JamLegend Takes On Guitar Hero On The Web (1,000 Invites) (46)
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One of the most promising startups to come out of the LaunchBox incubator is JamLegend, a music site with mass appeal. JamLegend takes the familiar anyone-can-be-a-rockstar model made popular by videogames like Guitar Hero and Rock Band and puts it on the Web. The site is in private beta, but we have 1,000 invites for the first people to sign up at the site with the invite code “TechCrunch.” Once you sign up, you pick ...
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ekaye said:
Damn...missed the invite...
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Brendan said:
It's a keytar! Or... a guitboard.
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Dominik said:
Oh Mann.
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Alex said:
Well now the site is dead.
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Joel said:
I think this is a brilliant idea.
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jonezy said:
hmmmm should maybe keep an eye on this?
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Daniel Pritchett said:
The graphic of the guy wielding a keyboard like a guitar is worth the look if nothing else.
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Martin Dahl Pedersen said:
Guitar Hero 2.0
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Cerpin Taxt said:
zakon! guitar hero na compu na netu! :P
Facebook plans to move its offices south in Palo Alto, to California Ave (2)
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Instead of almost accidentally bicycling over Facebook employees whenever I go to downtown Palo Alto, now I’ll get to do that a mile and a half further south in the city. The company is moving most of its offices to the former HP office building near California Avenue, The Palo Alto Daily reports. California Avenue is Palo Alto’s second, slightly less pretentious downtown; the Facebook office is located down the street from it, right along ...
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Jack said:
Ugh, the prospect of The Nuthouse being overrun with fb employees makes me pretty sick. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Another NBA Player Heads Overseas (1)
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Being an NBA player ... what does that mean to you? One of the first words out of almost anybody's mouth would be "money." I mean, you make the NBA, you make money. (Some rookies would swear it is not true, but nobody believes them.) But it just keeps happening. Josh Childress, Jannero Pargo, Carlos Arroyo, Carlos Delfino, Earl Boykins, Juan Carlos Navarro, Bostjan Nachbar, Nenad Krstic, Primoz Brezec, Loren Woods ... they could all ...
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Jack said:
This is about four known players or one superstar away from being a HUGE F***ING problem for David Stern.
Cutler further along than the two QBs taken ahead of him (2)
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Posted by ESPN.com' s Bill Williamson Doug Pensinger/Getty Images Jay Cutler completed his first 12 passes of Saturday's game against Dallas. As of right now, Jay Cutler is the best quarterback of the 2006 rookie draft class. Cutler, the Denver Broncos' quarterback, is better than Tennessee's Vince Young and Arizona's Matt Leinart. There's no question about it. Young was No. 3 overall of that draft by Tennessee and Leinart went 10th to Arizona. Cutler was ...
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Jack said:
Once again, all together now: "We [The Niners] could have had Braylon Edwards and Jay Cutler instead of Alex Smith and Vernon Davis."
Benjamin Ling and Facebook back-story (11)
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Here’s one certainty in the hubbub that has resulted in the wake of the departure of high-profile exec Ben Ling from Facebook last week: COO Sheryl Sandberg is definitely not responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps. That’s the joking question–Was global warming Sandberg’s fault too?–that was asked at a staff meeting at the social networking start-up last Friday afternoon, after the news of Ling’s departure, on the heels of some other previous ...
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Jack said:
It literally reads like a soap opera.
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charleshudson said:
one of the more interesting takes on the situation - worth a read if you're a Googler, ex-Googler, or Facebooker
Food prices are soaring. So why is the price of lobster falling? (1)
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Thanks to rampant inflation, this has been a summer of discontent for foodies, who have been forced to swap precious imported cheeses for Monterey Jack and to downscale barbecues from sirloin to skirt steak. But as I discovered on a recent Maine vacation, there's at least one high-end food product whose price is falling this year: lobster.[more ...]
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Jack said:
Guess it's time to put down the corn and start eating lobster!
Pandora On the Verge of Closing Shop (57)
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Pandora is an internet radio service that allows you to create your own radio station based on songs and artists that you like. While you can't necessarily pick and choose what you'll hear on the service, you can fine-tune your radio station's tastes by giving the songs that Pandora recommends a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Pandora on the iPhone is one of the best applications for streaming music and finding new tunes. So, ...
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Tim said:
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Sonny Cloward said:
This is so damn sad!!!
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Amy said:
sign a petition! I can't go on without pandora
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Jake said:
Save Internet Radio!
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Boris said:
this would be awful if it happens. i love pandora.
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Jamie said:
Nooooo! Love Pandora.
Sources: HTC’s Google Android phone is “weeks away” from launching (7)
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Over the past few days, we’ve gotten multiple confirmations from reliable sources that the first phone built on Google’s Android platform will launch in the next several weeks. It will be an HTC phone, likely the HTC Dream, and will be launched internationally on the T-Mobile network. A window of between Oct 15 and Nov 30 is most likely, according to these sources. Around mid-July we received some information that T-Mobile had started its preparations ...
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Jack said:
Here's hoping this isn't lame.
Angelina Jolie Emails Flood the Internet (2)
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For the last time: That email does not contain dirty pictures of Angelina Jolie. We’re shooting down the idea that there are dirty pictures of Angelina Jolie in that email We issue this warning from time to time, largely because people keep clicking on links within emails that claim to contain photographs or videos of the actress in various states of disrobe. Instead, clicking the link installs software that gives a hacker control of someone’s ...
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Jack said:
Geez, people must really want to see this woman naked or something... 2.28% of ALL SPAM??
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bhc3 said:
"We’re sounding the alarm again because a report out this week from Secure Computing finds that an astounding 2.28% of all spam emails contain a link purporting to be compromising pictures of Jolie."
Why the Packers didn't act sooner (1)
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Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Buried within the Green Bay Packers' news conference Thursday was this: A relatively complete explanation for why the team allowed its deteriorating relationship with Brett Favre to fester through the first week of training camp -- rather than address it before camp began. First, general manager Ted Thompson said: "It was always this underlying thing about how to get past the impasse. He wanted a release. ...
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Jack said:
Faced with, pretty much, a lose-lose situation, Packers management really hit a home run on this one. A likely 2nd- or 3rd-round pick from a team outside your conference? They were stuck in a tough spot and I can't imagine a team coming out better.
Playoff-style attention in August? If Favre comes to town, you bet (1)
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The circus could be coming to town.The 49ers have a quarterback controversy competition. But Alex Smith vs. Shaun Hill vs. J.T. O'Sullivan lacks something in the sizzle department. The best competition controversy to come around the NFL in decades (or ever) could be arrving at Candlestick Park on Saturday, Aug. 16.The last time the Packers played an exhibition game in San Francisco was 1959. Their return in a couple weeks could be a momentous occasion. ...
Financial Times: MBAs in Demand at Non-Profits (1)
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Two related articles in the Financial Times focus on an area of interest to us here at Acumen Fund: the role of MBAs in the non-profit sector. The articles - both written by Sarah Murray - explore the changing philanthropic landscape and the value of business skills for non-profit careers. In MBAs Lift Non-Profit Sector, Murray focuses on the shift towards business approaches in the non-profit sector as a whole. This shift, referred to by ...
Professor Martz lectures on offensive football (1)
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Mike Martz just spoke for a few minutes to a gaggle of reporters. He spoke about the offense, what is expected from the quarterback and his thoughts on being upstairs, where he'll call plays with the 49ers.When asked if he's satisfied with what he's seen from the quarterbacks, Martz said, "Right now, it's organized chaos and they're just trying to learn all this stuff."He said after seven or eight days of practice, things will start ...
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Jack said:
Really interesting Q&A with the Niners' new Offensive Coordinator. Love this part: "Here's what the play is. The ball should go here with this coverage. Make the throw.... It is very, very, very structured and rigid, and that's the only way this works. They don't have that (flexibility) based on how they feel. They have to read and see what the defense does and make that decision off that. It's not a judgment of what they want to do. It's a reaction to what the defense has taken away."
Imagine if any other CEO pulled bullshit like this (29)
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Here’s an interesting experiment. Imagine what the reaction would be if a different CEO, one who isn’t worshipped as a man-god by a small but vocal portion of the world’s population, did what Steve Jobs just did to Joe Nocera. Imagine, for example, that instead of Steve Jobs we were talking about Steve Ballmer. Imagine Ballmer appeared in public having lost an incredible amount of weight, looking seventy years old and about one hundred and ...
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Peter said:
Love it. Tell it like it is.
Say Goodbye to Josh Childress, Say Hello to Some NBA Soul-Searching (3)
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Josh Childress, former sixth overall pick in the NBA draft, and a player who played very well for an Atlanta team that put a real scare into the eventual champions, is leaving the NBA to play for Greece. He signed a contract today with Greek powerhouse Olympiakos, in Athens, at 2:30 p.m. local time. (You can see pictures of Childress smiling over his contract.) His agents made clear in a conference call today that when ...
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Jack said:
When I was ran into Josh Childress at a campus party while drunk my senior year, I told him to "go get his money," but I certainly was referring to the NBA. Guess I should have been more specific.
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Fletch said:
Wow. I thought that we were still a long ways down the road from this happening. Granted, wouldn't call Childress the cream of the NBA crop, but he is certainly good enough to make any NBA roster.
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Jason Wojciechowski said:
The point about the salary cap is good. I'm intrigued to see what kind of reactionary nonsense the league dreams up to deal with this, and what sort of antitrust hot water they end up putting themselves in. I'm not a free marketeer in general, but I'm a little more laissez-faire when it comes to sports than real life, so I can't say I'm very upset about the way the NBA has messed with the market has come back to haunt the league.
WordPress for iPhone Available Now (13)
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We’re live! WordPress for iPhone just launched on the App Store. Download it now and get to blogging. We’ll have more information about the project and how you can contribute soon. If you run into issues while using the app, we’ve got a page for reporting them up now.
New York Times, LinkedIn Enter Content Partnership - ReadWriteWeb (43)
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In a brilliant move that's sure to make both newspapers and social networks around the web jealous, the New York Times and LinkedIn, the leading US social network for professionals, are announcing a content partnership tonight that could substantially increase the value for users of both sites. The announcement will be made at the top of the hour, but the integration is live now. LinkedIn users are now being shown personalized news targeting their industry ...
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yasuo110 said:
LinkedInとNew York Timesが提携しましたか！
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partout said:
Another interesting move by the NYT
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jvn said:
After the Guardian's acquisition of paidcontent, now NYT and linkedin in closer cooperation...a trend of traditional media acquiring/partnering with online service providers ? The future of "print"?
CrunchGear’s Official iPhone 3G Review (30)
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Hype, hype, hype. Now that the iPhone 3G launch has blown over and I’ve been able to integrate the phone into my daily routine, I think we’re ready for an official CrunchGear review. Our advice? Wait. With 60% certainty I predict a minor hardware or, more likely, software update in the next month or so to improve the 3G’s thus far abysmal battery life. The iPhone 3G is incrementally better than the 1st generation iPhone, ...
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Al said:
Worth clicking through to the full article!
