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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 …
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" …
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 …
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."
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.
Discussion:
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Om Malik on Broadband:
Et Tu Steve Case? — In a recent episode of Rome, an HBO series where Caesar is brutally murdered by the Senate. The killing blow coming from Brutus, the man whose life Julius Caesar forgave. The gruesome scene was running through my head.... Steve Case sold Time Warner a bill of goods …
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.
Phillip Pearson / Second p0st:
Architecture of the Wordpress Structured Blogging plugin: is this forking? — For the last couple of months, we (along with XML expert Kimbro Staken and Movable Type consultant Chad Everett) have been working on extending the Structured Blogging plugin for Wordpress to publish a bunch …
Feld Thoughts:
The Signal to Noise Ratio Feels Out of Whack To Me — I monitor around 400 blogs and try to stay on top of them daily (I use FeedDemon and NewsGator Online and have developed an awesome personal algorithm for getting through all the items quickly.) I also use a handful of services …
