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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #221: March 8, 2007
Content summary: Shel at New Communications Forum; Chip Griffin’s new podcast; Best Buy and Celebrity Big Brother follow-ups; UK government to warn illegal immigrants by text messaging; Sony launches virtual community for PS3 gamers; virtual worlds set for shake-up; Microsoft predicts VoIP call charges will plummet; business cards for your Second Life avatar; Dan York reports on SlideShare, Skype Prime and Twitter; join the FIR Twitter community; commentary: bum rush the charts; listeners’ comments discussion; upcoming conferences; the music; and…
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Full story: Opportunity for podcasters
Internet radio broadcasters face the alarming prospect of paying much higher royalties to song performers, says the Wall Street Journal, a burden that could silence some online stations. This looks a possibility if you’re an internet station in the US as it relates to a decision by the Copyright Royalty Board (what the Journal calls an “obscure federal agency”) to set sound-recording royalty rates for online radio stations in that country. Without meaning to belittle the genuine concerns of those…
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Full story: Second Life: All you need is an open mind
If you want to really understand all sides of the story about Second Life as a business platform – the genuine potential as well as the current drawbacks – a series of in-depth feature articles published last week by CIO Insight magazine is where you definitely should go. Under the umbrella heading of Is Business Ready For Virtual Worlds?, technology editor David Carr has done an excellent job in presenting a broad and balanced picture of Second Life that, when…











