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Jessi Hempel / Business Week:
eBay's Affinity for Meetup.com — The online auctioneer has a lot in common with the virtual community site, so it took a nibble — The online auction colossus has caught a dose of community activism. On Mar. 9, eBay (EBAY) joined five other investors to purchase a minority share in community Web site Meetup.com.
TDavid / Things That:
Google Writelys a check — Writely an online wordprocessor with some collaboration features, which we reviewed back in September 2005 has become Google's newest acquisition. — Jen Mazzon from the Google Writely Team explains: … Originally Writely was in closed beta …
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
SAP's Jeff Nolan says his mission is to disrupt Oracle — [Part 2 of my meeting with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's key strategists. He runs the Apollo Group, a strategy and communications organization within SAP that is sometimes referred to as the "Attack Oracle" group.]
Michele / Kevin Kelly:
Consensus Web Filters — What's new? — Like a lot of people, I find that the web is becoming my main source of news. Some of the sites I read are published by individuals, but I find the most informative sites are those published by groups of writers/editors/correspondents, including those put out by Main Steam Media (MSM).
Om Malik / GigaOM:
SkypeMe Your eBay Bids — When eBay bought Skype last year for a whopping $4.1 billion ($2.6 billion in stock/cash and rest as an earn out) my theory is that the first step in integration of the two companies would be adding a Skype Me feature for all sellers on the eBay system. Well, time to say, told you so.
jkOnTheRun:
jkOnTheRun exclusive- ALLTP lists the TabletKiosk M-700 — I have received word from Allegiance Technology Partners (ALLTP) that they are taking orders for the new TabletKiosk M-700 UMPC. The base price is $899 with 256 MB of RAM and a 40 GB hard drive. If you want to add more memory …
Burt Helm / Business Week:
Gauging Google's Gaffes — The settlement of a class action underscores concerns over how the search king is communicating about click fraud — and other pressing issues — Google (GOOG) boasts some of the Internet's hottest technology and biggest brains. Even after a recent stock drop, it's still got an enviable market cap.
Tom Burton / Sydney Morning Herald:
Online buying frenzy as big business swoops on sites — CHRIS SHARKEY is 23. He has just got a cool $6 million plus, his share from the sale of a holiday house booking website, Stayz. — Four years ago, having just graduated from high school in Newcastle, his teacher parents were keen for Chris to attend university.
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
The A Team — Now that I've gotten that off my chest, a few words about the Attention Economy land grab this week (continuing thru next Wednesday at Esther's conference.) Thanks to Esther for pointing out that Michael Goldhaber (Einstein of Attention) started talking about this in Release 1.0. in 1992.
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
As Local Paid Search Grows, Local Media to Battle Big Search Engines — Paid search advertising by local advertisers is poised to more than double this year to $987 million, and nearly double again in '07. That's according to the "2006 Local Search Advertising" report from research firm Borrell Associates …
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Search Engine Watch Blog
slingmedia.com:
Sling Media Announces Support for new Ultra-Mobile PC — Hannover, Germany - March 9, 2006 —Sling Media, Inc., a digital lifestyle products company, today announced a customized version of its SlingPlayer software, designed specifically for products based on the Ultra-Mobile PC.
Dave White / mobilemag.com:
Pretec expands i-Disk offerings — CeBIT is off and running with fascinating and scintillating new product announcements, and Pretec is no exception. The makers of i-Disk Tiny and i-Disk Diamond are taking the wraps off two exciting flash drives, one with a mobile phone bridge …
Damien Barrett / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Another Roadblock in Dual-Booting Mac OS X & Vista — Thosehoping to be able to dual-boot the Intel Macs once Microsoft ships Vista (late this year?) may have to wait a bitlonger. Today, Dan Warne of APC Magazinereported that Microsoft has announced that the first version of Vista …
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
River of Meme-O-Randum? — I just had one of those AHA moments, when something clicked into place, and the only question is how to share the idea, because this is one that's just begging to be shared. — So I called Scoble, to make sure I wasn't out of my mind, and he got excited and said "You're onto something."
Rob Sabin / soundandvisionmag.com:
Blu-ray to Debut May 23 — Simultaneous release of first Sony titles and Samsung player — March 6 - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) now says it will release its first Blu-ray high-definition discs on May 23 — the same day the first Blu-ray player goes on sale.
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's Weblog:
Friday: NBC's flawed unbundled strategy — As it did with "Lazy Sunday," NBC demanded that youTube.com pull a Natalie Portman rap skit from its site this week. The network is offering these items via its own Website, thank you very much, and doesn't need or want anybody else to do it for them.
Enid Burns / ClickZ:
Paid Search Spawns 'Drafting' and 'Hijacking' Strategies — Competitiveness in the emerging paid search landscape spawns controversial tactics such as the two practices loosely termed "hijacking" and "drafting" by some industry insiders. While some search engine marketing (SEM) …
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Search Engine Watch Blog
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Entrepreneurs in France - impressive startups — France has entrepreneurs and startup companies equal in quality and leadership to any we see in Boston, New York, or Silicon Valley. This week we were in Paris meeting with VCs and startups looking to build partner relationships with Microsoft.
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