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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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Voidstar, Techdirt, IP Democracy, VoIP Watch, Marketing Pilgrim, business2blog, VoIP, IM and Video and digg
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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.
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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Todd Bishop's Microsoft …, Get Real, PaidContent.org, mathewingram.com/work and Internet Outsider
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.
Addicted to Digital Media:
HowTo: Score an Xbox 360 online — Update: Welcome Digg.com and Kotaku readers. Updated below w/ tips on only getting notifications when new Xbox inventory is available. Congrats to the many that have read this and purchased your Xbox 360. Thanks to Bensbargains.net for their Xbox tracker service …
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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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.
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michael parekh on IT, ben barren, Life On the Wicked Stage and The Consumer Electronics …
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Banned by Google — ignored by blogosphere — The Lone Ronin blog poses a not-so-hypothetical 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?
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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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Santa IM worm hits AOL, MSN and Yahoo — A Santa Claus worm is attempting to trick America Online, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo instant-messaging users into clicking on a file that delivers unwanted software to a victim's computer. — The IM.GiftCom.All worm attempts to dupe IM users into thinking …
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.
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 …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Yahoo YPN, Chitika, Adsense Preview Tool — We are happy to a announce a new tool "Digital Inspiration All-in-One Preview" that will help you compare the relevance of Contextual Advertising services offered by Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) and Chitika eMiniMalls.
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] …
