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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Ask City Launches Amid High Expectations — Barry Diller is putting a lot of pressure on Ask. He keeps talking about Ask's role in IAC's overall operation and local in particular. When he acquired Ask for almost $2 billion Diller immediately touted Ask's ability to knit together …
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Screenwerk, ResourceShelf, Phil Bradley's weblog, Search Engine Roundtable and Incremental Blogger
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
The Retooling of a Search Engine — A replica of what looks like Han Solo of "Star Wars," frozen in carbonite, sits outside Jim Lanzone's office here. A closer inspection, however, reveals that the frozen body is that of another fictional character: Jeeves, the English butler best known …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Ask Goes Local with AskCity — Will Google be the winner in the $31 billion local search and online classified advertising market, asks Donna Bogatin over at the ZD Net's Digital Micro Markets blog. Perhaps, but it is not going to have it easy, if Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com has anything to do with it.
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The Technology Chronicles, Marketing Blog Bent …, Scobleizer and Kevin Burton's Feed Blog
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service — Hoping to turn the millions of people with digital cameras and camera phones into photojournalists, Yahoo and Reuters are introducing a new effort to showcase photographs and video of news events submitted by the public.
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Azureus Launches Zudeo For Finding And Sharing Video — Azureus will launch Zudeo.com Monday morning, a content indexing site for finding and sharing large video files. The company told TechCrunch on Friday that they would be partnering with 20 major TV and film studios to provide free programs …
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Michael Calore / Wired News:
Azureus' HD Vids Trump YouTube — The file sharing company Azureus on Monday launched a new distribution platform for downloading high-quality video, which the company hopes will become the next YouTube — but for high definition, DVD-quality video on the internet.
Jack Neff / AdAge:
Marketers' Websites Outdraw Those of Major Media Players — P&G and Unilever Attract 9 Million Unique Visitors Monthly — CINCINNATI (AdAge.com) — Believe it or not, those boring corporate websites are pulling in more eyeballs — and more influencers — than the flashy prime time TV shows …
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It's Online and Hyper-Local — FORT MYERS, Fla. — Could this be the future of newspapering? — Darkness falls on a chilly Winn-Dixie parking lot in a dodgy part of North Fort Myers just before Thanksgiving. Chuck Myron sits in his little gray Nissan …
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PaidContent, Screenwerk, Teaching Online Journalism, Innovation in College Media, Dan Blank and Romenesko
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple iPhone Details From Kevin Rose — I just caught this on CrunchGear: Digg's Kevin Rose told me a few weeks ago that he had some good inside information on the upcoming iPhone, but he wouldn't tell me anything. Well, after a couple of beers he spills the beans on Diggnation, and the clip is embedded below.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
The big Digg rig — Digg became one of the top sites for tech news because it lets Web-savvy geeks decide what's newsworthy, offer up stories they like and vote on their favorites. — Now, dubious Internet marketers are planting stories, paying people to promote items …
Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
How Google handles hacked sites — If you've never read my blog before, welcome. I'm the head of the webspam team at Google. And I have a blog for days just like this. — Okay, first off you should go read this post. It's entitled "Me Against Google" and the author is unhappy …
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Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Scobleizer and Slashdot
Fimoculous.com:
Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading — Every year around this time, I attempt to summarize what's been happening online by publishing my list of the best blogs of the year [2002, 2003, 2004]. But I abruptly stopped last year because the list had become annoyingly redundant.
Variety:
Yahoo! blue over loss of exec, content deal — Net company faces setbacks as Katz, Current log off — David Katz, the top Yahoo! sports and programming exec who led the company's first consistent effort at original programming, ankled late last week, at the same time that the company abruptly lost …
Matt Craven / problogging.com:
Reflections on my time at The Blog Herald — It's now public that we've sold The Blog Herald to an undisclosed buyer. — I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on my time as Publisher at The Blog Herald. — Taking Over — When we first took over The Blog Herald on February 25th …
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Blogging Pro
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Scott Kirsner / Mercury News:
As online viewing booms, the amateurs give way to big media — Whenever a new technology makes personal expression easier — from desktop publishing in the 1980s to video sharing in 2006 — denizens of Silicon Valley leap to the same conclusion: Finally, amateurs will triumph …
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USA Today:
Fox News pairs up with Yahoo — NEW YORK — CNBC isn't the only cable network trying to make a splash online: Fox News expects to announce this week a deal to provide video to Yahoo Finance, the No. 1 financial site. — "This is our first portal deal," says Jeremy Steinberg, Fox News head of digital sales and development.
