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  The Lamest Microsoft (Internal) Video...ever[->] 2008-04-16 16:31 EricTheGreen

Submitted by EricTheGreen on Wednesday April 16, @04:31PM
EricTheGreen writes "What is it with MS and internal videos? Add another to the pile, this one targeted at internal sales teams. No words can do justice to how bad this piece of dreck is. And, worse, it's apparently for real, as Kevin Turner, MS's chief operating officer makes an appearance near the end to legitimize the monstrosity..."
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU
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 [+] submission, microsoft

  BBC iPlayer content for Linux goes live[->] 2007-12-14 07:39 leftcase

Submitted by leftcase on Friday December 14 2007, @07:39AM
leftcase writes "BBC iPlayer support for Linux has arrived (kind of). Although programming is currently delivered using Flash, the quality isn't all that bad and heck, at least you can watch BBC TV at work now.....

Cheers BBC, ta very much!"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
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 [+] submission, linux, tv

  Digg still affected by year-old controversy 2007-12-14 07:24 holy_calamity

Submitted by holy_calamity on Friday December 14 2007, @07:24AM
holy_calamity writes "A researcher at UCSD suggests that Digg is still feeling the consequences of annoying its top users back in September 2006. At the time, Kevin Rose responded to accusations that relatively small numbers of users had control of Digg's frontpage by tweaking his algorithm to penalise people that often digg the same stories. Top ranked users got angry and even quit Digg. In a paper in the pre-print Arxiv, the researcher used data scraped from digg to show "a general decline in individual user participation on Digg" that persists today. After the recent Facebook u-turns, proof that annoying your users can have long-lasting effects."
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 [+] submission, internet

  Demonoid Shutdown 2007-11-09 23:43 Broxx

Submitted by Broxx on Friday November 09 2007, @11:43PM
Broxx writes "Demonoid.com is no longer available. Apparently it has been shut down by the CRIA. The message on their site says: "The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.""
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 [+] submission, censorship

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