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Michael / michael parekh on IT:
ON PRICE SIGNALS FOR CONTENT AND ATTENTION — Three things I read today and yesterday got me thinking about the changing relationship between Attention and Content. — First was a New York Times article on the on-going tussle between Google and Book Publishers titled "Googling Literature …
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Fred / A VC:
A Match Made In Heaven — Seth Goldstein has finally made public (on his blog of course) his partnership with Lew Ranieri. The two of them are building a company together called ROOT Markets. — For those of you who don't know who Lew is, he's the father of the collateralized mortgage market …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Googling Literature: The Debate Goes Public — If there was any point of agreement between publishers, authors and Google in a debate Thursday night over the giant Web company's program to digitize the collections of major libraries and allow users to search them online, it seemed to be this …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Ten Wikipedia Hacks — When something's working, you stick with it. My series of social media hacks (RSS, Technorati, blogging) has been such a hit, I am going to keep it going! So, with that in mind, here are 10 hacks that will help you get more out of your favorite reference site and mine - Wikipedia!
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google Base v. microformats — I've read the little background material on Google's Base and still can't see whether the material you put there can be found by other search engines. I also cannot find evidence of an API that shares any standards for tags and structure. Is Base open or closed?
Om Malik / On Broadband, VoIP …:
Google Analytics Is Now Full — Google redressed Urchin web analytics software and released it as Google Analytics. It seems to be quite a hit, that the company had to close the applications for the service. I tried signing up for it this morning and found that I was too late to the party.
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Herndon Wired, Ready for Cable TV From Verizon — It took six hours to hook up Jeff Dorman's 50-inch set to Verizon's new TV service but, in the end, he was pleased. — "Drag racing in high-def — I'm in heaven," the Herndon resident said as he watched Formula One cars zip down a track in crisp color.
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SEOmoz:
Changes to SEOChat — There's been some major changes to SEOChat, the forum where I moderate and spend most of my online forum time. The owners, DevShed and John Caputo, have decided to enforce strict "nofollow" tags on all outbound links in signatures, causing a mass exodus of many members …
Om Malik / On Broadband, VoIP …:
Babble not Bubble 2.0* — John Battelle in an op-ed for The New York Times argues that we are not in a bubble, but instead we are building a better boom. Looking back over past few years, John argues that things have changed for the better. Open source software, commodity hardware …
Om Malik / On Broadband, VoIP …:
Now its Cisco versus Motorola, Microsoft — Cisco had data, Cisco had voice, and what it needed was video to complete the triple play. So they bought Scientific Atlanta for $6.9 billion. … The reasons for the deal are many, the most important being that the company the size of Cisco might …
Shankar Gupta / MediaPost Publications:
Budget Sends Blog Readers On Scavenger Hunt — TODAY, THE LAST OF A series of stickers—on signs, drainpipes, and throughout major American cities—will be found by a persistent "hunter," who will win $10,000, courtesy of rental car firm Budget. — Although the stickers are offline …
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Jay Greene / Business Week:
Microsoft's New Word: Accountability — Redmond has set a target date for shipping its upcoming Vista operating system — the latest entry in a growing list of firm goals it is pledging to meet — When it comes to closely guarded secrets at Microsoft (MSFT), the crown jewel is the shipping date …
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Questions surround Xbox 360 shortage — Microsoft's global launch strategy will limit supply — Video-game consoles will be scarce and lines could be long upon next week's North American launch of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 — with some retailers warning that they won't even have enough …
