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Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Yahoo! Music Welcomes Webjay and Lucas Gonze — It's with great pleasure that I announce the addition of Lucas Gonze and Webjay to the Yahoo! Music family. — I met Lucas more than a year ago when searching for a suitable default playlist format for the Y! Music Engine and stumbling across his excellent survey of playlist formats.
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The TNL.net weblog:
Yahoo! acquires WebJay — A few minutes ago, I learned that Yahoo! acquired WebJay, a site that allows for categorization, editing, listening, and sharing of playlists online (In a way, it can easily be compared to del.icio.us for multimedia.) WebJay was created in early 2004 as a way to create the internet equivalent of mix tapes.
useit.com:
Search Engines as Leeches on the Web … I worry that search engines are sucking out too much of the Web's value, acting as leeches on companies that create the very source materials the search engines index. — We've known since AltaVista's launch in 1995 that search is one of the Web's most important services.
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Jeremy Mullman / Chicago Business:
Sun-Times nets Google ad deal — Web behemoth tests classifieds in print — Google Inc., the new-media giant, now has a decidedly old-media partner: the Chicago Sun-Times. — In a quiet and small-scale experiment, Google is running classified-like ads in the pages of the Sun-Times …
Think Secret:
Eve of Expo: Rumor recap — January 9, 2006 - With Macworld Expo San Francisco 2006 set to kick off Tuesday, Think Secret presents a compilation of information we have received and reported over the last number of months concerning Apple's anticipated announcements. — Intel and New iBooks
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B2Day, Gizmodo, Daily Wireless, MacInTouch, Good Morning Silicon Valley, PaidContent.org and rexblog.com
Colin Campbell / next-gen.biz:
Microsoft Abandons 90-Day Target — Microsoft now admits it will not meet its target of up to 3 million Xbox 360 sales within 90-days of the console's launch. — In a report in today's Financial Times, the company shifted its attention to the longer-term target outlined at CES last week.
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Peter Rojas / Engadget:
The Engadget Interview: Bill Gates (again!) — CES wasn't only about crazy gadget news and booth tours - we also scored a second chance to sit down withour new best friend Bill Gates and ask him all about the big announcements he made during his keynote last Wednesday.Read on to find …
Paul Thurrott / winsupersite.com:
Hands on with Google Pack — During its first-ever appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2006 (see my show report), Internet search giant Google unveiled two initiatives, both of which are aimed, in part, to counter Microsoft, the company it considers a primary competitor.
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Jeff Schewe / photoshopnews.com:
THE SHADOWLAND/LIGHTROOM DEVELOPMENT STORY — Because that's how long I've been working on it. — Back in October of 2002 Mark Hamburg sent me a little developmental application he called PixelToy (breaking his own rule, there was an innercap) and jokingly refered to as "SchewePaint".
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The Doc Searls Weblog:
Welcome to the Long Run — How Can DRM Be Good? is the most depressing thing I've read in some time: … That's by Lloyd Shepherd, Deputy Director of Digital Publishing at Guardian Unlimited, which has long been one of the most clueful, least locked-down and open of the newspapers that publish on the Web.
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Nicholas Wapshott / Independent:
Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch — Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites. — The 38 million subscribers to MySpace …
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006 — Okay, since I'm apparently in "2006 doom and gloom" mode here's another observation that I can re-brand as a 2006 prediction. … Unlike the death of Feedster, Slashdot will likely take years to really die. It has a loyal following and momentum.
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Grimwell / gamergod.com:
The 10 Most Interesting People in Gaming for 2005 — To begin GamerGod's look back at 2005, we stop and look at the people who made the headlines in gaming. We looked for the people and names in gaming that caught major attention and were a source of interesting news or high entertainment in the process of making these selections.
James / MocoNews.net:
My Inevitable Predictions For 2006 — Every pundit has to do them, so here are mine: My 12 predictions for what will occur in the mobile content space in the coming 12 months (well, 11 months and 22 days). I know what you're thinking...how can a mere mortal foretell the future?
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Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
My reaction to WSJ's "Phone Companies Set Off A Battle Over Internet Fees" — On Friday the Wall Street Journal ran one of those front page "call to action" stories, "Phone Companies Set Off A Battle Over Internet Fees" that should make us all sit up, pay attention, and worry about the future of the Internet as we know it.
Mike Grehan / ClickZ:
Goodbye, SEO Push. Hello, SEO Pull — › › › Search Results — I seem to have opened another can of worms before the holidays, judging from the reaction to my post on the Search Engine Watch Forums. I tried to rationalize it on my blog, but my point seems largely to have been missed (or ignored).
USA Today:
Teens hang out at MySpace — Shanda Edstrom can't stop herself. Every day — pretty much no matter where she is — she's just gotta go to MySpace. — Her friends are there. Her former high school classmates hang out there. Heck, these days it seems like every teen and twentysomething in the USA is there.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
DRM keeps Spielberg's Munich out of award-voters' hands … On Patrick's advice, I called the BAFTA PR office and heard a recorded message apologizing for the "technical errors" with the Munich screener that "will not play in the UK machines" and a recent BAFTA PR email adds …
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