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Yahoo! Search blog:
Yahoo, Google and Microsoft join forces (really !!) behind Sitemaps — The best part about to-do lists is when you get to cross something off, and today we can cross one more from the list of feedback we have collected from webmasters. You have asked us to support a single format for submission …
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Google Blogoscoped, SEL, Yodel Anecdotal, UMBC eBiquity, ReveNews, The Blogging Times and Open Access News
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Live Search's WebLog:
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! Unite to Support Sitemaps — Today, we are excited to announce that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are coming together in support of the SiteMaps protocol. The goal of this effort is to improve search results for customers around the world.
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Global Nerdy, Monkey Bites, WebProBlog, Google Operating System and Microsoft News Tracker
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Joint support for the Sitemap Protocol — We're thrilled to tell you that Yahoo! and Microsoft are joining us in supporting the Sitemap protocol. — As part of this development, we're moving the protocol to a new namespace, www.sitemaps.org, and raising the version number to 0.9.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Search Engines Unite On Unified Sitemaps System — In alphabetical order, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to all support a unified system of submitting web pages through feeds to their crawlers. Called Sitemaps, taking its name from the precursor system that Google launched last year …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Agree to Standard Sitemaps Protocol — In an encouraging act of collaboration, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org …
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Search Marketing Gurus, Silicon Valley Watcher, Ken McGuire On The Web, Slashdot and digg
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
NBC Veteran To Replace AOL Chief In Shake-Up — Miller Out After 4 Years, Switch to Ad-Driven Model — AOL chairman and chief executive Jonathan F. Miller will be replaced by Randy Falco, a top NBC Universal executive, in a surprise high-level shake-up announced last evening by AOL parent Time Warner Inc.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, The Blogging Times, PaidContent and John Battelle's Searchblog
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
About Jon Miller — Today was a very sad day for me. One of the few mentors I've had in my life, Jon Miller, was replaced as CEO of AOL. — I feel in love with the challenge of AOL 18 months ago when Jon Miller, Ted Leonsis, and Jim Bankoff courted me and my team to join their revival of the company.
John Liu / Bloomberg:
Hon Hai Declines to Comment on IPod Phone Report (Update4) — Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, declined to confirm or deny a newspaper report that it will make mobile phones with iPod music-player functions for Apple Computer Inc.
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GigaOM, Blackfriars' Marketing, Blogging Stocks, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, SeekingAlpha CE Stocks and digg
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Nick / Rough Type:
The dingo stole my avatar — An uneasy calm hangs over Second Life this morning after two days of protests over the appearance of the CopyBot replicator. Yesterday, as many as 600 shopkeepers closed their stores in protest, demanding that the online world's owner, Linden Lab …
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Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:Second Life Shop Owners Threaten Suit Against Virtual World's Creator
David Pogue / New York Times:
Free AOL Stuff, Courtesy of Bubble 2.0 — Don't look now, but the bubble is back. — Yes, it's 1999 all over again. Web start-ups are cropping up with names like Bebo, Squidoo and Moblabber. Start-ups like YouTube, less than a year old and unprofitable, are being sold for $1.65 billion.
Jeremy Dunham / IGN:
PS3 Downscales 720p on Incapable TVs — If your TV doesn't support a specific resolution, expect to go low-res. — As final PlayStation 3 units continue to trickle into more and more hands, additional details about how the system works and what it can and can't do are hitting the web.
Microsoft:
Microsoft and Sprint Collaborate on Mobile Search — Sprint, Microsoft form strategic alliance to drive new services; first offering is Windows Live Search for mobile. — Microsoft Corp. and Sprint Corp. today announced a strategic alliance through which the companies will develop and deliver …
Valleywag:
Sequoia rocked — Venture capitalists often lose their investments. But not with a single court decision. And even less frequently over a case that was already pending when they invested. So it's been an embarrassing day for Greg McAdoo, a partner at Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley's premier venture capital firm.
BBC:
Japan to get 400,000 Wii units — Nintendo will offer four times as many machines as Sony when it launches its Wii console in Japan on 2 December. — The Japanese video game maker said it will ship almost 400,000 units of its Wii console, compared to 100,000 for Sony's PlayStation 3.
