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Service to register domain names via twitter. Oh, I'm in trouble now….
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David Cohn on the first 6 months of Spot.us. Which pitches attract full funding? "Stories which have a concrete anchor to a geographic or ethnic community do better. Stories that are lofty, more analysis based or consumerist tend to flounder."
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"The qualities that produce good print and earn Pulitzers are not the same qualities that make a successful business. After all, how do you hold onto the past and reach for the future? Very carefully it seems. …Could it mean fewer and fewer are impressed in these increasingly skeptical times we live in?"
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Agreed: "The Kindle just looks like another way for newspapers to turn profitable customers into unprofitable ones."
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"Amazon has begun to implement a remote kill-switch that removes text-to-speech functionality from their Kindle ebook reader. A byproduct of the Author’s Guild TTS controversy, the system allows publishers to disable text-to-speech on a title by title basis; as of this week, TTS has been removed from over 40 works including five of the top ten Random House best-sellers in the Kindle store."
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"TED’s tool is based on dotsub, and their model for recruiting, recognizing and rewarding translators is inspired in part by some of the work we’ve done at Global Voices. For visitors to the site, this means that you can browse videos by language, selecting one of the 32 talks available with Spanish subtitles, or the sole talk available in Kyrgyz.
"Select a talk in one of its translated forms, and you’ll get a subtitled video, a translated title and description of the talk. Featured in this description are the two people responsible for translating the talk, the lead translator and the reviewer – like Global Voices, TED is inviting translators to join the community, pairing new translators with trusted reviewers to evaluate the work and to offer any changes or suggestions. Another link on the page leads to an “interactive transcript” – this allows a viewer to select a point in the talk and fast-forward to see the slides and images that accompany the speaker’s words."
