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6:25 PM ET, January 20, 2007

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Valleywag:
AOL: A warning to niche blogs  —  The wizardry of contextual advertising and blog publishing platforms will allow internet publications to flourish in a thousand niches.  Well, that was the theory.  The practice?  AOL, under new and unsentimental management, is closing down a slew …
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Google Moving Into In-Game Advertising; In Talks To Buy AdScape Media  —  We had been working on this story for more than a week, and now WSJ beats us to it (darn it): Google is about to buy its way into in-game advertising, paidContent.org has learned, and WSJ is also reporting the same.
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Considered IPod Rival, Apple Partnership (Update3)  —  Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, as early as 2003 considered a partnership with Apple Inc. or creating its own digital music player to rival Apple's dominant iPod.
Drew / Dembot:
Ins and Outs  —  There is a new article in the LA-Times this weekend on the tired issue of Amanda leaving Rocketboom.  The article was scheduled to run in 2006 which is where I left all of this behind.  I said it was over then and the commitment stands.  By now, I wish Amanda well and hope she is happy.
Discussion: Paul Colligan's … and NewTeeVee
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista Content Protection - Twenty Questions (and Answers)  —  A conversation has cropped up since the recent publication of a paper scrutinizing how Windows handles digital rights management, especially for HD video.  I've since looped back with Dave Marsh, a Lead Program Manager responsible …
Stowe Boyd / Message:
Enough Already: Getting Social Media All Wrong  —  I attended the Third Thursday event last night, which was held in SF instead of the usual Palo Alto.  About 25 people attended, mostly young, impressionable PR and communications folks eager to learn all about social media: specifically …
Chris / LiveSide:
Windows Live Maps imagery update  —  Windows Live Maps has updated some of its imagery, adding Miami to the list of cities you can explore in 3D, as well as updating to high-res imagery for numerous other locations.  —  To show the difference between high-res and the standard imaging …
Dan Frakes / Macworld:
Up close with AirPort Extreme  —  We take an inside look at Apple's newly updated wireless base station  —  Although Apple's iPhone and Apple TV unveilings dominated coverage of last week's Macworld Expo, they weren't the only products the Cupertino-based company announced that week.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Blu-ray cracked too?  —  It's still early on to tell whether this is actually true, but HD DVD cracker muslix64 is back, and with the help of another anti-DRM cracker, Janvitos, claims to have also broken the Blu-ray's implementation of AACS.  Although their protection does not yet account …
Discussion: digg
microsoft.com:
There's a New Train Comin'  —  Following the successful release of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, the Aces Studio is using the same technology to develop a new version of Microsoft Train Simulator.  Unrelated to our previous Train Simulator development efforts, this version will be an all-new product built …
Discussion: Bink.nu and Kotaku
Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
@ MidemNet: MPAA, RIAA, CEA Execs Clash Over DRM & Hardware Controls  —  [By Robert Andrews] This conference on the digital music business got off to a bang here in Cannes this morning when the opening-session discussion broke into a tense and sometimes bitchy disagreement about DRM between representatives …
Discussion: Coolfer
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Computer to TV ? .  Shouldn't it be the Other Way ?  —  Internet video is going to take over the world.  We want unlimited choice.  We want user generated content.  We want our TV shows streamed to us.  Give us the long tail.  Please.  —  Because we want all of this magnificent video …
Discussion: PVR Wire
Brian / Copyblogger:
Link Building Strategies That Work  —  We've seen that the real secret to SEO Copywriting 2.0 is creating compelling content that naturally attracts links, rather than begging for links to our keyword-stuffed "optimized" web page.  In other words, SEO copywriting is now all about response-oriented copy …
Discussion: ProBlogger Blog Tips
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Social Media Evolves Music Creation  —  This is an interesting evolution.  Mia Rose is a guitarist singer who's performed songs that have taken off on YouTube, her latest video has 419,129 views.  A drummer that she doesn't even know adds his drum track on top of her singing, then a bass player adds his.
Discussion: Off On A Tangent
Business Week:
Yahoo's Unlikely Amigos  —  Why the portal and newspapers find they're joined at the hip  —  Evidently the newspapers are going to try to partner their way out of it.  In this case, "it" is whatever disadvantages the medium faces in the online world.  And sliding revenues …
Discussion: Screenwerk
 
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Google Maps Australia is now live
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
802.11n spec moves closer to completion
Phone Scoop:
FCC Approves Stripped-Down Sidekick
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Open letter to Hugh Forrest
Discussion: Scripting News
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
Courage is Relative  —  I sat down with my friend Mr. Scoble last week.
Torley Linden / Official Linden Blog:
The Linden Answers forum has closed
Discussion: VTOR and Second Life Insider
Associated Press:
Google Plans N.C. Data Center
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Mike / Techdirt:
Zune Not So Social When Record Labels Get Involved
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
iPhone interface analysis from an actual usability expert. Gasp!
Valleywag:
PAYPAL: An alternate history according to Elon Musk
 

 
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