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Loren / Incremental Blogger:
Predictions of a Tableteer — It's the end of the year so it's prediction time. After a bit of head scratching I think I have a few. Mine won't be as depressing as Jason Calacanis' though. — Here's what I see for 2006: — 1. 2006 will be the year of RSS mods.
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Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:My Predictions for 2006 — Update: Marketwatch picked …
New York Times:
NBC Takes Control of MSNBC, Reducing Microsoft Role — NBC Universal announced today that it has reached a deal to acquire majority control of MSNBC, the 24-hour cable television news network, from Microsoft. — The transaction could be the first step in ending a nine-year partnership between …
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MSNBC:
Microsoft, NBC restructure cable channel deal — Both sides remain committed to Internet news site MSNBC.com — NBC Universal will assume majority control of the 24-hour cable channel MSNBC under a restructuring of its 10-year-old joint venture agreement with software giant Microsoft, the two companies announced Friday.
Michael Gartenberg:
Microsoft buys Opera - Here's Why (it would have made sense) — Update - The Opera folks are saying this isn't correct and there's no deal. I should have been more skeptical, it's something we would likely have been briefed on if it were true. — Thought it was going to be a quiet day, but it doesn't seem that way at all.
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Matt Loney / ZDNet:Opera denies Microsoft takeover rumours
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Mark Evans, mathewingram.com/work, Things That, The Jason Calacanis Weblog, Microsoft Watch, digg and OpsanBlog
Shelleyp / Burningbird:
Web2.0 — Jeneane Sessum is writing on Web 2.0 stuff. To her I say Blog! Oh, geez that felt so good! But I digress. — Jeneane writes about Web 1.0 and 2.0 terminology and says you can't have consensus on the web. That's an excellent point. We had agreement about the web.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
MarkL loves 4 a.m. workers — Mark Lucovsky of Google came by Mini-Microsoft and bragged "I worked until 3 a.m. and guess what. … Keep in mind here that Mark is an industry leader that's paid many times my salary of less than $100,000 a year. His comment pisses me off.
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Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:Comment Report - MarkL nee of Microsoft now of Google drops by
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rexblog.com:
iTunes tip — Pre-Christmas morning iTunes tip: Long time readers of the rexblog know I'm a big user of Apple's iTunes service. However, my "power" usage and the length of time I've been using the iTunes store (since the day it was opened), means I know what I'm talking about when I say the following:
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GOOGLE CLARIFIES — On the AOL announcement. — I want to take this at face value. But that's not my inclination. Talking to Google in the next few days, and as usual, I am sure there will be clarity there. But for now, why am I skeptical? Because, well, I've negotiated with AOL.
CNET News.com:
Verizon plans to offer mobile music downloads — Verizon Wireless is expected to introduce a music download service next month that will let subscribers purchase music wirelessly over their mobile phones and transfer songs between their phones and Windows PCs, CNET News.com has learned.
Kenji Hall / Business Week:
Sony: Shooting from the Chip? — A top exec boasts that the new Cell processor is "as good as the Pentium, if not better." But topping Intel is a tall order — Nearly anyone who owns a PC is familiar with the "Intel Inside" sticker. The blue-and-white logo has been a potent symbol of Intel's …
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
American Idol of Search - your search isnt my search — Om Malik in his blog asked the question " Will a people's collective be able to beat Google at the search game? " — The simple answer is - of course not. The better question is - "will objective search remain the people's choice in search engines ?".
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Nobody here but us chickens — Scott Anderson, a newspaper online exec at Tribune Co., writes an honest, sad, and true post at his blog, Online News Squared, about community and newspapers. Quoted in entirety: … And I think the reason is clear and simple: It's about control.
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Mashup Camp: the unconference about the uncomputer — Under the questionable rubric of "Web 2.0" (see my treatise on the uncomputer), there have been a lot of events that, if you ask me, run incredibly counter to this new culture of open API provision and mashup development.
A Whole Lotta Nothing:
you learn something new everyday — Let's say you take a trip out to your mailbox a few hundred yards away, and you know there are big packages in the box, and it's a downpour. So you grab an umbrella (knowing that true Oregonians never use umbrellas, but you make an exception for the sake of dry christmas presents).
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google to start renting videos? — The video upload program terms and conditions had a major upgrade this morning, and with it comes some insight into new features that Google may be preparing to launch for Google Video — including rentals. — The new terms of service suggest …
