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Wednesday, 15th August 2007

Online Video Site Bolt.com Shuts Down

We just received a tipoff that Bolt.com, the online video site that settled a lawsuit with Universal in March, has ceased operations and closed its website. More on this as it develops, but for now this is the message on Bolt's website: "Please be advised that the operations of Bolt, Inc. and Bolt.com have ceased. Net Revolution, Inc. and Bolt…

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Extending Microsoft Money - The Web Needs an Alternative to Paypal

last100 has an interesting post on Microsoft Points, a kind of virtual currency for the Xbox Live Marketplace and the Zune Marketplace. In a lot of ways, Microsoft Points act just like real money and functions in a similar way to Paypal. Mack D. Male wrote that "if you see a movie you want to buy on Xbox Live, you just need to make sure you have…

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Amie Street: Low Cost, DRM-free Music Downloads

By Guest Author Steven Finch Amie Street is an online music store that has two key features: their unique pricing model and DRM-free downloads. The Amie Street pricing model is quite simple - all songs start free and rise in price the more they are purchased. So as the demand increass, the price goes up accordingly. At present there is a cap at…

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Nugs.net: The Biggest Music Download Site You've Never Heard Of

Nugs.net is the biggest network of music sites you've probably never heard of. Created in 1993 as a place for founder and CEO Brad Serling to keep his growing collection of live Grateful Dead and Phish tapes, the site has since grown into a major force in online music sales, having sold over 50 million paid downloads of live music. Nugs.net…

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RedHerring Returns: New Website, Videos, Social Network

RedHerring magazine relaunched its website yesterday on top of the Blogtronix social networking platform. According to Blogtronix this is version 2.0, but given the magazine's checkered past it might be better to consider this version four or five. RedHerring launched in 1993 and during the dot-com boom of the late 90s became the…

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