Podcamp Philly was a damn blast. We had so much fun meeting new people and hanging out with friends. We learned a lot, taught a lot, listened a lot, talked a lot (especially Drew, who lost his voice 4-19 times during the weekend), drank a lot, drank a lot, then drank a lot.
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We’re just a couple of days away from launching what promises to be one of our most important projects to date, The Googlization of Everything , a weblog where Siva Vaidhyanathan (who’s a fellow here) will publicly develop his new book, a major critical examination of the Google behemoth. As an appetizer, [...]

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Carlyle Group has shelved the sale of Insight Communications Co., hoping to get a higher price later, according to people familiar with the matter. Surging borrowing costs in the leveraged-credit markets put a lid on what bidders were …
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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 , First Person Shooters We’re not sure if that thing you see above is an actual copy of Halo 3 that somehow slipped out to a member of the general public. Admittedly, it looks real enough, but science was able to fake a moon landing 40 years [...]

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Yesterday, I wrote about the jobs I’ve had, and how I learned skills outside of my schooling that carried me through the decades of rapid change. It seems a lot more impressive than it is. I was also a short-order cook and waited tables while I was in college. Matthew Tabor brings [...]

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This slick gadget from Korea is a dictionary of all things. I know, I know… in America our dictionaries are big books or just websites, while in Korea they’re gadgets that put most of our fancy tech to shame. This doesn’t just have definitions in it, either. Oh no. It can also [...]

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JMP Securities analyst William Morrison takes a detailed look at Comscore’s global traffic trends for the year through July. He writes an excellent macro piece, with several important findings, including the latest horrendous news at Yahoo. The only trend that train-wreck Yahoo had going for it–global user growth–is no longer going for [...]

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Technorati just launched a big update to our homepage and new functionality, Technorati Topics . This is the start of a rollout number of enhancements and new features that have been ongoing since the spring to make Technorati more useful and understandable to the everyday person, while also exposing the best of [...]

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Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, whose 50-hour survey of Apple (AAPL) stores produced the most definitive estimate of iPhone sales to date, has combined his data with yesterday’s report that Apple sold its 1 millionth iPhone on Sunday to calculate the effect of last week’s 33% price cut. By Munster’s reckoning, Apple and [...]

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This white paper describes an approach to evaluating an SOA platform, that is aimed at creating a system based upon a service-oriented application composition and a peer-to-peer distributed infrastructure architecture.
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