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April 2008
- Music Video Pros Challenge Youtube
  
  Wall Street Journal | Apr 16, 08
  
  In a bet on the future of professionally produced online video content, technology start-up PluggedIn Media Inc. is set Wednesday to begin letting users view for free near-DVD-quality music videos licensed from three of the four biggest music companies, along with information about artists and links to buy merchandise and concert tickets.The strategy represents a challenge to the notion that user-generated content -- the homemade clips that populate YouTube, MySpace and other popular Web sites -- is more lucrative or desirable than is high-quality content created by professionals.Additionally...
- Amazon MP3 Sales Aren’t Hurting iTunes
  
  Apple Insider | Apr 15, 08 9:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Amazon.com’s digital music download store isn’t stealing iTunes customers—the six-month-old service is attracting a new consumer demographic, analysts say. A market research firm found that only 10 percent of Amazon MP3 customers surveyed in February previously bought iTunes music, AppleInsider reports. That’s a “healthy indication that the digital music customer pool can expand into new consumer groups,” an analyst says. More »
- Quantum Internet Gets Closer
  
  MIT Technology Review | Apr 15, 08 12:40 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A recent quantum computing breakthrough is a step towards creating a quantum Internet—which would be "automatically secure," a researcher told Technology Review . A Northwestern University professor has created a fundamental element of a quantum computer, a quantum logic gate, within an optical fiber, where previous gates used laser passing through air. This “could lead to distributed networks,” said one expert. More »
- You Hate Me, You Really Hate Me!
  
  Radar | Apr 15, 08 7:43 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Critics in cyberspace can stay incognito, which makes them especially nasty. Radar lists the 10 most-scorned players on the web: Lori Drew: Her comments on a MySpace account drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide. John Fitzgerald Page: An online dater whose cruel remarks got world-wide coverage. Julia Allison: A sassy sex columnist who worked the web for a 6-figure gig. More »
- Once-famous rapper Coolio now cooking on YouTube
  
  North by Northwestern | Apr 15, 08
  
  “Cookin’ with Coolio,” featured exclusively on YouTube, finds the rapper in the kitchen cooking up turkey and something with avocados. His kitchen fare may have some wacky names (see episode six, entitled “Tricked Out Westside Tilapia”), but the dishes never require Top Chef-level skill. But Coolio isn’t all rigid discipline! He brings that beloved brand of humor we didn’t know existed when he complained about “Amish Paradise” with him to the tiny, tiny screen. Joining Coolio is an annoying sidekick who repeats everything Coolio says (comedic gold!), and occasionally the cast gets really wacky...
- Among New Browsers, Firefox Bests Safari and IE
  
  PC World | Apr 14, 08 6:17 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft are in the final stages of developing new versions of their Web browsers, and Firefox 3 is the winner over spyware-susceptible Safari 3.1 and work-in-progress IE 8. The new Mozilla product has outstanding memory management and speed, boasts great groundbreaking bookmark features, and is impressively secure, Erik Larkin writes in PC World . More »

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Music Video Pros Challenge Youtube

Amazon MP3 Sales Aren’t Hurting iTunes

Quantum Internet Gets Closer

You Hate Me, You Really Hate Me!

Once-famous rapper Coolio now cooking on YouTube

Among New Browsers, Firefox Bests Safari and IE