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Thursday, 25th September 2008

Muxtape Is Dead - Favtape Emerges as a Great Alternative

While Muxtape's Justin Ouellette just posted a dire story about the shutdown of the popular mixtape service and his dealings with the music industry, Favtape has updated its service dramatically. Muxtape will effectively remain closed for the general public and will only return as a music hosting service for bands. Favtape, on the other hand, now…

Frederic Lardinois comments

Reading Blogs at Work: Why You Should Do It & How You Can Make it Worthwhile

Yesterday we wrote about a new Pew study that found that only 11% of people in the US who use the internet at work are using it to read blogs. We've seen other studies that put this number much higher, but Pew's is probably the most objective. It's really a shame that more people aren't reading blogs at work, and we don't just say that…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal - The Facts (According to Google)

Google has just released a mini-site explaining "the facts" about the contentious advertising deal it announced with Yahoo in June. The deal will go live in early October, according to a report on SearchEngineLand, so the mini-site is an attempt to outline how it will work - and why consumers, publishers, competitors (and the US government) have…

Richard MacManus comments

The Scannable World, Part 2: Scanning Your Web Printouts

This is the second post in a multi-part series about integrating the internet with the real world. In "The Scannable World: Mobile Phones As Barcode Scanners," we introduced the concept of using your phone to scan barcoded objects in the real world. We also touched on some of the history surrounding this technology. One of the issues with…

Sarah Perez comments

Product Reviews

Iterend: New Blog Search Engine with Potential (Invites)

Iterend, a new blog search and discovery engine, is entering a highly competitive market. It competes with Technorati, Google's Blog Search, Sphere, Icerocket, and many other smaller players. Iterend is trying to differentiate itself from the competition by putting a stronger focus on tracking memes, clustering results, and using tag clouds for…

Frederic Lardinois comments

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