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Reminder, TUAW Talkcast 1st anniversary show at 10pm

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:35:47 -0800

Filed under: TUAW Business, Podcasts If you haven't tuned in yet for last week's talkcast, go check it out -- it features Scott's farewell announcement and our cranky assessment of MobileMe's first weeks. Download direct, or subscribe to the TalkShoe feed in iTunes. Join us again tonight (Sunday 8/3) for our next live show, 10 pm ET as usual. Since this is the first anniversary of our little podcasting experiment (the kickoff show was back on 8/2/2007), we'll be looking back at the past year of Apple news and casting our Predict-O-Matics forward into the fall. We'll also be digging into the Ghost of Trivia Past bag for some trivia giveaways, all quite vintage (Mac OS 9 games! A broken iPod Mini! A copy of iMovie 3 Solutions by Erica Sadun, which we can probably get autographed for you! A pile of Zip disks -- with a drive!) but delivered with love. Continue reading Reminder, TUAW Talkcast 1st anniversary show at 10pm ET Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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'oeBlogging 2.0'³ Misses The

Tue, 20 May 2008 17:11:33 -0800

There's been some discussion in the last few days about so-called "blogging 2.0″. Here are a couple of quotes that explain the "new paradigm of blogging 2.0″. via The Inquisitr: If blogging 1.0 was about enabling the conversation on each blog, blogging 2.0 is about enabling the conversation across many blogs and supporting sites and services. The conversation

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Television Audience Plummeting As Viewers Move

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:38:43 -0800

It looks like mainstream broadcasters will have to come to terms with YouTube, video podcasts and other Internet media or they'll face the same fate as newspapers. TVWeek reports that this year's May television ratings sweeps are a debacle: Low ratings during the February sweeps may have been a fluke due to the writers strike, but the

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Major Music Labels Enlist Napster To Take On

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:25:08 -0800

You almost have to feel sorry for the mainstream music industry. Almost. The major labels have teamed up with Napster to offer what they are calling "the world s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store." Yep - the labels are so intent on breaking Apple's dominance in the world of digital music that they are giving Napster -

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NYT On Amanda Congdon's

Tue, 20 May 2008 14:47:51 -0800

Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon gets profiled in the New York Times, and somehow the NYT doesn't even cough up a link to her new video blog, Sometimes Daily. "It's weird," says Congdon. The Times article also seems fairly dismissive of everything that Congdon has done: Ms. Congdon, 26, became the closest thing to an Internet sensation by

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Free WordPress Theme For Video

Tue, 20 May 2008 13:35:05 -0800

Videographer is a free WordPress theme for creating video sites. "It s a great way to build content-rich niche sites, and use the power of YouTube at the same time," says creator Shane Navratil. To use it, you'll need to know WordPress, some HTML and possibly some php. No support is provided for the theme.

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Lieberman Calls On YouTube To Take Down Terrorist

Tue, 20 May 2008 13:08:55 -0800

Senator Joe Lieberman Monday called on Google to remove Internet videos produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda from YouTube. Islamist terrorist organizations use YouTube to disseminate their propaganda, enlist followers, and provide weapons training, said the Senator said in his letter. YouTube also, unwittingly, permits Islamist terrorist groups to maintain an active, pervasive, and amplified

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Roku Netflix Player Offers 8 Times The Movie Selection Of Apple

Tue, 20 May 2008 11:33:08 -0800

The world of Internet video just got a lot more interesting. The Netflix Player by Roku is the first product that lets you get Netflix movies and TV shows streamed directly to your TV screen. It also costs $100 and offers about 8 times the movie selection of Apple TV. Best of all, if you've already got

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JVC Intros YouTube Camcorder; No

Tue, 20 May 2008 11:07:59 -0800

JVC has introduced it's take on the "YouTube camcorder" - the JVC GZ-MS100: The JVC GZ-MS100 connects directly to your computer, via USB. Clicking the camera's built-in Upload button will send videos directly to YouTube. The JVC GZ-MS100 features a 2.7-inch LCD, 35x optical zoom, auto backlight control, Cyberlink software, and a battery that should give

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One In Five Homes Not Likely To Twitter, Podcast Anytime

Tue, 20 May 2008 10:41:14 -0800

If you've ever wondered why technologies popular with first adopters, like podcasting or Twitter, are adopted more slowly by general users, you don't have to look much further than the latest research from Parks Associates. They found that roughly one-fifth of all U.S. heads-of-household have never used e-mail. Their annual phone survey of U.S. households found 20

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Steven Spielberg, Harisson Ford, George Lucas On

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:30:12 -0800

The stars & creators of the latest Indiana Jones movie answered questions today via the microvlogging community Seesmic. Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur explains: The original idea was to have journalists around the World ask private questions to the actors and they would answer in private, as a way to give access to them. Instead of a

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LonelyGirl15 Creators Sign CBS

Sun, 18 May 2008 11:06:27 -0800

EQAL, the studio behind faux-vlog shows LonelyGirl15 & KateModern, has signed a deal with CBS to create online content. The two companies will work on producing multi-platform content, including online and mobile, around CBS programming. EQAL will work on a non-exclusive basis with CBS at consulting, producing and scripting. "This partnering signals CBS's attention to the web

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Podiobooks.com Moves To LibsynPro 2, Joins Wizzard Media

Sat, 17 May 2008 17:38:28 -0800

Wizzard Media announced today that Podiobooks.com, a free audiobook podcast network, is now using LibsynPRO 2.0 podcast hosting and will make their library of shows available on the Wizzard Media Network for advertising opportunities. Libsyn has always been a valued partner for Podiobooks.com and one that is always willing to work with us, as our needs

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Can The Amazon Kindle Become An iPod-Like

Sat, 17 May 2008 16:39:54 -0800

Citi analyst Mark Mahaney says the Amazon Kindle could be an iPod-like hit within two years, contributing 3% (750 millsion) to Amazon's revenue. Here are Mahaney's reasons: The Kindle doesn't suck. Mahaney likes the Kinde's automatic downloading feature and slightly lower-price books ($9.99 vs. $18 for the physical books). The current Kindle is a 1.0 product and future

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WIll Apple Bring Back DRM'd

Sat, 17 May 2008 16:02:54 -0800

According to the Guardian's Tim Anderson, DRM'd music is going to stage a comeback, and Apple's going to be the one making it happen. The music industry wants to sell new services, like music subscriptions, and DRM's is central to making these services viable. To succeed, though, subscription music services need to work with iPods and

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