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Paul Thurrott / winsupersite.com:
Hands on with Google Pack — During its first-ever appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2006 (see my show report), Internet search giant Google unveiled two initiatives, both of which are aimed, in part, to counter Microsoft, the company it considers a primary competitor.
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Jeremy Mullman / Chicago Business:
Sun-Times nets Google ad deal — Web behemoth tests classifieds in print — Google Inc., the new-media giant, now has a decidedly old-media partner: the Chicago Sun-Times. — In a quiet and small-scale experiment, Google is running classified-like ads in the pages of the Sun-Times …
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Feedster Will Die in 2006 — Is it just me, or has Feedster been completely useless for over 6 months now? I have no idea if it's related to the recent departure of Scott Rafer (former CEO) and Scott Johnson (former co-founder), but I'm amazed at how bad it is. And I should know.
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Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs: Guy gets it right — Jason Jan 08 — 18 comments Latest by Thomas H. Ptacek — Guy Kawasaki follows up his Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists with Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs. — I obviously don't get pitched for investment by other entrepreneurs …
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useit.com:
Search Engines as Leeches on the Web … I worry that search engines are sucking out too much of the Web's value, acting as leeches on companies that create the very source materials the search engines index. — We've known since AltaVista's launch in 1995 that search is one of the Web's most important services.
Lora / What Is New:
Toshiba Portege M400 Notebook — Tablet PC by design — Toshiba's Tablet PC demonstration area was the best that I saw at CES. They not only had very visible signage, but also had a cartoonist demonstrating the precision that the pen offers. … On Friday, Toshiba set …
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006 — Okay, since I'm apparently in "2006 doom and gloom" mode here's another observation that I can re-brand as a 2006 prediction. … Unlike the death of Feedster, Slashdot will likely take years to really die. It has a loyal following and momentum.
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
The State of Search Engine Marketing — A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members discusses pricing trends revealed by the survey, including where search marketing budgets are coming from, keyword pricing trends and how search marketers plan to deal with financial challenges.
Colin Campbell / next-gen.biz:
Microsoft Abandons 90-Day Target — Microsoft now admits it will not meet its target of up to 3 million Xbox 360 sales within 90-days of the console's launch. — In a report in today's Financial Times, the company shifted its attention to the longer-term target outlined at CES last week.
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Buying Music From Anywhere and Selling It for Play on the Internet — Working in the media and entertainment group of the consultants McKinsey & Company, Greg Scholl got a firsthand look at the inefficiency in the music business: the major record labels focus on creating hits …
Lore Sjöberg / Wired News:
Game Year in Review: 2010 — Clive Thompson is on leave this week. He'll be back on Jan. 23. — Well, 2010 was quite a year. Sony's attempt to hang onto its thin lead in the gaming market by only selling the PlayStation 4 to six carefully chosen celebrities seemed like it might backfire, but the hype has never been hotter.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
DRM keeps Spielberg's Munich out of award-voters' hands … On Patrick's advice, I called the BAFTA PR office and heard a recorded message apologizing for the "technical errors" with the Munich screener that "will not play in the UK machines" and a recent BAFTA PR email adds …
Derrick Story / Macworld:
First Look: Adobe Lightroom beta — The first impulse most photographers will have is to compare Adobe's just announced Lightroom to Aperture, Apple's pro level photo app. And well they should. We may have a real clash of the titans on our hands here. — Adobe promotes Lightroom as …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Toshiba to Push Blog Reviews to Mobile Shoppers — There is a report that Toshiba is developing software that will allow people to take a picture of the bar code label of many products, send it to a related service and quickly receive back information related to the product. — The data the service returns?
Chad Dickerson / Chad Dickerson's blog:
Why is setting up a new PC still so painful? — This weekend was one of those weekends where good friends with computer problems came a-callin' in full force. Despite acting as support for many friends for many years now, I still approach the requests with a high level of sympathy …
