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InfoWorld:
VMware releases Player, teams up with Mozilla  —  Virtualization software vendor VMware released its VMware Player Monday.  The free product enables users to run, assess, and share software in a virtual machine on a PC running Microsoft's Windows operating system or Linux.
Discussion: Things That and The Long Tail
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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Dave Winer / Scripting News:   A big announcement today from SixApart that Yahoo will be supplying …
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.
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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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.
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 …
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.
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.
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: Lifeblog and robhyndman.com
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.
masternewmedia.org:
New Media Predictions 2006: What Will The Web Future Bring?  —  Information filtering - newsmastering Information filtering, competitive intelligence, Newsmastering.  These are fields that will see enormous growth for both the short and the long term.  This is the area in which a huge number …
Isen / isen.blog:
What a Network Neutrality Rule Wants  —  Network Neutrality, that is, a network that just delivers the packets, stupid, with no cognizance of what app, device, or end-user generated them, is an public good that gives rise to much innovation, value creation and economic growth at the application layer.
Discussion: IP Democracy

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