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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.
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 …
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Cisco's Bold New TV Bet — The Scientific-Atlanta deal pushes the networking giant deeper into consumers' home and helps it court cable and telecom providers — Until three years ago, Cisco Systems (CSCO) steered clear of cutthroat markets for high-tech consumer gear.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
#52: Back from TechCrunch — So, my son and I helped close out the TechCrunch party. We got there at 11 and stayed until 1:15 a.m. — I, and a small group, were gathered around Riya CEO Munjal Shah. We were trying to find out if the rumors were true. He wouldn't confirm nor deny any rumors that Riya was being sold to "G."
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Riya's Launch Party @ TechCrunch
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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
