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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Yahoo's Blog Search, Too Little Too Soon — Technorati, one of the early entrants in the blog search arena has been beaten black and blue by blogosphere's cognoscenti. Many of their complaints have been fair and justified. No one wants an arthritic search engine after all.
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Mark Evans, CNET News.com, SiliconBeat, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and Online News Squared
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Yahoo News Search, Day 2 — Okay I've spent some time with Yahoo's news search and sent a note to Scott Gatz requesting a bit of advance notice next time, so we can review these things before they roll out. — There's a lot to like about their approach, but it is still not good enough …
Yahoo! Search blog:
You the Media — During Hurricane Katrina millions of people came to Yahoo! News for authoritative information. At the same time thousands of bloggers were posting first-hand accounts, photos, personal stories, and opinions. But without mainstream exposure, many important voices went unheard.
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Micro Persuasion, Things That … …, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, PaidContent.org, WeBreakStuff, InsideGoogle, Download Squad, Solution Watch, Web 2.0 Explorer, paradox1x, Good Morning Silicon Valley, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Threadwatch.org, IP Democracy, John Battelle's Searchblog, business2blog, Online Marketing Blog, Lifehacker, TechCrunch, Blogspotting, The RSS Blog, Digital Tech Life, Weblogsky, Scripting News, Guardian Unlimited, Blogging about Incredible …, SearchViews, TechBlog, Podcasting, The Search Engine Herald, Blog Consulting … and Blog Goodies
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Integrates News, Blogs & Flickr Search Results — Yahoo is testing a new approach to delivering news search results, combining traditional media sources with "citizen journalism" from blogs and images from its Flickr photo sharing site. — Although not the long-anticipated blog/feed search …
microsoft.com:
Microsoft and RealNetworks Resolve Antitrust Case and Announce Digital Music and Games Partnership — New partnership brings Rhapsody® subscription service and RealNetworks' games to millions of Microsoft's MSN users. — SEATTLE — Oct. 11, 2005 — Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") …
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Microsoft Monitor, InsideMicrosoft, Download Squad, IP Democracy, David Card, GROKLAW, OpsanBlog and Paul Mooney
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Real, Microsoft reach truce — update Microsoft and RealNetworks announced a sweeping deal on Tuesday that puts aside their legal differences and aims to shore up their respective digital-music strategies. — Under the deal, Microsoft will pay $460 million in cash to RealNetworks to settle antitrust claims.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE ADDS TAGGING — Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you've visited. If Google in the future opens this up, letting users share their bookmarks and see bookmarking data in searches, we could see something very useful and popular.
John Dempsey / videobusiness.com:
COMCAST PROPOSES DVD/VOD SERVICE — FROM VARIETY: Hopes to offer films on VOD in DVD window then sell disc — Comcast is quietly trying to wolf down Blockbuster's lunch. — Like other operators, the cable giant is hell-bent on tapping into the billions of dollars that people spend …
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Dan Bell / cdfreaks.com:
Comcast proposes video on demand with a DVD follow-up — Would you pay your cable provider 17 dollars to watch a movie in your home in a pay per view form? What if it was not released on normal PPV yet and wont be for over a month? Still not convinced? What if after you watched it …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Gains Podcast Directory — News from the Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo's gained a new Yahoo Podcasts site, where you can search for podcasts or listen to them online. I'm looking forward to playing with it further in the near future and will likely do a longer look …
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Tkeating / blog.tmcnet.com:
VoIP Blog - VoIP News, Gadgets — VoIP & Gadget News Blog with the latest news in the VoIP and gadget space, smart phones, product reviews, opinion & analysis. — Home Archives VoIP ForumsAboutContact — Linksys CIT200 Skype phone review — Linksys has partnered with Skype to offer …
Troy Wolverton / TheStreet.com:
Apple's Next Big Thing — Apple Computer (AAPL:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) reports fourth-quarter earnings later Tuesday, but it's what the company says on Wednesday that may grab investors' attention this week. — Apple has scheduled a press event Wednesday …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
A Game Console for the Rest of Us — Note to hard-core video game players: Microsoft says it is aiming for your mothers and wives. — In the coming weeks, Microsoft plans to introduce a marketing campaign to expand the appeal of the new Xbox 360 game console beyond the young men who are the Xbox's biggest fans.
