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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
2007 Web Predictions — Written by Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De Waele. Also John Milan wanted to contribute, but unfortunately got caught up in the Seattle storm - so best wishes to John and all our Seattle readers.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
It's Time for Traffic Stats to Die — Yahoo's Chief of Insights reflects what Evan Williams and I have been saying for awhile now: the page view is indeed dead. He's calling on the industry to develop new metrics that measure this new world more accurately. Amen to that. So let's start the debate.
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Ken McGuire On The Web
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Peter Daboll / Yodel Anecdotal:Time for a new hit — When banner ads started cropping …
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BBC:
BBC moves to file-sharing sites — Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced. — The move follows a deal between the commercial arm of the organisation, BBC Worldwide, and technology firm Azureus.
Skrentablog:
Google's true search market share is 70% — Sitting here in Palo Alto, running a web business, it's pretty clear who the winner of the search game is. But every month I have to suffer through reading about Google's supposed 40-something percent market share.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pandora Goes Social — Pandora, which plays streaming music for free via a flash player on its site, is one of the first companies we profiled on TechCrunch, back in August 2005 during the original Bar Camp meetup. I still listen to it most of the time I'm writing blog entries.
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jkOnTheRun
Jim Allchin / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista and protection from malware — This entry updated at 8:49 PST on Tuesday 19 December 2006. — On November 30, Sophos issued its monthly report on the top ten threats reported to them in November of 2006. As a part of this, Sophos also studied Windows Vista's vulnerability to these malware threats.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Steps More Boldly Into PayPal's Territory — "I think it's fantastic," Steven Grossberg, who sells video games in Wellington, Fla., said of Checkout. "I'm selling the product. Google is getting tons of customers to sign up for Checkout." — Steven Grossberg, who sells video games online …
Broadcasting & Cable:
Viacom Backs Out of Web Venture Talks — The new Internet video Website collaboration that has been discussed by media heavy hitters including NBC Universal, News Corp., CBS, and Viacom may be on the rocks after Viacom backed out Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.
Dion Hinchcliffe / Enterprise Web 2.0:
Enterprise 2.0 year in review — Though the eponymous title of this blog refers to the application of all aspects of Web 2.0 to the enterprise both large and small, the big story this year has really been about a collaborative subset of Web 2.0, something referred to as Enterprise 2.0.
Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Microsoft Launching Live Drive @ CES? — Josh just received his CES 2007 guide, and in it was this ad from Microsoft: — Could this be the Windows Live Drive that we've been waiting for? — Share this post
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Curt Feldman / GameSpot:
Q&A: Doug Lowenstein, going the distance — The news of Lowenstein's imminent departure from the ESA hit the industry like hammer today. Here, the outgoing president talks about the future ahead for himself, as well as the organization he founded a little over a decade ago.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
iLike nabs $13.3M from Ticketmaster, a marriage of reason — iLike.com, the iPod-compatible social networking and music discovery company we raved about previously has raised $13.3 million in financing from Ticketmaster. — Ticketmaster will own a 25 percent stake in the company.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Scoop: TicketMaster Pours $13.3 Million Into iLike
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Wall Street Journal:
To Lure Teens to Its Latest Web Site, Conde Nast Turns to the 'Flip Squad' — One recent rainy day after classes, seven high-school girls gathered around a table piled with Twizzlers candy and Planter's peanuts to talk about their favorite celebrities, the PSAT's and the difficulties of driving school.
Stuntdubl SEO / Stuntdubl Business Search …:
10 Reasons Digg Could be the New Google, and Suggested Improvements — Despite being incredibly sick of always hearing about "the new google", and not believing it can happen due to the extremely high barrier to entry, I think there *IS* still opportunity for someone to gain significant share of the stagnating search marketplace.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube Concedes To Japanese Demands — You might remember that YouTube had a deadline of last Friday to respond to the demands of The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC). The group, which consists of 23 powerful Japanese media associations …
Alex Veiga / Business Week:
Sony BMG settles suit over CDs — Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program on consumers' computers.
Owen / Business 2.0 Beta:
Searching for Google's Real Search List — Nick Carr has an amusing take on Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), and AOL's (TWX) freshly released year-end lists of the most popular search terms, saying that the top search results reveal their respective audiences as "dweebs, horndogs, and geezers."
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John Battelle's Searchblog
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