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High-Def Digest: All High-Def Disc News -
21 minutes ago
Mike Flacy, Content Manager for our sister site AVRev has journeyed to Vegas and is sending us
minute by minute updates live from the scene! Mike is currently making his way through the booths
and displays,...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/507478162"
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paidContent.org -
28 minutes ago
pAri Brandt has left his role as digital media head of Condé Nast Business Media Group
Online and joined ad technology provider a href="http://linkstorm.com/"
title="Linkstorm"Linkstorm/a as CEO. Linkstorm's founding CEO, David Sidman, will stay on as
chairman of the board. In July 2006, Brandt was tapped as general manager of digital media for
Condé Nast iPortfolio/i. Before that, Brandt served as director of ad solutions at Yahoo (a
href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=YHOO" class="ticker"
title="YHOO"NSDQ: YHOO/a), which he had held since March 2005. He oversaw the strategy for Yahoo
Tech and was the business lead for Yahoo Finance and Yahoo News./p pConsidering the troubles major
media companies have been having lately, going to a company that promises marketers improved ad
effectiveness like Linkstorm seems like a sound move. Still, display advertising is troubled too.
Nevertheless, as Brandt indicated in a statement,nbsp; the challenges facing online media may also
work in eight-year-old Linkstorm's favor./p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia
href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/industry-moves-yahoo-exec-at-conde-nast-portfolio-helmhttp://www.paidcontent.org/entry/industry-moves-yahoo-exec-at-conde-nast-portfolio-helm"
title="Industry Moves: Yahoo Exec at Conde Nast Portfolio Helm"Industry Moves: Yahoo Exec at Conde
Nast Portfolio Helm/a/li lia
href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-contextual-ad-provider-linkstorm-completes-42-million-third-round"
title="Contextual Ad Provider Linkstorm Completes $4.2 Million Third Round"Contextual Ad Provider
Linkstorm Completes $4.2 Million Third Round/a/li /ul piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page
report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in
social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the
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paidContent.org -
34 minutes ago
pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/maniatv_pic.jpg" alt="image" align="right"
width="200" height="171" /ManiaTV, one of the biggest online content studios, has tried to make
money in a whole host of ways, from user-generated content (which it a
href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-online-video-provider-maniatv-relaunches-without-user-gen"
title="pulled the plug on in 2007"pulled the plug on in 2007/a), to letting brands sponsor skins on
their video players, to branded entertainment like the Wrigley-backed a
href="http://www.maniatv.com/content/site/videolanding.skin=jukebox.html#cp:,content,videos,jukebox,stage5,season_2,all_access___walter_meego_s__forever___live_on_stage_5___all_access___ep_12;"
title="Stage 5"Stage 5/a show. But the five-year-old studio is about to launch its most ambitious
venture yet: it's jumping into the music business with a new show called iMaking the Music/i, which
effectively seeks to take over the role long played by the music labels. The original series is
focused on hip-hop producer Scoop Deville as he works on a new album—band
maniaTV will get a cut of the revenues once the LP is released/b. /p pDeville, who has produced
songs for artists like Snoop Dogg, will preview potential album tracks during each episode; viewers
get to vote on the best beat/rapper combination and the winning track gets uploaded to the site and
iTunes each week. bmaniaTV CEO Peter Hoskins/b told me the show will serve as a hybrid
promotional/market research vehicle: viewer analytics will give the team a better read on the
demographics of Deville's fan base, which will help him decide when and where to go on tour. bThe
studio is also signing up brand sponsors for iMaking the Music/i, further "mitigating the down
side" of being in the music business/b, Hoskins said. So while maniaTV has got some skin in the
game—the money it invests in Deville could potentially be recouped along the
way if his album flops.nbsp; /p pI asked Hoskins about how he thought the studio would fare in with
ad revenues this year, since maniaTV a
href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-layoffs-roundup-maniatvs-20-ticketmasters-300-permissiontvs-6"
title="laid off 20 employees last year"laid off 20 employees last year/a and said it would be
cutting back its original series output. "bThere are fewer buys, but we're getting larger amounts
of money on each one."/b/p pbDoes that mean maniaTV is squeezing out some of the smaller digital
studios?/b "A lot of studios are going to go by the wayside," Hoskins said. "There are people that
could be just as stable in this game as we are, bbut they're getting cut out because they don't
have the scale, or the existing relationships in terms of production, distribution or
advertising/b." /p piCheck out the best business jobs in digital media. a
href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa
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XLR8R News and Features -
34 minutes ago
!--paging_filter--pimg src="/files/feel_love.jpg" border="0" height="115" align="left" width="115"
style="margin-right:5px;" / bFaunts/bbr / iFeel.Love.Thinking.Of/ibr / a
href="http://www.friendlyfirerecordings.com/" target="_blank"Friendly Fire/abr / bRelease Date:/b
February 13/p pa href="http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2009/01/top-10-faunts-luomo-devin-dude"read
more/a/p
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Next Generation -
40 minutes ago
img src="http://www.edge-online.com/files/imagecache/article_homepage_large_144x108/gh3.jpg"
alt="Activision: Guitar Hero III Passes $1b" title="Activision: Guitar Hero III Passes $1b"
class="imagecache imagecache-article_homepage_large_144x108" /br /pstrongOverall sales of Guitar
Hero titles may have slowed this past holiday, but make no mistake, the franchise is still
enormous./strong/p pSpeaking during a CES keynote in Las Vegas on Friday, Activision Publishing CEO
Mike Griffith said that over the holidays, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock became the first single
game ever to surpass $1 billion in sales. The game launched in the fall of 2007./p pa
href="http://www.edge-online.com/news/activision-guitar-hero-iii-passes-1b"read more/a/p
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Hackint0sh - iPod Touch -
41 minutes ago
Hey guys,
I just download iATKOS v5 and i already have vista preinstalled on my gateway m6755 1.7Gghz
processor 3gb ram 250gb hard drive.
I want mac os can someone give me instructions that will help me have both my operating systems, I
have the intstructions for iatkos v1i but i thought it would be different.
Any replies are appreciated.
I need help asap.
Thanks
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Reg Hardware: Product News and Gadget Reviews from The Register -
49 minutes ago
h4One- and two-GPU cards launched/h4 pstrongCES/strong Nvidia has rolled out the GeForce GTX 285
and 295, the two top-end GPUs it was a
href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12/16/nvidia_gtx_300_due_q1/"expected/a to announce this
week..../p
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Macworld -
53 minutes ago
Launch2net, nova media's software for mobile Internet device configuration, now supports additional
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Forbes.com: News -
56 minutes ago
What does the departure of Citigroup's most famous face mean?
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Forbes.com: News -
56 minutes ago
Markets, already depressed by grim jobless figures, are pushed further into the red at the close.
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Gizmodo -
56 minutes ago
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/01/sprint.jpg" width="250"
height="180" /Money from a proposed settlement in the Sprint ETF class action lawsuit is up for
grabs for just about anyone who entered into a wireless contract with Sprint between July 1999 and
December 2008. /p pSpecifically, anyone with a time based clause in their contract with an ETF
during that time is eligible. If you were charged an ETF and can provide proof, you stand to gain
$90. If you did not cancel a contract during that time in order to avoid and ETF, you could gain an
extra $35. Like all legal situations, there is a bit of a run around to go thoroughmdash;but a
detailed explanation and information on how to file is available on the Sprint settlement website.
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href="http://consumerist.com/5126877/get-90-or-35-in-the-sprint-early-termination-fee-settlement"sprintetfsettlement/a
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Gizmodo -
56 minutes ago
Money from a proposed settlement in the Sprint ETF class action lawsuit is up for grabs for just
about anyone who entered into a wireless contract with Sprint between July 1999 and December 2008.
...
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Gizmodo -
58 minutes ago
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Gizmodo -
58 minutes ago
newVideoPlayer("/ces09prank.flv", 475, 286,"");You thought we'd make it through all of CES without
a prank? You underestimated us. And this one might be worse than last year. Don't watch this if
you...
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paidContent.org -
1 hours ago
pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/pc_industry_moves.gif" alt="image" align="right"
width="140" height="76" /—bTime/b: Media exec Jason Kelly has signed on as
VP-strategy and revenue management of Time Inc. Digital. Most recently, he was manager of advisory
services for Microsoft Advertising Publisher Solutions and before that, he developed strategic
partnerships at Rapt./p p—bMediabrands/b: Universal McCann's Quentin George is
taking on the new position of chief digital officer of Mediabrands, but he'll remain global lead
for digital media and strategic innovation at UM. Before joining UM, George was chief of corporate
development and managing director at Organic Inc. (Via a
href="http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/digital-downloads/broadband/e3i7b57851228481ca540ebe0717ce578a3"Mediaweek/a.)/p
p—bTurner/b: The company has appointed Monica Neal to the post of VP of
emerging markets and partnerships for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Reporting to SVP of
marketing of those divisions, Tricia Melton, Neal will lead consumer-centric and
integrated-marketing campaigns. She previously served as VP and station manager of Peachtree TV,
Turner Broadcasting's Atlanta broadcast platform./p p—bNewsweek.com/b: Will
Tracy is leaving the iStar Tribune/i to join Newsweek.com as executive producer and editorial
director. Prior to serving as managing editor of digital for the iStar Tribune/i, he was managing
editor of iThe New York Times/i on the Web./p p /p piCheck out the best business jobs in digital
media. a href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa
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The Register -
1 hours and 1 minutes ago
h4Slide 'em and swap 'em/h4 pstrongMacworld Expo/strong Long-time Mac-centric vendor a
href="http://www.newertech.com/" target="_blank"Newer Technology/a launched the easiest-to-use
drive dock we ever seen at this week's Macworld Expo..../ppa
href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/609/?td=btmtl"Free Download - The emReg/em
Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms/a/p
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Reg Hardware: Product News and Gadget Reviews from The Register -
1 hours and 1 minutes ago
h4Slide 'em and swap 'em/h4 pstrongMacworld Expo/strong Long-time Mac-centric vendor a
href="http://www.newertech.com/" target="_blank"Newer Technology/a launched the easiest-to-use
drive dock we ever seen at this week's Macworld Expo..../pa
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Linux Today -
1 hours and 2 minutes ago
Safer Code: "What would be the best way to start a blog that talks about building
safer code? Yes, it would be to talk about the first thing you think when you start coding. The
"main" function (as seen in C/C++)."
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The Register -
1 hours and 4 minutes ago
h4Want encryption? Dump your Mac/h4 pstrongMacworld Expo/strong Iomega has updated, prettified, and
ruggedized its eGo line of a
href="http://store.iomega.com/section?SID=05675e014a7513155d9cb96c134bc5e1ee1:4760amp;secid=39515"
target="_blank"portable drives/a, including some announcements that came this week at Macworld
Expo..../p
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Reg Hardware: Product News and Gadget Reviews from The Register -
1 hours and 4 minutes ago
h4Want encryption? Dump your Mac/h4 pstrongMacworld Expo/strong Iomega has updated, prettified, and
ruggedized its eGo line of a
href="http://store.iomega.com/section?SID=05675e014a7513155d9cb96c134bc5e1ee1:4760amp;secid=39515"
target="_blank"portable drives/a, including some announcements that came this week at Macworld
Expo..../p
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Lifehacker -
1 hours and 6 minutes ago
You'd think that getting soundly beaten by Google and Yahoo over and over in the online space would
mean that Microsoft would take the web a little more seriously. You'd be wrong. Case in point:...
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Lifehacker -
1 hours and 6 minutes ago
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2009/01/mstechnet.png" width="329"
height="295" align="right" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2" /You'd think that getting soundly
beaten by Google and Yahoo over and over in the online space would mean that Microsoft would take
the web a little more seriously. You'd be wrong./p pCase in point: Today's a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5127558/windows-7-beta-available-pulled-no-eta-on-product-keys"epic
failure around the distribution of the Windows 7 public beta download/a. This morning Microsoft's
web servers fell to their knees under the pressure of constant web page refreshes by eager and
willing enthusiasts who want to ivolunteer their time/i to test Windows 7 after Steve Ballmer's
announcement the download would be available today. /p pIs it fantastic that Microsoft is offering
this freebie preview? Yes. Is it shameful that they'd be so woefully unprepared for the demand it
would draw? That also would be a YES. /p pSure, hosting a multi-gigabyte download on the web is an
enormously expensive undertaking, but Microsoft has more money than God. Plus, while the download
itself is large, it's only of interest to a relatively small portion of the population. If lack of
infrastructure to handle an insane traffic spike over a few hours was truly the problem (even
though these were conditions Microsoft created), there are lots of alternatives they could've used
that would have kept their servers up. In fact, users have been happily downloading and
distributing the Windows 7 beta build 7000 now for weeks using an efficient file-sharing protocol
called iBitTorrent/i./p p(Think it's a crazy idea for a company to use BitTorrent to distribute
large files? Ubuntu is always seeding a torrent of their main distro.)/p pSure, Microsoft's not the
only one who's blown web launches. Apple did it spectacularly with MobileMe, and even an occasional
Google product a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/google/gmail-why-hast-thou-forsaken-me-229500.php"craps the
bed/a when the planets align the wrong way./p pBut for a company that's a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5057714/windows-cloud-operating-system-release-within-a-month"pushing
cloud computing/a and web services and trying so hard to prove that they're ready to a
href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/windows-live/"move off the desktop and onto the web/a, today's Win7
borkfest proves Microsoft is still too clueless about how to do stuff online to be taken
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