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Blog Herald Podcast 2007.4 posted

September 11th, 2007

We’ve posted edition 2007.4 of The Blog Herald Podcast over at The Blog Herald wherein we discuss the 6th anniversary of September 11th, 2001.

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Matt featured in “Blogger Cribs” Profile

September 6th, 2007

I’ve been featured in “Blogger Cribs”, a new profile series, over at Connected Internet:
What mobile(s) do you own? Why did you choose that model?

4GB iPhone
Treo 700wx

I like both of these for different reasons - the iPhone is the best converged device that I’ve ever seen. The Treo is the best overall business focused mobile device. [...]

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The Death of Business 2.0

September 5th, 2007

Time, Inc. has killed off their Business 2.0 Magazine, the icon of the connected Web 2.0 enabled business, reports the New York Times:
As we wrote in July, executives at Time Inc. were weighing whether to shutter the seven-year old business/technology publication as the magazine’s ad pages precipitously dropped this year. After our article boosted public [...]

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NBC signs with Amazon for digital media distribution

September 5th, 2007

As we had reported earlier this week, NBC Universal has ditched Apple’s iTunes & iTunes store platform for parts unknown.
Until now.
NBC has opted to sign with Amazon, a relatively unknown player in the digital media distribution world. The choice imposes even more Digital Rights Management restrictions than those imposed by Apple’s FairPlay [...]

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Smashing Magazine giving away 40 free books

September 3rd, 2007

Smashing Magazine is giving away 40+ design & development books for free to its readers in celebration of their 1st anniversary. The selection of the books was outlined by the magazine’s staff thusly:
Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. To become or remain professional, you permanently need to improve your design and programming skills, [...]

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NBC Universal fraks itself

September 2nd, 2007

As I covered in the Blog Herald Podcast earlier this weekend, NBC and Apple have found themselves in a battle royale over NBC’s participation in iTunes.
In short, NBC Universal has ‘frakked itself’ to use a term from their hit show Battlestar Galactica. Apple has called their bluff and informed NBC that they [...]

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A high school dropout, Whateverlife.com, and $70k/month

September 1st, 2007

DoshDosh featured an article earlier this week on Ashley, a teenager & high school dropout from Detroit, who is making $70,000 a month selling MySpace layouts on her website WhateverLife:
Ashley is evidence of the meritocracy on the Internet that allows even companies run by neophyte entrepreneurs to compete, regardless of funding, location, size, or experience–and [...]

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