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Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Road to Expo: Apple's new media experience coming soon  —  December 2, 2005 - Apple is planning to unveil a robust new content distribution system in January at Macworld Expo alongside its revamped media-savvy Mac mini, Think Secret has learned.  The new content system and related media deals …
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Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Apple to reinvent streaming media?
Discussion: Gizmodo
Biz / The Odeo Blog:
Podcast Amongst Yourselves  —  Today we're launching a new version of Odeo with several big changes.  The most notable is that everyone can now record audio with the browser-based Odeo Studio - or via the phone.  Either way, your voice gets posted as an MP3 on an Odeo page …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
IE flaw lets intruders into Google Desktop  —  A security researcher in Israel has found a way to steal information from unwitting users of Google's desktop search tool by exploiting an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer.  —  There is a bug in the way the Web browser …
Shankar Gupta / MediaPost Publications:
Consumer-Generated Justice: Blogger Sidelines E-Commerce Site  —  AFTER A HEATED PHONE EXCHANGE with an unsatisfied customer who happened to be a blogger, PriceRitePhoto.com, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based camera e-retailer, recently found that blogosphere justice can be swift, but is rarely merciful.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
In June I wrote People With Erasers about Wikipedia.  Now after reading about the Seigenthaler affair, and revelations about Adam Curry's rewriting of the podcasting history — the bigger problem is that Wikipedia is so often considered authoritative.  That must stop now, surely.
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Om Malik on Broadband:
The Truth About Ala Carte Cable  —  Oxymoron of the day: AT&T backs a-la-carte cable.  —  No Kidding.... This Is Surprising?  —  MSNBC/Motley Fool has this op-ed about how FCC is looking out for consumers.  News flash guys .... no. Its looking out for the phone companies.
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Rich Smith / MSNBC:
FCC: Friend to Cable Consumers
Discussion: The Stalwart
MSN Shopping Insider:
eBay Selection on MSN Shopping  —  MSN Shopping recently integrated with eBay to bring a considerably broader selection of products onto our site, ranging from refurbished auction items to brand new, fixed-price items.  This addition enables our users to enjoy a significantly expanded selection …
adobe.com:
Adobe's Acquisition of Macromedia Expected to Close on December 3, 2005  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. — December 1, 2005 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) and Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced they have either received or been notified they will receive all regulatory clearances necessary …
Discussion: digg and Download Squad
Brandon Schauer / adaptivepath.com:
Experience Attributes: Crucial DNA of Web 2.0  —  essay archives  —  The industry has spent a lot of time defining Web 2.0 and mapping its DNA.  But as we attempt to emulate the fast-growth success of the Web 2.0 darlings, we need to zero in on the parts of the DNA that actually create this noteworthy new value.
Bob Sullivan / MSNBC:
A better way to escape cell phone jail  —  Cell phones are a bit like the weather.  Everyone complains about them, but no one's doing anything.  —  For cell phones, there's good reason.  Getting out of a bum cell phone plan can cost an arm and a leg, no matter how legitimate your reason for escaping.
Discussion: The Wireless Weblog and Engadget
mindjet.com:
MindManagerPlugInForCDS.msi (version 1.0.1) (download)  —  Installation  —  Install this plug-in.  During installation you may get a message to add .mmap as a Text Document file type.  Follow the steps below to do that.  —  Adding .mmap as a File Indexing Type  —  Open Copernic Desktop Search.
Kasper Jade / appleinsider.com:
Spotlight, wireless, RAW enhancements due in Mac OS X 10.4.4  —  Improvements to Spotlight searches, AirPort, Bluetooth, and RAW camera support are a few enhancements Apple reportedly has planned for an early winter release of Mac OS X 10.4.4 Update, a routine maintenance update to the Mac OS X "Tiger" operating system.
Discussion: The Tao of Mac
BBC:
Xbox 360 sells out within hours  —  The Xbox 360 has virtually sold out in the UK as gamers rushed to snap up Microsoft's next generation games console, say retailers.  —  Dedicated fans queued overnight or in the early hours of the morning in the light of limited stocks.
Wap Review:
The Carnival is here!  2  —  Wap Review is honored to be hosting this weeks Carnival of the Mobilists.  The idea of the Carnival is to expose a variety of the best writing on mobility in one place.  It is held at a different blog each week and is open to anyone who has something to say about mobile phones …
Search Engine Journal:
Quintura Search & Blog Comment Marketing - Spam?  —  Quintura Search & Blog Comment Marketing - Spam?  —  Quintura Search has been trying really hard recently to gather links to their web site via posting rather misinformed comments on various search engine blogs recently …
Discussion: Micro Persuasion
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
RSS + SMS  —  Okay, so I decided to wait a bit to see if anyone glommed onto the really big news yesterday from Yahoo!, but no one seemed to get it.  Most posts I saw focused on the new RSS aggregator in the Yahoo! Mail beta (which is definitely cool, don't get me wrong), but only sorta mentioned the new RSS Alerts bit.
Discussion: Media Guerrilla and MobileTracker

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