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Variety Moves Into Social Networking

Variety magazine has launched a social networking site called "the Biz" which will be focused on the entertainment business. The site focuses on three main areas.  Connect: Find colleagues, peers and mentors in the entertainment industry. Networking made easy. Careers: Meet professionals directly inside entertainment. Recruit new talent. Search for jobs, promotions or projects.

Yahoo Music Exec Goes Country

Jay Frank of Yahoo Music has traded in Silicon Valley hipness for Nashville cool as he becomes the latest executive at Yahoo to bail out of the company.

Feed Optimization Tip: Don't Forget FeedFlare

FeedBurner is the only service (that I know of) that will re-publish a blogs feed in order to get feed stats. Being such a great service, many users use it only to figure out how many readers their blogs have.

Variety EIC Attacks Movie Blogs

Longtime Hollywood insider and Variety editor in chief Peter Bart took on the blogosphere and the rights of bloggers with a decidedly negative take; a pair of movie bloggers took him to the editing room and trimmed him down to size.

Google Phone Might Use Wi-Fi?

Google has grown by doing things differently than the status quo, and if they do introduce a phone they may buck current practice there, too.

YouTube Takes Down Oscar Clips

This year’s Academy Awards were particularly sweet for director Martin Scorsese, who received his first Oscar in five nominations for his behind the camera work in The Departed, which was also awarded the Oscar for Best Picture. Unfortunately for Scorsese, he won’t be able to relive the moment on YouTube or any other video sharing site anytime soon.

Anthony Cumia Shows You How To Install Vista

I'm a huge fan of the Opie & Anthony radio program on XM Satellite Radio, have been for years, and over the last week, I've heard show host Anthony talking about his experiences with Windows Vista. Anthony's had a lot of trouble, running into unsigned drivers, video card drivers that have worse performance in Vista than in XP, and a constant Blue Screen of Death before every install.

Google Reader - The Next Digg?

Steve Rubel and a variety of others are opining that Google Reader could be turned into the next Digg. Oh, I so so so agree with that!

Visitors Value Video Viewing Variety

A survey by AOL and AP found that 54 percent of Internet users have watched or downloaded a video clip.

Cutts Less Kidnapped, More Video-y

Google's Matt Cutts continues his SEO video tutorials, which began over the weekend, adding six more short segments. Apparently the first three were a hit.