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Dick / Burning Questions:
No Feed is an Island: Introducing FeedFlare — We started with a cookie recipe and a dream, but we don't bake well, so we restarted with the notion that publishers should be able to tether interesting services to their content anywhere it travels. In a recent Feed for Thought post …
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Conversion Rater, ClickZ Internet Marketing …, PodTech Comments … and Ross Mayfield's Weblog
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:FeedBurner makes RSS interactive, with FeedFlare
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A View from the Isle
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Alexa Offers Fee-Based Vertical Search Services — I guess I get to be the underwhelmed one about Alexa announcing a new Alexa Web Search Platform that's available to anyone willing to pay a fee. — Pay a fee for what? You can create your own search engine by tapping into the 4 billion web pages Alexa has indexed over time.
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Social Patterns
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
ALEXA (MAKE THAT AMAZON) LOOKS TO CHANGE THE GAME — (This will be updated when the service goes live, I was briefed and the embargo was 9 pm PST...) — Every so often an idea comes along that has the potential to change the game. When it does, you find yourself saying - "Sheesh, of course that was going to happen.
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Telecoms want their products to travel on a faster Internet — Major site owners oppose 2-tier system — AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are lobbying Capitol Hill for the right to create a two-tiered Internet, where the telecom carriers' own Internet services would be transmitted faster …
Business Week:
Apple May Be Holding Back The Music Biz — Critics say iTunes-only downloads and inflexible pricing are hurting song sales — Once again, Apple's iPod is expected to be the hottest gift of the holiday season. That should be great news for the recording industry, right?
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Sells 39% of Xbox 360s in 1st Two Days of Japan Debut — Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. sold 39 percent of its new Xbox 360 game console in the first two days it was available in Japan, the world's second-biggest market for video games, according to market researcher Enterbrain Inc.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Hot Technology for Chilly Streets in Estonia — TALLINN, Estonia, Dec. 8 - Visiting the offices of Skype feels like stumbling on to a secret laboratory in a James Bond movie, where mad scientists are hatching plots for world domination. — The two-year-old company, which offers free calls …
Michael / WeaKnees Blog:
WeaKnees Offers up to $25,000 for DIRECTV DVR Plus (R15) Upgrade Solution — With the release of the DIRECTV DVR Plus, we are looking to develop a stable, reliable upgrade solution for DIRECTV's latest DVR. In addition to working on the problem in-house, we have decided to open the search …
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Star Wars Fans Flee Net Galaxy — Players of the massively multiplayer online game Star Wars Galaxies are feeling a bit like the films' besieged rebel army these days. To them, LucasArts is the evil Empire, raining down terror in their alternate universe.
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Kotaku
Doc / Doc Searls' IT Garage:
Opening remarks — The Syndicate conference starts at 8am here in San Francisco. I'm giving the opening remarks. In the spirit of syndication itself, I decided I'd rather blog what I'm going to say, rather than prepare slides about it. — After the opening wisecracks …
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Between the Lines, down the avenue, PaidContent.org, The Doc Searls Weblog, Software Only and Sandhill Trek
Pete Blackshaw / ClickZ:
The Pocket Guide to the 2005 Blogosphere — Type the word "blog" into Google's search box, and you'll receive a whopping 515 million search results, nearly twice as many as you receive for "sex." — Love 'em or hate 'em, blogs are the real deal. Even if we deflate the hype and ignore …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Can Wi-Fi make it in Manhattan? — If Wi-Fi can make it in New York, it can make it anywhere. — New York City lawmakers are taking a long, hard look at using 802.11-based Wi-Fi or some other technology to get the city's roughly 8 million citizens access to broadband.
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Daily Wireless
Reuters:
HarperCollins to begin digitizing books — U.S. publisher HarperCollins said Monday that it plans to convert some 20,000 books in its catalog into digital form in a bid to rein in potential copyright violations on the Internet. — The move comes as the U.S. publishing industry …
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business2blog, Techdirt, Shore Communications Inc., The Technology Liberation …, ResourceShelf and larry borsato
Steve Hamm / Business Week:
Java? It's So Nineties — Sun's groundbreaking programming language vaulted to popularity with Web developers. But now it's losing ground to a raft of upstarts — Peter Yared, CEO of software maker ActiveGrid, spent a critical chapter of his career steeped in Java, the programming language developed by Sun Microsystems (SUNW).
USA Today:
Cellphone technology rings in pornography in USA — Quickly developing into big business overseas, cellphone pornography is a step closer to taking off in the USA. — Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest cellphone service provider, quietly has launched filtering devices …
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The Pondering Primate
Nick Wilson / Performancing.com:
Exclusive: Google Teaches Bloggers How To Rank — I recently got the chance to grill senior Google engineer and webmaster relations chappy Matt Cutts on some issues specific to bloggers. Matt took his sweet time getting the interview done, but it was well worth the wait.
