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Marla Nitke / Interactive Advertising Bureau:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES SURPASS $4 BILLION FOR Q3 — Latest IAB/PwC Survey Finds 2006 Record Industry Growth and Largest Quarter Ever — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached an estimated …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The real story of Web 2.0: Advertising 2.0 — The real story of Web 2.0 has little to do with the bells and whistles and everything to do with the stunning growth of online advertising. If you look there is a valley between the dotcom spending days (99/2000) and today …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Huh? YouTube Sends TechCrunch A Cease & Desist — Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We've been accused of a number of things: violating YouTube's Terms of Use, of …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
It's true: The Zune is incompatible with Vista — I really couldn't believe the tip a reader sent in earlier this month that Microsoft's Zune MP3 player would be incompatible with Windows Vista. — I had heard the Windows Media Player DRM and the Zune DRM were not going to be compatible.
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AppleInsider:
Zune incompatible with Windows Vista — Apparently, Microsoft has been so focused on getting Zune out the door in time for the mad holiday rush that it hasn't gotten around to supporting the player under its next-generation operating system. — Though seemingly implausible …
bizjournals:
Startup hits the money with biz wiki — Ray King hasn't had a home run yet. But investors in his newest venture, AboutUs Inc., think King could be building the next Google. — King's Portland company has just closed a $1 million initial financing round for its wiki …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
AboutUs: A Wiki About Every Website — Portland, Oregon based AboutUs announced this week that it has closed a Series A round of funding and raised $1 million. The site is a wiki directory of web sites, mostly populated automatically but with a healthy amount of traffic and a growing number of edits being made daily.
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Physics promises wire-less power — The tangle of cables and plugs needed to recharge today's electronic gadgets could soon be a thing of the past. — US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players without wires.
Robin Linden / Official Linden Blog:
Copyrights and Content Creation in Second Life — Today I met with a large group of Residents, members of the Sellers Guild, to talk about the implications of a recently-developed LibSL product called CopyBot. CopyBot allows the user to create a replication of an object, including textures, that is fully permissive.
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google holds back stock in YouTube deal — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. has set aside more than $200 million in its just-completed takeover of YouTube Inc. as a financial cushion to cover losses or possible legal bills for the frequent copyright violations on YouTube's video-sharing site.
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blogworldexpo.com:
BLOGWORLD SET FOR LAS VEGAS, NOV. 8-9, 2007 — Industry's first-ever trade show and conference will blend corporate and individual interests in this prolific form of new media communications. — Blogging, the increasingly popular form of online communications, will assume a new level …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Quintura Search Engine gets backing from early Skype investor — Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. — Russia-based Quintura Search Engine has received substantial backing from Mangrove Capital Partners of Luxembourg, an early-stage investor in Skype …
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
From Rocketboom to ABC — Video blogger Amanda Congdon is the latest "cewebrity" to jump to mainstream media; an industry is forming to help others follow her lead — Internet celebrity Amanda Congdon just finished broadcasting her cross-country relocation from New York to L.A. on the World Wide Web.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Slide gets big VC round for its slideshow product — Slide, the San Francisco start-up that lets you create slide shows from your photos or other content, has raised a large third round of funding from Khosla Ventures and Mayfield Fund. — The amount remains undisclosed …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Report Murdoch Says MySpace Worth $6 Billion; Sees 200 Million Users By Mid-2007 — Speaking with investors at a meeting in Sydney, Australia, yesterday, News Corp.'s (NWS) Rupert Murdoch reportedly said that the company's MySpace unit could now be sold for $6 billion, or about 10x …
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Elise Ackerman / siliconvalley.com:
Study finds Web isn't teeming with sex — ANALYSIS SHOWS ABOUT 1 PERCENT OF ALL PAGES HAVE ADULT CONTENT — A confidential analysis of Internet search queries and a random sample of Web pages taken from Google and Micrsoft's giant Internet indexes showed that only about 1 percent of all Web pages contain sexually explicit material.
DesktopLinux.com:
OLPC nears low-cost Linux laptop production — The One Laptop Per Child project's onsite supervisor, Mark Foster, reported from Shanghai on Sunday that the first 10 prototypes of the Linux-powered OLPC XO-1 are up and running. This marks a key milestone toward an upcoming build of 900 units.
Gizmodo:
Confirmed: Microsoft To Reward Zune Song Sharing — When we last left off, the consensus was that Microsoft was still planning on rewarding song sharing with the Zune. Now we've got pretty much confirmation—unofficial, that is—that Microsoft is planning this feature.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Microsoft Goes MuniFi with MetroFi — In the fight to unwire cities, Google might be one of the bigger names in the business, especially when it comes to the potential for location-based advertising. But Mountain View-based startup MetroFi, which champions the free ad-supported WiFi model …
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
Ruthless enough for a startup? — I have been reading about how several successful startups — Facebook, MySpace, BitTorrent, YouTube, Skype, and HotOrNot — fueled their early growth that lead to their success. — In all the cases, these startups did things that I probably would not have been willing to do.
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Microsoft:
Q&A: Microsoft Moving Forward on Key Server Technologies — At Tech •Ed: IT Forum 2006, Microsoft continues to show progress in development of Windows Server "Longhorn" and Windows Server virtualization, and announces availability of Windows PowerShell and the release candidate for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.
