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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Platforms Are The New Portals — We've all become so enamored with the increasingly distributed nature of the web — or the de-portalization as Keith Teare of Edgeio puts it — and the success of user-centric platforms like YouTube and MySpace. But we seem to be forgetting …
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What the heck is a portal anyway? — Among other things, a post today by my friend Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 has helped crystallized for me just how inadequate a lot of the terminology is that we're using for Web services and communities — and not just the obvious kind of cringe-inducing terms like "user-generated content."
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:Buzzword alert: De-portalization
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Jon Pareles / New York Times:
2006, Brought to You by You — IMAGINE paying $580 million for an ever-expanding heap of personal ads, random photos, private blathering, demo recordings and camcorder video clips. That's what Rupert Murdoch did when his News Corporation bought MySpace in July.
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Michael Gartenberg:
Lessons of Zune — So while Microsoft works to get the first million Zunes sold, here's some thoughts at what they need to do (and should have done at launch) to get to this milestone. — Zune lacks elegance - It's actually not bad looking device but put it next to a 30gb iPod …
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Steven / StevenLevy.com:
A Universally Bad Idea — So Microsoft is paying the record label Universal a dollar for each Zune sold. (See the story here.) Doug Morris, the CEO of the Universal Music Group, justified it quite succinctly: "These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it," he said.
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again — A commenter on one of my previous posts about Web 2.0 wrote: … I replied, and thought that my reply might be worth publishing more widely than just in the comments. So here is a new attempt at a brief definition:
Richard K / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Should Semel go? Is Yahoo a media company? Is that a good thing to be? (Yes, Yes, No.) — By Richard Koman for SiliconValleyWatcher — So GigaOm posted this piece on Thursday, based on Yahoo employee Jonathan's Strauss' verbatim transcript of Terry Semel's post-reorg talk to employees.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft patents DVR application to provide targeted advertising — While Microsoft isn't exactly the first name we'd guess to be associated with a new DVR tidbit, the firm has nonetheless filed a patent for "DVR-based targeted advertising." Apparently, Microsoft's idea is to eliminate the …
jnd.org:
Simplicity Is Highly Overrated — Column written for Interactions. © CACM, 2007. … "Why can't products be simpler?" cries the reviewer in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the local newspaper. "We want simplicity" cry the people befuddled by all the features of their latest whatever.
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Dave Taylor / The Intuitive Life Business Blog:
When is a blog too personal? — One of the great ongoing debates in the murky world of blogging is whether your weblog should be personal or professional, whether you should be revealing or private. There are, of course, many different answers and at some level the real answer is …
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
The Hat Trick That Didn't Happen — WITH the arrival of mittens and mufflers comes the inevitable onslaught of year-in-review columns. Certainly there have been plenty of media milestones this year — from the march of Google and the explosion in online video to the turmoil in the newspaper industry …
Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Blog-Tag: A Game for a Virtual Cocktail Party — As a blogger, people may know you, but how good does anyone ever really know anyone? During the past few weeks I've attended a number of charity events in and around New York City and I've run into people who otherwise would be total strangers …
Google Blogoscoped:
Does the Google Toolbar Index URLs? — I had a lil' bet going with Googler Matt Cutts. The premise? I figured that once you installed the Google Toolbar, every URL you'd visit would slowly be added to the Google web search index... even otherwise unlinked URLs, as long as they're public (and not excluded via robots.txt).
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Google Base Becoming a Stealth Podcast Search Engine? — Google is running an Adwords that invites podcasters to upload their shows to Google Base. The landing page asks podcasters to select some of their best programming to upload to Google Base. It seems curious to me that Google Base is being marketed this way.
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GigaOM:
Can Personal Cellular Sites boost cell service? — By Allan Leinwand — Mobile operators are on the verge of asking you to help them solve one of their biggest problems - how to get more signal strength where you need or want it most. Their plan? Allow end users to buy personal devices …
