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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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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
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 …
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.
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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 …
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Gamerscore Blog, Joystiq, OSNews.com, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Xbox 360 Fanboy and Darren Barefoot
Wade Steel / IGN:
Microsoft Abandons 90-Day Sales Forecast — Company chooses to focus on longer-term projections. — January 9, 2006 - According to a report published in this morning's Financial Times newspaper, Microsoft has abandoned its highly ambitious sales target of 3 million Xbox 360s delivered …
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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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Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
Verizon's Music Service Hampers MP3 Ability — NEW YORK - The first edition of a new music service from Verizon Wireless hampers a cell phone's ability to play MP3 songs acquired elsewhere, a handicap the company says is purely temporary and unrelated to larger battles over digital copyright restrictions.
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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Elinor Mills / silicon.com:
Google set to push play on Video Store — Get your goggle box fix online... Google announced a service on Friday that will let people rent or buy downloadable videos online. — The online behemoth said Google Video Store will be "available soon" at video.google.com.
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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.
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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Don't Blow Your Beta — I've seen hundreds of new products launch over the last six months, and I think I have some pretty good advice for companies that want to improve their beta release. — In addition to my personal experiences with companies, I recently wrote "What Annoys You Most About Betas? …
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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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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).
