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Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Yahoo! Music Welcomes Webjay and Lucas Gonze  —  It's with great pleasure that I announce the addition of Lucas Gonze and Webjay to the Yahoo! Music family.  —  I met Lucas more than a year ago when searching for a suitable default playlist format for the Y! Music Engine and stumbling across his excellent survey of playlist formats.
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The TNL.net weblog:
Yahoo! acquires WebJay  —  A few minutes ago, I learned that Yahoo! acquired WebJay, a site that allows for categorization, editing, listening, and sharing of playlists online (In a way, it can easily be compared to del.icio.us for multimedia.)  WebJay was created in early 2004 as a way to create the internet equivalent of mix tapes.
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Exclusive: Yahoo Buys Webjay
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar
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.
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Think Secret:
Eve of Expo: Rumor recap  —  January 9, 2006 - With Macworld Expo San Francisco 2006 set to kick off Tuesday, Think Secret presents a compilation of information we have received and reported over the last number of months concerning Apple's anticipated announcements.  —  Intel and New iBooks
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 …
USA Today:
Teens hang out at MySpace  —  Shanda Edstrom can't stop herself.  Every day — pretty much no matter where she is — she's just gotta go to MySpace.  —  Her friends are there.  Her former high school classmates hang out there.  Heck, these days it seems like every teen and twentysomething in the USA is there.
Discussion: Ypulse
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Duncan Riley / The Blog Herald:
MySpace now at [45.5 million users] 47.3 million users
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb and ben barren
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
The Engadget Interview: Bill Gates (again!)  —  CES wasn't only about crazy gadget news and booth tours - we also scored a second chance to sit down withour new best friend Bill Gates and ask him all about the big announcements he made during his keynote last Wednesday.Read on to find …
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.
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Wade Steel / IGN:
Microsoft Abandons 90-Day Sales Forecast
The Doc Searls Weblog:
Welcome to the Long Run  —  How Can DRM Be Good? is the most depressing thing I've read in some time: … That's by Lloyd Shepherd, Deputy Director of Digital Publishing at Guardian Unlimited, which has long been one of the most clueful, least locked-down and open of the newspapers that publish on the Web.
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Voidstar:   Google become the latest to distribute TV...
Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
Verizon's Music Service Hampers MP3 Ability  —  NEW YORK - The first edition of a new music service from Verizon Wireless hampers a cell phone's ability to play MP3 songs acquired elsewhere, a handicap the company says is purely temporary and unrelated to larger battles over digital copyright restrictions.
Jeff Schewe / photoshopnews.com:
THE SHADOWLAND/LIGHTROOM DEVELOPMENT STORY  —  Because that's how long I've been working on it.  —  Back in October of 2002 Mark Hamburg sent me a little developmental application he called PixelToy (breaking his own rule, there was an innercap) and jokingly refered to as "SchewePaint".
Discussion: MacInTouch and JD on
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Derrick Story / Macworld:
First Look: Adobe Lightroom beta
Elinor Mills / silicon.com:
Google set to push play on Video Store  —  Get your goggle box fix online...  Google announced a service on Friday that will let people rent or buy downloadable videos online.  —  The online behemoth said Google Video Store will be "available soon" at video.google.com.
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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.
Nicholas Wapshott / Independent:
Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch  —  Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites.  —  The 38 million subscribers to MySpace …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Don't Blow Your Beta  —  I've seen hundreds of new products launch over the last six months, and I think I have some pretty good advice for companies that want to improve their beta release.  —  In addition to my personal experiences with companies, I recently wrote "What Annoys You Most About Betas? …
Discussion: WeBreakStuff
James / MocoNews.net:
My Inevitable Predictions For 2006  —  Every pundit has to do them, so here are mine: My 12 predictions for what will occur in the mobile content space in the coming 12 months (well, 11 months and 22 days).  I know what you're thinking...how can a mere mortal foretell the future?
Discussion: ringtonia.com
Mike Grehan / ClickZ:
Goodbye, SEO Push.  Hello, SEO Pull  —  › › › Search Results  —  I seem to have opened another can of worms before the holidays, judging from the reaction to my post on the Search Engine Watch Forums.  I tried to rationalize it on my blog, but my point seems largely to have been missed (or ignored).

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