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TechWeb – InformationWeek – Now playing: HDTV movies in your home, with a little help from Apple TV, Blu-ray, Netflix Player by Roku, Vudu, and Xbox Live Marketplace.

PC World – By now, we’ve all heard about the ways political candidates have used the Web to raise money or connect with voters. But…

BusinessWeek Online – It’s official: The average knowledge worker has the attention span of a sparrow. Roughly once every three minutes, typical cubicle dwellers set aside whatever they’re doing and start something else — anything else. It could be answering the phone, checking e-mail, responding to an instant message, clicking over to YouTube (NasdaqGS:GOOG – News), or posting something amusing on Facebook. Constant interruptions are the Achilles’ heel of the information economy in the U.S. These distractions consume as much as 28% of the average U.S. …

Reuters – Warner Bros. Television Group said Thursday that its content will be distributed through branded channels on Dailymotion, Joost, Sling Media, TiVo and Veoh Networks.

NewsFactor – In an on-stage conversation with New Yorker writer Ken Auletta, Google CEO Eric Schmidt conceded that the search-engine giant doesn’t know how to make money off of YouTube, the popular video-sharing site for which it paid $1.65 billion in 2006.