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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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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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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 …
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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 …
blogspot.boekhoff.org:
Saga of Circuit City False Advertising and Customer Abuse — A few weeks ago we were really impressed with the great service we got at Circuit City when purchasing a new car stereo and a new DVD player/recorder/VCR combo. So when we decided to replace our 4-year-old laptop computer, we agreed that we would go back to Circuit City.
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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Geraldine Geraldine / LES BLOGS 2:
Opening remarks: welcome to Les Blogs 2.0 ! — On behalf of Six Apart, the entire team who organized les blogs that I will introduce you in a few minutes and all our partners, welcome to Les Blogs 2.0, welcome to Paris. — I can't believe you have made it all here today ! Here is where you are from to begin with.
Cheryl Isen / bizjournals:
Churchill's words guide 180Solutions — Editor's note: This is the first monthly column written by Seattle marketing and public relations firm founder Cheryl Isen. It's based on monthly presentations by local entrepreneurs at Northwest Entrepreneur Network events. — To know 180Solutions is to have an opinion.
