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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Podcasts popular in the holodeck — To whom should you be targeting your podcasts? Apple Computer users, Trekkies and maybe Nike lovers, according to a new survey. — Macworld is the No. 1 most-visited content site by people who download audio podcasts, according to media research group …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft, Yahoo connect IM services — Nine months after announcing they would make their instant messaging services interoperate, Yahoo and Microsoft have done it. — The companies are set to release on Thursday a limited beta test of a service that will enable users of Windows Live Messenger …
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Mashup Poster Boy: John Herren — His is self-deprecating (see the way he has tagged his photo on Flickr). He's soft-spoken. And, at any given time, with his long locks hanging over his face, he looks more like he's about to drop into a pool at the local skateboard park …
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Mikekol / Virtually Vista:
Good News Everyone: VPC and licensing goodness ensue! — We've got some great news for you today, guys and gals. — Robert McLaws recently made a post on LonghornBlogs asking us to be a little bit more transparent with out plans for Virtual PC. Ask and ye shall receive, Robert :)
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PR Newswire:
Sony on Top in Annual 'Best Brands' Harris Poll for Seventh Consecutive Year — Next Three Places Taken by Dell (No. 2), Coca Cola (No. 3), and Toyota (No. 4) — ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 12 /PRNewswire/ — Sony tops the list in the annual Harris Poll of "best brands" for an impressive seventh consecutive year.
Rachel Metz / Wired News:
Google Has No Adsense.com — The owners of the domain adsense.com have been fielding hundreds of customer service e-mails and phone calls regarding Google's AdSense program since the advertising service launched in March 2003. — Unfortunately for the domain registrants …
Tim / TechToolBlog:
Google to start selling Radio Ads — In January 06 Google bought DMarc Broadcasting to help jumpstart themselves into the radio advertisement game. Since then there has not been much news from this side of the business. Today, I received a Google survey for some free adwords dollars.
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Search Engine Watch Blog, AdJab, Google Operating System, Screenwerk and Threadwatch.org
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Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:New Google Audio Ads: pay for placement set pricing, not auction?
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Micro Persuasion
Jen Brown / MSNBC:
Internet star tries to make it on her own — Congdon hopes to translate Rocketboom popularity to mainstream … MSNBC TV — No, that's not Amanda Congdon on today's episode of the video blog Rocketboom. (Although if you turn down the volume on new host Joanne Colan's British accent it's easy to confuse the two).
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Google's Click-Fraud Crackdown — Google's $6 billion-a-year advertising business is at risk because it can't be sure that anyone is looking at its ads. The problem is called click fraud, and it comes in two basic flavors. — With network click fraud, you host Google AdSense advertisements on your own website.
John Biggs / New York Times:
Courting a Hot Market With Cool Phone Service — Nik Lulla, a high school senior in Eagleville, Pa., near Philadelphia, swaps out his cellphones on a whim. He carries a Motorola Razr, an ultrathin metal phone that is so popular he considers it almost passé, and a T-Mobile Sidekick 2 …
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MocoNews.net
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Apple abandons effort to unmask leaker — Apple Computer has abandoned a high-profile legal effort to unmask whoever leaked details about a still-unreleased music accessory. — The company's deadline to continue a legal battle to find out who leaked the information to independent online journalists …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Brand your life story with Dandelife — Dandelife is a fascinating new "social biography network" that launched its beta this week. Users tell their life stories with text, photos, videos and time lines. Part of the business model will be to license users' stories to corporations seeking case studies and brandable narratives.
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Ross Mayfield's Weblog
palm.com:
Palm, Vodafone and Microsoft Collaborate on Next-Generation Treo Smartphone for Europe — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 13, 2006—Palm (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced it has forged a new relationship with Vodafone targeted at expanding the adoption of wireless push email in Europe.
Business Wire:
Puzzle/Strategy and Retro/Arcade Mobile Games Are the Most Popular Among U.K. 3G Subscribers, According to Telephia — Seventy-One Percent of 3G Mobile Game Players Prefer Games Downloaded to Their Mobile Phone for Offline Play as Opposed to Online Game Play
Toby / The Diva Marketing Blog:
Jupiter Research Makes Some Changes — Checking blog stats one finds interesting links .. a referral to David Schatsky's, President JupiterKagan, blog. Both David and Greg Dowling, the Jupiter Research analyst of the infamous Jupiter Research corporate weblog study, provide additional information …
Lifehacker:
Video Clip: Google - Behind the Screen — A little birdie sent me a copy of Google - Behind the Screen, an Australian documentary about everyone's favorite search engine that aired this month Down Under. — My favorite parts are when the documentary makers dig in their heels …
Reuters:
Wired Magazine Regains Web Sites — Wired magazine, the publication that helped popularize the Internet during the 1990's, is poised to recover the online business it lost when the company was divided eight years ago. — Lycos Inc. said Tuesday that it had agreed to sell …
Reuters:
Toshiba delays HD DVD recorder launch — Toshiba said on Thursday it is delaying the launch of the world's first high-definition optical disc recorder based on the HD DVD format until the end of the month as it hasn't built up enough prelaunch inventory. — Slower procurement …
