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4:20 PM ET, January 25, 2007

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Karen / Official Google Blog:
A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube  —  Posted by Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Management  —  In November, we officially closed our acquisition of YouTube, and since then we've received a number of questions about what will happen next.  The summary is that Google Video …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Google Video Transitions to Video Search  —  A lingering question since Google's acquisition of YouTube has been what the parent company will do with its own video product, which it effectively announced was not good enough back in October.  —  Three months later, we are seeing the first integration.
Discussion: On Demand Media
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Video Searches YouTube Videos
Discussion: splashcastmedia.com and Mashable!
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Not All Traffic Is Created Equal  —  We all bow down to the gods of traffic, but the reality is that not all traffic is created equal.  Perhaps if you're selling junk pages views to an ad network for rock-bottom prices, it's all the same, but for most pages on most "quality" content sites …
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Garrett French / Search Engine Journal:
Branded Content and Targeting Your Social Media Marketing Initiatives
Discussion: Small Business SEM
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
Digium, Fonality in 'Free' IP PBX Fight  —  Open-source IP PBXs were supposed to target the incumbent telephony world's lunch.  But right now the Asterisk community finds itself in a food fight over the free, small-installation market, between upstart Fonality and the house of Asterisk itself, Digium.
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saunderslog.com:
ALEC SAUNDERS .LOG
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Forbes Thinks Web Photographers Don't Matter  —  See update below.  —  The Web Celeb 25 - Forbes.com It was interesting for me today to see an article out from Forbes celebrating the Web Celeb 25.  I like the article a lot and several of the people that I think deserve to be on this list are …
Discussion: Laughing Squid
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english.chosun.com:
Microsoft Vista to Cause Confusion for Korean Net Users  —  When Microsoft releases its next-generation Windows operating system in Korea next week, local Internet users will find that it doesn't work with many of their favorite Web sites.  A Hangul version of the new OS, called Vista …
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George Ou:
S. Korean addiction to ActiveX stalls Vista adoption
Discussion: ZDNet Korea
TheStreet.com:
TheStreet.com TV Recap: Tech Signs  —  Recent action suggests we might be seeing a respite in the tech selling spurt, Jim Cramer said on TheStreet.com TV's Wall St. Confidential video Wednesday.  —  But don't get your hopes up.  —  "We're in a glass-half-full mode in tech because the shorts pressed …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Make Your iTunes Library Mobile  —  Avvenu has a new product that allows you to listen to your iTunes music connection from any web browser on a Windows PC, Mac, or Windows Mobile 5 smartphone.  MobileCrunch covered an early version of the product that only worked on Windows Mobile phones here.
Discussion: Go2web2, Listening Post and CrunchGear
AdAge:
Shifting out of print  —  While the story of magazines' ongoing battle to adapt to the web world is well-documented, the untold story is of Detroit's beleaguered carmakers, long pillars of print advertising, which are cutting their costs and, when they are spending, often seek more direct …
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Brian Lam / gizmodo.com:
Go Canada: iPhone Confirmed on Rogers Wireless  —  iPhone confirmed for Canada, by a customer service email.  —  Availability and pricing aren't set in stone, yet.  But you can bet your buttocks it'll be after we get ours in the USA.  Go USA!  Thanks Curtis!  —  BRIAN LAM  —  iPhone [Gizmodo]
Discussion: MacUser, Mark Evans and Gadgetell
Gizmodo:
First Review: LG BH100 Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Player (Verdict: Format War Still Blazing)  —  We got the LG BH100 in the mail yesterday.  It does what claims to do — be the very first high definition disc player that is compatible with both Blu-ray and HD-DVD.  But don't waive the white flag in the format war quite yet.
Discussion: Zatz Not Funny!, Gadgetell and digg
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valleywag.com:
GRIEFERS: Internet's Most Wanted: A Rogue's Gallery  —  NICK DOUGLAS — You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the bowels of the Internet, where you could be swallowed by the Spam King to be digested over a thousand years or trapped in a battle with a patent troll.
Discussion: Google Watch and digg
CNET News.com:
HP accused of spying on Dell's printer plans  —  A former Hewlett-Packard executive accused by the company of stealing trade secrets is now saying that he was instructed by the company's management to spy on rival Dell.  —  Karl Kamb Jr., previously HP's vice president of business development and strategy …
gizmodo.com:
Matrox Extio F1220 Banishes That Noisy PC to a Faraway Closet  —  Move that noisy and heat-producing workstation 850 feet away from your serene studio with the Matrox Extio F1220, a high-end remote graphics unit (RGU) aimed at broadcasters, audio engineers, mission-critical financial wonks and the well-heeled.
David Pogue / New York Times:
A Stream of Movies, Sort of Free  —  If there's one sure thing about the future, it's that it always takes longer to arrive than you think it will.  —  Here we are in 2007, and the interstellar space travel depicted in "2001" is still a sci-fi fantasy.  Heck, we haven't even reached the society of mind control imagined in "1984."
Discussion: A VC
Peter Kafka / Forbes:
Murdoch 2.0  —  MySpace was just the start.  Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants are betting big on the Internet.  —  Amy Joan Borka is 24 years old, lives in Burnsville, Minn. and got married last fall.  She is expecting her first child in April.  And, as she explains in her MySpace profile …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and PaidContent
forrester.com:
The ROI Of Blogging  —  The "Why" And "How" Of External Blogging Accountability  —  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  —  Length: 15 pages  —  Many large companies stand on the brink of blogging, yet they are unwilling to take the plunge.  Others, having dove in early, now face the challenge …
Three Speech:
PS3 UK/EUROPEAN LAUNCH CONFIRMED FOR MARCH 23 2007  —  Instead of carving this up into a news story, we thought Three Speech regulars would rather get to see the press release verbatim:  —  STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY 24th JANUARY GMT  —  PS3 to Launch in UK on 23rd March 2007
 
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Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
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ACCESS renames Palm OS to "Garnet OS," Treo users die a little more inside
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
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The Register:
Apple DRM illegal in Norway: Ombudsman
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Travis Hudson / Gizmodo:
Leaked: Screenshots of OS X Leopard Terminal, Parental Controls, More
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