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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 …
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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.
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.
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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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Bloomberg:
French Parliament Votes to Allow Web File Sharing (Update1) — Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) — The French Parliament voted last night to allow free sharing of music and movies on the Internet, setting up a conflict with both the French government and with media companies.
Matt Brett:
The New Standard Feed Icon — On December 14, the Microsoft RSS Team made an announcement on their blog. This announcement is extremely important on many levels and I'm really surprised there hasn't been more talk about it. And as such, I figured I would take this opportunity to jump …
Kevin C. Tofel / HD Beat:
HDTV over WiFi: 802.11a helps — No, we're never satisfied. You'd think that just having the ability to stream HDTV overWiFi would be good enough, but it's not. We want it to be flawless; no hiccups, stutters, pixelation, nothing.Since we don't have a hard-wired Ethernet solution …
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 Cutts
Read/WriteWeb:
Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005 — Last year about this time I did a post celebrating the best Web companies of 2004. I was planning on doing a mega version of that this year, extending it to software and services. But then Dion came up with his excellent list of best Web software of '05 …
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Kevin / Personal Made Public:
Sorting your email with GMail — Ever needed to submit a valid email address to register for access to a website or make an online purchase? Ever wondered if in doing so your address wouldn't end up sold to or stolen by some spammer. Ever wondered who your address gets shared with?
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 …
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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wink Launches — The Wink user-enhanced search engine, in private beta for the last few months, launches Thursday morning to the world. — Wink has evolved substantially since my October 12, 2005 review. — Wink is, at its core, a combination of traditional search with feature-rich social bookmarking.
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Take Your Cable Channels With You on the Road — In 2002, Blake Krikorian and his brother Jason were beside themselves. Their beloved San Francisco Giants were in a pennant race, yet Blake and Jason, two Silicon Valley engineers, were traveling so much that they missed many of the games on television.
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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.
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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Mike / THE RAW FEED:
Robot Gains Self Awareness In Lab — A new robot has been developed at Meiji University in Japan that can tell the difference between its own image in a mirror, and an identical robot mimicking it — an ability known as "mirror image cognition." This "SELF AWARENESS" is the first created in a robot.
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