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MIT Media Lab Extension: The New Home of Face-Melting Research [MIT Media Lab]

The world-renown MIT Media Lab is a place where every project is an amazing, unbelievable glimpse into humanity's technological future. Now, thanks to a massive $90 million extension, the architecture can match the wondrous excitement created within. In case you haven't had the opportunity to swing by this particular block in Cambridge, Massachusetts, here's what the old Media Lab looks like. It's still there
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Google vs. Yahoo: Who Has the Right Social Strategy?

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr , where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; YouTube; Wordpress: these companies, built from the ground-up, are mainstays in social media. None of them were created by a large tech company, and all but one remains independent. It’s an interesting phenomenon, when you think about it. Large tech companies have had limited to no success creating their own social media home runs.
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The Ultimate (Fresh) Collection Of High-Quality Free Social Media Icon Sets

A beautifully designed icon is the perfect way to represent your product or service, and they always come in handy whether you want to place them on your blog or want to represent yourself in an outstanding manner. A comprehensively designed icon can provide your user with the memorable metaphors and illustrations, even sometimes users only remember the icon they saw on the website. Here we have compiled a list of some outstanding and beautifully designed FREE and FRESH 50 Sets of Social Media Icons such as digg icons, stumbleupon icons, reddit icons, twitter, RSS feed icon, facebook icons and more, so that you can use them on your blog and website.
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The Rise Of Transactional Advertising

This guest post is authored by Alex Rampell , the founder and CEO of TrialPay . This is a follow on to an earlier article “The End Of Brand Advertising,” where Rampell argues that the collision of online and offline advertising paradigms will have a profound impact on free content. Rampell’s most recent guest post for us was in the wake of the Scamville series: Tragedy Of The Social Gaming Commons: A Blueprint For Change The marriage of brand advertising and free content is facing peremptory annulment.
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The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, February 2010

Each month, our partner Visible Measures compiles a list of the top ten most popular web video series , and we share those results with you and provide analysis. Visible Measures tracks views, comments and other data on web video, and has just made available a free public beta of a tool to benchmark online video ad campaign and content performance. If you’re looking for some video entertainment to watch on your lunch break, this chart is a great place to start. Find a show you’re interested in and click the play button to the right to check it out
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The Return of Sony [We Miss Sony]

We love Sony. We really do. And we want them to get back in the game, because competition makes everyone better. Here's how they do it
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YouTube Launches Auto-Captioning for Videos

I’m here at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California for a press conference called by the Google-owned video website. In a room reminiscent of a U.N. meeting, a group of speakers from YouTube, Google, Stanford, Berkeley, and the California School for the Deaf (CSD) are about to speak on YouTube and accessibility. Mike Cohen, part of Google’s Speech Technology team (as a note, he is also deaf), first spoke via sign language to talk about his team’s work on video.
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Puniz Indexes Free Tunes From the Web [Music]

The web is littered with music—given away for free, embeded in videos, and so on. Puniz indexes publicly accessible music and let's you grab the source tune. You can search music by the song, artist, or keyword as well as variations and closely related searches—a search for the song "Safety Dance", for example, returns the original song as well as remixes and covers of it.
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RIP RealDVD, Even If We Won’t Notice You’re Gone [Realnetwork]

A judge has finally ordered RealNetworks to put its DVD ripping service, RealDVD, to sleep because apparently it's "illegal to bypass the copyright protections built into DVDs designed to protect movies against theft." Whoops. As part of its legal loss against the Motion Picture Association of America, the media delivery company will be forced to shell out $4.5 million for legal costs. While this whole thing is a bit painful for RealNetworks, will anyone actually miss RealDVD when there are plenty of free DVD-ripping solutions ? [ All Things D ]
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How Topeka Became Google, Kansas: The Mayor Speaks

Welcome to Google, Kansas – the capital city of fiber optics, population 122,642. The small city with a big dream recently changed its name from Topeka to Google in order to show its enthusiasm for Google’s experimental Fiber for Communities program . Mayor William W. Bunten issued a proclamation on Monday declaring the name change and urging “the citizens of Topeka to recognize and support the continuing efforts to bring Google’s ‘Fiber for Communities,’ experiment to our city.” Talking to Bunten you wouldn’t expect this 79-year-old politician and military veteran with a penchant for phrases like “tickled pink,” to be the man behind the innovative Google fiber optics push. And yet such is the case.
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