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  • Nokia delivers a podcatcher

    I see that Nokia’s shipping a piece of software that in hindsight is so obvious, it’s amazing no one thought of it earlier. As onboard storage gets larger and larger (the new Nokia’s have 4GB!), the viability for the phone to double as an iPod substitute makes more and more sense. Sony played around with…

  • eBay completes social media troika, message boards, blogs, now a wiki

    EBay recently launched blogs for it’s members as a supplement to its very active forum community. While message boards are useful for loosely classified conversations where anyone can start a thread, blogs are better suited for individuals who want to project a voice around an area of expertise. We’re already seeing examples of this as…

  • Found with Davy Rothbart

    While my normal commute hour is filled with podcasts from the usual tech talk shows and NPR highlights, every now and then I dip into the vast archive of talks over on itconversations.com and pick a few interesting lectures. Today I found a gem! Davy Rothbart runs Found magazine and speaks at Pop Tech about…

  • Getting drafted for the Yankees

    From mlb.com, reporting on yesterday’s first round baseball draft picks: Yankees top pick Ian Kennedy was one of four right-handers selected in the first five rounds Tuesday. I’d like to wish the best of luck to the other Ian Kennedy, I’m pulling for you. I’ve been following his budding baseball career as part of a…

  • Billboards as Ambient Graffitti

    So this is cool. deinde posts a photo (above) of a billboard in Manhatten that you can SMS to register your vote on the live updating counter. Here’s my idea, add technology that senses nearby bluetooth or wifi-enabled devices and asks permission to read their preferences or log file. The billboard then becomes a realtime,…

  • Reuters Video Affiliate Network

    Reuters is using Brightcove to distribute its video content via an affiliate network of bloggers and small publishers. The network is in the pilot phase now but you can apply here and, if accepted, copy & paste some code into your site to make Reuters Video available on your site via a player like the…

  • WSJ 3.0

    Advertising Age checks in with Gordon Crovitz, three months into his role as publisher of a unified online & print editions of Dow Jones’ Wall Street Journal franchise and describes Gordon’s thinking around how the paper edition will evolve. Given the digital era’s barrage of news from all sides and sources, the paper probably will…

  • How to make an impression

    Enough of this online advertising stuff, sometimes you need to jump into the real world to make an impact. Flickr user Live U4 is uploading photos of various super-sized building mods as part of the promotion. I think I can make out the Spanish enough to figure out that this is a Nike campaign in…

  • New email format for Yahoo! Groups

    Yahoo Groups just announced that they will embed new links in HTML emails from subscribed groups. From the notice: Get one click access to your favorite group features. If your group updated any content, you can find out from the email. Message Archive Read and reply to group messages Photos Share photos from your photo…

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