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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Hungry Media Companies Find a Meager Menu of Web Sites to Buy — Media companies are still hungry. Is there much left for them to consume that they'll find satisfying? — NBC Universal's $600 million acquisition of iVillage, an early Internet company catering to women …
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michael parekh on IT, PaidContent.org, Blogspotting, Perceptric Forum and John Cook's Venture Blog
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
MySpace Messenger on the Way — The cool kids are all talking about the impending release of MySpace Messenger (screenshots below). The story appeared on Digg yesterday, and the commenters are impatiently trying to make it to work. No official launch has been mentioned yet. — So is this a good idea?
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Search Engine Journal
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google lands on Mars — Tonight I noticed that mars.google.com now has a CNAME record that points to www.google.com. This usually means that something is about to happen with that subdomain — with the exception of calendar.google.com of course. So I started digging and you will never guess …
Ryan Tomayko / @lesscode.org:
Gosling Didn't Get The Memo — I've been blissfully neglecting this site for months with the assumption that a large part of our goal was completed. After watching good people like Martin LaMonica and Jon Udell balance out the mainstream tech press with coverage of lessish tools and languages …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why I will stop blogging — I can do it, folks, I have already, in some sense, stopped one of my rivers, and soon, probably before the end of 2006, I will put this site in mothballs, in archive mode, and go on to other things, Murphy-willing of course. — It's been a long time coming.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Compaq founder pushes for academic library online — CARLSBAD, Calif.—Ever wonder where Compaq founder Rod Canion is? He's with Questia Media, which wants to bring a university-class library to a high school near you. — The Houston-based company is gathering academic and textbook publishers …
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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Online Auteurs Hardly Need to Be Famous — On his computer screen, Jake R. Sanowski scrutinizes a short video of a baby eating its first pickle. Next is a skit of a woman getting drunker over the course of a meal at which, it turns out, her dining companion is a dog.
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John Cook's Venture Blog
Joi / Joi Ito's Web:
Leadership in World of Warcraft — This ended up becoming a longer and more rambling post than I expected, but I'm going to post it anyway since I don't write enough these days... The other day, I was doing an interview for a management and strategy magazine and one of the questions that came …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
The business lessons of World of Warcraft — AUSTIN, Texas—"World of Warcraft" is a game. There's no doubt about it. More than 6 million people around the world have signed up to go questing, kill beasts, search out loot, and have fun with friends and strangers alike.
Stephen Bryant / publish.com:
Blogging for Dollars Brings Unexpected Responsibilities — Reporter's Notebook: Professional bloggers Jason Kottke and Heather Armstrong took the stage at SXSW to discuss what happens when you start making a living from your hobby. — The story of blogging has largely been written.
ZDNet:
Microsoft pauses work on Adobe rival — Microsoft has temporarily halted development work on some aspects of its upcoming professional graphics application as it tries to bring companion tools and its next-generation Windows Vista operating system to market.
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Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
The Larry and Shelley Story — In few minutes or so, MusicIP, a company that we've invested in, takes the wraps of a ton of work at the SXSW show in Austin. I'm pleased that all the team's hard work will be paying off. I'll let the company do all launch stuff first and point you to some interesting things as they go public.
Warren St. John / New York Times:
Alive and Well in Silicon Alley — THEY arrived in crisp button-downs and pleated Dockers, 150 or so, nearly all men in their 20's and 30's, few of whom would probably object to being called a nerd. — The event, the New York Tech Meetup — part technology conference …
LPH / UMPC Buzz:
Media's Idea that Origami is Just a Small Tablet PC Misses Intel Role — Mr. Thurrott is almost right when he says the four-year secret origami project was small Tablet PCs discussed at WinHEC. However, Origami was an interim product of the Haiku project, expected post 2007.
Sunbelt BLOG:
Behold the power of botnets — (Adam Piggott of Proactive Services originally found this mess, contacted Suzi Turner at SpywareWarrior who got him in touch with one of our spyware researchers, Adam Thomas.) — Discussions about botnets in the security community are quite active these days.
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Spyware Confidential
Dion Hinchcliffe / Enterprise Web 2.0:
The shift to Social Computing — There's been a lot of interest recently in the social aspects of Web 2.0 experiences because of their tendency to alter the communities that use them. As part of tracking this, I wrote recently about McKinsey and Co.'s discussion of coming Interaction Age …
