MAYBE HULU IS RIGHT TO BLOCK BOXEE?
If I may, I’d like to play devil’s advocate to something I wrote a few days ago . To quickly summarize, Boxee took issue with NBCU’s Jeff Zucker’s characterization that Boxee was some sort of rogue piece of software,...
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YOUR COMMENTS ARE SAFE WITH US
About half an hour ago, a post that was published on the Digital Inspiration blog hit Techmeme. The title of that post left little to the imagination: it read “TechCrunch Removes Reader Comments From All Older Blog Posts”. That...
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A GOOGLER HAS HIS TIANANMEN SQUARE MOMENT
Earlier today I was driving to Google for a product briefing, minding my own business, talking on my Google phone with Google PR and trying to figure out what Google building I was supposed to be driving to. I...
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APPLE & GOOGLE CLASH OVER “ANDROID” IN THE APP STORE
And the Apple-Google war continues. This time, instead of just bad-mouthing each other, Apple is running with a strategy that they’re no stranger to: censoring words in the App Store . Instead of just “boobs” and “booty”, which they...
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PLEASE TAKE OUR READER SURVEY
Two things. First of all: No, the image has absolutely nothing to do with the post. It was between “Stock photo of a bunch of survey check boxes” and this picture of a cat with a human smile –...
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APPFUND OFFERS VC MONEY FOR IPAD APPS
Filed under: Software , Developer , SDK A group of investors has teamed up to form AppFund , a company solely focused on raising money for and incubating apps for the iPad . You'll remember the somewhat similar iFund...
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VANITY FAIR RELEASES OSCAR PREDICTIONS APP
Filed under: Software , iPhone , App Store Film fans everywhere will be sitting before their TVs on March 7th to catch the Academy Awards . Now, as with so many other things, there's an app for that ....
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MYSPACE CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER JASON HIRSCHHORN ON HIS WAY OUT AFTER 9 MONTHS ON THE JOB
MySpace Chief Product Officer Jason Hirschhorn will soon be leaving the company, we’ve heard from multiple sources. ...
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FACEBOOK’S PROJECT TITAN: A FULL FEATURED WEBMAIL PRODUCT
Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it’s known as Project Titan. Or, unofficially and perhaps...
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TVGORGE LETS YOU STREAM 120+ POPULAR TV SHOWS, WITH NO GEO-RESTRICTION
Yes, it’s perfectly possible to watch Hulu from outside the United States if you know how to hide your location, but there are millions of people who don’t who would love to get access to the streaming service. For...
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