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Andrew Goodman / Traffick:
No Turning Back: Panama Goes Live — As of today, the first wave of advertisers are converting over to Yahoo's new Panama ad system. The system will be made available to all advertisers in the U.S. by year end. Once they migrate, there will be no opting back for the current Direct Traffic Center …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Releases New "Panama" Search Advertising System Early — Yahoo's long-anticipated next-generation search advertising platform, Panama, has now gone live. I've been at Yahoo for the past two days testing it and understanding how it works from those who built the new system.
Ben Charny / MarketWatch:
Google to score ad revenues coup: eMarketer — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Google Inc. is on track in 2006 to become the first company ever to pocket 25% of all U.S. online ad spending in a calendar year, according to a new report from eMarketer, an online ad tracker.
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Kris Oser / eMarketer:Google Expected to Pocket 25% of Online Ad Revenue in 2006
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Yahoo:
Yahoo! Makes Strategic Investment in Right Media — Yahoo! to Join Right Media Exchange to Offer Non-Premium Inventory to Marketers — SUNNYVALE, Calif. & NEW YORK, Oct 17, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, and Right Media Inc. …
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TechCrunch, Conversion Rater, Greg Yardley's Internet Blog, Right Media Blog, VentureBeat, The 360 and Screenwerk
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Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules — THE Government is seeking to prevent an EU directive that could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube. — The European Commission proposal would require websites …
Reuters:
Universal Music sues two online video sites — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Universal Music Group said on Tuesday it filed lawsuits against online video sharing sites Grouper and Bolt.com for allowing users to swap pirated versions of its musicians' videos. — Universal, whose artists include U2 …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Windows virus worms onto some Apple iPods — update Apple Computer warned on Tuesday that some of its latest iPods have shipped with a Windows virus. — The company said that a small number of video iPods made after Sept. 12 included the RavMonE virus. It said it has seen fewer …
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George Ou, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Engadget, Daring Fireball, Davis Freeberg's Digital …, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, TechSpot and Slashdot
Wired News:
Wired Travel Guide: Second Life — Taking a trip to the coolest destination on the Web? Our guide tells you where to go, what to do - and how to buy sex organs. — So you've decided to take a trip to Second Life. Good choice! Whether you're coming for the uninhibited nightlife …
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks:
Yahoo! Q3 2006 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Terry S. Semel - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer — Susan L. Decker - Chief Financial Officer; Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration — Daniel L. Rosensweig - Chief Operating Officer — Analysts
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Linkfromdomain from Live Search — Yesterday, Live Search released a cool, new operator that allows you search based on links from a domain. This has a lot of power and is not available on Yahoo! or Google. It's good for finding content that has been linked to from a blogger or social site.
Microsoft:
Software Assurance Add-on Delivers Dynamic Desktop — Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance streamlines application deployment and management. — Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) should have counted its blessings. Instead of the hundreds of software applications needed …
Spacegirl / Google Blogoscoped:
Weird Post on Official Blogger Blog — This is another of those "weird posts by Google" alerts. The official Google blog covering Blogger just published this (twice, no less): — white chocolate sugar skulls — Diary of a Crafty Chica: White Chocolate Sugar Skulls — i love these!
terrasoftsolutions.com:
Terra Soft to Provide Linux for the Sony PLAYSTATION®3. — Terra Soft is proud to announce Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 for PLAYSTATION®3 from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI). — Yellow Dog Linux v5.0, Terra Soft's next generation Linux operating system for Power will support PLAYSTATION 3 …
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Hack Attack: Turn your MacBook's iSight into a FTP backed up security camera — You just shelled out a bucketful of clams for your new MacBook and you want to protect your investment. What if a sticky-fingered thief eyes your hot new lappie at the coffee shop?
Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Teams With QUALCOMM and Lucent Technologies to Extend Industry-Leading Push-To-Talk Services with QUALCOMM'S QChat Solution — Technology to Enable High Performance Push-to-Talk (Walkie-Talkie) Calls On AND Between All Sprint Networks, Beginning in 2008
Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Learn more about Googlebot's crawl of your site and more! — We've added a few new features to webmaster tools and invite you to check them out. — Googlebot activity reports — Check out these cool charts! We show you the number of pages Googlebot's crawled from your site per day …
