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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.
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
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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Nick / Rough Type:
I'm with Google — A Kansas startup named Kozoru has been making big claims about how it's going to revolutionize internet searching for about a year now, while also bouncing between putative business models. At the Web 2.0 conference in October, the company's founder, John Flowers …
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 …
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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Jack Loechner / MediaPost Publications:
Mature Audience Are Core Viewers for Streaming Media — Mature Audience Are Core Viewers for Streaming Media — According to a new report from comScore Networks entitled "State of the Consumer Streaming Market," consumers between the ages of 35 and 54 years old accounted for more than 45 percent …
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
The sparring and spin of the Google dance — How unscrupulous firms are manipulating world's leading search engine — It is known as the Google dance, a delicate struggle between technicians at the world's largest internet search engine and the spin doctors who manipulate the worldwide web for commercial ends.
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Game Maker Cuts Forecast as Industry Seems in Slide — SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20 - Electronic Arts, a bellwether company among video game makers, reported on Tuesday that its holiday sales would be "well below" earlier projections, the latest sign of a sharp slide in performance for the industry.
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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.
FactoryJoe / FactoryCity:
Revving a classic cliché — So there's been some more talk lately about Flock and extensions and relevancy and Performancing's new blogging tool for Firefox. I'm all for it. The more we talk about open source, about Firefox, about Flock, about coming up with better, cooler …
