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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Much ado about blogging (Scoble, you didn't answer the question) — Ahh, now Slashdot jumps into the "Werner kicks blogging book authors behinds" tub. On the other hand, I must buy Werner dinner some evening and thank him. The whole shindig has landed us on top of Memeorandum for a few hours.
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Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
The State of Online Feed Readers — Syndication is undoubtedly the heartbeat of the web 2.0 movement. A feed reader, the most common solution to consuming synidcated content, saves the user time by monitoring countless sites and sources and providing near real-time updates to one location.
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Changing Way, Make Money Online …, CrunchNotes, Digital Inspiration, Scobleizer, Micro Persuasion and A Feed Is Born
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google local search shows image ads on maps — As anticipated, Google is launching a feature Thursday night for businesses that want to target customers based on geography. — Marketers will be able to place photos and logos inside balloons that pop up on Google maps exactly where the merchants are located.
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Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
Google Adds Features to Local Ads — Coffee cups, shopping bags and flowers will soon be appearing on Google Local maps, as part of the company's move to enhance opportunities for local advertisers. — Advertisers will be able to choose one of 10 icons including coffee cups, forks and knives …
emarketer.com:
Sizing Up Mobile Advertising — Little screen, big opportunity. — Although advertising on mobile phones is currently minuscule — in budgets as well as size dimensions — if marketers heed the recommendations of a new report from Magna Global, they will begin investigating this emerging channel now.
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emilychang.com:
FEATURED SITE — Stylehive - (Now Live) Social shopping and bookmarking with a focus on new trends, hot products, style and shopping. Disclosure: Stylehive is my client and we did the design. See my blog post, Style Meets the Social Web with the Stylehive. Also see: eHub Interviews Stylehive
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Perceptric Forum
Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
Vonage: Worst IPO Candidate This Year? — A story is emerging that some folks on Wall Street think Vonage is shopping itself around as a takeover target, rather than an IPO. S1's have been filed, but there has been no further action. Furthermore, Vonage continues to chew through massive amounts …
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IP Democracy
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Eric Mack On-Line:
Ultra-wide screen Tablet PC coming! — I guess my blog posts about my ideal Tablet PC haven't gone unnoticed. At least one Tablet PC manufacturer is actively reading my blog. [You can probably guess that it's not my current Tablet PC manufacturer.] I just got off the phone …
yafla.com:
The Search For A Domain Name — You've thought up a brilliant idea for a new Web 2.0, AJAX-enabled web app, or you're about to release a thus-far-unnamed killer software app. Now you just need to find the perfect domain name for it to live at (and, in true new-economy fashion …
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Blackfriars' Marketing
Reuters:
Toshiba launches world's first HD DVD player — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. (6502.T: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday started rolling out its high definition DVD players in Japan, becoming the first company to offer next-generation optical disc players worldwide.
Douglass C. Perry / IGN:
Next Halo Hits March 2007 — Microsoft plans for wide-open spring 2007 launch. — March 30, 2006 - The next Halo is coming in March 2007. According to a Microsoft source who asked to remain anonymous and a second source close to the company, IGN today learned that Microsoft will publish …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook: $750 million or $2 Billion — A few days ago there was a lot of chatter over Business Week story that Facebook was on the block, as long as the buyer was ready to pony up $2 billion. — I suggested that the founders of the company should have been prudent and taken the rumored $750 million offer.
Blake / Topix.net Weblog:
TOPIX.NET FORUMS ON FIRE: THE NI-CHAN PARADOX — Back on December 12th, we released a site redesign that included user forums on each of our news pages. We were pretty psyched about this — a chance to let our users "talk back" to the news seemed like an obvious next step in the evolution of the Topix.net site.
David Pogue / New York Times:
A Spam Fighter Is Overzealous but Can Learn — GOOD thing people don't judge me by my e-mail in-box. If they did, they'd conclude that I'm sickly, overweight and unemployed, that I need a new mortgage, don't know where to buy medicine and can't please my wife.
Michel Marriott / New York Times:
Digital Divide Closing as Blacks Turn to Internet — African-Americans are steadily gaining access to and ease with the Internet, signaling a remarkable closing of the "digital divide" that many experts had worried would be a crippling disadvantage in achieving success.
Jamie M. Bsales / laptopmag.com:
Gateway NX100X — Gateway's newest ultraportable is one of the sleekest notebooks on the market. — Price: $1,624 — Occupying about the same desk space as a sheet of paper and less than an inch thick, the 3.2-pound Gateway NX100 is one sleek machine.
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