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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Ask Goes Local with AskCity — Will Google be the winner in the $31 billion local search and online classified advertising market, asks Donna Bogatin over at the ZD Net's Digital Micro Markets blog. Perhaps, but it is not going to have it easy, if Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com has anything to do with it.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
The Retooling of a Search Engine — A replica of what looks like Han Solo of "Star Wars," frozen in carbonite, sits outside Jim Lanzone's office here. A closer inspection, however, reveals that the frozen body is that of another fictional character: Jeeves, the English butler best known …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AskCity Launches. It's Cool. — We've previously named Yahoo Maps the top maps application on the Internet. — Tonight we're not so sure. The new AskCity product, which combines Ask.com's existing maps product (overhauled last February) with deep local content (information, reviews …
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Azureus Launches Zudeo For Finding And Sharing Video — Azureus will launch Zudeo.com Monday morning, a content indexing site for finding and sharing large video files. The company told TechCrunch on Friday that they would be partnering with 20 major TV and film studios to provide free programs …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service — Hoping to turn the millions of people with digital cameras and camera phones into photojournalists, Yahoo and Reuters are introducing a new effort to showcase photographs and video of news events submitted by the public.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple iPhone Details From Kevin Rose — I just caught this on CrunchGear: Digg's Kevin Rose told me a few weeks ago that he had some good inside information on the upcoming iPhone, but he wouldn't tell me anything. Well, after a couple of beers he spills the beans on Diggnation, and the clip is embedded below.
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It's Online and Hyper-Local — FORT MYERS, Fla. — Could this be the future of newspapering? — Darkness falls on a chilly Winn-Dixie parking lot in a dodgy part of North Fort Myers just before Thanksgiving. Chuck Myron sits in his little gray Nissan …
Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
How Google handles hacked sites — If you've never read my blog before, welcome. I'm the head of the webspam team at Google. And I have a blog for days just like this. — Okay, first off you should go read this post. It's entitled "Me Against Google" and the author is unhappy …
CNET News.com:
IRS taxation of online game virtual assets inevitable — NEW YORK—If you are a hard-core player of virtual worlds like World of Warcraft, Second Life, EverQuest or There, IRS form 1099 may someday soon take on a new meaning for you. — That's because game publishers may well in the not too distant future …
Variety:
Yahoo! blue over loss of exec, content deal — Net company faces setbacks as Katz, Current log off — David Katz, the top Yahoo! sports and programming exec who led the company's first consistent effort at original programming, ankled late last week, at the same time that the company abruptly lost …
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Dismantle Content Management Systems (CMS)! Rebuild them with Social Media Features — I don't know how many times I've heard people want to use a wiki and a blog for their intranet. They want to bypass the corporate intranet silos and allow bottom-up and created content by the employees.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Another Crazy Music Model — eListeningPost is a new music service that allows artists to distribute their songs via a link on a website or by email. The file can be listened to up to five times on any one computer - meaning it can be forwarded to others and they can listen to it five times, too.
David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
TinyURL.com: The next YouTube? Perhaps not $1.6B's worth, but... By now, you're laughing your ass off. With the $1.6B of Google's money that YouTube commanded, if you've ever even visted the simplistic and somewhat basic looking TinyURL.com (most haven't), you're probably thinking …
Samsung:
The SAMSUNG Ultra Messaging i600 - Inspired Innovation for the Mobile Professional — Ultra Messaging i600 - Windows Mobile 5.0 powered Smartphone with integrated QWERTY keyboard and HSDPA support — Today at ITU Telecom World 2006, Samsung Electronics and Microsoft launched …
PR Newswire:
CNBC Launches the New CNBC.com - The Digital Destination for Real Time Business & Investing News and Analysis — Site Features Real-Time Index Data, Original Broadband Programming, an Unprecedented Level of Daily Business Video, Unparalleled Investing Tools and Blogs from CNBC's Respected Team of Anchors and Reporters
Andrew McAfee:
Required Reading — Today's New York Times Magazine's cover story is "Open Source Spying." The teaser after the title asks "The nation's intelligence agencies are giving their cold-war-era computer systems a complete makeover. But will blogs and wikis really help spies uncover terrorist plots?"
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