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MySpace founders want millions to re-up
MySpace founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe are reportedly asking for a massive compensation package to stick around with News Corp. after their current deals expire in October. How much compensation? It would put them just under Rupert Murdoch and COO Peter Chernin.
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YouTube responsible for 10% of Internet traffic
And you thought YouTube was big before: A new report (PDF) by Ellacoya Networks shows that the Google-owned video site comprises a monster ten percent of all traffic on the Internet. Thanks to the video boom - HTTP traffic outpaced peer to peer traffic for the first time in four years. Granted, video is a bandwidth hog and takes a bigger chunk of the pipe than your average web page - but that is still an astounding number. If the Information Superhighway were a turnpike through Ohio somewhere, every tenth car zipping by would sport the YouTube logo.
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Tentative agreement reached on Dow Jones control
Talks between News Corp. and Dow Jones has taken another big step forward with news that the two companies have reached a tentative agreement over editorial control. Explains the NY Times, “That clears the way for negotiation of price and other remaining issues. But some people close to the talks cautioned that certain details on editorial independence remained to be settled, and said they were even reluctant to call it an agreement yet.” And all this would still have to be approved by the Bancroft family. The WSJ story today breaks down how a deal might come together.
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Mossberg reviews the iPhone: Flawed, but a breakthrough
Wall Street Journal Personal Technology Columnist Walter Mossberg is not one who is prone to give in to hype. So I respect his product reviews. He put the iPhone to the test, and gives a detailed review in this video. His verdict? It’s indeed a breakthrough device, but has its flaws. Video review below…
“Even in version 1.0, the iPhone is still the most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years,” writes David Pogue in the NY Times. “It does so many things so well, and so pleasurably, that you tend to forgive its foibles.”
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Personalized copies of Wired arrive for lucky few
Back in April, Wired Magazine offered to personalize the July, 2007 cover for 5,000 lucky entrants. (The issue is dedicated to “the hyperlocal web.”) The magazine has been arriving this week, and LR pal Chip Mahaney of KDFW in Dallas is among those who graces their own cover. So here’s Cover Boy Chip, Wired’s Sexiest Man Alive, 2007:
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Now THAT’S an ad
I just punched up WashingtonPost.com and the screen pushed down… way down…
And that’s on a 1280 x 1024 resolution setting. These kind of ads (which condense up to a narrow bar at the top of the page after a few seconds) are becoming all the rage on many newspaper sites these days.
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Internet radio goes silent in protest
MTV Radio, Rhapsody, Pandora and thousands of other internet radio stations are silent Tuesday to protest the dramatic hike in music royalties that go into effect in three weeks. (A few stations, like the popular KEXP here in Seattle, decided not to go along.) This screen grab from MTV Radio explains further:
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AOL News relaunches as a blog
You may remember that TMZ.com — an AOL property — has had tremendous success switching from a traditional news format to a blog format, and now the new AOL News is following in its footsteps. Think of it as a modified blog format, with a shorter home page and stories not necessarily listed in pure chronological order. But it has comments, tags and user recommendations. (The version that’s in beta right now does not have all the functionality that’s displayed on the tour page. Looks like there are some bugs to work out.) So what do you think? Should more news sites switch to a blog format?
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Slingbox trumpets ‘on-the-go broadcasts’ for TV stations
When we posted a blurb in May about KPIX using Slingbox for live video transmission, we thought it would get people’s attention. “We’ve had tons of interest and many questions regarding our collaboration with the Bay Area CBS affiliate,” writes Sling Media’s Dave Katz in an email to Lost Remote today. So the company has sent out a press release (click below to read). Also, Katz points out that NBC Weather Plus is using Slingbox to incorporate live video from WESH, KUSA, KPRC and WDIV. A write-up in Broadcasting and Cable explains how it works:
WESH, for example, plugged a coax cable right into the Slingbox, which lets NBC Weather Plus look at the station’s beauty cam at Universal Studios, as well as at two other tower cameras, says WESH Chief Engineer Richard Monn. To be placed on-air, the Sling video has to run through a scan converter, to change it from progressive-scan VGA to the interlace format, before it can be fed as a live source into a production switcher and displayed in NBC Weather Plus’s upper-right corner box. Running the picture small minimizes the hit in picture quality the picture suffers when it is compressed by the Slingbox for Internet delivery.
The Slingbox press release on KPIX follows below…
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iPhone watch: Apple releases rate plans
AT&T and Apple released rate plan information for Friday’s iPhone release - and the price points are less than you might have expected. For example, the basic individual rate (phone and data) is $59.99. Also, you will be activate the phone at home via iTunes.
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‘Too few people subscribed’ to CNN Pipeline
In a note posted on CNN.com’s Behind the Scenes blog, CNN.com SVP and GM David Payne thanks Pipeline’s paying subscribers and explains why the site is switching to a free video strategy. “As popular as the service was, it became clear to us that reaching true scale was going to be impossible if the product remained a pay service,” he writes. “Remember that our entire mission is about getting more news to more people on more platforms, and too few people actually subscribed for us to meet that goal.” Payne also described the benefits of the embedded player environment. CNN.com switches to free video next week.
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U.S. web access slower than in many other countries
USA Today lists the results of a survey done by the Communications Workers of America that claims the median download speed from the web here in the U.S. is downright pokey compared to other countries. The report found the median download speed here in the U.S. to be about 2 megabits per second. That’s a lot faster than it used to be, but still far slower than Japan’s 61 Mbps, South Korea’s 45 Mbps, France’s 17 Mbps and Canada’s 7 Mbps. The report also breaks out state-by-state median download speeds. Fastest state: Rhode Island (5 Mbps.) Slowest state: Alaska (0.5 Mbps.) (The Communications Workers of America, which commissioned the survey, has an interest in the outcome of the story. They represent workers at tech and telecom companies who could benefit from work projects to increase bandwidth.)
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Paris mania leads many news sites
It looks like sweeps time on many major news sites, with Paris Hilton’s jail release leading the news. Not only is the story is given the lead treatment by the usual suspects, but it’s also the top story at the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also made Pravda. A bunch of frame grabs after the jump, but leave it to the Fox News website to come up with a headline that somehow manages to compare Paris’s release to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Dream”:
Click through the jump for more examples.
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