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Friday, November 6, 2009

Judge Orders BlueBeat.com to Pull Down Beatles Songs, Other Music; the Psycho-Acoustic Simulation Defense

Eric Savitz

You should not be surprised to learn that a federal judge yesterday ordered BlueBeat.com to immediately stop selling Beatles songs and other music from its site, rejecting a goofy assertion that the company had copyrights on the songs via the use of something called “psycho-acoustic simulation.”

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He’s in the Family Business

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

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Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia Quality and Tips for Contributors

Andrew LaVallee

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Friday that the online encyclopedia aspires to be a higher-quality source of information but added that mainstream publications could learn from its disclaimers and community features.

“Our goal is to make Wikipedia as high-quality as possible. Britannica or better quality is the goal,” he said during a question-and-answer session at the ad:tech conference in New York.

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Using Online Tools to Save Time During the Search

Jon Gray

My productivity lapses don’t come from Facebook. My problem is a combination of world news sites and Twitter. Using RescueTime, an online time management tool, I’ve named two productivity goals for myself. One goal sets my unproductive time at less than 90 minutes per day. The other sets my highly productive time at greater than five hours per day.

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High Hopes for Tackling Terror

Yukari Iwatani Kane

Blowing away terrorists, apparently, never gets old.

The new videogame Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, set to hit stores Tuesday, is a sequel spawned by sequels. But rather than following the frequent pattern of franchises fading as they age, Modern Warfare 2 is the most highly anticipated game of the season.

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E-Commerce Health Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Geoffrey A. Fowler

Depending on whom you ask, U.S. online shopping is either in unprecedented decline–or one of the only bright spots in American retail.

On Thursday, comScore reported that U.S. online spending in the third quarter slipped two percent to $29.6 billion versus last year.

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Developers Stealing From Developers: An App Store Tale

Jeff Smykil

If you are Paul Haddad of TapBots, LLC, it isn’t unusual to get requests for contract work.

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Buying Twitter Followers?

Stephen Baker

I’ve been carrying out a small experiment in one of the areas of greatest potential abuse of social media: Twitter marketing.

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Social-Media Pranksters Had Fun With Walmart’s Caskets

Craig Daitch

When it comes to social media, it’s best to start with a solid listening strategy.

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TechCrunch/OfferPal Drama–Much Ado About Very Little

Sean Ryan

So the inevitable “offers are scams” story finally blew on to the scene last week at the Virtual Goods Summit when TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington attacked OfferPal’s Anu Shukla for having misleading offers (e.g. sign up for Netflix, get 10,000 coinz) as a core part of her business.

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The Sluggish Pace Toward an IPO

Scott Austin

In light of Ancestry.com’s IPO today, tech site Vator.tv calculated the average age of the venture-backed tech companies that have gone public this year.

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Activision Q3 Edges Guidance; No Change In Full Year View

Eric Savitz

Activision Blizzard this afternoon posted slightly better-than-expected Q3 results, and reiterated its previous guidance for the full year.

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A View of Atherton From Real-Estate Agents

Pui-Wing Tam

Atherton, Calif., is the mansion Mecca for many of Silicon Valley’s tech multi-millionaires. And so far in 2009, even though home sales and median property sale prices in the town have slowed from a year ago, The Wall Street Journal found that there hasn’t been as little activity as some techie buyers might think.

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Facebook “What People Are Up To,” MySpace “What People Are Into,” News Corp. Exec Says

Andrew LaVallee

News Corp.’s digital chief said Thursday that the company’s social-networking property MySpace is going in a different direction than rival Facebook, based on how its members socialize and share interests.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Take on Silicon Valley Wannabes

Jessica E. Vascellaro

Eric Schmidt is brimming with Bay Area pride.

In the 33 years that the Google CEO has lived in the Bay Area, Schmidt says he has watched a long list of regions try–and fail–to create technology capitals of Silicon Valley’s scale.

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