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Bindu Reddy / Official Google Blog:
First Base — Today we're excited to announce Google Base, an extension of our existing content collection efforts like web crawl, Google Sitemaps, Google Print and Google Video. Google Base enables content owners to easily make their information searchable online.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Base Launched. Yuck. — Google Blog officially announces the launch of Google Base. We previously anticipated the launch of Google Base (along with everyone else) in late October. — Bottom Line: This is not a very interesting application in its current form.
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Staci / PaidContent.org:
Yahoo, Gawker Join Forces In Licensing, Distribution Deal : Once again, Nick Denton zigs where Jason Calacanis zags. Instead of shopping Gawker Media, Denton is teaming up with Yahoo for the blog network's first multi-blog major distribution deal. Dozens of posts from Gawker's five best-known blogs …
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
Yahoo to Add 5 Gawker Media Blogs to Web Site — Yahoo Inc. is adding daily feeds from five popular bloggers to its Web site, the latest move by the Internet giant to spice up its news and entertainment offerings with irreverent content. — The firm's licensing deal with privately held …
Doc Searls / linuxjournal.com:
Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes — We're hearing tales of two scenarios—one pessimistic, one optimistic—for the future of the Net. If the paranoids are right, the Net's toast. If they're not, it will be because we fought to save it, perhaps in a new way we haven't talked about before.
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The Doc Searls Weblog:
Saving the Net from the pipeholders — I've spent much of the last two weeks writing an essay that just went up at Linux Journal: Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes. It's probably the longest post I've ever put up on the Web. It's certainly the most important.
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
The DRM grinch who stole Christmas — Are you hoping that Santa will put a portable audio player in your stocking this year? Or, are you thinking about stuffing someone else's stocking with one. Then all I have to say to you is buyer beware. As these devices become more mainstream …
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Hot Donkey! Premium CableCARD HDTV in Microsoft's Media Center Coming in 2006 — Hot Donkey. Per the press release below, it's official: expect to see CableCARD HDTV Support in Vista due out before Christmas next year. As those of you who read my blog know, lack of premium HDTV …
Wall Street Journal:
Top Web Sites Build Up Ad Backlog, Raise Rates — Prime Spots Are Sold Out — Months Ahead as Marketers — Shift Dollars From TV, Print — As marketers shift dollars from TV and print media to the Internet, more Web sites are hanging "sold out" signs on their most coveted pages and dramatically raising ad rates.
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Roger O. Crockett / Business Week:
Orchestrating a Revved-Up ROKR — After the music-playing handset's lackluster launch, Motorola and Cingular are working on a revamp — and a slew of related services — On the 11th floor of the Cingular Wireless headquarters outside Atlanta's hip Buckhead neighborhood, executives are plotting a comeback.
John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Xbox 360 to the Rescue — Real progress in desktop computing always stems from gaming. Even the invention of spreadsheets was a sort of game, and all the display technologies were boosted by gamers. But in the mid- to late 1990s, the scene began to focus purely on business computing, giving it a largely undeserved leadership role.
Inside Google Sitemaps:
More stats! — Posted by Vanessa Fox, Google Engineering — We've just launched some new features. The biggest change for those of you already using Sitemaps: if you've verified your site, you'll see substantially more stats and error details. — The biggest change for new users …
Cmdr Zorg / Game + Life Review:
BLUE SKY IN GAMES CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED — Games need BLUE SKIES! Games need BRIGHT YELLOW SUNS! Games need RED AND BLUE THINGS in them! We want to play in a HAPPY PRETEND LAND, not a s**t version of an American slum full of mixed-race gangsters wearing licensed sportswear!
Colin Campbell / next-gen.biz:
Report - 'Only 80 Games a Year Will Succeed' — A new report on the risks involved in game publishing and development has been released suggesting that, in the next generation, as few as 80 games a year will turn a profit. — Development costs in the next generation are set to rise …
press.nokia.com:
Nokia to extend leadership in enterprise mobility with acquisition of Intellisync — Combined product portfolios will provide more choice for carriers and businesses — New York, USA - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Intellisync (NASDAQ: SYNC) today announced they have signed a definitive agreement …
