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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
A Long-Delayed Ad System Has Yahoo Crossing Its Fingers — Starting around 3 p.m. Pacific time on Monday, a group of Yahoo executives will begin shuttling among three "war rooms" at the company's search marketing unit here. — They will be scrutinizing an array of moving charts …
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Mona Elesseily / Search Engine Land:
New Panama Ranking System For Yahoo Ads Launches Today — Today, Yahoo will flip the switch for the new "Marketplace Design" algorithm in the US market, the system commonly known as Panama. Parts of Panama have already gone live in the past few weeks. But throughout today …
Gizmodo:
Super Bowl Ad Watch: Top Spots — Yeah, we know, the commercials were better than the game again this year, even though it was a pretty good Super Bowl for Colts fans at least. There were a lot more HD spots in this year's game compared to last year's, too.
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michael parekh on IT, Cymfony's Influence 2.0, Zatz Not Funny!, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and digg
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Chris Boggs / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Superbowl Ads - Where's the URL? — According to Reuters, a fair sample of this year's Super Bowl television advertisements actually caused fear or anxiety on the part of some test subjects at the University of California. This makes sense, as there was a lot of violence …
David Barboza / New York Times:
Internet Boom in China Is Built on Virtual Fun — SHENZHEN, China — When Pony Ma, the 35-year-old co-founder of China's hottest Internet company, sends a message to friends and colleagues, the image that pops up on their screens shows a spiky-haired youth wearing flashy jeans and dark sunglasses.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Study Finds Security Flaws on Web Sites of Major Banks — Internet security experts have long known that simple passwords do not fully defend online bank accounts from determined fraud artists. Now a study suggests that a popular secondary security measure provides little additional protection.
Mark Evans:
Will Google Office Catch On? — So, it's not surprising Google is apparently coming out with a Powerpoint-like service that will complete its online productivity suite portfolio - and, more important, give it the same arsenal as Microsoft Office. The question is whether it matters?
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mathewingram.com/work, ZefHemel.com, Manthan, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, Google Blogoscoped and TechCrunch
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Robert Young / GigaOM:
Facebook - Smart or Stupid? — As we all know, one of the biggest stories in 2006 was about a deal that never happened. Despite multiple rumors of buyout offers from various suitors, Facebook rejected them all and decided to stay independent. Now, whether that was a smart decision …
Business Wire:
Publishers Take Back Control of Their Ad Revenue with FAST AdMomentum — With FAST AdMomentum, publishers now have a private-label contextual advertising platform, eliminating the need for third-party services — New product was developed in consultation with publishers who are looking …
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Plazes Raises $3.5M — Location-based social mapping startup Plazes says it has raised €2.7 million ($3.5 million) from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures in its first institutional equity round of financing. Last year the company, which says it is based in Zurich and Berlin …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
It's official: Apple and The Beatles kiss and make up — Apple and The Beatles' parent company Apple Corps said Monday they have entered into a new agreement concerning the use of the name "Apple" and apple logos, ending a testy trademark dispute dating back nearly three decades.
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Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
Glimpsing the future with Amazon's Web services — Doug Kaye, the CTO at GigaVox Media has posted an interesting post on using Amazon's Web services as a platform for his new podcasting system. (Disclosure: I'm the Executive Producer for IT Conversations which is a GigaVox production.)
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Ben Arnoldy / Christian Science Monitor:
Bloggers can make money, but most keep day jobs — The rise of 'contextual advertising' has created a 21st-century version of royalties. — BOSTON - A penny for your thoughts? Kevin Vahey has done a good deal better, turning a personal gripe into $1,000 a year of supplemental income.
New York Times:
Microsoft's Vista Debut Wasn't Nearly So 'Wow' — Television commercials for Microsoft's new Vista operating system show a spaceship taking off, a reindeer appearing in the middle of a suburban neighborhood and a man holding a piece of the Berlin wall. — "Every so often you experience something …
Rajeev Deshpande / Times of India:
Google Earth agrees to blur pix of key Indian sites — NEW DELHI: President APJ Abdul Kalam's concerns over Google Earth providing detailed and unhindered view of 'sensitive' Indian establishments have been addressed, courtesy a formula which allows users uninterrupted access to the 'eye …
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Luca Filigheddu / Thoughts on VoIP, technology:
Sitofono goes Mobile — I'm happy to announce that Sitofono goes mobile for US and Canada users. — This means that you can now point your mobile phone's browser at www.companyname.sitofono.com, insert you mobile phone number in the edit box and call the company which owns that Sitofono from your mobile phone completely for FREE.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Divineo offers up LCD-infused Xbox 360, practicality in doubt — No, we don't think this Xbox 360 case mod oddity takes the cake, but it ranks fairly high up there in the long list of mods that are impressive from a technical standpoint, but next to useless from a practicality stance.
