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How I Would Fix The New Digg

August 28, 2010
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Kevin Rose is in a tough position right now.  Digg version 4 has been officially released to everyone.  One might say that the problem is many people are upset with the changes and while that is true, I think the problem really stems at the fact the Digg’s core user base is comprised of geeks [...]

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Newspapers Have Alternatives to the Paywall, But Will They Explore Them?

July 20, 2010
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It has been over a year since we published an article entitled The Future of News and the newspaper industry is still hurting. Many of them are now implementing paywalls in order to read their content, but is this truly the right approach?

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Sex.com Back on the Market, Internet Explorer Grows

July 2, 2010
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I’m going to try to do the weekly news thing again every Friday. So without further ado, here is this weeks top stories that made the short list. Story #1: Sex.com is back on the open market, Sedo, a company which specializes in selling domain names is the broker for this deal. You can email consult@sedo.com [...]

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We’re Back, Just Like We Said We’d Be Back.

May 27, 2010
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Well, we’re back. It has been over two weeks, but I think the downtime will be beneficial in the end. While that may seem like an odd thing to say, it has allowed me to have a lot of much needed time off from the site. In the past few weeks, I have been able [...]

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TechCrunch Sues FusionGarage, Aol. Spins Off, and Apple Tablet for $1,000?

December 12, 2009
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Tech News from 12-7-09 through 12-11-09.  This week includes TechCrunch suing FusionGarage for stealing the CrunchPad.   Mozilla is launching Firefox Mobile for Nokia phones, Windows Mobile, and Google Android.  No Firefox Mobile for the iPhone has been mentioned yet (that I have seen).  By the way, Firefox Mobile will support extensions such as Adblock. [...]

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Mozilla Says No Firefox OS, Chrome for Mac Beta Lacks Features, and more!

December 4, 2009
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I’m going to attempt something new, so tell me how you like it as well as your thoughts in the comments.  The plan is to make a new video every Friday of the top 5 or so tech stories during the week and recap them with my own thoughts.  I’m still tweaking the format and [...]

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The Future Of News

July 16, 2009
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In my last article, I talked about what the newspaper industry is doing to stay afloat. Their biggest worry now is monetizing their content, which is understandably hard on a medium designed specifically to facilitate the easy transfer of information. Currently, their strategy revolves around pay-walls, but pay-walls heavily favor primary sources over smaller news [...]

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Will Newspapers Be Able To Survive The Economic Downturn?

July 9, 2009
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One of the common topics these days, especially across political blogs, is whether or not the newspaper industry will survive its current troubles (and whether or not it deserves to). I think everyone has heard a thousand times since last year how much the news industry is struggling, how no-one reads anymore, and how the [...]

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Digg’s New Dupe Detection Fails

June 30, 2009
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Today, Digg launched their new dupe detection system.  However, there is one slight problem – it doesn’t seem to be working.  As you can see in the screen shot below there are two stories on the Digg front page covering the exact same topic – the new dupe detection system.  Ironic isn’t it? So is [...]

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