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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 6, 2012

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The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. Twitter: In last 3 minutes of Super Bowl, there were 10,000 tweets per second (TechCrunch)

2. First streaming of Super Bowl a success, but left a lot to be desired (TechCrunch)

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Epistemic Games Are the Future of Learning, Letting Students Role-Play Professions

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Imagine you're a senior manager at a leading videogame company. Your job is to devise the company's competitive strategy in a rapidly growing and dynamic industry. What prices will you set for the consoles? How many games will be available...

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Poll: What Will Facebook Be Worth in 5 Years?

by MediaShift on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments

They say that history repeats itself, but that's so easy to forget. It was only as recently as 2006 that analysts were saying that MySpace was likely worth $15 billion (and I was spoofing that conclusion). And you can go back to older...

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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 3, 2012

by MediaShift on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. Netflix and WaPo bought a combined $8M in Facebook ads last year, IPO says (All Facebook)

2. Analysis: A sobering look at Facebook (Reuters)

3. How...

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Mediatwits #36: Facebook IPO Fever; Dive into Media; $30 Million to Columbia/Stanford

by MediaShift on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments

Welcome to the 36th episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser and Dorian Benkoil, who is filling in for Rafat Ali. It's been a crazy week in media + tech, with Google p...

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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Feb. 2, 2012

by MediaShift on Feb 2, 2012 • No Comments

The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing

1. Apple's iBooks push raises 6 questions about future of self-publishing (Fast Company)

2. Is Nook Simple Touch the best e-reader? (Gizmodo)

3. Franzen on e-books and the end of...

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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 2, 2012

by MediaShift on Feb 2, 2012 • No Comments

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. Facebook faces many threats, but none more than Google (CNET)

2. Facebook IPO crashes SEC website (TechCrunch)

3. More people are visiting newspaper websites (FishbowlNY)

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Romenesko Gets His Mojo Back After Leaving Poynter

by MediaShift on Feb 2, 2012 • No Comments

Jim Romenesko is having a good time. Lately, the "journalism evangelist," "KING of the blogosphere," and "go-to source for news about the news" has been waking up earlier, posting more often, and featuring content he had not felt free to p...

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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 1, 2012

by MediaShift on Feb 1, 2012 • No Comments

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. Report: Facebook's IPO to start at $5 billion (paidContent)

2. Barnes & Noble faces setback in Microsoft antitrust complaint (ars technica)

3. Hulu: We pay...

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Turning Panic Into Money: Marc Maron’s Podcast Gold

by MediaShift on Feb 1, 2012 • No Comments

Just over two years ago, comedian Marc Maron was out of a job, couldn't get standup gigs and was going through a debilitating divorce that had put him in debt.With "nothing to lose," as he put it, he launched the WTF podcast, by...

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