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Ben Charny / eWEEK.com:
Instant Messengers Choose Sides — A significant instant messaging project between Google Inc. and America Online is now underway. — Google and AOL plan to let their respective instant messaging features communicate. This way, someone using Google Talk could chat with an AIM user, and vice versa.
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Om Malik on Broadband:
Hey AOL, You Got Googled — As part of lunch conversation yesterday, a very smart man savvy in the ways of the Internet joked that AOL might be the black widow, that kills its mate. The blogosphere this morning, it becomes even more evident that the people are downright pessimistic …
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google/AOL Deal is a Go: AIM and Google Talk To Become Interoperable, White Labelling of Google Ad Technology, and Expansion of Display Ads on Google Network All Part of "What's New" — Reuters is reporting that the deal $1 billion deal that has Google buying a 5% stake in AOL …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
AOL and Google Formalize Partnership to Include Shared Selling of Ads — America Online formally announced a revived partnership with Google yesterday, a deal that affirmed AOL's value less than a year after a chorus of calls for its parent, Time Warner, to shed the division as a lost cause.
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Addicted to Digital Media:
HowTo: Score an Xbox 360 online — Here's a fool-proof way to get notified when Xbox 360's are available for online ordering- no online auctions required. I've tested it personally- and I should receive my premium system in time for Christmas. There may be other tactics, but I hope it works for you.
Dan Gillmor / Dan Gillmor's blog:
Coming Soon: Center for Citizen Media — Some news: — Starting in 2006, I'll be putting together a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. The goals are to study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism.
Fred / A VC:
The Broken Leg of the Stool — Consumer technology is a three legged stool. — The first leg is the personal computer where much of the original innovation in consumer technology happened. Today, the personal computer business is fairly mature dominated by Microsoft on the software side and Intel on the hardware side.
Paul Bond / Reuters:
Future is bright for Internet ads — surveys — LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - 'Tis the season for adjusting online expectations and reviewing what has been hot on the Internet. — JMP Securities on Tuesday raised its global advertising forecast for not only this year but for next year and beyond.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
PREDICTIONS 2006 — This post marks my third year of making predictions for the coming year. I'm emboldened by not failing utterly in the past two years (well, for the most part), but I am sure this will only ensure that these prognostications will prove immeasurably off the mark.
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Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Banned by Google — ignored by blogosphere — The Lone Ronin blog poses a not-so-hyothetical question about what would happen if you showed you could parse the results from a search engine, eg Google, and provide a much better answer for the top three sites. A fat cheque? Venture capital backing?
Ask Jeeves Blog:
Word Up — What's in your stocking? New language tools on Ask.com to help find what you are looking for faster. — 1. Page Translation is now available on Ask.com. Why haven't we had it in the past? Because we didn't have many foreign-language pages in our index.
Desparoz / desparoz On The Go:
My Predictions for 2006 — In December it seems that many people put their thinking hats on and consider some likely scenarios for the upcoming year. Already Trevor Cook has published his, and I am sure that a slew of others will too. — So I know this is hardly original …
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Rachel Metz / Wired News:
Stranded, NYC Heads to the Web — MANHATTAN, New York — As millions of New Yorkers contend with a crippling transit strike, the web is taking center stage as a place to cope, from blowing off steam to lining up rides to and from the city. — Since members of Local 100 …
Stowe Boyd / Get Real:
Traitors in our Midst: Web 2.0 Antihype — Michael calls Dave Winer, Richard McManus and Russell Shaw traitors for coming out against the concept of Web 2.0, although he moderates that with a smiley: … What did these "traitors" say? — Russell Shaw [not a member of the workgroup] …
