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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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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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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
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.
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?
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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 …
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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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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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.
Chris Ward / www-128.ibm.com:
Linux screensaver for Windows — LiveCDs demonstrate that, yes, Linux can run under Windows … So why should you read this article? Why, indeed, should I write it? My motive is to help remove two obstacles to the wider adoption of free and open source software. Those obstacles are:
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 …
George Leopold / eetimes.com:
Wise guy: tests confirm Einstein's formula correct — WASHINGTON — Yet again, Einstein was right. — Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will report in tomorrow's (Dec. 22) issue of the journal Nature that Albert Einstein's formula, E=mc2, is correct.
Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
Bumpy Road Led to Alliance Of AOL, Google — Two weeks ago, when Time Warner Inc. was on the cusp of signing a sweeping online deal with Microsoft Corp., a team of executives from the media company's AOL unit traveled to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., to make sure everything was in order.
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] …
