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Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
OK, let's stop the bubble machine right now — Om... you know I love you, but this is absurd. Like really, really crazy. Weblogs, Inc. was bought by AOL because of revenue and revenue growth. Eyeballs and pageviews had nothing to do with it—zero. No one in the marketplace is buying things based on eyeballs—no one.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
OM LOOKS AT THE "RETURN OF THE EYEBALLS" — According to Om, Boing Boing is worth $34 million. Who knew? — Full article here. From it: … While I don't doubt the math - there are plenty of comps and Om has 'em all in the piece - I'm not convinced.
Om Malik on Broadband:The Return of Monetized Eyeballs
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Shore Communications Inc., Blog Tips at ProBlogger, rexblog.com, The Stalwart, GoogleRumors and No Soap, Radio!
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Road to Expo: Reborn Mac mini set to take over the living room — November 29, 2005 - Apple's Mac mini will be reborn as the digital hub centerpiece it was originally conceived to be, Think Secret sources have disclosed. The new Mac mini project, code-named Kaleidoscope …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Google, Microsoft to Go Hard After Classifieds — Google is preparing to make a hard push into the classified ad space, according to this job listing. The job opening seems to confirm earlier rumors around "Google Automat," a service that could tie into the Google Base database service and "Google Purchases."
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hotjobs.yahoo.com:
Vertical Markets Director, Classifieds - New York or Mountain View - New York,New York — Position can be located in New York or Mountain View. — Google's world-class Advertising Sales team drives business revenue growth across a variety of verticals and regions where Google does business.
tbray.org:
Thought Experiments — I see that Microsoft has posted a litigation covenant on the OfficeXML formats (also read Brian Jones' exegesis). In response, there's a bunch of legal poking and prodding here and here; I don't understand the legal arguments, and I don't think they're the interesting part of the story anyhow.
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Robert D. Hof / Business Week:
Cyber Monday, Marketing Myth — Despite a huge amount of hype, the Monday after Thanksgiving is historically only the12th-biggest online shopping day of the year — Do a Google search on "Cyber Monday," and you get as many as 779,000 results. Not a bad haul for a term that was created …
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business2blog, Cymfony's Marketing Insight, Techdirt, The Stalwart, Fast Company Now and @ Alex Moskalyuk Online
Jonathan Krim / Washington Post:
New Orleans's New Connection — City-Owned WiFi System To Be Announced Today — Hurricane-ravaged New Orleans will deploy the nation's first municipally owned wireless Internet system that will be free for all users, part of an effort to jump-start recovery by making living and doing business in the city as attractive as possible.
Paul Thurrott / winsupersite.com:
Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X "Tiger" (Part 2) — In part one of my comparison of Windows Vista Beta 1 and Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger," I looked at three key aspects of each system: Look and feel, desktop search, and data visualization and organization. For the most part …
USA Today:
Xbox does second round of 360s — Those who missed out on the early Xbox 360 mania may get a second chance this week to find the new game system in stores. — Meanwhile, among those who managed to purchase the first systems, a small percentage already are shipping them back to Microsoft for repairs.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Wall Street agog over Google — When search giant Google asked for $85 per share in its initial public offering on Aug. 19, 2004, more than a few people thought its wunderkind founders had perhaps drank a bit too much of their own Kool-Aid. — Fifteen months later, it looks like …
Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
Google Tests Pay-Per-Call Ads — Search giant joins AOL, Verizon, and Yahoo in interest in new ad model. — Google has begun testing pay-per-phone-call ads, an emerging online ad model that is a twist on the popular pay-per-click ads. — While pay-per-click ads link users with advertisers' Web sites …
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Shore Communications Inc., Techdirt, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Metafilter and PaidContent.org
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Spitzer Gets on Sony BMG's Case — New York's Attorney General has turned his attention to Sony BMG's copyright-protection fiasco — Sony BMG Music Entertainment is getting a lot of unwanted attention for its use of copyright-protection software that left CD users open to computer viruses.
Business Wire:
Lockheed Martin Selects Concurrent's RedHawk Linux for THAAD Missile Defense Program; Concurrent's Real-Time Linux System Supports Mission-Critical Missile Defense Testing — DULUTH, Ga.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 28, 2005—Concurrent (NASDAQ: CCUR), a leading provider of integrated computer solutions …
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Googlephobia — Google may be the giant asteroid that is going to make the old-media dinosaurs extinct—but the publishing industry is trying to head it off. — Pat Schroeder, the former Colorado congresswoman who's now the head of the Association of American Publishers …
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John Battelle's Searchblog
