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Michelle Meyers / CNET News.com:
Problems surfacing with iPod Nano screen — Some owners of Apple Computer's new "impossibly small" iPod Nano are starting to wonder if the device is also impossibly delicate. — The most widespread complaint about the otherwise highly praised device seems to be that the color display screen gets scratched extremely easily.
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Yahoo! News:
Motorola CEO: 'Screw the nano' — Apple Computer's newest MP3 player, the iPod nano, is receiving rave reviews and analy sts believe the device will solidify Apple's dominance in the competitive MP3 player market for at least another year. However, not everyone praises the device …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Microsoft plans to sell search ads of its own — Microsoft will unveil Monday its own system for selling Web advertising as it struggles to compete with Google and Yahoo in the expanding Web search business. The system, to be used by MSN, is meant to improve on those of Microsoft's rivals …
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useit.com:
The Power of Defaults … How gullible are Web users? Sadly, the answer seems to be "very." — Professor Thorsten Joachims and colleagues at Cornell University conducted a study of search engines. Among other things, their study examined the links users followed on the SERP (search engine results page).
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ:
PubSub to Measure Blog Influence by Category — PubSub is today expected to unleash a new site ranking tool, called LinkRanks, that measures the "strength, persistence, and vitality" of links pointing to and from a given Web site. — Additionally, PubSub has begun an effort to compile lists …
Matt Reed / Wired News:
IPod Maps Draw Legal Threats — Transit officials in New York and San Francisco have launched a copyright crackdown on a website offering free downloadable subway maps designed to be viewed on the iPod. — IPodSubwayMaps.com is the home of iPod-sized maps of nearly two dozen different …
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Copyfight, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Engadget, Techdirt, BuzzMachine, iBLOGthere4iM and All things iPod …
onestat.com:
Global usage share MSN Search has slightly increased according to OneStat.com — Amsterdam - September 26 2005 - OneStat.com (www.onestat.com), the number one provider of on demand intelligence web analytics, today reported that MSN Search's global usage share has slightly increased …
Gary Krakow / MSNBC:
Two strange bedfellows, one new smart phone — Microsoft, Palm team up, but stay mum on some details — The new Treo, which resembles the current 650, doesn't officially have a model number yet. — FREE VIDEO — • Unlikely alliance — Sept. 26: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates …
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Video Gets Flashy — One post about Google Video deserves another. (-: — A Google spokesperson has confirmed what we first learned via a InsideGoogle post over the weekend that reports you'll no longer need to download and use the Google Video Viewer to watch streaming content from the Google Video database.
Jon's Radio:
A channel changer for the Bloglines river of news — Blog readers offer two basic navigational styles. There's the two- or three-pane format that's also commonly used in mail clients, and then there's what Dave Winer has called the river of news format, where everything appears in one scrollable view.
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Yahoo! as the TV Network of the Future — The NY Times story about the next generation media strategy of Yahoo!'s Terry Semel and Lloyd Braun is worth a read. What first struck me: … My first thought was of Songline Studio's Ferndale, the first soap opera on the net, and Tom Arriola's CrimeScene …
The Doc Searls Weblog:
Read THIS and try to see TV the same way again. Or even blogging. — Dig Get Out of My Face, by Brian Oberkirch, whose Slidell Hurricane Damage Blog is an online port in both literal and media storms. Follow the links to Aaron Broussard's transcendant humanity as a guest on Russert. Brian:
