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in BloggingDean Takahashi Interview: SOTB 2009

Tech journalism stalwart Dean Takahashi on Web 2.0, the evolution of gaming, and blogging for fun and profit.by ecolsen2003 / on Oct 23, 2009
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Walmart won the Thanksgiving Day online shopping battle
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For the fifth year in a row, Walmart saw the most online traffic on Thanksgiving day, according to market researcher Experian Hitwise . Walmart had 14.97 percent of of the traffic among the top 500 most-visited retail web sites on Thursday, up 9 percent from 13.72 percent a year ago. Amazon.com was second with ...6 hours ago -
Week in review: Modern Warfare 2 smashes records, Facebook co-founder’s Asana raises $9M
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Modern Warfare 2 smashes records, Facebook co-founder’s Asana raises $9M (via postie)
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Bookmark this categoryHere’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. (It’s a little shorter than normal due to the Thanksgiving holiday.) First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 smashes industry records — The latest in a parade of ...11 hours ago -
Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: Business before health and what to do if you’re hacked
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Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner. Sacrifice your health for your startup – You’ve heard about the importance of a work/life balance, but if you’re an entrepreneur, those rules often don’t apply. Start-ups are demanding beasts, notes angel investor Jason Cohen, and if ...18 hours ago -
Downey, Calif. says yes to Tesla Model S Plant
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Downey, Calif. is one step closer to becoming home to Tesla Motors ‘ pricey new assembly plant. The City Council voted earlier this week to approve a memorandum of understanding with the Industrial Realty Group, the company that manages the 80-acre tract of land that Tesla is considering. Currently used by a ...1 day ago -
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 smashes industry records
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The latest in a parade of hits, Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has sold an estimated $550 million in the first five days of its release, bringing the entire The Call of Duty series $3 billion in sales between its six titles. Modern Warfare 2 officially smashed opening-day sales records with 4.7 ...1 day ago -
Twitter Japan’s new monetization plan: Premium content
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Twitter Japan will start allowing “premium” tweeters to charge readers a fee, said an executive at Twitter’s Japanese partner. The announcement comes from Kenichi Sughi, an executive at Digital Garage, whose remarks at the Mobidec 2009 conference were reported by local news sources and then summarized by Media ...1 day ago -
What are Google’s real motivations behind Chrome OS?
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Chrome OS is Google’s latest entry into the consumer space. It is designed to be an operating system that runs on customized hardware and provides the user with only a state-of-the art browser running HTML-5 and some plugins. The tech (and mainstream) media has seen no shortage of opinions about its meaning and ...1 day ago -
Our top 10 gift ideas: Last year’s gadgets are now worth the price
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Sometimes the newest gadgets are too far out on the bleeding edge. They don’t work out of the box, and they have a few too many bugs in their initial versions. They’re also usually too expensive. But the following list of 10 cool gift ideas focuses on products or services that have been around for a while. The ...2 days ago -
Augmented reality to be a $732 million market by 2014?
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Hype around augmented reality, a technology that can superimpose graphics or information over the real world in your phone’s viewfinder, is at a fever pitch. But can it deliver the revenues? Around two dozen applications like Layar, Junaio and Wikitude have burst onto iPhone and Android devices as ...3 days ago -
5 o’clock roundup: Mac fans try to hijack Windows, Emblaze unveils First Else smartphone
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Here’s the latest action: Mac fans try to hijack Microsoft window display — In a holiday-themed promotional effort, Microsoft set up Windows 7 displays in Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, displaying messages from Twitter with the hashtag “#holidaywindows.” Hoping to hijack the display, mischievous Apple fans ...3 days ago -
The New York Times reports off Facebook photos for the front page
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Ah, the sweet state of journalism today.Tweets and Facebook are infiltrating the hallowed reporting of the Gray Lady, as a Facebook photo made the front-page of the newspaper’s Web site today. Admittedly, the report raises rather serious questions about the safety of U.S. President Barack Obama. The story is about a ...3 days ago -
The New York Times reports off Facebook photos for the front page
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Ah, the sweet state of journalism today. Tweets and Facebook are infiltrating the hallowed reporting of the Gray Lady , as a Facebook photo made the front-page of the newspaper’s Web site today. Admittedly, the report raises rather serious questions about the safety of U.S. President Barack Obama. The story is ...3 days ago -
Fast-growing sync service Dropbox reveals $6M of new-ish funding
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It has been a good few months for Dropbox , a startup that that backs up and synchronizes your files — after crossing the 1 million user mark seven months ago, its audience has now tripled to 3 million. While publicizing those growth numbers, the San Francisco company also revealed that it has raised $6 million in ...3 days ago -
Fring launches video VoIP for mobile
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Fring , which started out offering a VoIP client for mobile phones has added the ability to make and receive video calls from mobile phones, letting you see your friends as you talk to them — for free. As with the VoIP client, you have to be a Fring user, or “fringster,” as CEO Avi Schechter calls them, to ...3 days ago -
Hulu U.S. video streams soar by nearly 50 percent in October, Google’s YouTube flat
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Video viewing habits are continuing their shift online as more than half of people in the U.S. watched video on the Internet in October, according to comScore. Hulu is rising rapidly. The video portal for professionally produced content attracted 47 percent more views over the month, at about 850 million views in ...3 days ago -
Tesla eyes Downey, Calif. for Model S assembly plant
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Tesla Motors may have finally picked a site for its new Model S Assembly plant — an announcement that has been awaited with bated breath by California politicians and those in the advanced vehicle industry for months. While the company has yet to confirm the selection, the city of Downey, Calif., likes its chances ...3 days ago -
Study: Hybrid cars hit more pedestrians
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According to a recently released National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study, hybrid-electric vehicles are up to twice as dangerous to pedestrians as traditional cars. The effect is at its worst in the city, when HEVs are almost silent. Near-silent vehicles are harder to detect, hindering a pedestrian’s ...3 days ago -
TVDeck creates a TV Guide for web video
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TVDeck , a new site that launched its public beta test yesterday, aims to help Internet users find some of the best and most interesting videos among the massive amounts posted on the web. TVDeck does this by aggregating the feeds, in a way somewhat similar to Alltop, of all the best shows online. There are a huge ...3 days ago -
GreenBeat: Ultimate media roundup — pics, videos, slides and more
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At this time last week, we were just about to kick off our inaugural GreenBeat conference focused on the Smart Grid. We’re thrilled to still be receiving valuable feedback and new ideas for the event next year. To provide our readers — including those who couldn’t make it out this time — with a taste of the ...3 days ago
