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New York Times:
Google in Content Deal With Media Companies — Google built an empire delivering advertisements across the Internet, and now it plans to distribute content from media companies just as aggressively. — Google is working with Dow Jones & Company, Condé Nast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment …
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IP Democracy, Google Watch, Beet.TV, Valleywag, Rex Hammock's weblog, John Furrier, PaidContent, CrunchGear, Search Engine Journal and Lost Remote
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Plusbox — While searching Google for nightwish videos, Razvan Antonescu spotted this video plusbox* (ignore the blue link bars in the screenshot, they're from a Firefox extension). Alongside a snippet from Google Video, a plus icon appeared with a link reading "show video" …
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Googling Google
New York Times:
An Ad Upstart Forces Google to Open Up a Little — Google and Yahoo have been fighting it out over which company will dominate the online advertising business, with Google maintaining the upper hand so far. — But in the competition for contextual text ads — those small sponsored links …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
New Hot Properties: YouTube Celebrities — No one would mistake the Ask a Jew guy for Lonelygirl15, but these days YouTube contributor Shmuel Tennenhaus is feeling like a hot commodity. — Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube for his droll question …
comScore:
comScore Data Show Yahoo!'s New Ranking Model Has Had Initial Positive Impact on Sponsored Search Click-Through Rates — comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today released the results of a study analyzing the changes in Yahoo!'s click-through rates for sponsored search ads since …
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:Yahoo Benefits from new Panama Advertising System
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Reuters
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
IRS goes after eBay, wants info on seller earnings — The IRS wants its money. That's why it has helpfully assembled a list of the most common excuses people use (PDF) for not paying their taxes. In case you weren't aware of it, a claim that "the 16th Amendment is invalid because it contradicts …
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The Blog Herald
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center — I was lucky enough to get in on the Gmail beta when it launched and I haven't looked back since. Even though I've had an account for almost three years and I get over 100 emails a day, I have chewed up only 18% of the generous 2.8 gigabytes of storage.
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Office Evolution
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
EMI to Apple, Microsoft: Ditching DRM is going to cost you — Earlier this month it was widely reported that EMI was indeed ready to cast DRM into the dark abyss and earn the company the honorable status of being the first major music label to realize that DRM alienates honest customers.
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Neowin.net
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Reflections on the first decade of blogging — I ran into my old friend Dave Winer at the San Francisco airport on Wednesday last week. He was on his way to Boston for the Public Media Conference. We traded pictures and chatted over early morning (6:30 AM) coffee about developers …
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One By One Media, Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally, Joe Duck, 901am and Adnans Sysadmin/Dev Blog
UPI:
Alaska police crimp wireless surfer — Free wireless Internet service at a public library in Palmer, Alaska, doesn't mean its available for use after hours. — A Palmer man has been waiting to see if he'll be charged with criminal wrongdoing after a patrolling police officer seized …
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Gizmodo
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
5 reasons BitTorrent Store won't sell — BitTorrent is all set to launch a legal P2P video download service, BitTorrent Entertainment Network, that will offer television shows for sale and movies for rental from some of the major Hollywood studios. The news has created quite a stir amongst the technorati.
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Mike / Techdirt:
News Reports May Be A Little Quick To Clear Sarasota E-Voting Machines — from the not-quite dept — The Associated Press put out an article late Friday claiming that a study found the e-voting machines used in Florida's Sarasota County the machines had no problems — despite a large number of missing votes.
Wall Street Journal:
Tech Giants to Unveil Power-Usage Plan — AMD, IBM, Rivals — To Focus on Efficiency — Of Servers, Data Centers — The rising cost of energy to operate computer rooms is forcing high-tech competitors to work together — and maybe even agree on ways to measure the problem.
David Kaplan / PaidContent:
AOL Extends $900 Million Takeover Bid For TradeDoubler — AOL is holding firm on its $900 million cash offer for Swedish online marketing company TradeDoubler, though the Time Warner company said it is extending the bid's deadline by several weeks to March 14, Reuters reports.
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