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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.
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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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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 …
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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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 …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
3 Trumpets Mobile Web Breakthrough with X-Series — The BBC wonders if British mobile operator 3 has "discovered the holy grail of the mobile phone industry", simply by bundling some mobile web services together and making it flat rate pricing. Mobile Web expert Ajit Jaokar is very bullish on this news.
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Ajit / Open Gardens:The future is bright .. The future is 3 .. — Meg Whitman …
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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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Erik Sofge / Slate:
THE CASE AGAINST THE WII. — I'll admit it—I was in love with the Nintendo Wii long before we'd ever met. And then, a few seconds after I touched those strange, new motion-sensing controllers, months of giddy anticipation vanished. I've played and won 14-hour-long Halo tournaments.
IT Security:
Hacking Email: 99 Email Security and Productivity Tips — Everyday, and some not everyday tips, on how you can keep your email safe and secure. — HACKING EMAIL: 99 TIPS TO MAKE YOU MORE SECURE AND PRODUCTIVE — When people read out a phone number, they use "phone rhythm."
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Myfabrik - The YouTube and Flickr of Online Storage? — Today Silicon Valley company Fabrik launched its myfabrik online storage and file-sharing service, after a 4 month beta period. It's also releasing a new service called myfabrik lite, that lets users share large multimedia files (up to 1GB at a time).
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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Business Wire:
Advertising.com Announces Deal with Mitsui to Enter Japanese Online Advertising Market — BALTIMORE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Advertising.com Inc., a subsidiary of AOL LLC, today announced a deal with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to create a new joint venture to serve the Japanese online advertising market.
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:
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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John Chow / John Chow dot Com:
New Google Ad Placements — I just received an email from Google about a new feature they have enabled on my account call Ad Placements. It's designed to help advertisers target a specific ad on your site. … A check of my Google AdSense control panel shows I have a new Ad Placement check box under my custom channels.
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Kate Greene / Technology Review Feed:
Hyperlinking Reality via Phones — Nokia researchers are working on a system that allows physical objects to be identified and connected to the Internet through mobile-phone screens. — A Nokia research project could one day make it easier to navigate the real world by superimposing virtual information …
