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Jeffrey M. O'Brien / Fortune:
The race to create a 'smart' Google — Everything you buy online says a little bit about you. And if all those bits get put into one big trove of data about you and your tastes? Marketer's heaven. Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien reports. — The setup — (Fortune Magazine) …
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Mike / Techdirt:
If You Liked This Post, Perhaps You'd Like To Look At The History Of Failed Recommendation Systems — from the we-recommend-you-read-this-article dept — For years, we've been hearing about the holy grail of the perfect recommendation system — and yet, every time these systems fail to live up to the hype.
Jennifer Granick / Wired News:
Second Life Will Save Copyright — Businesses in Second Life are in an uproar over a rogue software program that duplicates "in world" items. They should be. But the havoc sewn by Copybot promises to transform the virtual word into a bold experiment in protecting creative work without the blunt instrument of copyright law.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Webshots Adds Video — CNet's photosharing service Webshots is adding video sharing capabilities today, something that has been expected since at least August when the service underwent a drastic redesign. There's not a lot of information on the site yet about the new feature …
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Amy McDonough / Webshots Blog:
World premiere: Webshots video — Roll out the red carpet because video on Webshots has arrived! Now you can upload and share videos and photos in the same album, keeping all your memories in one place. — Before you get started, check out our two informative videos featuring Thom Campbell …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Study: iPod video yet to play big — Nielsen Media Research has begun gathering its first data on the audience for Apple's iPod, calling into question the popularity of its video offering. — Owners of Apple's ubiquitous portable media device spend far more time on it listening to music …
Ron Hovsepian / novell.com:
Open Letter to the Community from Novell — On November 2, Novell and Microsoft announced a significant, multi-part agreement to work together to improve the interoperability between Linux and Windows and for Microsoft to redistribute more than 350,000 subscriptions for SUSE Linux Enterprise …
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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
A Weekend Full of Quality Time With PlayStation 3 — Howard Stringer, you have a problem. Your company's new video game system just isn't that great. — Ever since Mr. Stringer took the helm last year at Sony, the struggling if still formidable electronics giant, the world has been hearing …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Yes, there is an Office 2007 'kill switch' — Buried in a Knowledge Base article that Microsoft published to the Web on November 14 are details of Microsoft's plans to combat Office 2007 piracy via new Office Genuine Advantage lockdowns. — When asked last month whether Microsoft was planning …
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Valleywag:
Marc Benioff browbeat Journal brass — The Salesforce.com CEO was so outraged by a Wall Street Journal investigation into his mansion in Hawaii, that he had the reporter arrested and flew to New York to browbeat senior management at the newspaper, Valleywag's learned.
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Netscape: the Calacanis effect — Jason Calacanis said, last week, that he was leaving AOL because Jonathan Miller, AOL's ousted CEO, was one of the only business mentors he'd ever had. Loyal, touching, but maybe also rather opportunistic. Valleywag has obtained the internal traffic stats …
Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
FIM Sells Non-MySpace Intermix Assets, Technology To Former CEO Rosenblatt's Demand Media — You're reading it here first ... Richard Rosentblatt, who engineered the attention-getting sale of Intermix and its chief asset MySpace.com, has acquired assets of Intermix Network LLC from Fox Interactive Media for his Demand Media.
BBC:
Music labels lose MP3 search case — China's leading web search engine has been cleared of copyright infringement by a Beijing court. — Baidu.com faced a lawsuit from music companies after posting links to sites offering illegal music downloads. — But the ruling said the service …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Can Yahoo! and Local Papers Save Each Other? — Yahoo! announced this morning a partnership with a number of large newspaper chains, controlling a total of 176 publications, to share content and functionality. Both Yahoo! and local papers around the US are in a state of crisis …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
BlueOrganizer 3.0: Instant Vertical Search and Tagging — In the crowded space of social bookmarking, Adaptive Blue's BlueOrganizer is one of the most innovative services online. That innovation is continuing with today's release of version 3.0 of the product.
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