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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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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
MY EXPERIENCE WITH GOOGLE BASE — So, to properly experience Google Base, I submitted an "item", namely my article on Google Base. You can read it here, and you can view all (one) of my Google Base "items" at my Google Base store page. — So, problems:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Base Launched. Yuck.
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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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The Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog
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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 …
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.
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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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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 …
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.
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!
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 …
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 …
Dr Andreas K. Engel / istresults.cordis.lu:
Robo-rodent gets 'touchy-feely' — Robots that 'feel' objects and their texture could soon become a reality thanks to the innovative and interdisciplinary research of the AMouse, or artificial mouse, project. — But even more important, perhaps, are the lessons researchers learned about robot design and artificial intelligence.
Steve Friess / Wired News:
Women Warm the Podcast Bench — Ontario, California — Wendy Malley says she didn't know how much of a men's club podcasting had become until she arrived here for the nascent industry's first trade show last week. — The co-host of Gabber JaW says she realized her gender might be a problem …
