Hi Miley, We know that you aren't pg! You're a great role model!

...and the other question might be one that addresses some of the unusual players like Collective X. Collective X prefers the term groupsites (http://www.groupsites.com) - an attractive alternative for professionals seeking the same and better in terms of "social networking" functionality. Great Poll!

I’ve always admired Helio for their no-nonsense approach to marketing. In fact, when they launched in October 2005, Helio and Sky Dayton promised to “End Confusing Rate Plans and Cheap Gimmicks.” Apparently something went terribly wrong. I wrote a blog post about their latest “near bait and switch” marketing ploy. SK Telecom may never give up on Helio, but I have. http://blog.sensiblemarketing.biz/cheap-marketing-gimmicks-at-helio/

That's interesting! thank you!

When are you bringing back IMF? I loved that channel, it was so much better than MTV. When is it coming back?

Live Universe should pay the money owed on recent site purchases before aquiring new properties!

I was a little bit confused by your conclusion: “In that sense, Cuban is right. It may not make sense for the networks simply to make their schedules available for free on the Internet. That doesn’t really create any new value; it mostly just drains value from linear platforms.” As you wrote yourself, when the content is “public”, than it is available… Anyone know websites like “surfthechannel.com”? So, why shouldn`t they publish it online? It`s out there anyway. They can`t stop the technology! Said thousands of times…. There is the “free” (legal or not) competitor, so compete with it! Try to build your brand in the online world!

I've been to E3 in 99 and 2001........and I still want to attend but I can't unless I'm invited......this should be changed back to the way it was. E3 used to be tight. Booth babes and all.....it was like the Boston song More Than A Feeling. Now what's up with it.....I'm not feelin it anymore! Because I'm not there anymore! Change this please!

Can the public actually attend this year? as in "not press". If so do we have to buy tickets and where do we buy them?

Here's an idea, let's take democratic vote of the subscribers, the ones who will supposedly be hurt by this merger, and see if they vote for or against it. Then, let the vote stand by either allowing or not allowing the merger. Please read my articles on the merger on Seeking Aplha.

Hopefully they appeal and bust the MPAA's balls on them hiring a hacker to retrieve the information used against them.

As a result of the offshoring boom, India has seen double-digit wage growth for much of the 2000s. Consequently, Indian's operations and firms are concerned that they are becoming too expensive in comparison with competition from the other offshoring destinations listed below.

I really hope Vigil steers this game towards the direction of Necromunda; the closed quarters nature of the combat envisioned in that game system will offset all the problems they will face with shooting. Leave squad tactics to the RTS (DOW), and let shooty players get their kicks for nothing but ranged shooting and massive battles there. But if shooting must reign in any 40K MMO, hopefully it doesn't reign supreme. Games Workshop worked really hard to revamp the tabletop game a few years back because shooty "armies" were dominating, and they seem to have found a balance with the recent game systems. I hope that Vigil recognizes what the GW community had to go through to get this "right", and learns those lessons before setting down the foundation for this MMO. Some simple moves the right or wrong way in the early stages of development will really set the tone for this game; will you spend all your time hiding from snipers, or will axe-murderers be too powerful? Good luck, Vigil, a LOT of folks will be watching.

Just what the music business needs, another hedge fund manager.

I can't wait to here for the announcements. Maybe PS3's price will drop to under 400... in 5 years. -_-

I love Ana Marie Cox!!! Between her, Maureen Dowd and Marnie Vander Helsing.... Sorry, I was just picturing my skinny liberal self between her, Marnie and Maureen. Damn, I need to get out more.

Good call by MS. I give them a lot of respect for making a rational decision instead of getting so wrapped up in their emotions that they caved. Sometimes you need to know when to draw the line.

Think of the typical 30-second spot that makes up the inventory of a sitcom. Most of the inventory is wasted. If it's a woman's product, and half the people watching are men, then half of the money is wasted. The promise online is this: ask for a little information to give away almost free inventory, but target it. Google has made billions not from mass marketing, but from micro marketing. why couldn't a show deliver an ad to a person logged in? It's a bit harder sell, but that promise has me a believer in the future. The big and obvious question is this: how much information will people be willing to give away to get content?

Hi, There are a lot of video sharing sites around. You sure have heard about YouTube, Revver or Dailymotion, but there are many others competing to be the number one, or targeting a specific audience, whether geographically (China, Japan, Turkey…), by language (German, Arabic, French…) or for the kind of content they enable to publish (cooking, planes, extreme sports…). I have compiled a growing list of more than 500 video sharing sites you can check at http://www.ilikesharingvideos.com/video-sharing-sites/en/ For each of them, you will get useful information such as their history, the country from which most of their visitors come, their niche, their rank, the latest news about them... This site offers some other interesting features, like a list of video search engines, how to make money with your videos, how to create your own YouTube site. So if you are interested in video search engines, publishing your own videos, or even online video marketing, give an eye to this site, it worths it. Cheers

thanks for a useful information!

Why not just follow apple's lead and make an iPhone clone.

I found more information about the tudou.com funding at TheChinaPerspective.com here. They are a great resource for China news

We went to a investor presentation for a start-up company called Zoopri. We were not credited to be able to invest, although we are working on it. We have seen Club Penguin, Webkinz, Barbiedoll, and others and this program is like no other. It is absolutely incredible. My 8yr old boy was addicted to it. They had a party and testing last Saturday at the Zoopri center or something. He came up and all he has been talking about is Zoopri this and Zoopri that.

Hey guys it's Miley. I hope you do not believe those rumors because they are not true. J-14, the magazine who put that in their magazine made a mistake and i forgive them. Learn to forgive people for their mistakes. I love you guys and want to confirm that it is not true. Thank you, Miley Cyrus<3

These majors are stupid. They continually neglect to recognize how media is changing. They made their first mistake by shutting down Napster instead of figuring out how to make a trillion dollars off of it. Now they're following down the same path again...amazing...

Kongregate is really steaming ahead at full speed. Web game portals have been around for a long while, but the new wave has a different take on it.

23% digital. I'm almost surprised the number isn't even higher. I think it'll be a majority of the market within 5 years for sure. Probably sooner.

So many people cry about the entertainment industry struggling right now. While CD sales might be down, other forms of media sales (primarily digital) are way up. The digital age has lead to a power shift. Where entertainment companies once dictated what media people consumed, people now have the tools to decide this for themselves. The question is, 'how long will it take the entertainment industry to figure these changes out.' (Sort of how they tried to shut down Napster before considering how much money they could have made from it...oops!) With that said, its a great day to be an independent musician :)

For ALL of the CNN talking heads. The longer you bring the subject of Rev Wright to the "NEWS" you prolong the agony. Give it a break .... STOP IT

Hi, I have compiled a list of more than 500 of YouTube-like sites with their niches, and the list is still growing. Now, I am doing the same with video search engines. The list counts only 30 of them up to now, but it will grow within the next weeks (and hopefully with the help of the visitors). You can check it at http://www.ilikesharingvideos.com/video-search-engines/en/ So if you are interested in video search engines, publishing your own videos, or even online video marketing, give an eye to this site, it worths it. Cheers

Woo Me looks interesting, like speeddating.com, but I’m sure they both will have similar problems like, most people do not have webcams yet and the ideal users of this site will probably old souls desperate to find love which is creepy. Both sites need features that allow users to block unwanted ‘dates’ from seeing their profiles.

umm...wrong on one point: the clio awards recognize creative excellence in ALL forms of advertising, including interactive, digital video, content & contact, integrated campaigns, innovative media, etc. if you think it's only about TV commercials, you are the one who's stuck in the past.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but how often is the sequel better than the original? Maybe they should have been drinking wine instead...

so... now they've proven that other people can do the exact same thing. neat. 1) the cutest chicks still work at collegehumor.com. 2) the CH.com folks sure sell it the best... those guys are nutty! 3) the Vimeo version is so irony-free as to be one step up from teenage girls lip-syncing in their bedrooms on youtube. maybe that's the point. 4) the DIGG folks also do a nice job. a perfectly adequate version of the exact same concept. with fewer cute girls. i do like how they are all drinking beer. so people... maybe next time we bring something new to the table, and not directly copy people who have already done it better, hmmmm? man, i'm a snotty bastard.

Verizon Wireless initially approached the Marley estate to reach an endorsement deal in March, according to the Marley family statement.

finally a news site with leading video. I would like to work for this site. Do you know if there are any job openings?

I'm calling Balmer's bluff. This is too big of a deal to just brush off come Saturday. If they want the deal to happen, they'll make it happen.

If he has an album on Amazon, why the heck is he a contestant on American Idol? That sure does not seem fair.

Missing Melrose Place

Bebo stands for be extension be offshore u fools!!

Exxon/Mobil passed and there was no thought about the consumer. Why is congress worried about a radio company? Shouldn't they worry about more important things, like steroids in baseball? Oh wait, I am a sirius subscriber that will get Major League Baseball if the deal is passed with XM! Honestly, does anyone know people who subscribe to one of these services that does not want to merger to happen? Didn't think so. Let's let Sen. Byron Dorgan pay for XM and sirius with all the damn money he collects from Clear Channel.

This is a company who has spent the time and money to create something that would make money... If the music industry would just gratefully accept their "donations". Just think about how many other companies don't get as far as this company has, or is currently operating "on the fringe" to "get by" without copyright infringement lawsuits... There is money on the table! Wake up!

Interesting article. I think that this decrease in spending on entertainment has a lot to do with the fact that we consume media differently than we did even a year ago. iTunes just passed WalMart as the largest distributor of music in the world, ie CDs are quickly becoming a thing of the past, while mp3s, etc are becoming hugely popular. Also, why buy music when everything's available for free on places like myspace. People are consuming media in the form of ringtones and downloadable music videos. We're downloading or renting movies instead of going to the theaters. The money that people once spent on media is still there, the change is in where or how we spend that money now. We're too addicted to entertainment, it will never go away.

The sale of Boston-based Generate Inc. to Dow Jones on Friday is the first piece of good news venture capital can point to in B2B social media space. There have been surprisingly few successful exits in the space in the 5 years since the funding of the first wave of B2B social media companies like LinkedIn. Generate brings together next-generation search and extraction technologies with great client relationship mapping and is clearly a second generation play. Generate’s approach has been to carefully look at the experience of early entrants like TrueAdvantage to locksmith a superior solution that really works for sales. LinkedIn continues to build a great franchise but no exit yet, despite rumors of acquisition last year with Murdoch’s News Corp. There are three types of Web 2.0 plays in the space: · Better search engine and organization of online content for sales - like Generate · Dynamic community - like LinkedIn · Knowledge trading from the community - like NetProspex LinkedIn is popular with business development executives and for sales people in relationship sales environments where business introductions matter. But LinkedIn doesn’t help transactional sales executives, who don’t have the leverage to get someone to open their network for the process of selling lower ticket items. This is a big space as the vast majority of B2B transactions are below $50k. NetProspex, also out of Boston is another second generation Web 2.0 business that parallels the Generate approach. The first entrants in contact trading, like Jigsaw are finding that data quality is just as important as trading. Without it, abandonment rates make it difficult for a user-maintained system to get enough users on the system to keep the data clean. Like Generate, NetProspex has used the lessons learned to build a better mousetrap. NetProspex allows sales people to trade their internal prospect lists, but scrubs the data during and after the transaction. Sales contacts are a perishable commodity, a bit like fish…they soon go off. NetProspex technologies filter and validate contributed data to greater than 99% accuracy. Why is this important? Sales needs a higher level of accuracy, because it can get really irritating if every other phone number or email address is wrong. NetProspex expects that with the quality issue resolved, there is no reason why sales people shouldn’t have a great prospect map of their territory to find those customers they don’t yet have. It’s an exciting market and a very large opportunity, and as these second generation businesses realize the potential in the B2B social media space, more success stories will follow.

Interesting article. It seems another leading company is tangled in legal dispute. Yet unverified, a pending legal suit claims 24-7 Entertainment and major shareholders including the management engaged in fraud and manipulation of shares in an attempt to avoid its legal obligations and accountability to shareholders. Disgruntled shareholders are suing the company for maximum damages for breach of contract and fraud against major shareholders and the company itself. This case is part of bigger international dispute from Germany, UK and the United State

FCC: Approve the merger. If they raise prices post merger, then the consumer will decide - or is that what the NAB is afraid of?

How out of touch is your Congress and why is their approval rating <15%. Here's a good example of people not doing what they are elected to do, yet opining on things they know nothing about. So Senator Dorgan, you receive contributions from broadcasters yet voted for the war, have done nothing about gas prices or the under insured, and left SS untouched as it might impact your career.... yet two companies losing 1.1 Billion annual (losses for 9 years) warrants your attention. How about you let the DOJ do their job, and for once, Congress does theirs? Matt Miller Grand Rapids, MI

20-Apr-08.. Question to Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), How is this merger, of two "Pay-For" Sat.Radio services, in his view going to be, in his quote "This merger is contrary to the public interest. I hope that the FCC will stand up for competition in the public interest and deny this merger,"? When the DOJ had found to be right the opposite? Again... I pose yet another question... How much funds are being placed in your pockets by those who would rather see this merger fail for there on reasons for eliminating there competitors? Let's quit this BS and the exchange of monies to which only those Washington Bureaucrats are just supplementing there tax paid salaries. This merger will have no effect accept to those that pay for having this as a supplement to other forms of entrainment that are accessible without having to make subscription payments. Let the people deside.... Old Ga. Dawg

I was visiting the mall of GA on April 8th or 9th Author Pamela Smith Pettway was out at Barnes and Noble's bookstore signings. The Author is very down to earth and very very smart. I asked her about the book she sent to Hilton, "she just smiled and said that she wanted to give Paris something to read and she stated that everyone deserves a second chance and if everyone in this world turned there backs on each other than this would be a sad sad world". I asked the Author what she planned to do next. The Author Pamela told me she's tring to contact Steven Spilberg to see if he's interested in her next novel for a movie", Then she smiled and said her next book is Science Fiction and it is out of this world! I thanked her for signing my book. Just thought I would share. Lewis

that is a total mistake all right cause it's a lie

go sony

Art once represented and incorporated idiosyncratic conditions and productions that were difficult to reproduce by automated means. What does it imply for the future of art that it can be increasingly automated?

The Court’s decision is narrowly limited to conduct by website operators that is allegedly to violate laws prohibiting discriminatory practices, in which it is not the content itself (e.g. “I am white, straight, and Buddhist.”) which results in liability but the type of content (e.g., the race, sexual orientation, or religion of a potential home purchaser) which is elicited, developed, and then published. Roommates.com was alleged to have required subscribers to provide and publish certain information in a context in which that type of information may not legally be used – thus, the website “developed, in whole or in part” the content and was not entitled to immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

This is not at all similar to a website eliciting comments or posts about a particular subject (e.g., personal dating experiences with particular men on dontdatehimgirl.com) but is much closer to a website asking its users to provide specific and unlawful comments (e.g., false assertions that particular men have criminal records or untreated sexually transmitted diseases). In fact, the Court distinguished the case before it from many others in which Section 230 protection did apply by noting that in those cases the website operator “did not design its system around the dissemination of unlawful content.” Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roommates.com, ___ F.3d ___, 2008 WL 879293, *9 (9th Cir. 2008).

In the end, the Court’s opinion is not all that earth-shattering. It’s crafted to be narrowly applicable to the particular case decided and should not alter the Section 230 analysis in most future cases.

Although I respect the movement that seems to be "let ISPs monitor things and we'll all be better off", I'm a strong supporter of Net Neutrality! Comcast may be overstepping their boundaries on this one!

we are integrating itunes and amazon into our site. Amazon seems to use real and windows and thus their MP3 sales data might skew to PC users...Was platform consideration part of the sales data?

Today, Comcast Corporation and Pando Networks announced that they will lead the industry to create a "P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" for users and ISPs. With an FCC hearing on Comcast's anti-peer-to-peer practices scheduled for later this week, this is hardly a surprise. Once again, Comcast makes another sweetheart-sounding deal, but at the wrong time, and with the wrong sweetheart.

It takes a special kind of arrogance for a company that sells Internet Access to team up with another company that sells Content Delivery and together decide what rights and responsibilities that the world's Internet users should have.

As in its earlier "deal" with BitTorrent, Inc., Comcast's announcement today doesn't change any of the facts it faces: in 2006, it assured Congress that network neutrality laws were not necessary, saying it would not "deny, delay, or degrade" its customers in order to deal with traffic congestion. Within a year it was caught secretly doing exactly that! Even after a long string of deceptive and deflective statements and tactics, Comcast continues to degrade their traffic today.

As was the case in the BitTorrent "deal," neither Comcast Corporation nor Pando Networks represents the millions of customers and other members of the Internet community who were impacted when Comcast secretly launched its anti-P2P attack.

Today's announcement comes less than 48 hours from the US Federal Communication Committee's public hearing at Stanford University. There, the FCC is scheduled to hear from two panels of experts followed by two hours of public testimony on the Comcast incident specifically as well as similar industry practices in general.

No doubt we will soon see Comcast and Pando Networking executives start to explain why today's "deal" signals that Network Neutrality regulation is not needed in the Broadband Marketplace.

i just heard about the "pregnancy" of the #1 teen pop star and i know it can't be cuz what ever THEY say about my FAVE singer, just can't be true. i wonder how 'miss miley' is handling this....

For evey person who loves Perez "don't call me Lavandeira" Hilton, three others hate him. boycottperezhilton.com

An alternative to pageflakes is Odysen is http://www.odysen.com. A key difference is free-formatting widgets, allowing users to easily change the size the of widget to whatever they want (appropriate for large news feeds, 9 day weather forecasts, maps, etc).

When Steven Vander Ark's publisher, RDR Books, told him it was okay to publish a printed version of Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon Web site, which is largely derived from work by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, Vander Ark accepted that without further question and proceeded with the project. That cavalier attitude is no surprise when one considers the source of Vander Ark's Web site in the first place. When did it become okay to lift someone else's copyrighted material and present it as one's own? That's why, “in the name of scholastic pursuit”, I've made a copy of Vander Ark's Web site to use as my own Web site. Oh, it's okay. I've changed the name of the site and reorganized it a little. My version is called Harry Potter's Maxicon. Different enough, right? Http://www.maxicon.org

I call the final book a travesty, Miss Rowling. If anyone should be sued, it's you.

This is an interesting debate. Rowling's admitted in the past that she's used the Lexicon internet site herself to cross reference facts while writing the Harry Potter books. But now that they are going for a "for profit" publication it's a much different issue, and I can see the point of the legal action even if I don't fully agree with it.

RSS Distribution RSS is an XML- based format used by some sites and blogs for sharing and distributing web content such as the headlines on the latest site information. The Internet is now the largest research tool for not only professionals, but for buyers and consumers. More and more consumers use the Internet for information on product and services. Blogs and newsfeed is the best way of the content on the Internet. The main benefit of the RSS feeds, subscribed visitors can get the latest information and video in one place.

Sadly, whenever this comes on, I stop what I'm doing & I wail every song at the top of my lungs. What's wrong with me? I'm not sure, but I'm glad you're bringing attention to my oddball musical addiction. I've also Googled names of the collection's "fans" & found that a few were actors - big shock! ; )

Well at least someone is leveraging the facebook traffic the right way. But yet their growth has been slower than the other major US P2P lending firms.

Good deal for Angie, but really? With all the money in print YP advertising, you've got to expect silliness like this. Afterall, this is not the only over valuation I can think of (yelp anyone?). But I love how Angie spins it's "membership" and the fact that merchants can't list themselves. Why is that a particularly good thing? Just look at a site like Kudzu and what it does in Atlanta to see what a real collection of neighbor reviews and merchant profiles can look like. Makes Angie's list look silly.

Yang's action appear confused. AOL is not Yahoo's salvation by any means, and Yahoo isn't Microsoft's salvation.... http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/04/microsoft-yahoo-and-rest-of-... Yang should get some new advisors. Then look for some enlightened strategies ... even just a little creative... not panic driven.

On Sunday, 6th of April, I had to agree with a new licence agreement to continue in a downloading of new Beta version of trueSpace7.6. It is an agreement between Microsoft Corporation (or based on where you live, one of its affiliates) and me. And so next day I tried to get any contact to somebody from Microsoft office in Prague to have first talks about my next cooperation (as the distributor of Caligari product in Czech Republic) with Microsoft. After four days I did not get any email or telephone call from Microsoft office in Prague. I am very looking forward to my cooperation with Microsoft, especially to the translation of trueSpace7.6 to Czech language. In 2001 I translated trueSpace5 and this program is still very popular in Czech Republic. My Czech customers are still very interested in this old but very good program and so I hope that Microsoft allow me to continue in my support and sale of Czech version of trueSpace5 in Czech Republic. I would like to know experiences of other ditributors of Caligari products with their cooperation with local Microsoft offices.

A Business Plan is necessary in 95% of cases. Especially when you are entering a new industry.

This is my favorite of the blog entries you've written. Funny, short, informative. Thanks so much!

I found this extremely interesting... cannot wait to see what this company is up to. Giving a voice to company employees... Enabling bubbling cases of sexual harrassment lawsuits to become corporate soap operas and reality TV? In any case, this sure is a potential landmine.

Ha-ha, muskratboy, you have a point. However, I never believed that Jim Cramer would last either...

if this is the future of weather, then i'm glad i can just go to weather.com and look it up myself. personality, indeed.

You can listen to the song of artist from wikipedia page if you have Qbox toolbar. When you click the button in toolbar, Qbox streams music in MySpace, YouTube, and Bebo. For example, if you lookup Norah Jones in Wikipedia, Qbox brings music from MySpace,YouTube,and Bebo for you to listen directly.

Another useful page for music industry people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us/Photo_submission Wikipedia is very strict on only allowing free-content images of living people, so most pics of celebrities end up being fan snapshots - "fair use" or with-permission promo pics aren't allowed. If agents, etc. can drag themselves to release a good photo under a proper free licence (e.g. CC-by-sa), then the Wikipedia page is improved, they look better and everyone benefits.

I love kid nation! It is so cool and interesting.I really want to be on this upcomming season.I want to show everyone that adults aren't the only ones that can control something really big. I am sporty so I am not afraid to get dirty. I could bring a lot to kid nation. If they choose me you will see.This is so important to me.

I am having trouble transferring music from, say for instance, limewire...on to my ipod. Does Cox now have a new downloading program for me ...over the internet ???? Is it pretty easy to use????

We just launched a financial social community that pays its members...I would appreciate your thoughts... http://my.wallst.net/referral/AlbertAimers/JoinForm

people get pregnant every day people.. she's just like everyone else, except good at singing. just let her be

It will be interesting to see what Coremetrics will do with $60 million. Maybe stepping up and becoming a serious Omniture competitor?

verticity says that its a good video

well done verticity

This version of Bond is a joyous surprise for me - my youthful daydreams have been vindicated and at last fully satisfied. There are indeed elements added to the plot, but they are completely congruent with it.

First fiasco for Live Nation Dubai. They booked Media City to do Avril Lavigne concert in May but cancelled when they found out that Bon Jovi is coming only 2 days before. Seems like who ever is running their local office is clueless.

it is a very old game! Sales already have a new and better! but I liked it!

The suppliers will be qualified out until only a few remain. This is known as down select in the industry. It is normal to go into the due diligence stage with two suppliers to maintain the competition.

My God, how can you say such a thing? Chris Crocker is the LAST thing we need on TV. Can you imagine kids trying to ACT like that freak?! It makes me sick just thinking about it! Do we really want his horrid views woven into America's already tainted moral fiber? I think not.

I mean how many ten year, $100+ million deals are in the tank for Live Nation? U2 will surely make investors money back...but profits? Wouldn't it be great to read these nagging record/live contracts? And last, the big record companies fucked it all up over and over. Do you really think Live Nation is going to serve this market well? Hmm. Mays family verses the music = traditional failure!

jeff gordon sucks i think it should be jamie mcmurray, tony stewart or posibly matt kenseth just not any body from hendrick motersports on the cover

I agree with this forecast

A business starts to flourish and the record companies start knocking on the door? ME ME MINE ME ME MINE!! GIVE!!!

Check out http://www.proxylord.com to access blocked web sites. It is very fast and secure.. Works on Youtube also!

people seem to focus on the last.fm streams, but the fundamental premise of last.fm is that it records the title/artist of songs members listen to, not the actual music. The value is in the recording and collating of consumer music profiles and what they do with that. The streams are an add on service. Last.fm was popular well before they added on the streaming function.

If I am not mistaken, Jim Griffin did not come up with the term "Tarzan Economics." I believe he swiped it from James Boyle, a law professor at Duke University. Search out the audio/video of Boyle's keynote a few years back at the Berkman Center's Beyond Broadcast conference for a source and also a fantastic speech.

i know i loved imf to but do u know y its not on no more???

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Last.FM negotiated retroactive deals with all the big labels. So the Audit is probably moot. I guess they'll find all this out during the audit.

Google Answers put together a pretty interesting list of automotive GPS companies as investment opportunities. That is, companies that are pretty much a pure play in GPS for cars, and that trade on the stock market. The article is here: GPS navigation systems and the stock market http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=342173 It's worth a look.

My associates and I intend to make a business of fostering the use of Red Ray DVD to distribute HD disk content. We have developed a fine and unique 3D stereo system for both Blue-Ray and Red-Ray disk players. We make glasses in China, like colored sun glasses. We shoot on 1080p video, and reduce to 480p for the red version, which can then be "line-doubled" to 1080p. We will offer a certification for disk publishers called: ULTRA-DEF-Pro. $200 will cover a title with unlimited copies. The consumer can be assured that the disk is 16x9 wide-screen, in 480p (progressive) scan, They can play it in the red laser mode on a Blu-ray player, or on a cheaper progressive scan, "line-doubling" player with HDMI cabling, going in all cases to an HD flat display. Full on 1080p sets will look very good in flat or our new 3D. Glasses for the new 3D will only cost about $6 per plastic pair. The disks can be manufactured for under a dollar with all DvD and ULTRA-DEF-Pro rights paid. Our red ray running time is about 464 minutes per disk.

Praised be youtube for this initiative. I know my kids are watching all sort of movies on this site and now I hope they'll come over one of these movies telling them not to do drugs.