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Dick / Burning Questions:
No Feed is an Island: Introducing FeedFlare — We started with a cookie recipe and a dream, but we don't bake well, so we restarted with the notion that publishers should be able to tether interesting services to their content anywhere it travels. In a recent Feed for Thought post …
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Conversion Rater, ClickZ Internet Marketing …, PodTech Comments … and Ross Mayfield's Weblog
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:FeedBurner makes RSS interactive, with FeedFlare
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A View from the Isle
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Alexa Offers Fee-Based Vertical Search Services — I guess I get to be the underwhelmed one about Alexa announcing a new Alexa Web Search Platform that's available to anyone willing to pay a fee. — Pay a fee for what? You can create your own search engine by tapping into the 4 billion web pages Alexa has indexed over time.
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Search Engine Journal, Alexa, IP Democracy, A VC, pc4media, Boing Boing and ResourceShelf
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft Sells 39% of Xbox 360s in 1st Two Days of Japan Debut — Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. sold 39 percent of its new Xbox 360 game console in the first two days it was available in Japan, the world's second-biggest market for video games, according to market researcher Enterbrain Inc.
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Telecoms want their products to travel on a faster Internet — Major site owners oppose 2-tier system — AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are lobbying Capitol Hill for the right to create a two-tiered Internet, where the telecom carriers' own Internet services would be transmitted faster …
Michael / WeaKnees Blog:
WeaKnees Offers up to $25,000 for DIRECTV DVR Plus (R15) Upgrade Solution — With the release of the DIRECTV DVR Plus, we are looking to develop a stable, reliable upgrade solution for DIRECTV's latest DVR. In addition to working on the problem in-house, we have decided to open the search …
Steve Hamm / Business Week:
Java? It's So Nineties — Sun's groundbreaking programming language vaulted to popularity with Web developers. But now it's losing ground to a raft of upstarts — Peter Yared, CEO of software maker ActiveGrid, spent a critical chapter of his career steeped in Java, the programming language developed by Sun Microsystems (SUNW).
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Star Wars Fans Flee Net Galaxy — Players of the massively multiplayer online game Star Wars Galaxies are feeling a bit like the films' besieged rebel army these days. To them, LucasArts is the evil Empire, raining down terror in their alternate universe.
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Kotaku
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Hot Technology for Chilly Streets in Estonia — TALLINN, Estonia, Dec. 8 - Visiting the offices of Skype feels like stumbling on to a secret laboratory in a James Bond movie, where mad scientists are hatching plots for world domination. — The two-year-old company, which offers free calls …
Business Week:
Apple May Be Holding Back The Music Biz — Critics say iTunes-only downloads and inflexible pricing are hurting song sales — Once again, Apple's iPod is expected to be the hottest gift of the holiday season. That should be great news for the recording industry, right?
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Techdirt, tgdaily.com, PaidContent.org, MacMinute, Guardian Unlimited, Smalltalk Tidbits … and eHomeUpgrade
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Can Wi-Fi make it in Manhattan? — If Wi-Fi can make it in New York, it can make it anywhere. — New York City lawmakers are taking a long, hard look at using 802.11-based Wi-Fi or some other technology to get the city's roughly 8 million citizens access to broadband.
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Daily Wireless
Pete Blackshaw / ClickZ:
The Pocket Guide to the 2005 Blogosphere — Type the word "blog" into Google's search box, and you'll receive a whopping 515 million search results, nearly twice as many as you receive for "sex." — Love 'em or hate 'em, blogs are the real deal. Even if we deflate the hype and ignore …
USA Today:
Cellphone technology rings in pornography in USA — Quickly developing into big business overseas, cellphone pornography is a step closer to taking off in the USA. — Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest cellphone service provider, quietly has launched filtering devices …
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The Pondering Primate
Doc / Doc Searls' IT Garage:
Opening remarks — The Syndicate conference starts at 8am here in San Francisco. I'm giving the opening remarks. In the spirit of syndication itself, I decided I'd rather blog what I'm going to say, rather than prepare slides about it. — After the opening wisecracks …
Discussion:
Between the Lines, down the avenue, The Doc Searls Weblog, PaidContent.org, Software Only and Sandhill Trek
Shankar Gupta / MediaPost Publications:
Google Turns To TV Ads — IN A MAJOR SHIFT IN promotional strategy, Google—which has long eschewed nearly every form of consumer-targeted brand advertising—quietly began running 15-second sponsorship spots on PBS's science program "NOVA" earlier this year.
Matt Cutts:
Text link follow-up — At this point, it shouldn't be a surprise what I have to say about any particular site (Hi Jeremy!) selling links. Danny gives a good recap here, and I'm happy that Danny can channel me and say what I would say at this point. Let's see how succinctly I can say it.
