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Ben Harrington / Telegraph:
Hitwise eyes up £180m sale — Website monitoring firm Hitwise, founded by two Australian internet entrepreneurs, is the latest dotcom business to put itself on the auction block for around £180m. — Hitwise is understood to have appointed investment Deutsche Bank to advise on a potential sale.
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Dan Mitchell / New York Times:
A Bubble Watcher Watches Google — COULD Web 2.0 be fast becoming Bubble 2.0? It's hard to say, mainly because of the lack of a yardstick to measure the value of most Internet companies. — Compared with the late-'90s technology boom, there are few initial public offerings and thus …
Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Open-Source Spying — When Matthew Burton arrived at the Defense Intelligence Agency in January 2003, he was excited about getting to his computer. Burton, who was then 22, had long been interested in international relations: he had studied Russian politics and interned at the U.S. consulate in Ukraine …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
The Economics of Disaggregation — Peter Brantley pointed on a private email list to "a nice article in slate on the disaggregation of content in newspapers, with several nice insights, including a remark on the lack of novelty of some of the problems facing the industry." He quoted:
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Google: $31 billion local winner? — Is Google destined to be the defacto leader in the $31 billion global local search and online classified advertising market opportunity? — Many still believe Google will dominate any opportunity it sets its sights on, and it is eyeing seemingly all of them.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Gets Trashed By Users — Yahoo took a beating by users angry over the new Yahoo TV product in the comments to their own blog post announcing it. Even a former head of Yahoo Entertainment, Erik Schwartz, chimed in with his own bashing and suggesting that Yahoo has lost its way.
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Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage:
The Second Annual Life On The Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards — In preparing for The Second Annual Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards, I realized that it would be tough to write anything better about my motivation for creating them than I did in year one. What I wrote then is still …
Roland Piquepaille / Roland Piquepaille's …:
A new wide-angle lens for video surveillance — If you're a photographer, chances are high that you bought one day a wide-angle lens, commonly called a 'fisheye' lens. And if you're like me, you might have used it to take a dozen of pictures before putting definitively the lens into a drawer …
Nick / Rough Type:
The semantics web — A few days ago, Kathy Sierra wrote about the usefulness of jargon, in a post titled "Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword." She pointed out that jargon - good jargon - forms a kind of shorthand for specialists. A complicated idea in a particular domain can be boiled down to a simple term …
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Think Secret:
With Photoshop CS3 just months away, new details emerge — More than one year after Think Secret first reported details of Adobe Photoshop CS3, sources recently disclosed that as development enters its final months features have remained true to what Adobe originally planned.
Paperghost / The SpywareGuide Greynets Blog:
Myspace Phish Attack Leads Users to Zango Content — A while ago on the Spywareguide Blog, I covered a technique being used in Peer to Peer land involving URLs being embedded in Quicktime movies, which would then pop open a website. This has now been taken to the next level …
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
LG debuts "ebook" concept laptop with OLED screen, liquid fuel — As much as we like to write about the play-by-play of gadgetry innovation, it's a sad truth that some devices, like laptops, really haven't changed much since their debut in the 1980s. LCDs, a mainstay of all laptops since that period …
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Video Visionaries Meld Traditional TV and the Web — Is TV moving onto the Internet or is the Internet moving onto TV? As the lines between the two begin to blur, it's getting harder to tell. — Fans of Comedy Central's "South Park," for example, can still watch the latest episode by tuning in on Wednesday nights.
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Yo Shawn and Joi! STOP THE MADNESS! — Everytime I hear about another social network being created - I cringe. — Yet another $500k wasted and money poured down the drain. Not because the network is a bad idea, but becauase all this money is being wasted creating a network from scratch …
MediaPost Publications:
Bad News for Old News — by Susan Stellin, December 2006 issue And Seven More Things to Look Forward to in 2007 — With so much doom and gloom in the media business — at least in the print media business — you'd think it would be tough to find anyone who thinks optimistically about the future.
Dick / Burning Questions:
Headline Animator Overhaul, Part I — Historians believe that our Headline Animator service was the last known use of brushed metal backgrounds in a public web service. For a couple years now, FeedBurner publishers have courageously placed the one-size-fits-all Headline Animator widget in their sites …
Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
Pixelotto: From The Creator Of The Million Dollar Homepage — Bookmark This: CyberMark - del.icio.us - Furl - reddit - StumbleUpon - Yahoo — The creator of the Million Dollar Homepage is at it again with a whole new venture. Previously Alex Tew sold 1 pixel for $1 and in the end he sold all 1 million pixels on his site.
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John Gartner / Marketing Blog Bent …:
Podcasting's 15 Minutes Almost Up — Podcasting probably will never become an "impact media" like online video or satellite radio, and deservedly so. — According to the most recent survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, only 1 percent of Internet users download a podcast on a given day.
