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Jon's Radio:
A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft — For today's podcast I decided to interview myself about my upcoming new gig. It's a short episode, under six minutes, and the transcript follows. — Note: I actually meant to push this to the server later today …
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Jeff Sandquist:
Jon Udell is leaving InfoWorld and Joining My Team At Microsoft — You know those secrets that you just want to tell everyone about, but can't? I've had one of those for the last couple of months. — I guess it was back in October my good friend Mr. John Montgomery sent me a note saying …
Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's weblog:
My soon-to-be favorite Microsoft blogger — Jon Udell is leaving his job at InfoWorld and joining Microsoft in January. — He may see this as a change of employment, but I believe Microsoft has just acqhired a media brand. I feel certain that no media investment bankers were involved …
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The Blogging Times
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Video Startup That May Never Launch — This is a rumor that just won't die: The major television networks are considering creating a new online video service joint venture to compete with YouTube. — We first heard about this when the Google-Youtube acquisition news broke, and wrote briefly about it here (see last paragraph).
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Techdirt, The Next Net, Lost Remote, John Furrier, BuzzMachine, Search Marketing Gurus and Technically Speaking
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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Do You Publish Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds ? — Our blog has been in existence for over two years now but we always abstained from publishing full content RSS feeds for two selfish reasons (or you can call them fears) outlined below: — 1. Since RSS Subscribers get to read …
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Yahoo & Facebook: Deal or No Deal? — Now that Yahoo has announced its reorg, many are wondering and speculating as to what the ailing Internet giant might do in terms of M&A. Put another way, will Yahoo rely on acquisitions to fix its problems and plug up its holes?
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Fiber ... now faster and cheaper — If you live in the US, probably you haven't noticed it. But fiber networks are growing in popularity, luring people with faster speeds, and now lower prices. PointTopic, the company that tracks the broadband markets says that fiber networks …
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
H.P. Will Pay $14.5 Million to Settle Suit — Hewlett-Packard said Thursday that it would pay $14.5 million to settle a lawsuit by the California attorney general over the company's use of private detectives to obtain private phone records of board members and journalists.
Thomas Christensen / DoCopenhagen:
Top 50 Music Videos Of 2006 — Here we go again... Our top 50 videos of 2005 was a huge success. This year we decided to do things a little bit differently. All the videos are from You Tube and can therefore be watched in the browser. If you want to download the videos to your computer …
Claire Atkinson / AdAge:
Time-Shifting Could Cost Broadcast TV $600 Million — The Great Commercial Ratings Debate, Round 6 — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Nielsen Media Research CEO Susan Whiting spearheaded the latest industry get-together on the great commercial-ratings debate yesterday and revealed data that underscored …
Tony Walsh / Clickable Culture:
Linden Lab Mutes Noted Agitator... Again — Another year, another muzzle placed on infamous Second Life celebrity Prokofy Neva by the virtual world's owner-operator Linden Lab. — Last year, Neva was banned from participation in the official Second Life discussion boards after stirring controversy …
Jeremy Crane / Compete Blog:
Sunnyvale and Mountain View...so close, yet so far — According to Google Maps Sunnyvale and Mountain View California are 3.0 miles apart. Oddly enough according to Yahoo Maps they are 2.9 miles apart. Yet despite the estimated mileage they both claim it takes 6 minutes to drive from Sunnyvale to Mountain View.
PR Newswire:
Citysearch Content Available Through Ask.com's AskCity — Citysearch's Content and Ask.com's Search Technology Create a Comprehensive Local Search Experience — WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Citysearch, an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq …
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Screenwerk
James Bannan / APC:
Pirates crack Vista Activation Server — Pirates have released another ingenious workaround to Vista's copy protection: a hacked copy of Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licencing activation server, running in VMware. — Volume Activation 2.0 is one of the more controversial features of Vista …
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
GPS, Back In the Day — Today a GPS chip can fit in a cell phone and can cost as little as a dollar. Thirty years ago a GPS device cost tens of thousands of dollars, was bigger than a bread box (see picture) and was used only by the military. Bob Rennard, chief technology officer …
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Aswath Weblog
Scott Gilbertson / Wired News:
BitTorrent's Move From PCs to TVs — If the thought of having BitTorrent, the world's most famous file-swapping software, available on your set-top box to download high-definition movies from major Hollywood studios seems far-fetched, you're not alone. — In an e-mail interview with Wired News …
