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Rich Miller / Netcraft:
Podcasts Help Drive Demand for High-Volume Hosting — As podcasts and video blogs consume disk space and bandwidth, will these large media files reside with major web hosting providers, niche startups spawned by the Blogosphere, or perhaps Yahoo or Google? As Internet traffic shifts from text …
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Mitch Ratcliffe / RatcliffeBlog:
In which I engage Dave — Dave Winer has replied at length and critically to my last posting about the future of podcasting. I'm going to take his comments in my blog, which don't jibe with his tone on the long attack on me at ScriptingNews, up to the posting level, because I don't want this to get buried …
The Doc Searls Weblog:
Mitch Ratcliffe's More on the Future of Podcasting is a huge post that makes so many points, each with so many contentious assumptions (especially about Dave), that it's hard to know where to begin. — Dave begins (and hardly ends) with Audible and its consultant. — I'll begin with this:
Mike / CrunchNotes:
Audible's Clusterf**k — Audible announced a new product on Friday that allows podcast publishers significant control over their product. Ad insertion, monitoring of downloads and listening attention, DRM and more. There are some interesting features that add to the podcasting discussion …
Redbarren / ben barren:Paying $30 CPM for Podcast Tracking is Insane
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Renames Urchin Google Analytics, Makes It Free — Google has renamed its Urchin web analytics unit to be — yep — Google Analytics (as Gary predicted), in a move that follows with similar rebranding such as Keyhole being renamed Google Earth. And just like with Keyhole …
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Elinor Mills / ZDNet:
Google gets analytical … Google is set to launch on Monday a free Web analytics service that will let companies see exactly how visitors interact with their Web site and how their advertising campaigns are faring. — The free hosted service, which will be available in English and 16 other languages …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
The Trail of a Clicked-On Ad, Brought to You by Google — Google plans to introduce free analytical tools for online publishers and marketers today, a move that would help the company's clients get a better sense of Web site traffic patterns and advertising campaigns.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Internet Service to Put Classic TV on Home Computer — Looking for "The Fugitive?" Didn't get enough "Eight Is Enough?" Would you like to "Welcome Back, Kotter" one more time? — Warner Brothers is preparing a major new Internet service that will let fans watch full episodes from more than 100 old television series.
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
AOL to Have Reruns on Demand — America Online Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. are planning to put thousands of episodes of once-popular television shows like "Welcome Back Kotter" and "Chico and the Man" on the AOL.com Web site, where high-speed Internet users can view them for free.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
New Linux phone standards effort in the works — PalmSource, France Telecom's Orange and several other companies plan on Monday to announce an effort to standardize aspects of Linux running on mobile phones. — The Linux Phone Standard (Lips) Forum wants to standardize Linux interfaces …
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Harmony Remote / logitech.com:
Logitech´s New Harmony Remote Delivers Advanced Control for Microsoft´s Xbox 360 — FREMONT, Calif. — Nov. 14, 2005 — Logitech (SWX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI), today announced the Harmony® Advanced Universal Remote Control for Xbox 360™, providing gamers …
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Edward Rothstein / New York Times:
If Books Are on Google, Who Gains and Who Loses? — In 1709, Daniel Defoe compared them to "House-breakers," "High-way Robbers," and "Pick-Pockets," not sounding that different from the way software makers, movie producers and writers sound today when they speak about copyright pirates.
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Rich Miller / Netcraft:
Microsoft Update Will Remove Sony DRM Rootkit — Upcoming releases of Microsoft's spyware removal tools will uninstall Sony copy-protection software that functions as a rootkit. "We have analyzed this software, and have determined that in order to help protect our customers we will add …
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tbray.org:
Word Processing Blues — What happened was, my manager wanted a recent resumé for some internal admin processes. So pulled up TB-Resume.doc in MS Word; I first wrote it over ten years ago using one of the standard Word templates pretty well out of the box, and it's grown over the years, following me from computer to computer.
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