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Kim Peterson / Seattle Times:
Rhapsody becoming visible on the Web — RealNetworks is moving today to increase the visibility of its Rhapsody music service, hoping to gain more paying subscribers with a greater presence on blogs and other Web sites. — The company is rolling out a Web-services platform …
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John Borland / CNET News.com:
RealNetworks moves Rhapsody to the Web — RealNetworks' core music subscription service is migrating onto the Web on Monday, in a move that includes some of the first fruits of its recent antitrust settlement with Microsoft. — The company is creating a new version of its Rhapsody digital music service …
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Newsweek:
Google: Ten Golden Rules — Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google. — By By Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian — Issues 2006 - At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood …
Brian Smith / ComparisonEngines.com:
Froogle Spam — Froogle has a problem, and I assume Google Base will have the same problem. Because there are no setup fees and no per click fees, the results on Froogle are often made up of spammy results which make for a horrible user experience. Google might be great at general search and maps …
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David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Social Networks 3.0 — I have received a lot of calls recently from reporters interested in discussing social networks. It reminds me of the set of calls I got way way back in 2004. The reporters today want to know what I think of social networking companies and if the venture capital …
Phillip Swann / tvpredictions.com:
Celebrities Looking Bad in HDTV: Silly Talk or Serious Issue? — Hollywood is getting increasingly concerned about how its stars look in high-def. — Washington D.C. (Dec. 4, 2005) — Dr. Ruth Peters, an advice columnist who often appears on NBC's Today Show, was recently asked by a mother …
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Sony Draws Ire With PSP Graffiti — Seeking to market its handheld game device to hip city dwellers, Sony has hired graffiti artists in major urban areas to spray-paint buildings with simple, totemic images of kids playing with the gadget. But the guerrilla marketing gambit appears …
siliconvalley.com:
>>> ENTER THE ROUNDTABLE — GUESTS — Stephen Arnold is a technology consultant and author of six books, among them "The Google Legacy: How Google's Internet Search is Transforming Application Software" and "The Enterprise Search Report." — John Battelle is one of the co-founders …
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
Monsters of Photorealism — My hat is off to whoever designed the new King Kong game for the Xbox 360, because they've crafted a genuinely horrific monster. When it first lurched out of the mysterious tropical cave and fixed its cadaverous eyes on me, I could barely look at the monstrosity.
Daniel.Turner / Behind the Curtain at TCG:
NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox — A little birdie told me today that NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now, if you are an employee of NASA, every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts.
Richi / Richi'Blog:
eBay's anti-phishing desk sucks — I reported a phishing attack last week. Nothing new there, I do it a lot as part of my ongoing research into spam for FixingEmail.org and others. — A scammer put up a fake eBay site and sent spam encouraging people to go there.
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Marc Orchant / The Office Weblog:
Microsoft Student 2006: an in-depth parent/student review — Note: This is rather long post. My 14-year-old son Jason and I have been using Microsoft Student 2006 since the beginning of the current school year with the intent to develop a real-world, in-depth analysis of the benefits …
Inquirer:
Aopen to launch Viiv machine soon — It and the world+dog — HARDWARE FIRM Aopen is to show off one of the first Viiv small form factor PCs at the Consumer Electronics Show in early January. — The firm recently launched its miniPC which according to the company's press spinners …
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Have you updated your buzzwords? — You may think you're appropriately buzzword-compliant, but this is internet time, baby, and last month's 2.0 buzzwords are outdated (but not in that retro-cool way). If you're doing a VC pitch and building to flip, it's crucial that you sound as current as possible.
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