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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
First Look: StumbleUpon Announces New Video Surfing Site, StumbleVideo — If you're familiar with StumbleUpon, the web surfing toolbar, you've probably spent countless hours hitting the "stumble" button and discovering sites that are eerily tailored towards your taste.
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Reel Pop
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
StumbleUpon Launches StumbleVideo — Just after midnight EST (about now), StumbleUpon will lift the embargo on StumbleVideo, a service that automatically finds videos matching your interests. The site doesn't require the StumbleUpon toolbar - you can simply watch videos pulled from Google Video …
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Dawn Patrol
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:StumbleUpon Launches Video Referral Site, StumbleVideo
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Monkey Bites
Mike / CrunchNotes:
Putting TechCrunch UK On Hold — TechCrunch UK, just a few months old, has been tremendously successful in creating a community for local UK & Ireland Entrepreneurs. However, today I put the blog on hold and terminated our relationship with editor Sam Sethi.
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Valleywag, Scripting News, Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, broadstuff, christian jung beta, Naked Conversations, Mathew Ingram, blog.forret.com, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Tom Morris, The Blogging Times, The Post Money Value, John Furrier, NevilleHobson.com, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, One Man & His Blog and TechCrunch UK & Ireland
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Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
LE WEB 3 — Got back to London from Paris at lunchtime. — I had a superb time at Le Web 3. Thank you, Loic and Geraldine Le Meur, for putting on such a good show. And thanks also to Jeff Clavier for helping out. Always a pleasure to see you guys. — Here are my thoughts, in no particular order:
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About Skype:
SKYPE GOES THE EXTRA MILE TO CONNECT ITS GLOBAL COMMUNITY — Extras and Public Chat features inspire more people to stay in touch with their friends and meet new ones along the way — Skype, the global Internet communications company, today announced Skype™ 3.0 for Windows …
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Enterprise search made easy - and free - from IBM and Yahoo! — Earlier this year Yahoo! and IBM got together to ask a simple question — how can we make enterprise search easier to install, use, and maintain. The result of that question is IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition which we believe …
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John Battelle's Searchblog, SearchViews, ResourceShelf, Google Operating System and The 360
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Valleywag:
SECOND LIFE: The avatar has no clothes — CLAY SHIRKY — I got a pre-launch demo of Second Life, straight from Mitch Kapor and the Second Life team, several years ago at PC Forum, so I'm well aware of Mitch's bullishness on the subject. Mitch has done more to advance the state …
Valleywag:
AOL: The purge goes high — The purge goes high — AOL's new boss, Randy Falco, may not know how to use IM, but The TV industry veteran is an impressively bloody hatchetman. Among the rumored casualties from today's layoffs at Time Warner's AOL online unit, four senior managers …
Jon Oltsik / CNET News.com:
Windows Vista and the secret of full disk encryption — When I talk to large enterprises, they tend to be either deploying or planning to deploy PC encryption tools, especially for laptops. This is no longer a "nice to have;" it has become a "gotta have."
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Google's reign of terror over Valley workforce coming to end? — For two years, Google has brutalized its competition and other start-ups by grabbing the best talent with two sexy pieces of bait: the stock option, and its fun brand. — However, the first piece of bait, the stock option …
BetaNews:
Yahoo: Lower Page Views Due to AJAX — Yesterday's comScore Media Metrix report, exclaiming that estimates of page views for social networking site MySpace at 38.7 million for the month of November topped those for Yahoo by 600,000, came with some small print that should have generated …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Robotics Studio Now Available to Provide Common Development Platform — More than 30 vendors offer support for creating broad range of innovative robotics applications. — Among the many remarkable innovations emerging out of the robotics industry, from surveillance robots …
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CNET News.com, Engadget, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Hacking Cough and VoIP & Gadgets Blog
Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's weblog:
What if magazines were were published using radical transparency? — Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson asks, "What would radical transparency mean for Wired?" (In the spirit of things, let me guess transparently that "radical transparency" will be the title of his next book).
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Talking Linux IP with Bill Gates — If you could ask Bill Gates one question, what would you ask? I spent an hour today with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on the company's Redmond campus. I chose to ask Bill about Microsoft's intellectual property stance against Linux and its open source developers …
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Interview: Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster — With the hit that is Delicious Library making its rounds around Mac software land and Delicious Library 2 on the way, Delicious Monster and Omni founder Wil Shipley has been, to put it lightly, a busy guy. We were able to catch him for a few words …
Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Apple May Be Carrier for IPod Phone, Analyst Says (Update1) — Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) — Apple Computer Inc. may serve as its own wireless carrier if it delivers an iPod-based cell phone next year and rely on the company's network of retail stores to sell service contracts for the device, UBS AG said.
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! and comScore Networks Study Reveals Influential Consumers Can Be Reached Through Search, Social Media and Communication Tools — "Brand Advocates" Are Loyal and Engaged Consumers That Are Word of Mouth Powerhouses - Especially Online — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 13, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) …
