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Last week Apple banished a bunch of raunchy pictures from its iPhone App Store. As Apple rolls out the iPad later this month, and media companies support the frenzy with iPad apps and subscription services for it, that leave us all to wonder what other content, speech or ideas might be kicked out next.

APIs are all about explosive, viral distribution and use of content anywhere – and building businesses around that use. Mashery’s co-founder and CEO, Oren Michels, will talk more about APIs and how they are driving new digital businesses in a conversation at We Media Miami, March 9-11, 2010.

If you can’t get the facts right, make up a story. Nothing is too shameless for digital marketers.

Google set the tech press on fire this week with the launch of a new feature called Buzz integrated with its popular web mail service Gmail.

Near the end of PBS’s Digital Nation, we’re taken to a military facility in the desert an hour outside of Las Vegas where a soldier sits in a cushy chair and pilots an unmanned drone over Afghanistan. The drone’s cameras send images from a war zone to a screen at the soldier’s work station. As [...]

The biggest surprise from yesterday’s unveiling of Apple’s iPad was that print publishers and journos weren’t terribly excited. “Waiting to be surprised. That hasn’t happened yet,” said Jim Roberts, the only New York Times wonk who didn’t confuse Steve Jobs with Moses. Valleywag has a good take on Print Media’s Big Tablet Letdown.
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Before we’re swept away (oops, but that seems to have happened already) by the unveiling of Apple’s tablet we ought to pay homage to technologies before the iPad and visionaries before Steve Jobs.
The original messiah machine: the Mac Plus. Introduced in 1986, this little beauty brought a revolution in publication design. It came standard with [...]

A few months after three, young software architects launched an obscure social networking and microblogging service, students at a rural Virginia university sent short messages to their friends from their PCs and cell phones as they hid from a gunman who opened fire in classrooms and a dorm.
“Everything you thought you knew about media has [...]

Two projects featured at We Media ‘09 are leading the use of digital media and technology in Haiti’s rescue efforts.
Ushahidi, which was named a “Game Changer” at last year’s conference, is utilizing digital mapmaking technology and social media to map and verify vital information in Haiti. Ushahidi plots key information on a Google map of [...]

Magazine and newspaper publishers have fantasized, for more than a decade, about the day when portable digital display technologies render paper, ink, printing, trucks, postage and home delivery obsolete. The flaw, of course, is expecting too much from technology – the next big thing.

The internet is a wondrous anomaly, a technical and creative achievement grander than the Tower of Babel, an infinite tangle of knowledge, ideals, data, entertainment, beauty, trivia, terror, news, noise, hubris, despair. It’s a cultural blender, a mixmaster archive crammed with visions, twits and everyday things.

Designer Jonathan Harris explores new territory.

WeMedia is once again producing a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media, technology, and social change figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news.  Our goal is to help the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking place in our society, hear from the thinkers and doers [...]

We new that tweeting was hot when we saw the usage in at the conference in Miami, but did not see the relevance to SeeClickFix at the time.  Fred Wilson from AVC.com has shown us the light:
On May 5th Fred Wilson Posted an article on his blog avc.com which suggested that it would be great [...]

A few weeks back Amazon got blasted by gay rights groups when it was discovered that gay and lesbian book titles were delisted from its site. Amazon claimed an internal glitch caused the problem and declined to offer additional details.  A spokesperson was quoted saying
“This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company [...]