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  • A Deeper Look At Why Amazon Keeps Winning (SlideShow)

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    People love to tell Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com’s famously shiny-headed CEO, that he is wrong. Heck, on the eve of Y2K, Amazon had posted an astounding 3 billion dollar loss shortly after going public. And yet only three years later the goliath with crazy visions was profitable once more. Check out this amazing Slideshow that demonstrates,…

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  • Amazing Things From This Year’s NAB Show

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    Topics at NAB 2009 ranged from when the Web Will Kill TV to How To Blog In 140 Characters to Alternative Reality Gaming, Second Chances in Second Life and the nature of Web 3.0. Oh and YouTube 3D.

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  • If 2009 Is Watershed Year for 3D Cinema, 2010 Will Be Same for 3DTV

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    Chris Chinnock, President of consultation and market research firm Insight Media predicted that 2010 will be a “watershed year for 3DTV.”

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  • Web 3.0 Train Now Boarding, Don’t Be Late

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    Just in case you are still wondering whether you should check out this whole “Social Networking Thing” – too late. It’s way tired. The tides are tiring of Facebook. MySpace has been declared dead. We are now halfway through the Web 2.5 paradigm; there are already so many books at Amazon.com about how to conduct…

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  • The Guild is the Next Generation’s Answer to Mary Tyler Moore

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    Felicia Day’s eight-minute webisodic-turned-cultural-phenomenon The Guild revolves around the character Codex, a single woman in her late-twenties, early thirties who is not widowed or divorced or seeking a man to support her, but who holds a position of great importance in her online guild – that of the Healer. The show can similarly assert itself…

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  • On February 17th, 2009 Your TV Will No Longer Work

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    The government was set to issue $40 vouchers for every household towards the cost of the new digital set top converter that would replace the old analog antenna that we have seen in so many John Hughes films. The campaign for awareness of this fundamental transition did alright, but penetration hasn’t been nearly as high…

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