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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Buys Radio Ad Firm; AdWords Headed To Radio Distribution — Wow. Google is to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, a company that puts ads into radio stations, paying up to $1.1 billion for it. Google apparently plans to distribute AdWords via radio this way.
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Kevin Yank / SitePoint Blogs:
Apple "photocasting" Mac only, uses invalid RSS — (via Dave Winer) Apple's newly-released iPhoto 6 does an admirable job of making it easy for its users to publish feeds of their photos from their desktop. When Steve Jobs announced the product, he cited its use of "industry standard" RSS technology to make this posssible.
Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
Digging Out the News — A Web Site Invites Readers to Be Editors, — But the Approach Presents Some Risks — What would happen if a Web site's readers — instead of editors — could decide which stories should be published? — Technology journalist Kevin Rose decided to find out.
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
SEMs Welcome Shorter Yahoo! Ads — This week, Yahoo! Search Marketing will begin truncating its sponsored search text ads after the first 70 characters. Many search marketers see the move as a positive one. — While some search marketers may miss Yahoo!'s longer text ads …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Acquires SearchFox Assets — Reliable sources are reporting that SearchFox, which announced that it will be shutting down as of January 25, 2006, has sold its assets to Yahoo. At least some of the employees have moved over to Yahoo as well. — There is no indication of price.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft aims to topple Lotus' Domino — Aiming to woo users of Lotus Notes, Microsoft is releasing software designed to help companies switch to its own line of collaboration tools. — The collection of free software provides tools to help move data over to Microsoft's platform from IBM's Lotus software.
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
TOP TEN REASONS WHY NOBODY READS YOUR BLOG — TOP TEN REASONS WHY NOBODY READS YOUR BLOG: — 1. You're not a good-looking female who likes posting naked pictures of herself. — Pretty damn obvious, if you ask me. [Not safe for work. You've been warned.] — 2. There's nothing in it for them.
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Larry Angell / ilounge.com:
iTunes boosts prime time ratings for NBC, ABC — Both NBC and ABC have seen a rise in viewer ratings since adding select TV shows to the iTunes Music Store. NBC credits the availability of its shows on iTunes for the recent increase in viewers during prime time for one of its popular comedies.
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Cosmik / n3rfed:
AHN'QIRAJ TO OPEN IN N SECONDS. SERVER TO CRASH IN N+1 SECONDS. — As the Gate Race (*badoom* *tish*) of 2005/6 comes to an end, attention now turns the server of Medivh who require only a few more bandaids in order to gain access to the omg epix. — Recent days have seen a flood …
BBC:
Mac users 'too smug' over security — Technology commentator Bill Thompson is worried about the lack of herd immunity among his fellow Apple Mac users. — The first known computer virus, the Elk Cloner, is 25 years old. Since its appearance we have seen hundreds of thousands …
Doug Mohney / Inquirer:
Apple develops Microsoft Vista of opportunity — It's not the iPod, stupid — PUNDITS and analysts, having seen the latest Steve Jobs magic show, are frothing all over themselves by proclaiming that sales of iPods will equal more marketshare of Macs, especially the new, improved Intel-a-toshes.
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Nathan Kirsch / legitreviews.com:
Getting to Know One of the Corsair Founders: — For the first interview of the month we bring you one of co-founders of Corsair Memory — John Beekley. We have known John for nearly five years now and just recently interviewed him to see his perspectives on Corsair and the memory industry in general.
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Mark Baard / Wired News:
New GPL Is Free at Last — CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Richard Stallman, author of the most radical and durable license for free-software developers, is updating the GNU Public License for the first time since 1991. — Stallman released a draft of GPL Version 3 at a conference at MIT here Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
BBC:
Fears raised over digital rights — A UK consumer watchdog has called for new laws to protect users' rights to use digital music and movies. — The National Consumer Council (NCC) said anti-piracy efforts were eroding established rights to digital media.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Michael Dell Should Eat His Words, Apple Chief Suggests — SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 - It may not be the last laugh, but on Friday afternoon, after the close of the stock market, Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer, shared an e-mail chuckle with his employees at the expense of Dell, a big rival.
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Ian Bogost / watercoolergames.org:
Persuasive Games launches Disaffected! — I'm happy to announce that my studio Persuasive Games has released Disaffected!, a videogame parody of the Kinko's copy store. puts the player in the role employees forced to service customers under the particular incompetences common to a Kinko's store.
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