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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.
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
MovableType on Yahoo! Web Hosting  —  As of today, it's official.  You can get MovableType on Yahoo! Web Hosting.  —  And I'll let you in on a little secret.  Even though it says "Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting" you don't need to be a small business to use it.  Individuals and Big Business can use it equally well.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
A big announcement today from SixApart that Yahoo will be supplying …
Discussion: Podtech.net
New York Times:
AOL Co-Founder Calls for Split of Time Warner  —  As Time Warner nears a decision on a big alliance with Google or Microsoft for its America Online unit, Stephen M. Case, the co-founder of AOL, has spoken out against the plan, aligning himself with the thinking of the financier Carl C. Icahn, who has pushed for a breakup of Time Warner.
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Steve Case / Washington Post:
Outlook: Time to Undo the Merger?  —  AOL Co-Founder/Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC  —  Six years ago, Steve Case helped bring about what was widely hailed as the "merger of the century," combining his company, AOL, with media giant Time Warner.  Now, he thinks it's time to undo it.
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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Mike Grehan / ClickZ:   SEO Jargon: Real Beef or Just Baloney?
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.
Quinn Norton / Wired News:
The Firefox Hacks You Must Have  —  With the release of the new version 1.5 of Firefox, there's never been a better time to download the open-source browser, take it for a drive, kick the tires and see what it can do.  In the case of a browser, mainly what it can do is show you web pages, hopefully quickly.
Discussion: MIT Advertising Lab
Think Secret:
Briefly: 13.3-inch iBook, Mac OS X 10.4.4, Plaxo for Mac  —  December 12, 2005 - Apple appears on track to deliver an Intel-based iBook early next year, sources report, and in doing so will replace its long-standing 14.1-inch model with a widescreen 13.3-inch display.
Paul F. Roberts / eWEEK.com:
Vista Stakes Its Future on Security  —  Microsoft Corp. is banking on enhancements to what it has dubbed the fundamentals to entice enterprises to upgrade to the next version of Windows, known as Vista.  —  The company will use upcoming industry shows to sing the praises of improvements …
Joi / Joi Ito's Web:
Will more moblog help?  —  I'm sitting in a car on the way home from the airport after arriving in Japan from New York.  I had a 14 hour plane trip where I caught up on email and wrote some reports.  As it has been noted, the frequency of my posts (as well as the number of blogs I read) …
Discussion: Get Real, Lifeblog and robhyndman.com
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Touring the Microsoft Xbox facilities  —  So if you hadn't noticed, Peter and I were in Seattle last week — one of the things we were treated to for driving out to Redmond was an all-access tour of the Xbox facilities, courtesy of our main man, Major Nelson.
Discussion: I4U News
David Cohn / Wired News:
TV Writers Must Sell, Sell, Sell  —  TV networks are turning to product placements to fight back against ad-skipping technologies like TiVo, but now some writers are putting up a fight, demanding more pay in exchange for scripting product plugs into their shows.
Discussion: Techdirt
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.

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