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Ben Harrington / Telegraph:
Hitwise eyes up £180m sale — Website monitoring firm Hitwise, founded by two Australian internet entrepreneurs, is the latest dotcom business to put itself on the auction block for around £180m. — Hitwise is understood to have appointed investment Deutsche Bank to advise on a potential sale.
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:Traffic Monitoring Firm Hitwise On The Block; Asking $350 Million: Report
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Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
Pixelotto: From The Creator Of The Million Dollar Homepage — Bookmark This: CyberMark - del.icio.us - Furl - reddit - StumbleUpon - Yahoo — The creator of the Million Dollar Homepage is at it again with a whole new venture. Previously Alex Tew sold 1 pixel for $1 and in the end he sold all 1 million pixels on his site.
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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Million Dollar Homepage Becomes Multi-Million Dollar Homepage — Alex Tew, the mastermind behind The Million Dollar Homepage is most certainly pressing his luck. Tew sold one million pixels worth of advertisement for $1 per pixel and made $1 million. It worked so well that he thinks …
Think Secret:
With Photoshop CS3 just months away, new details emerge — More than one year after Think Secret first reported details of Adobe Photoshop CS3, sources recently disclosed that as development enters its final months features have remained true to what Adobe originally planned.
Dan Mitchell / New York Times:
A Bubble Watcher Watches Google — COULD Web 2.0 be fast becoming Bubble 2.0? It's hard to say, mainly because of the lack of a yardstick to measure the value of most Internet companies. — Compared with the late-'90s technology boom, there are few initial public offerings and thus …
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Nick / Rough Type:
The semantics web — A few days ago, Kathy Sierra wrote about the usefulness of jargon, in a post titled "Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword." She pointed out that jargon - good jargon - forms a kind of shorthand for specialists. A complicated idea in a particular domain can be boiled down to a simple term …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
The Economics of Disaggregation — Peter Brantley pointed on a private email list to "a nice article in slate on the disaggregation of content in newspapers, with several nice insights, including a remark on the lack of novelty of some of the problems facing the industry." He quoted:
Paperghost / The SpywareGuide Greynets Blog:
Myspace Phish Attack Leads Users to Zango Content — A while ago on the Spywareguide Blog, I covered a technique being used in Peer to Peer land involving URLs being embedded in Quicktime movies, which would then pop open a website. This has now been taken to the next level …
John Gartner / Marketing Blog Bent …:
Podcasting's 15 Minutes Almost Up — Podcasting probably will never become an "impact media" like online video or satellite radio, and deservedly so. — According to the most recent survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, only 1 percent of Internet users download a podcast on a given day.
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
WikiMatrix Allows Side-By-Side Wiki Comparison — Like it or not, wikis are a dime a dozen these days. So when (and if) it comes time to choose one, WikiMatrix is a good place to start. It's a site that allows you to compare any and all wikis on the market in a side-by-side grid.
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Dick / Burning Questions:
Headline Animator Overhaul, Part I — Historians believe that our Headline Animator service was the last known use of brushed metal backgrounds in a public web service. For a couple years now, FeedBurner publishers have courageously placed the one-size-fits-all Headline Animator widget in their sites …
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Yahoo's Deal With Current TV In Jeopardy, Two Months After Launch — This is a surprise, but not really, considering the troubles Yahoo is going through now: Current TV's distribution/joint venture deal with Yahoo is in peril, reports News.com. "Current is exploring better opportunities …
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Gamasutra:
Question of the Week: Does Size Matter? — Gamasutra's latest Question of the Week asked our esteemed audience of game industry professionals, educators and students for feedback on the importance of a game's play length, particularly in terms of monetary value.
Matthew Hurst / Data Mining:
A Round Trip To Google — If you publish a blog and subscribe to Google's blog alerting, you can - by using the real time option for altering - get an idea of how long it takes Google to get each post. — I posted Weekends At The Movies at 5:18 AM on December the first.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Shawn Fanning's New Company — Shawn Fanning has raised seed money for a social network for online gaming called Rupture, reports Heather Green of BusinessWeek (scroll down to third story). Fanning, creator of Napster, had most recently tried to make friends with the music industry through his startup Snocap.
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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:Shawn Fanning's New Social Network Will Comply With WoW
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Timothy Burke / Terra Nova:
The History of Virtual Worlds — I'm going for a first-time event here: a triple cross-post at Easily Distracted, Cliopatria and Terra Nova. I'm at a meeting on law and virtual worlds at the New York Law School, and there's a really interesting panel discussion of methodologies in virtual worlds.
