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Friday, November 20, 2009

Almost Famous: Elemental Technologies’ Sam Blackman

Drake Martinet

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A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about.

This week: We caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies at the San Francisco NewTeeVee Live conference. Elemental Technologies hopes to become a major player in the future of online and over-the-air video through its high-performance encoding technology.

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Almost Famous Update: Now-Out-of-Beta Brizzly Hires Facebooker and Translates Tweets

Drake Martinet

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Brizzly, the Web-based Twitter client from Thing Labs, covered in Almost Famous two weeks ago, begins public beta today.

In addition to opening its “expanded” Twitter interface to the world at large, the start-up is offering an on-the-fly translation tool for foreign tweets. And it has hired former FriendFeeder and current Facebooker Ben Darnell.

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Google Removes Offensive Obama Image; Was It Justified?

Matt McGee

Saying the host site was serving malware to users, Google has removed a controversial photo of First Lady Michelle Obama from Google Image Search.

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IBM Reveals the Biggest Artificial Brain of All Time

Douglas Fox

Scientists at IBM’s Almaden research center have built the biggest artificial brain ever–a cell-by-cell simulation of the human visual cortex: 1.6 billion virtual neurons connected by 9 trillion synapses.

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Is Local the New Social Now?

Mercedes Bunz

Several reports from the US make the point: local is the new buzzword in the land of web entrepreneurship.

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Microsoft, Nielsen Track Xbox Live Ads

Oliver J. Chiang

These days, videogame platform makers often boast that they are also entertainment hubs.

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Forget the Fangs. It’s Spam That Should Really Scare “Twilight” Fans.

Matthew Shaer

Fans of “Twilight” and “New Moon” already have plenty to be scared about–vampires, werewolves, a swirling debate over the feminist values of Stephenie Meyer’s hit series.

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes

Ina Fried

At Microsoft’s shareholder meeting, the CEO says the OS has sold twice as fast in its early days as any prior version of Windows. He also takes a few shots at Apple.

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Why It Matters That Pierre Omidyar Is Doing a News Start-Up

Dan Gillmor

Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, is launching a for-profit news startup in Hawaii, where he and his family live.

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A Brave New Web Will Be Here Soon, but Browsers Must Improve

Michael Calore

The great promise of HTML5 is that it will turn the web into a full-fledged computing platform awash with video, animation and real-time interactions, yet free of the hacks and plug-ins common today.

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Can the Law Keep Up With Technology?

Manav Tanneeru

In a case that would have been impossible even five years ago, bad-girl rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel by a fashion designer for allegedly slamming the woman on Twitter.

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Library in a Pocket

Motoko Rich and Brad Stone

With Amazon’s Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers.

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Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive

Eliot Van Buskirk

MySpace, rumored to be on the verge of purchasing the free music streaming site imeem, is struggling to keep up with its own payments to music copyright holders, according to a top News Corp executive–a problem that has plagued every other licensed free music service.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Viacom’s Top Lawyer: Suing P2P Users “Felt Like Terrorism”

Nate Anderson

Michael Fricklas is Viacom’s general counsel, and it’s his job to oversee the company’s legal efforts, including its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube.

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After Microsoft, Bringing a High-Tech Eye to Professional Kitchens

Kenneth Chang

Inside a nondescript warehouse on a nondescript street of this Seattle suburb is a research laboratory that looks like it came out of a James Bond movie–had Q the gadget master been a gastronome.

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