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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Newspaper Ads: Big Hopes For Small Barcodes (GOOG) — Google's efforts to get into the newspaper ad business have yet to yield much. One tool it hopes will eventually change that: Small, square barcodes, like the one at the right, at the bottom of print ads.
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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
CueCat is back! — Google: “2D barcodes are an especially exciting part of this because they allow readers to “click” on interesting print ads with their cellphones and seamlessly connect to relevant online content." — Years ago, I went out on a limb and dismissed a similar scheme thus …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees ‘headwinds’; Restructuring in Feb. — Yahoo's fourth quarter results Tuesday were better than expected, but the company's outlook for 2008 disappointed. Meanwhile, Yahoo didn't deliver layoffs as many prognosticators were expecting …
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Yahoo!'s On Deck: Stock Market Casino — I don't like to go to the casino, but by virtue of buying stock, I know the feeling. — Yahoo! is on deck in what is arguably the single biggest earnings report in the company's history. It's funny because while the company's long term outlook remains bright …
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Money Out Blog, New York Times, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Yahoo! Finance and Valleywag
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and John McCain — It's sadly clear that our current leaders have little understanding of technology and why it's important to our economy and culture. That has to change. — We've been interviewing 2008 presidential candidates for the last few months …
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Microsoft:
Wall Street Journal Digital Network Teams With Microsoft for Contextual and Paid Search Advertising — Microsoft becomes exclusive third-party ad provider for network of sites. — The Wall Street Journal Digital Network today announced an agreement in which Microsoft Corp. becomes …
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Wall Street Journal signs up with Microsoft for Contextual and Paid Search advertising — Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party ad provider for the Wall Street Journal network of sites, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Barrons.com, MarketWatch.com, AllThingsD.com and others.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Nextel in New WiMax Bid — In the last few weeks, newly installed Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Dan Hesse has moved quickly to impress investors with layoffs and an upper-management shakeup at the wireless carrier. Now there are signs he is teeing up a bold restructuring …
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
And you thought Google Street View was creepy before — In this video, Google Street View gets even more invasive. Call it improving geolocated search. Boo!
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
BLIST: AWESOME WEB-BASED DATABASE — Blist, launching today at Demo 2008, is a Web-based database with a very slick Flash interface running against a SQL backend. The user interface shields the complexity of the relational database underpinnings from the user, but some intriguing capabilities …
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InfoWorld:
Facebook, MySpace join NY AG in pushing e-safety bill — New York's attorney general and state legislative leaders presented a bill on Tuesday aimed at protecting people from sexual predators on the Internet, and Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo backed the effort.
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Slashdot Founder Questions Crowd's Wisdom — One of the oldest rivals to the community news site Digg is pointing to recent unrest at the site as evidence that the social news model is flawed. — Last week, frequent users of Digg protested changes in its algorithms that were designed …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Continental rolling out DirecTV, IM, and email to 225 planes — In another mostly positive step for in-flight entertainment options, Continental Airlines will be rolling out DirecTV along with email and IM service on 225 of its planes starting next January — the majority of its domestic fleet …
Megan McCarthy / Epicenter:
Demo Nightmare: Startup Runs Into Technical Difficulties Onstage — Palm Desert, Calif. — What happens when something goes terribly wrong onstage at an important, expensive industry conference? For enterprise phone service startup Toktumi, that nightmare came true during the morning session …
Bruce Kyle / US ISV Developer Evangelism Team:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is Now Available — Microsoft is proud to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2008 in volume licensing, retail, and MSDN download. — This exciting new version was released to manufacturing (RTM) on November 19, 2007 and at that time active MSDN subscribers were able to download it right away.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash — A new application called Sprout, launching in private beta at DEMO today, promises to make the creation of Flash applets a whole lot easier. — Sprout is a browser-based, WYSIWYG editor for Flash with an interface reminiscent of Photoshop or Dreamweaver.
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ReadWriteWeb, The Universal Desktop, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi and Connecting the Dots
Kenneth C. Green / Inside Higher Ed:
The Movie Industry's 300% Error — A week ago today, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) issued what had to be a hugely embarrassing news release acknowledging that an aggressively promoted and widely cited research report commissioned by the MPAA in 2005 significantly overstated …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
VMware Down 30% As Growth Disappoints; Now What? — VMware (VMW) shares have plunged more than 30% today following the company's announcement late yesterday of both a $5 million revenue shortfall compared with Street expectations in the fourth quarter and a 2008 growth projection that left the Street wanting more.
