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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
New Google Service to Blend the Gmail and Chat Features — SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6 — Google, the search-engine giant, is expected on Tuesday to disclose that it will join its instant-messaging service with its popular Gmail program, the latest indication that the company has set its sights on the broader communications industry.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google merges Gmail with chat — Google on Monday was set to launch Gmail Chat, which will let users send instant messages with one click from their e-mail account, see when contacts are online and save the chat history like an e-mail message. — The application's Quick Contacts list …
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Integrates Chat with Gmail — Continuing its push into communications products and services, Google has incorporated a chat client into Gmail, blending the best features of both technologies. — The chat client resembles the chat client introduced with Google Talk last August …
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE TALK AND GMAIL BECOME BUDDIES — Google is marrying Google Talk and Gmail together, and will let you chat from within your Gmail account. You will be able to talk with any Google Talk users, or with users of any service that works with Google Talk, from within the Gmail interface.
Rafat / PaidContent.org:
Introducing Permission TV. An Internet Television Delivery System that lets media companies create high quality, on-demand broadband television channels. Permission TV combines superior-quality television with the interactivity of the Web, for innovative ways to build audiences and revenues.
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Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Verizon Executive Calls for End to Google's 'Free Lunch' — A Verizon Communications Inc. executive yesterday accused Google Inc. of freeloading for gaining access to people's homes using a network of lines and cables the phone company spent billions of dollars to build.
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Back to Old School Blogging — I just took out the comments on my blog. All of the old ones, and no more new ones. All gone bye bye. — Yep, I'm going old school - just my thoughts on my site alone. I've had comments enabled for years now, so it's really a big change.
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Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
DEATH OF THE BLOCKBUSTER, PART IV — First, apologies for the absence. For most of the past two weeks I was at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, with a full slate of moderating duties. Then I zipped down to the Entertainment Gathering in Los Angeles, where I spoke about the end of the blockbuster.
Alan Graham / The Story of Feedster:
New Feedster Site...New Features! — It has been a very interesting past couple of months. As a quick recap, just last month it was pontificated that Feedster was dead or at least on some serious form of life support. And regardless of our reassurances that, yes we were very much alive …
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Microsoft alums picture photo sharing made easy — A group of former high-ranking Microsoft executives has emerged from retirement to start an ambitious company that aims to simplify the sharing of digital photos and other media over the Internet. — Vizrea, their Seattle-based startup …
Newsweek:
Murdoch's New Groove — A conversation with the News Corp. chairman, who's emerged as a leader in digital media after some smart bets. — Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Keith Rupert Murdoch may be 74 years old, but the way he sees it, he's got a young man's fingertips for what's cool.
Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Monetize Your Roof — Click on the aerial view of a cityscape on Google Earth or Microsoft's Live Local, and most of us don't discern much more than a cluttered expanse of buildings and car-lined streets. — But where others see a sprawl of empty rooftops, Colin Fitz-Gerald sees a cornucopia of unused advertising space.
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
PanAmSat to Carry Ethnic Programming — PanAmSat Holding Corp. is starting a new business that will sell and distribute ethnic programming for television in the United States, a move that the company hopes will pave the way for other new initiatives that get the satellite company …
Danny Post URI / Raw:
Grazing the SemWeb — In my last post, I asserted that although I liked the idea of "grazing", that OPML isn't all it's cracked up to be. I also said : … Well I haven't done that yet. But I did have a look at the OPod app ("an AJAX OPML and RSS viewer widget") that James Corbett had mentioned.
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Can You TiVo to See Just the Ads? — SCIENTISTS work hard to determine the radioactive half-life of elements. Now, Madison Avenue is busy figuring out the Web-active afterlife of the more than 50 commercials that appeared during Super Bowl XL on Sunday. — In the past, Super Bowl spots …
Kotaku, the Gamer's Guide:
WoW: Blizzard Gets Gay Rights Warning — On Friday we broke the news that Lambda Legal was getting involved in the whole gay rights in World of Warcraft issue. Today we learned that the legal firm has sent Blizzard an official letter questioning their policies.
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Inside Google Sitemaps:
More stats and analysis of robots.txt files — Today, we released new features for Sitemaps. — robots.txt analysis — If the site has a robots.txt file, the new robots.txt tab provides Googlebot's view of that file, including when Googlebot last accessed it, the status it returns, and if it blocks access to your home page.