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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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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.
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.
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 …
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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 …
Lifehacker:
New and improved Kinja launches! — I've been waiting over a year to write this post: Kinja, the weblog guide, has relaunched with an insanely cool design and tons of killer features for exploring and discovering weblogs. — View a blog's profile (here's Lifehacker) which includes related sites and tags.
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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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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.
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 …
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.
Shannon Bauman / Official Google Blog:
Decking the halls — Whether you're gazing up at the glistening giant Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center in the heart of Manhattan or passing by the elaborate gingerbread house in the window of your local candy store, it's mighty hard to miss that the holiday season is in full swing.
Evan Blass / Engadget:
"Self-aware" robot spells doom for us all — Sowe've just inched that much closer to the terrifying but inevitable SKYNET-style of robotic domination that we've beenwarning you about, as Japanese researchers have recently developed a bot that is able to distinguish "itself"from "others" with a high degree of accuracy.
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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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