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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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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:Traffic Monitoring Firm Hitwise On The Block; Asking $350 Million: Report
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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Million Dollar Homepage Becomes Multi-Million Dollar Homepage — Alex Tew, the mastermind behind The Million Dollar Homepage is most certainly pressing his luck. Tew sold one million pixels worth of advertisement for $1 per pixel and made $1 million. It worked so well that he thinks …
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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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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.
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 …
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PR Newswire:
Apple Settlement Decision Lands Patent Attorney in Public Spotlight — SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ — A recent out-of-court settlement between Apple Computer and the owner of the patent that covers the downloading of music and video with the ability to play music and video on a device …
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 …
CNET News.com:
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool — update The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
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.
Gamasutra:
Question of the Week: Does Size Matter? — Gamasutra's latest Question of the Week asked our esteemed audience of game industry professionals, educators and students for feedback on the importance of a game's play length, particularly in terms of monetary value.
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Yahoo's Deal With Current TV In Jeopardy, Two Months After Launch — This is a surprise, but not really, considering the troubles Yahoo is going through now: Current TV's distribution/joint venture deal with Yahoo is in peril, reports News.com. "Current is exploring better opportunities …
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Timothy Burke / Terra Nova:
The History of Virtual Worlds — I'm going for a first-time event here: a triple cross-post at Easily Distracted, Cliopatria and Terra Nova. I'm at a meeting on law and virtual worlds at the New York Law School, and there's a really interesting panel discussion of methodologies in virtual worlds.
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
WikiMatrix Allows Side-By-Side Wiki Comparison — Like it or not, wikis are a dime a dozen these days. So when (and if) it comes time to choose one, WikiMatrix is a good place to start. It's a site that allows you to compare any and all wikis on the market in a side-by-side grid.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ok, Now I Get JPG Magazine — JPG Magazine relaunched last month with a new business model: Get users to upload photos to their website, and then have the community vote on and rank photos. The winners are published in a bi-monthly print magazine and get $100 plus a free one-year subscription.
Kotaku:
JPN Wii Launch: The GETs And The GET-Nots — Everything starts moving fast. Showing my ticket, getting a new ticket, putting the old ticket in a yellow basket, and then being escorted to an empty elevator, getting in an empty elevator, which fills up like that and takes us to the 5th floor …
Scott Gilbertson / Monkey Bites:
FakeYourSpace: Buy Your Friends — Friends? We don't need your stinking friends. We bought our friends cheap at FakeYourSpace — For $.99 cents a month FakeYourSpace lets you buy "hotties" both male and female to add to your MySpace profile as friends and what's more they even post 2 comments a week.
Joe / Techdirt:
Paging William Shatner: Restaurants To Let You Name Your Own Price — from the seen-this-before dept — There have been several attempts at selling things using the "name your own price" model, including many failed experiments at Priceline.com alone. Now a company is hoping to try it again …
