Top Items:
Google Blog:
Google Print and the Authors Guild — Today we learned that the Authors Guild filed a lawsuit to try to stop Google Print. We regret that this group chose to sue us over a program that will make millions of books more discoverable to the world — especially since any copyright holder can exclude their books from the program.
RELATED ITEMS:
Mike Madison / Conglomerate Blog:Google Sued; Books Disappearing
Discussion:
Copyfight, Shore Communications Inc., The Stalwart, madisonian.net and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Jonathan Berr / TheStreet.com:
Diller Sacks the Butler — Jeeves is out of a job. — IAC/InterActiveCorp. (IACI:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) is dropping the butler who doubles as the mascot of its recently acquired Ask Jeeves online search business. — The New York-based online empire …
RELATED ITEMS:
Enid Burns / ClickZ:
Paid Search Expected to Outpace Display By 2010 — Paid search revenues are set to outpace display advertising by 2010, according to a JupiterResearch report forecasting the next five years in the U.S. paid search market. — The category accounted for 34 percent of total online ad spending in 2004, or $4.2 billion in spending.
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
THE BUTLER DIES — Diller Sacks the Butler: … The article also mentions China next year. If they are smart they will talk to Shak before then, assuming they know what they want to do ;) — Category(s) ask jeeves — Posted by Aaron Wall at 12:47 PM | Your [Evil] HAPPY Thoughts? (2)
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Microsoft streamlines to challenge competitors — You prune in the fall to have flowers in the spring, or at least that's what Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer hopes for with a massive reorganization that's intended to restore the company's agility. — Ballmer yesterday cut Microsoft's number …
RELATED ITEMS:
Business Week:
Steve Ballmer's Memo to Staff — Today, we are announcing the creation of three new business divisions — Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division, which will be led by Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin as co-Presidents; Microsoft Business Division to be led by Jeff Raikes as President …
Discussion:
PaidContent.org
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Rhymes With Ditty — See news item that Dell had released a new flash-memory-based music player to compete against the iPod Shuffle: the Dell DJ Ditty. — Note that no picture of said Ditty accompanies news item. … Note that no picture of said Ditty appears on front page of dell.com …
RELATED ITEM:
Reuters:
Dell launches new music player — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc., the world's biggest personal computer maker, announced out six new products on Tuesday including two printers and a digital music player aimed at the iPod Shuffle. — The DJ Ditty weighs 1.29 ounces and its 512 megabytes …
mozillaZine.org / mozillaZine:
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 Released — Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7, a security and stability update to the flagship Mozilla browser, is now available for download. Fixes are included for the international domain name (IDN) link buffer overflow vulnerability and the Linux command line URL parsing flaw.
Discussion:
Donna's SecurityFlash
RELATED ITEM:
mozillaZine.org / mozillaZine:Mozilla Linux Command Line URL Parsing Security Flaw Reported
Discussion:
Neowin.net
Lifehacker:
Special: Lifehacker's guide to weblog comments — Leaving a comment on someone's weblog is like walking into their living room and joining in on a conversation. As in real life, online there are some people who are a pleasure to converse with, and some who are not.
Jeff Clavier / Software Only:
Truveo: the little video search engine that could — A few days ago, Truveo went quietly out of stealth. It did not get noticed immediately because of two major news "sandwiching" its release: Skype/eBay and Google BlogSearch. However the buzz has been growing since then, and the initial feedback is pretty positive.
Alorie Gilbert / CNET News.com:
It's a nice day for an iPod wedding — As a bride-to-be, Jessica Spence was taking extra care to note the details at a friend's wedding recently. — One thing that stood out to her was an idle-looking DJ who hit a few buttons on his laptop and appeared to take the rest of the night easy.
Discussion:
Engadget
RELATED ITEM:
Kenneth Norton / Hey Norton!:
User triangulation: how to listen to customers — Quite by serendipity I've come across a few articles in the past week about listening to - and ignoring - users in the product development process. — The first came from my friend Jonathan Alexander in a post to his blog:
Discussion:
SearchViews
