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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.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Search Engines As Leeches, The Difference Between Paid & Free Listings & Keyword Price Rises — Jakob Nielsen's just posted a Search Engines as Leeches on the Web article that makes a good point, don't be too search engine dependent. However, he muddles his point by confusing the issue …
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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.
Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog: The stupidest thing I've read in a long time...
Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
Digging The Madness of Crowds — Earlier today, O'Reilly found itself at the center of a controversy on the popular news site, digg.com. Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story, of stealing Digg's CSS pages.
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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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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, PC World's Techlog, Daily Wireless, MacInTouch, Good Morning Silicon Valley, PaidContent.org and rexblog.com
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
How Apple Could Mess Up, Again — The Innovator's Dilemma author Clayton Christensen outlines his case for why Apple's propietary strategy will soon fail, just as it did before … These days it's hard to find a pundit willing to question Apple Computer's (AAPL) long-term prospects or the calls of its famous CEO, Steve Jobs.
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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Edward Jay Epstein / Slate:
Hollywood's New Zombie — The last days of Blockbuster. — In 1998, at the dawn of the age of the DVD, Blockbuster made a decision that would change the future of Hollywood. Warren Lieberfarb, who then headed the home-video division of Warner Bros., offered Blockbuster CEO John Antioco …
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.
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 …
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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Munjal / Recognizing Deven:
Going to the Moon — At Riya we have a dream to completely change how people search photos. One day, Riya will help you search and find every digital photo in the world. That day is far off, but today we got the investment we need to get there. — I'm announcing first here on my blog …
