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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Exclusive: Google to offer feed API — Google plans to offer a feed reader API to allow third-party developers to build new views of feed data on top of Google's backend. The new APIs will include synchronization, feed-level and item-level tagging, per-item read and unread status …
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Google announces feed API — Niall Kennedy, of Technorati, has the news that Google will release a feed API in early 2006. — Here's another note to Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Ray Ozzie. Hey, I asked you guys to acquire NewsGator three months ago. If you had done that you would have taken the wind out of Google's sails.
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Why your music collections will bite the DRM dust — I was really glad to see Dave Winer say that, in his opinion, the problems that he and other people are having with their iPods and iTunes are DRM-related. Dave: It is the real culprit and your issues are real evidence of why the "R" …
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Reuters:
Spitzer's music probe said to expand — N.Y. Attorney General has subpoenaed at least three major record labels in ongoing probe: reports. — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three major music labels have been subpoenaed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in connection …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
iPod continued — Paul Thurrot: "The fact that Posen's post is so long should alarm people. I think it proves that Winer has a point." — Of course I have a point. I've been using iPods for three years. These are not casual comments by a newbie. I've also used competitive products, and know it doesn't have to be this way.
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit Over Google Talk — While doing some research, I've learned that Google is being sued for patent infringement over the VoIP portion of the Google Talk program. I've posted the full text (38 pages; PDF) of the complaint filed by Rates Technology in October here.
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Evan Hansen / Wired News:
2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards — Tech execs say the darndest things. And so do shuffling presidents, and disgraced scientists, and Wikipedia fakers. It's time to relive 2005's biggest spoken gaffes. — "Screw the nano." — Motorola CEO Ed Zander — Cell-phone makers hoping to break …
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
'Intel Inside' dumped — Intel turns inside out — INTEL IS to dump its tagline 'Intel Inside' and run a huge logo launch in early January. Chipzilla has been extremely precious about its 'Intel Inside' tagline and even taking companies to court for using the letter i, which Chipzilla believed it owned as part of its logo.
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
The Net Is a Boon for Indie Labels — Even as the recording industry staggers through another year of declining sales over all, there are new signs that a democratization of music made possible by the Internet is shifting the industry's balance of power. — Exploiting online message boards …
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BBC:
Businessman wins e-mail spam case — A businessman has won what is believed to be the first victory of its kind by claiming damages from a company which sent him e-mail spam. — Nigel Roberts, who lives in Alderney in the Channel Islands, took action against Media Logistics UK over junk e-mails in his personal account.
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Shop 'Til They Lock — Post-Christmas sales are a must for bargain hunters, but this year brings a new incentive to stock up on electronics: 2005 might be the last good year to get gizmos that aren't locked down. — As the music, television and movie industries move to make more media available online …
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Associated Press:
Age of information overload — (AP) — Books are being scanned to make them searchable on the Internet. Television broadcasts are being recorded and archived for online posterity. Radio shows, too, are getting their digital conversion — to podcasts. — With a few keystrokes …
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Loren Baker / searchenginejournal.com:
Best Search Engine Community Blog : 2005 Search Blogs Awards — Best Search Engine Community Blog : 2005 Search Blogs Awards — Although Threadwatch and Search Engine Roundtable were both nominated for different awards for covering search engine news and search related issues …
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gusmueller.com:
How to become an independent programmer in just 1068 days. — If you watch the Evening at Adler video you'll come across a part where some of the guys on the panel talk about how much it costs to make the transition to doing the independent macintosh programmer thing.
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