Yahoo Mash: When getting social isn't enough (CNET)
The untimely death of Yahoo's would-be networking site is a lesson for the industry. It just isn't enough to invite people to build a friends list anymore.
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Yahoo Mash: When getting social isn't enough (CNET via Yahoo! News)
Let's hope Yahoo has finally learned that the maxim "If you build it, they will come" simply does not apply to a social network.
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First Bytes: Facebook, iTunes, Yahoo... (Portfolio.com via Yahoo! Finance)
- The West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin is developing a movie about Facebook, to be produced by Scott Rudin, for Sony Pictures. [Portfolio.com ]- The major record companies are looking for alternatives to Apple's iTunes music store.
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Festival offers taste of old country (The Sacramento Bee)
The 45th annual Greek Festival will feature live music, dancing, Greek markets, a cultural display and Greek food. A line forms in the background as eager Greek Festival visitors wait for Angelo Kalogero to finish the loukoumathes, deep-fried puffs of dough drizzled with honey. Geoff Autipa plays a tune for festival-goers.
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Pretenders Debut New Lineup, Material at Nissan Live Sets (LAist)
The Pretenders treated a group of lucky fans and invited guests to a sneak preview of their new lineup and material, performing an 11-song set for Yahoo Music’s Nissan Live Sets on Monday, August 11. Chrissie Hynde has kept this band going for nearly thirty years, with a regularly shifting alliance of musicians. The band found its most stable lineup between 1993 and 2006, with original ...
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Westerberg makes himself heard (USA Today)
Paul Westerberg seems to be in a very prolific phase right now, and we should take full advantage of it. The singer/songwriter has just posted more music online, and you can download it for just $3.99. 3oclockreep includes more than...
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Meet The Music Video 2.0 (Arts Journal)
"Following the demise of the televised music video, Mathieu Saura's videos show a new marriage of music and film that replaces the artifice of big budget music videos with the raw simplicity of performance. He's clearly struck a chord.
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Linux Today - Things I Didn't Hear from the Democratic Convention (Linux Today)
[ Thanks to JM for this link. ] "Each of the above wasn’t addressed for a specific reason, because each of the above has a very specific special interest group behind the status quo. For #1 and #4, the perpetrators are obvious.
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Display at Denver stadium may play into GOP hands (Philly.com)
ACCEPTING your party's nomination to run for president in an outdoor football stadium packed to the gills with 75,000 screaming partisans, chanting your name in a red, white and blue spectacle with music by Stevie Wonder and a fireworks finale . . .
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Article: iPhone Gems: Every Movie Finder + Trailer App, Reviewed (iLounge)
With the releases of Apple’s Dashboard and Yahoo!’s Konfabulator/Widgets programs, Macs and PCs gained the ability to run miniature applications called “widgets� that could quickly check the Internet for weather, flight information, stock prices and more. Notably, Apple developed a Movies widget for Mac OS X Leopard, capable of displaying movie and theater details, quick links to trailers and ...
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