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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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Things That, rev2.org, PaidContent.org, ben barren, Scripting News, Om Malik on Broadband and The RSS Blog
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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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Michael / michael parekh on IT:
ON "WHERE'S THE BEEF?" FROM CES TABLET PC MEETUP — MAY WE HAVE MORE, PLEASE? — Apparently, almost 50 Tablet PC enthusiasts and movers & shakers met up for a $1000 plus burger dinner at CES, and had a great time. — I'm glad for them. — A number of them even posted on how great it all was …
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Lora / What Is New:Toshiba Portege M400 Notebook — Tablet PC by design
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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.
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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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 …
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.
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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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 …
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?
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.
Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
My reaction to WSJ's "Phone Companies Set Off A Battle Over Internet Fees" — On Friday the Wall Street Journal ran one of those front page "call to action" stories, "Phone Companies Set Off A Battle Over Internet Fees" that should make us all sit up, pay attention, and worry about the future of the Internet as we know it.
Ludens / Preoccupations:
What DRM argument? — I enjoy both of Lloyd Shepherd's blogs. His work blog, given that he is Deputy Director of Digital Publishing at Guardian Unlimited, helps me see into the world of commercial publishing and follow the developments at his paper. His most recent post calls …
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:Reverse DRM: Verizon phone defeats MP3 playback
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