The New York Times on NBC-Amazon Deal

post from Daring Fireball on 04 September 2007 11:13:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Brooks Barnes reporting:

?Amazon is a company that understands the value we provide as content owners to its business,? said Jean-Briac Perrette, president of NBC Universal Digital Distribution.

Translation: Amazon bent over and took it, and told NBC how pretty they are.

Barnes’s report makes no mention whatsoever of the fact that Unbox’s DRM restrictions are far tighter than iTunes’s. That’s a central aspect of the story, so no cookie for The Times.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/business/media/05nbc.html

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ISO Rejects Microsofts Office Open XML File
Formats

post from Daring Fireball on 04 September 2007 11:01:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Common sense prevails. Lets hope they stick to it.

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Dear New York Yankees: Your All-Star Game Logo
Sucks

post from Daring Fireball on 04 September 2007 09:47:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Design. Typography. The Yankees. How could I not link to this?

(Not to mention that I agree wholeheartedly with Selikoff’s critique.)

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http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/it_is_high_it_is_far_it_is_ca
u.php

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Michael Arringtons CrunchFood

post from Daring Fireball on 04 September 2007 09:23:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Spot-on parody of the TechCrunch “style”.

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http://crunchfood.wordpress.com/

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*Appendix A on The Talk Show

post from Daring Fireball on 04 September 2007 09:03:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Thomas McQuillan gets it.

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Jeremy Horwitz: Tomorrow, Dreams Come True

post from Daring Fireball on 04 September 2007 08:43:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jeremy Horwitz:

I seriously believe tomorrow is going to be different. I think it?s going to be the day when iPod die-hards, technology geeks, and mainstreamers alike are all going to be genuinely excited by what Apple is going to show.

I think he’s right.

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http://backstage.ilounge.com/index.php/backstage/comments/tomorrow-dreams-come-tr
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NBC goes to Amazon Unbox

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 04 September 2007 08:10:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

MBC Universal has announced that it will sell episodes of its new fall television shows using Amazon...

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Palm kills Foleo

Palm has put an end to the much-maligned Foleo, a "smartphone companion," that resembles a standard ...

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