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Redbox Riles Up the Movie Industry, Files Suit Against Fox

Redbox, the company that rents DVDs through kiosks for $1 a day, has had a polarizing effect on the movie industry. Lines are being drawn and sides taken as a… Read more »

Boxee Raises $6M for Content and CE Devices

Open-source media center Boxee announced this morning that it has raised $6 million in a Series B round of funding led by General Catalyst Partners with participation by prior investors… Read more »

RealNetworks Loses First Ruling in RealDVD Case

Well, this isn’t too much of a surprise, but a federal court found that RealNetworks’ DVD ripping software RealDVD violated copyright law. U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Patel issued a… Read more »

Pixorial Revives Analog Memories (and Resurrects My Mullet)

It would be appropriate to quote a song like Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” or even “Memory” from Cats given Pixorial’s target market. The video sharing startup launches to… Read more »

PostRank Real-Time APIs Deliver Relevant Data Based On Engagement

PostRank, formerly AideRSS, is well-known on the social Web for its tabulation of "hot" blog posts and influential authors, based on social activity, including total number of comments, links within… Read more »

Podcast: TheSocialGeeks: FaceFriend or FriendBook?

In the latest edition of The Social Geeks, Chris Miller, Wayne Sutton, Jeff(isageek), Sarah Perez, Corvida Raven and I talk about the big news from yesterday of Facebook acquiring FriendFeed… Read more »

Steven Hodson and I Talk FacebookFeed: Our Initial Reactions

In my small little world, the news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed has been the equivalent of a social news tsunami. No sooner did the news break then did I… Read more »

Hi Facebook, It's Me, FriendFeed. This Relationship? It's Complicated.

Alright Facebook. I didn't want it to be like this, so let me tell you in a way that you'll understand. You know how you started out as a program… Read more »

iPhone Call Recording: It Makes Too Much Sense Not to Do

The introduction of the Voice Memos capability on Apple's iPhone was a nice touch. Now, in theory, if I am out and about and don't want to type in a… Read more »

Favorit Shuts Down As Company's Focus Turns to TweetMeme

At one time, I thought Favorit was going to be the application that weaned me from Google Reader to consume all my RSS feeds. After Robert Scoble speculated it could… Read more »