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PodTech Exclusive: Yahoo! Launches Podcasting with Yahoo! Podcasts — Download to MP3: Exclusive Podcast Announcement - Yahoo Launches Podcasting — The PodCast: — YAHOO! LAUNCHES PODCASTING. Yahoo! Podcasts, A New Beta Service, Lets Consumers Find and Listen to New Audio Programs
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Yahoo tunes into podcasting craze — Internet giant to offer tools for searching popular audio programs — SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to tune into the latest craze in digital media, Yahoo Inc. is introducing tools for finding, organizing and rating "podcasts" — the audio programs designed …

Listen to the Internet With Yahoo! Podcasts — I'm finally able to talk about Yahoo! Podcasts, now in public beta. This new source for online audio programming uses Yahoo! Search to make it easier than ever to find and subscribe to audio content and listen wherever and whenever you want.

Yahoo Launches Major Podcasting Service — Yahoo just launched a comprehensive podcasting search, directory and listening service called Yahoo Podcasts (URL will be working in the next couple of hours). John Furrier at Podtech.net nailed this story and has posted an exclusive podcast with Geoff Ralston, Yahoo's Chief Product Officer.
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Yahoo to launch podcast search site — Yahoo is expected to launch on Monday a podcast service that offers access to much of the streaming audio on the Web and features user reviews and other information about the programming. — Yahoo Podcasting is intended to allow people …

Scoop: VeriSign is about to announce acquisition of Moreover Technologies... . . . is it building a massive news and blogs tracker? — By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcher — VeriSign is about to announce it acquired Moreover Technologies, the San Francisco based news aggregator.
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Verisign To Acquire Moreover : Updated: read the update post here, with price, etc... We'd been working on this story, but Tom got to it first...Moreover, the online news aggregation and business information service, is being bought out by Verisign, and the reported price is about $25 million.

Web 2.0: Conversation with Five Teenagers — Safa Rashtchy, managing director at Piper Jaffray, moderated a panel with five Bay-Area teenagers. all are 17 and in highschool, except for Sasha, who is 18 and is a freshman at Berkeley. — This was one of the more interesting panels …

REACTION TO GOOGLE READER — Whew! I was afraid that I was going to get bashed when I didn't like the Google Reader, that there had to be something wrong with me that I didn't like it. Turns out, I'm not the only one. Obviously, its not a huge cross section, but the comments …
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Deep Thoughts at Web 2.0 — In July, we looked into the Bloglines data in a post called "Which Feeds Matter?" (which actually began life as "What Feeds Matter?" until Daniel left a comment correcting our grammar). Our definition of a feed that mattered, out of the millions of blogs …

Japan's Music Industry Wants Fee on Sales of Latest Digital Players — TOKYO - In the United States, recording labels want a bigger slice of Apple's success in digital music by seeking higher prices on downloaded songs. Japan's music industry has a different idea: putting a fee on iPods.

A Rough Early PR Blog Timeline — This past week, quite a conversation erupted when Stephen Baker called Steve Rubel the "doyen" of PR bloggers. — Not that it really matters, but here's a list of some of the earliest blogs either from PR people or about PR, in order of date of first post.