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Jeffrey M. O'Brien / Fortune:
The race to create a 'smart' Google — Everything you buy online says a little bit about you. And if all those bits get put into one big trove of data about you and your tastes? Marketer's heaven. Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien reports. — The setup — (Fortune Magazine) …
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Mike / Techdirt:
If You Liked This Post, Perhaps You'd Like To Look At The History Of Failed Recommendation Systems — from the we-recommend-you-read-this-article dept — For years, we've been hearing about the holy grail of the perfect recommendation system — and yet, every time these systems fail to live up to the hype.
Amy McDonough / Webshots Blog:
World premiere: Webshots video — Roll out the red carpet because video on Webshots has arrived! Now you can upload and share videos and photos in the same album, keeping all your memories in one place. — Before you get started, check out our two informative videos featuring Thom Campbell …
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Ron Hovsepian / novell.com:
Open Letter to the Community from Novell — On November 2, Novell and Microsoft announced a significant, multi-part agreement to work together to improve the interoperability between Linux and Windows and for Microsoft to redistribute more than 350,000 subscriptions for SUSE Linux Enterprise …
Erik Sofge / Slate:
THE CASE AGAINST THE WII. — I'll admit it—I was in love with the Nintendo Wii long before we'd ever met. And then, a few seconds after I touched those strange, new motion-sensing controllers, months of giddy anticipation vanished. I've played and won 14-hour-long Halo tournaments.
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Study: iPod video yet to play big — Nielsen Media Research has begun gathering its first data on the audience for Apple's iPod, calling into question the popularity of its video offering. — Owners of Apple's ubiquitous portable media device spend far more time on it listening to music …
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Jennifer Granick / Wired News:
Second Life Will Save Copyright — Businesses in Second Life are in an uproar over a rogue software program that duplicates "in world" items. They should be. But the havoc sewn by Copybot promises to transform the virtual word into a bold experiment in protecting creative work without the blunt instrument of copyright law.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Wordpress Takes On SixApart With Enterprise Edition and Wordpress.com — While I was in San Francisco I sat down to talk to Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic Inc - the company set up to leverage the popular open source blogging tool Wordpress. One of their main projects is WordPress.com …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
BlueOrganizer 3.0: Instant Vertical Search and Tagging — In the crowded space of social bookmarking, Adaptive Blue's BlueOrganizer is one of the most innovative services online. That innovation is continuing with today's release of version 3.0 of the product.
Muhammad Saleem / The Mu Life:
Limitations of Socially Driven News — A number of my friends from Digg pointed out a story to me today that epitomizes several very important limitations to socially driven news. — The following story made it to the front-page of Digg.com within 2 and a half hours of being submitted …
Reuben Schwarz / Stuff.co.nz:
Police and Weta eye 3D scanner — Industrial Research has developed a hand-held scanner that quickly creates realistic 3D models of crime scenes, movie sets and large objects, garnering interest from the police and Weta Digital. — The Scene-scanner can be waved over a scene or object …
IT Security:
Hacking Email: 99 Email Security and Productivity Tips — Everyday, and some not everyday tips, on how you can keep your email safe and secure. — HACKING EMAIL: 99 TIPS TO MAKE YOU MORE SECURE AND PRODUCTIVE — When people read out a phone number, they use "phone rhythm."
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Myfabrik - The YouTube and Flickr of Online Storage? — Today Silicon Valley company Fabrik launched its myfabrik online storage and file-sharing service, after a 4 month beta period. It's also releasing a new service called myfabrik lite, that lets users share large multimedia files (up to 1GB at a time).
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo, Saved by the Bell — It was five years ago today when Yahoo signed a deal with SBC Communications, then the second largest phone company in the US. It was a sign of the times - a decidedly hip Yahoo was teaming up with the dowdy phone company, in a bid to over come the downturn.
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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
A Weekend Full of Quality Time With PlayStation 3 — Howard Stringer, you have a problem. Your company's new video game system just isn't that great. — Ever since Mr. Stringer took the helm last year at Sony, the struggling if still formidable electronics giant, the world has been hearing …
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Business Wire:
Advertising.com Announces Deal with Mitsui to Enter Japanese Online Advertising Market — BALTIMORE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Advertising.com Inc., a subsidiary of AOL LLC, today announced a deal with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to create a new joint venture to serve the Japanese online advertising market.
