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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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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, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, Naked Conversations, broadstuff, Mathew Ingram, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Tom Morris, blog.forret.com, The Blogging Times, MarketingBlog.eu, John Furrier, NevilleHobson.com, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, One Man & His Blog, The Post Money Value and TechCrunch UK & Ireland
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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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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:StumbleUpon Launches Video Referral Site, StumbleVideo
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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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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).
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Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:WHAT WOULD RADICAL TRANSPARENCY MEAN FOR WIRED? (PART 2)
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The Bivings Report, Publishing 2.0, Business 2.0 Beta Blogs, Glass House, Dan Blank, Monkey Bites, HighTouch, Perceptric Forum and Boing Boing
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 …
TDavid / Things That:
Amanda Congdon on ABC News, Amanda UnRSSed — I wasn't among those who sang Amanda Congdon praises when she parted ways with Rocketboom. With her looks and resume she was destined to land another gig. Her first stop was a boring trip across America interviewing different marginally interesting people …
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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
About Skype:
Skype Announces New Skype Unlimited Calling Plan — Offers 12 Months of Unlimited Skype Calls to Any Phone Within the US and Canada for a Flat Annual Rate — Skype, the global Internet communications company, is now offering U.S. and Canadian consumers the new Skype Unlimited Calling plan …
Josh Bernoff / Devices, Media …:
iTunes sales are NOT plummeting! Press credibility, on the other hand . . . What an interesting couple of days it's been. What follows is a case study in how information — and misinformation — spreads on the Net. — We put out a simple little report about iPods and iTunes based …
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Reuters, SeekingAlpha CE Stocks, Good Morning Silicon Valley, BBC, InsideMicrosoft, Mathew Ingram, Things That, Byte of the Apple, Silicon Valley Sleuth, The Technology Chronicles, Engadget, Seeking Alpha, CNNMoney.com, Digital Music News, Rex Hammock's weblog, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Blackfriars' Marketing, Glass House, MacUser, PaidContent, Hardware 2.0, hypebot, Howard Lindzon and digg
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group — IBM will launch an official group in January to deal with Second Life and other virtual realms from which the company hopes to profit. — Virtual reality and other visual interface work is the next project on IBM's plate …
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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) …
James Alan Miller / SmartPhoneToday:
Release of ACCESS Linux Platform for Smartphones Pushed Back — Back at 3GSM in February, PalmSource (now officially ACCESS Systems) introduced the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP), a new Linux-based mobile operating system (OS) for smartphones that's intended to be the follow up to the Palm OS.
