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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
AOL Deal May Omit Stake Sale — Time Warner may not be selling a piece of America Online after all. — Time Warner is still in negotiations with Microsoft and Google over a variety of potential deals involving its AOL unit. But most of the possibilities under discussion …
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michael parekh on IT, Internet Outsider, David Card, IP Democracy, The Voice of Online … and PaidContent.org
Business Week:
Can Google Go Glossy? — Why its plan to resell print ads to its army of advertisers may be off to a slow start — It was a babystep that sent tremors through the media establishment. Seeking ways to expand its advertising juggernaut beyond the Internet, Google Inc. (GOOG ) …
James Moore / Jim Moore's Journal:
Why we invested $5 million in Attensa: RSS Investors Fund — News is out on the RSSI investment in Attensa, announced today. — KBCafe, — Red Herring — When John Palfrey, Richard Fishman and I founded the RSS Investors Fund, our aim was not simply to make money.
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PR Newswire:
'Podcast' Is the Word of the Year — NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Only a year ago, podcasting was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted "geeks." Now you can hear everything from NASCAR coverage to NPR's All Things Considered in downloadable audio files called "podcasts".
useit.com:
Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online … As broadband connectivity has grown, websites have increased their use of video clips. Unfortunately, many of these videos are produced for television broadcast and are thus unsuitable for the online environment. — In 1997, I wrote an analysis …
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Guardian Unlimited, A Networked World, JD on, Silicon Valley Watcher and PodTech Comments …
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Looking for the Proceeds in TV-on-Demand — For five decades or so, the television industry's main mission has been to come up with hit programs, get them on screens, and hope people will stop and watch. Now, that is just the starting point. — As an era of ordering TV shows at the push …
Robert Andrews / Wired News:
Le Chic Shall Inherit Les Blogs — A top international model is using social software and cell phones to give high fashion an air of high tech. — Anina, who struts her stuff on European catwalks and magazine covers, is a self-proclaimed geek and entrepreneur on a mission to turn …
Matt Casamassina / revolution.ign.com:
Revolution Launch — What exactly does "2006" really mean? We narrow down the launch date. — December 5, 2005 - Asking a Nintendo executive for Revolution's official launch date will always yield exactly the same response, which is, simply, "2006." In the past, the Big N's president …
Shankar Gupta / MediaPost Publications:
Digg.com Plans Expansion — DIGG.COM, A COLLABORATIVELY EDITED TECHNOLOGY news site that some on the Web are touting as the next Slashdot, intends to branch out from tech stories and move into other news categories as well as media such as video and audio, said Digg.com CEO Jay Adelson.
Yahoo! News:
Google Fixes Desktop Search Loophole — Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - news) has strengthened its Desktop Search tool so that it cannot be used any longer by hackers who are exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) Internet Explorer software.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
At Google, Cube Culture Has New Rules — Google, like I.B.M., says that it is forging a corporate culture in which success depends on performance. — But while I.B.M. is an old company that has revamped the social contract with its workers, Google is writing a new one from scratch.
Martin LaMonica / ZDNet:
IBM to support OpenDocument early next year … IBM plans to support early next year the OpenDocument standard in its desktop software, a product the company intends to market aggressively in developing countries. — At a press conference in Delhi, India, IBM executives plan to announce Monday …
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Xeni Jardin / Wired News:
Thinking Outside the Box Office — When Steven Soderbergh releases his next film on January 27, it will have not only the critics squawking, but Hollywood studio execs, too. Bubble, an all-digital thriller, is set in an Ohio doll factory, and all of the actors are completely unknown.
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Jeneane Sessum / ALLIED:
Well Blow Me a Bubble! — You know that I come to you first with all of the exciting news of my life, which thankfully doesn'?t happen too often, leaving me plenty of time to write about hamsters and PR and strep throat and Jenna. — But today is one of those big news days—? OH BOY!
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Darren Rowse / Blog Tips at ProBlogger:
Blog Stats - Page Views — Stuart left a comment on a previous post pointing to some traffic graphs of a few of Weblogs Incs that he was interested that none of the WIN blogs seem to have an average of more than 2 page views per visitor. — I replied to Stuart's comment that I'd be interested …
