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TiVo Users Soon Can Search for Ads — Deal With Several Agencies — Will Allow Viewers to Look — For Commercials of Interest — The same device that helps TV viewers skip commercials will now be prodding them to search for ads. — TiVo Inc. is partnering with several big ad firms …
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TiVo's Adwords for TiVo — From Skip Ads, to Pop-Up Ads to now keyword specific ads.... TiVo is slowly becoming the new advertising platform, which is to say, new bottle old wine. Still if capitalism can thrive in China, then why not ads on TiVo. — The Wall Street Journal reports …

TiVo may let you search for TV ads — Report: Digital recorder maker, agencies in talks to allow viewers to search for different products. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - TiVo, the television service that has made it easier for viewers to skip commercials, is reportedly close to working …

Steve Rubel Issues an Erudite Call to Blogging for Big PR Agencies Only — In a PR Week article reprinted on his blog, my colleague Steve Rubel has issued a cry to "midsize or large PR firm (e.g. 15 or more employees)" to learn about blogging. What a bunch of erudite BS!
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The Return of Monetized Eyeballs — By late 2001, anyone hawking a business plan that depended on selling online advertising would have been laughed off Sand Hill Road. After all, the idea that Web traffic could be converted into ad dollars — that "eyeballs" could be monetized …

Tags Sort Out Music Mess — Five or six years ago, when I started using my PC to store and play songs in my music library, organization seemed like such a simple thing. Rip a CD or download a track, open my jukebox program and start listening. Nothing to it.
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Google vs. the Venture Capitalists — VCs looking to fund startups and flip them to Google (GOOG) are facing an unlikely rival — Google. The Mountain View, Calif., search giant has started buying companies on the cheap, before they even make the pilgrimage to Sand Hill Road.
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Nintendo makes its Wi-Fi move — Darren Smith has waited a long time for Nintendo to go online. He's spent years at the company tinkering with online features, only to see Nintendo sit out the first round of Internet-based gaming while Microsoft and Sony moved ahead.

Supreme Court: We'll review eBay's patent case — update The U.S. Supreme Court will review a patent infringement case against eBay, granting the online auctioneer's petition on Monday. — The matter under review is whether to allow MercExchange, the plaintiff in the case …

Linux fridge rats on your drinking habits — Improving Open Source popularity — A BLOKE has invented a Linux fridge that will tell you who has been drinking your beer and post it to a web page. — Mike Wakerly has designed his Robotic Kegerator so that it will estimate …

For Some Technology Companies, 'Beta' Becomes a Long-Term Label — Few people would fly on an airline that advertised its planes had untested engines, or swallow a pill from a drug company that admitted the side effects were unknown. Yet when it comes to software, it seems consumers are much more adventurous.
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Competitors Challenge MapQuest — DENVER (AP) - Initially, the great thing about Internet mapping programs was their swiftness and ease for obtaining directions, printing them and driving the course you plotted. — Now those Web maps can travel with you, too. And get updated on the road.

Fall 2005 Tablet PC Buyer's Guide — It is exciting to see that this year we have more Tablet PC choices than ever! There are so many in fact that it can be downright frustrating for the consumer to find the right model to fit his or her individual needs.

Does Your Company Belong in the Blogosphere? … Lutz is among a small but growing number of corporate executives who have started to experiment with blogs—Web-based commentary sites usually written in a first-person, conversational manner—to connect with customers online and advance corporate communications and marketing goals.
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XBOX 360 as distribution model? — In yesterday's Variety, Ben Fritz speculated that internet-enabled game systems such as the spanking-new Xbox 360 and the much-anticipated PS3 could turn out to be the distribution systems of the future. Amongst the highlights: — 360 as legal download device.