing 1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against google. according to the ruling the motion to compel production of all data from the logging database conc...
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youtube who takes a liberal approach to safeguarding copyrights enables the law to become trounced by the easeofuse. if i can copy a videoclip and post it so easily then it cant be wrong to do so. its the way we are behaving and behavior leads the market. the old media companies need to get up to speed its not my fault ive figured a way to get their content. hmmm. the argument that its what the pe...
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...ks. i feel violated. i have enjoyed you tube. i have infringed yet those infringed upon gets one of the worlds great value propositions which is acknowledgement and attention and that word of spreads techcrunch.com httpwww.techcrunch.com20080703judgeprotectsyoutubessourcecodethrowsuserst bookmark it......
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