Media

Does The TechCrunch Acquisition Mark The End of An Era?

by Jeff Weisbein September 29, 2010
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Now that it’s a done deal and Aol has acquired TechCrunch (along with two other companies today), I began to wonder whether this marks the end of an era.  While I guess deep down, I knew a day like this would come – it just had to eventually, I never fully considered the implications it [...]

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Apple and Google: Stealing the Technology Spotlight

by Mike Mansell September 27, 2010
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What do technology giants Google and Apple have in common? Besides staying relatively stable in a otherwise shaky economy, both companies have managed take the spotlight in the media; something that cannot be said about other technology entities such as Microsoft. So why is it that a report today from the Pew Research Center says [...]

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Universal Music Group to Sell CD’s for $10 or Less

by Jeff Weisbein March 18, 2010
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Universal Music Group (UMG) is making some much needed changes to their CD sales price point, but is it too little too late?  UMG announced today they will be dropping the price of physical CD’s to $10 or less.  The new price point will range from $6-$10 per album.  Additionally, UMG plans to add “deluxe [...]

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How To and Review of Firefly Media Server

by Mike Mansell March 17, 2010
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The Digital Audio Access Protocol, also known as DAAP, is the proprietary protocol that Apple developed and implemented into iTunes versions 4 and above.  This protocol is responsible for the library sharing aspects of iTunes, which allows users within the same local network to stream music from one-another’s computers.  Despite its being proprietary and closed-source, [...]

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How To: Build A Successful Website

by Jeff Weisbein September 18, 2009
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Over the past 2-3 years, I have learned a lot about the Internet and how the industry works as a whole.  When I first started BestTechie back in 2003, I had no idea what I was doing – I was just a 13 year old kid with a website.  In late 2007, I started to [...]

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Twitter’s True Mainstream Success Test

by Jeff Weisbein May 6, 2009
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The last few months have brought about an enormous growth in Twitter’s traffic in fact sky rocketing them to approximately 19 million visitors in the month of March. The enormous growth was propelled by Ashton Kutcher’s race to one million followers lead closely by the adoption of the service by Oprah. If this growth trend [...]

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