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Blockbuster Purchases Movielink
Blockbuster has announced that it has purchased Movielink, a movie download service the price of the deal has not been released.
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End Embargos on Company News
I get a lot of pitches and press releases these days. An intriguing media advisory crossed my in-box this afternoon about student use of social networks. I was all set to grab the PDF of the study and blog about it until I saw this on the release: “The report, available now for media only...is embargoed until Tuesday, August 14, at 12:01 a.m.”
Blog Launches with “New” Chrysler
The “new” Chrysler officially launched yesterday as most of the transition of ownership from Daimler to the private Cerberus has been wrapped up. A day earlier, though, the company unveiled a blog prominently accessible from the company’s business home page.
Another Technorati Top 100 Benefit
There’s another benefit to being in the Technorati Top 100. In addition to being the most linked-to blogs as tracked by Technorati, the Top 100 blogs have made the Digg homepage 8000 times. Clickalite.com looked at Digg’s history to examine whether Technorati’s most popular tracked blogs were popular there, too. And were they ever.
CBS, Fox Still Stingy About Debate Footage
Activists on both sides of the political fence are thrilled that NBC, ABC, C-SPAN, and CNN have all agreed to allow Presidential debate footage to be legally shared, blogged, excerpted, and uploaded to video sites like YouTube.
Cornell University Joins Google Library Project
Attending Cornell University as an undergrad will cost you around $17,000 per semester. But if you just want to look through the school’s libraries, it’s free - some of their content will become available to everyone, thanks to an arrangement with Google’s Library Project.
