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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Yahoo offers Movable Type for bloggers — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and Six Apart Ltd., creator of Movable Type — the most popular software used to create professional blogs — said on Sunday Yahoo will be the preferred supplier of Movable Type for small businesses.
Gabriela Hasbun / Newsweek:
Hotwiring Your Search Engine — Google a topic, and the results are based on popularity, right? Wrong. Inside the shadowy world of 'SEOs.' — Linked In: Fishkin with his mom and SEO partner Gillian — By By Brad Stone — Dec. 19, 2005 issue - Three years ago …
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Matt Cutts:
SEO article in Newsweek — If you haven't seen it, Newsweek discusses search engine optimization (SEO). I talked to Brad Stone for this article, and it was clear that he had done his homework to delve into the world of SEO. I was worried that the article might sensationalize SEO, but in my mind it was pretty even-handed.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet — Introduction — Nokia 770 — It's been a long quest, the search for the perfect handheld device has. It dates back to the late 1990s for me and has seen a progression of PDAs, smartphones, and Pocket PCs through house—much to the consternation of my wife.
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
To Promote a Cable Network, a Plan to Inundate the Internet — The MSNBC cable network plans to flood the Internet this week with its largest concentrated online pitch, running advertising on hundreds of Web sites and blogs. The cost of the campaign, to promote three prime-time programs, is estimated at just under $1 million.
Associated Press:
Handhelds Go to School — OLATHE, Kansas — Aesop's fables came beaming across the classroom and landed in Eva Hernandez's Palm handheld. On the bottom floor of Ridgeview Elementary School, she sat scrolling, using her stylus to navigate through "The Flies and the Honeypot." — "Hmmm," said the 12-year-old.
yubanet.com:
Clarkson University Engineer Outwits High-Tech Fingerprint Fraud — Eyeballs, a severed hand, or fingers carried in ziplock bags. Back alley eye replacement surgery. These are scenarios used in recent blockbuster movies like Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" and "Tomorrow Never Dies" …
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Skype Technical Woes Makes It A Non Mission Critical Application — As if Skype didn't have enough to worry about with Yahoo, now it seems their lack of any real technical infrastructure and their so called "super nodes" an issue in my book. — Of course it being Sunday …
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Ben Grossman / Broadcasting & Cable:
Zucker on Anchors and iPods — NBC Universal last week became next in line to make its TV content available via Apple's iTunes, which follows an earlier deal it had made with DirecTV to supply programming for video-on-demand. And while NBC U Television Group President Jeff Zucker is busy trying …
Talking Shop:
T-S 0.2b - Talking-Shop Podcast Beta 2 — (Recorded at Barramundi Restaurant/Lounge, Paris after Day 1 of the Les Blogs conference.) — In this podcast, we discuss the new facial-recognition photo search Riya as well as the Flock browser. Oh, and you'll find out the social habits …
Craig Pringle / pringle.net.nz:
Evaluating multiple tablets — Rob Bushway recently blogged about taking four tablet PCs into a customer and gauging their reaction. Interestingly they preferred the slates in the group. … Interestingly I too have been taking multiple device into a customer recently.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
A camera that has it all? Well, almost — At a recent technology conference, an executive from an electronics company was waxing snarky about her rivals. — "And then there's Sony," she said in a conversation cluster between seminars. "Their approach is to bring to market every product they dream up and see what sticks."
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
Please hold — I don't get it. — It's the holiday season. Ho Ho Ho. Spend spend spend. — Companies spend a fortune to get you to call. Call 800 CLUB MED to book a room. Call — 1-800-WWW-DELL to buy a computer. And it's not just consumer marketing.
