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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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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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Tony Smith / The Register:
Xbox 360 file system de-coded — The Xbox 360's DVD file system has been exposed, a coding group calling itself Pi, has claimed. — The group said it has posted source code for a utility that allows discs' files to be extracted and displayed as raw data.
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Xbox 360 Fanboy
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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.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Technorati Kitchen: it's what's cooking — Technorati just introduced the Technorati Kitchen, an area where we can post projects we have been working on that we do not feel are ready for integration on the main site. The first project available in the Technorati Kitchen is Explore …
2006.sxsw.com:
THE LATEST BITS + BYTES » — WEB AWARDS UPDATE: FINAL DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY DECEMBER 16 — The final deadline for entries in this year's SXSW Web Awards competition is this Friday, December 16 at midnight (CST). Hurry and enter your site now, as entries submitted after this deadline have no guarantee of being judged.
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Micro Persuasion
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.
Rob Fahey / gamesindustry.biz:
"The HD era really only starts when we are on the market" - Harrison — PlayStation development boss plays down Microsoft's high definition claims — Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison has claimed that Microsoft's Xbox 360 "doesn't have true HD functionality …
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Kotaku
New Yorker:
CYBER CITY — Typically, video games are set in places with names like Myst, Zanarkand, and, slightly less fantastically, Vice City. True Crime: New York City, which was released last month by Activision and is being advertised on billboards around town, is set in Manhattan.
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Joystiq
Jeff Nolan / Venture Chronicles:
Using Social Media at SAP — It's been a couple of months since I moved from Ventures into my new role at SAP. One of the projects I have been leading is our move to embrace social media insofar as our Oracle competitive efforts are concerned. I don't imagine that the challenges I have faced …
Joan Anderman / Boston Globe:
Study: Online music sharing can spur sales — The record industry has long considered online file sharing a serious threat to its livelihood. But a new study scheduled to be released today suggests that consumer-to-consumer music recommendations — a growing feature of online music stores and websites …
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.
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Google Blogoscoped, Graywolf's SEO Blog, Jeremy Zawodny's blog and Search Engine Watch Blog
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Brooklyn Photographer Don Wiss Threatened if He Doesn't Leave the Country He Will Be Killed — PriceRitePhoto's store, photo by Brooklyn Photographer Don Wiss — I received a troubling email earlier today from Don Wiss saying that he received a phone call today from someone telling …
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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 …
Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
Microsoft Tightens IE 7's Security — Browser's default security settings will change to match common home, business setups. — Microsoft has detailed several changes in the way its upcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 7 browser will classify Web sites for security, aiming to reduce the likelihood …
