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11:25 PM ET, November 29, 2006

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Business Wire:
BitTorrent Strikes Digital Download Deals with 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm Pictures, Paramount and Starz Media  —  SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—BitTorrent, Inc., home to the world's leading peer-assisted digital content delivery platform …
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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
BitTorrent set to unveil deals with studios
Official Google Blog:
Adieu to Google Answers  —  Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time — and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product.  Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here.
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Valleywag:
Answers deleted  —  What a relief.  Google is finally trimming its product line, closing down Google Answers.  This is, as far as I can tell, the first time the search company has ever shuttered a service, if one doesn't count Google X, a Google search page redesigned in the style …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Goodbye Google Answers  —  Wow.  Google is shutting down its Google Answers service.  The company has announced that new questions won't be accepted after the New Year, though the site will continue to let people view the question archives.  Killing off the service, which never seemed to catch on much …
Guy Kawasaki / How to Change the World:
The Venture Capital Aptitude Test (VCAT)  —  If you want additional proof that we're in a bubble, here it is: young people are trying to get into the venture capital business again.  I get several emails a week along these lines: … They see a wonderful job: going to cocktail parties …
David Ellis / CNNMoney.com:
Don't cry for the Zune just yet  —  Microsoft's challenger to the iPod takes second place in digital audio player market in first sales week, according to report.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Reports of lackluster sales of Microsoft's Zune that surfaced earlier this week might be a bit premature.
blog.memeorandum.com:
Unhappy mobile reader?  Try Mini...  Different people report different experiences reading my sites on their mobile phones.  The happy bunch tend to have larger screens or prefer to scan every last link on the page.  The unhappy bunch tend to have small screens and can't stand all the scrolling.
Discussion: michael parekh on IT
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Are your people ready for more Vista and Office togetherness?  —  Unless you're a student of Microsoft buzzwords, you might have a little trouble cutting through the Microsoft rhetoric expected as part of the November 30 launch of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007.
Roy Mark / internetnews.com:
Court Greenlights DOJ Case Against Realtors  —  A Chicago district court cleared the way Tuesday for the Department of Justice (DoJ) to proceed with its antitrust lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors (NAR).  —  The DoJ contends the NAR is engaging in anti-competitive behavior against online home brokers.
Security Response Alert / symantec.com:
Spybot attempts to exploit old vulnerability  —  Symantec has confirmed the existence of a new worm called W32.Spybot.ACYR, which takes advantage of several Microsoft vulnerabilities.  The worm also attempts to exploit a previously addressed vulnerability in Symantec Client Security and Symantec Antivirus …
Eric Jackson / Breakout Performance:
Laying Odds on Semel's Successor for the Corner Cube at Yahoo!  —  After the pre-turkey "Peanut Butter" memo, speculation is swirling on who's in the running for Terry Semel's corner cube in Sunnyvale.  —  Here are Breakout Performance's odds on the front-runners:  — Susan Decker: 3 - 2.
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Sex and Social Networking Sells: Fake User Profiles in Marketing Campaigns  —  Increasingly marketing firms are using popular social networks on the Web as part of their campaigns - creating fake user profiles to sell their products.  On one hand this is not a good thing for social networks …
Discussion: B.L. Ochman's weblog and digg
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Looking for a copy editor in a crunch  —  By now, it's pretty widely accepted that even the most widely read and well-respected of blogs abide by a different set of standards than traditional journalism.  One of those is, in many cases, the elimination of the traditional editorial conveyor belt.
Discussion: The Gong Show and CrunchNotes
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Dave Nabs Xbox 360 For $200 (Sort Of)  —  While I often live on the bleeding edge of technology, there are occasions when I'm content to wait.  As a casual gamer, I didn't pick up the Xbox 360 last year and I waited to try all three next gen systems before making a purchase.
Discussion: Gizmodo and digg
AppleInsider:
Apple patches 22 security holes in Mac OS X  —  A new security update released by Apple Computer on Tuesday patches several exploits recently discovered in its Mac OS X operating system, including one widely publicized issue with its disk image software.  —  Of the twenty two vulnerabilities fixed …
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Yahoo! Launches Group Texting Site  —  Yahoo! is getting in on the group text messaging biz with the launch of their new site, Mixd.  TechCrunch was tipped off to the site's existence today but we have not been able to determine how long it has been live.  —  Mixd allows users to set …
Communications News:
Iemma: NSW CBDs will get free Wi-Fi  —  update Central business districts of key cities in New South Wales will get free Wi-Fi broadband within the next three years, under a plan announced today by the state's premier Morris Iemma.  —  The NSW state government will in early 2007 go shopping …
Reuters:
Time Warner plans movie downloads in 2007  —  Largest media company says consumers will be able to burn downloaded movies onto DVDs; CEO Parsons says he's not counting out a political career.  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) — Time Warner Inc.'s digital businesses will see improvements in 2007 …
Kevin / Catching a wave in Silicon Valley:
The JotSpot Google Merger  —  So I'm finally at a point where I need to blog about the JotSpot (http://www.jotspot.com/) merger and how it was handled.  The company I work for builds custom JotSpot Wiki's for enterprise class companies and "was" JotSpot's first Partner.
Discussion: Google Watch
 
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Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Computerless, Web-Enabled Devices Are On The Rise
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Halo 3 release month announced? Not likely
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Erin Teeling / The Bivings Report:
The Presence of Magazines on the Internet
Steve Gordon / The Register:
Zune means zilch for artists
Global Geek / TPN:
In Writing: "Apple Does Not Licence the Term "Podcast""
Om Malik / GigaOM:
At Skype, Nightmare (almost) before Christmas
Plesstv / Beet.TV:
The Future of Online Advertising is Video — Paid Search Works but …
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Me? I'm between jobs until the Zune incentive program rolls out
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Russia agrees to shut down Allofmp3.com
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Switched On: A Pearl in the Palm
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A Start-Up Fueled by Star Power
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Optimus 103 keyboard demands $1,200 pricetag — yes, you read that right
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DOOM on the OLPC XO!
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MTV's Niches: From Headbangers to Bible-Thumpers
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