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Apple - Hot News:
Apple Announces iTunes 6  —  iTunes 6, the next generation of the world's most popular music jukebox and online music store, lets fans purchase and download over 2,000 music videos and six short films from Academy Award-winning Pixar Animation Studios for just $1.99 each.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
POKER TIME: AOL IS THE FLOP  —  I'm in Vegas right now, so allow me a poker metaphor as I consider the whole Yahoo/MSFT IM and Google/Comcast/AOL thing.  —  The more I think about this, the more I believe that these two deals are linked, intentionally or not.
New York Times:
With New IPod, Apple Aims to Be a Video Star  —  SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 12 - Having conquered the world of portable digital music, Steven P. Jobs set his sights on television Wednesday, unveiling an Apple iPod that can play video - along with an online shop to fill it with TV shows, short films and music videos at $1.99 apiece.
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Lifehacker:
Subscribe to free, del.icio.us video in iTunes  —  Two great tastes that taste great together: now that del.icio.us offers feeds by filetype and iTunes has full video support (including "vodcasts," or video podcasts), you can load up iTunes with free video files bookmarked and tagged in del.icio.us.
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
The Clicker: Apple's real plan for iPod video?  —  Every Thursday Stephen Speicher contributes The Clicker, a weekly opinion column on entertainment and technology:  —  You've got to love Apple.  Crazy like a fox they are.  Oh sure - some of their decisions regarding the new iPod might seem …
highrankings.com:
Get Hands-on Search Marketing Training and Advice in our SEO/SEM Workshops  —  On day two of the event you will learn to apply the information you learned on day one to actual Web sites.  Our speakers will be conducting hands on workshops in small groups so that you can get the personal SEO/SEM training that you've been looking for.
support.microsoft.com:
Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005  —  SUMMARY  —  Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 enhances the stability and performance of Media Center 2005.  This update fixes several known issues.  The update also adds the following new functionality to Media Center:
prweek.com:
10 media trends to watch  —  Erica Iacono PR Week USA Oct 5 2005 17:06  —  From the rise of transparency to the decline of newsprint, every PR pro needs to remain on top of the ever-changing media landscape.  —  Portability of video content  —  "It's an understatement to say that the news media …
Discussion: Micro Persuasion
Fred / A VC:
Our Web Site Is A Blog  —  Yesterday we flipped the switch and turned our website, UnionSquareVentures.com, into a blog.  —  Like most things, we should have done it a year ago when we first launched our firm's website.  —  But better late than never.  —  Why did we do it?
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Brad Burnham / Union Square Ventures:   Hello World  —  Anyone who has been to our site before will notice …
C.K. Sample, Iii / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Video Quality: What $1.99 will buy you  —  So, I finally managed to get the full copy of Lost that I purchased off the iTMS to download successfully yesterday, and I've been watching it on my Mac, so I thought I'd share what $1.99 per episode will get you, and where the video quality is lacking.
Mick Stanic / The Podcast Network:
Media Release - MOTOROLA ANNOUNCES MARKETING AGREEMENT WITH THE PODCAST NETWORK  —  Motorola becomes first site-wide anchor tenant of The Podcast Network from October, 2005  —  Sydney, Australia - 14 October 2005 - Motorola Mobile Devices, a global leader in wireless communications …
Discussion: down the avenue and Podcasting
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
The Vonage Sales Watch  —  Months ago I speculated to a Wall Street sell side analyst that Vonage's ideal suitor was Bell South.  Everyone told me I was nuts.  Then in mid summer Rich Terhani speculated Bell South was going to buy Vonage.  People started saying he was nut.  Even I began to question it.
AVI / A Jolly, Socratic Science:
Storyboard Your Life  —  A storyboard is a sequence of images and words drawn together on a page to form a plausible narrative.  —  Storyboards are routinely used in the movie making business to 'preview' a movie before a single shot is taken.  Not only does a storyboard allow for a dress rehearsal …
Discussion: Fast Company Now and Lifehacker
Google Blogoscoped:
How to Make 1 Million Friends on MySpace  —  Why do you get 2,533 results when you enter [site:myspace.com "samy is my hero"] into MSN search?  Well, someone by the name of Samy wrote a social network popularity worm... and made over a million new friends, all of whom now had the text …
Discussion: InsideMicrosoft

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