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Luke / Reach Students blog:
Facebook advertising brings poor results — Facebook is the website du jour, but in Reach Students' experience it delivers appalling ad clickthroughs. — We've run four targeted campaigns this year using its flyer ads, and each time the results have been disappointing.
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Matt / Burning Questions:
FeedBurner Integration for Blogspot Blogs — Hot on the heels of last week's much-ballyhooed free FeedBurner for everyone, we are very excited to announce the immediate availability of one-click redirection for Blogger Blogspot blogs (note our fine use of both alliteration and first syllable congruence).
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ProBlogger Blog Tips, A Feed Is Born, ParisLemon, The Blog Herald, Googlified, Web Analytics World and RossCode.com
David Aaronovitch / Times of London:
Xbox price set to drop in war with Wii console — The move is being planned to see off competition from Sony's newly-reduced PS3 and Nintendo's top-selling Wii — Microsoft is planning to cut the price of its Xbox 360 games console in the US to take on Sony's newly reduced PlayStation 360 executives …
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Ed Burnette's Dev Connection
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Stuart Dredge / Tech Digest:
Get set for Apple's Yellow Submarine Beatles iPod — Could there ever be an Apple gadget more desirable than the iPhone? Yep. How about a limited-edition Yellow Submarine iPod, with every single Beatles album preloaded onto it? Oh yes. — There were plenty of rumours …
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:Yellow Submarine iPod Coming Soon, Complete With Beatles Catalog
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Gadget Lab
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook VC: We're Investing in Facebook Apps Too — For Facebook application developers, not all VCs are created equal...at least when it comes to the support they can lend your company if they also happen to, say, sit on the board of Facebook itself. — That's the position Jim Breyer …
Wall Street Journal:
Whole Foods Is Hot, Wild Oats a Dud — So Said 'Rahodeb' — Then Again, Yahoo Poster — Was a Whole Foods Staffer, — The CEO to Be Precise — In January 2005, someone using the name "Rahodeb" went online to a Yahoo stock-market forum and posted this opinion: No company …
AppleInsider:
Apple unlocks full-screen QuickTime playback, releases iTunes 7.3.1 — In addition to a minor iTunes fix, Apple on Wednesday unleashed an update to its QuickTime media player software that lets users view videos in full-screen mode without a purchase upgrade. — QuickTime 7.2
Yahoo! Search Blog:
May I Suggest... ...A faster way to find what you're looking for. Introducing Search Suggest on Yahoo.com. — It works like this: When you do a search on Yahoo!, you'll automatically be given suggestions based on what you have typed - as you're typing. So, not only does this limit …
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Search Engine Land, Guardian Unlimited, WebProNews, ResourceShelf, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and TechCrunch
Kemp Powers / Reuters:
Nintendo Wii may be scarce for holidays — SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 11 (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) hit Wii video game consoles will still be scarce this holiday season, a senior executive said on Wednesday. Nintendo promised that some 100 new games for the Wii …
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New York Times, Kotaku, GamesIndustry.biz, Next Generation and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
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Paul Miller / Engadget:Nintendo Wii Balance Board gets you stepping in upcoming Wii Fit title
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ParisLemon, last100, Tech Blog, technabob, Harry Chen Thinks Aloud, Gizmodo and Gadgetell
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Warner streams entire catalog of music for free on imeem — Warner Music Group is offering its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on imeem, a Web site focused on letting users share music playlists. — The music is currently live on the San Francisco startup's Web site, the company told VentureBeat Wednesday evening.
CNN:
UPDATE EU Clears Terra Firma's Proposed GBP2.4 Billion EMI Takeover — BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Commission Thursday cleared U.K. private equity group Terra Firma Capital Partners to buy U.K. music company EMI Group PLC (EMI.LN) for GBP2.4 billion, or EUR3.6 billion …
Jason Shellen / shellen dot com:
My time at Google, by the numbers — I joined Google as part of the Blogger acquisition in February 2003. There were only six of us on the Pyra Labs team and we were Google's first acquisition*. Google was only about 600 employees strong. There were times when we felt like royalty …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Is Zillow building a ghost town? — I don't live in the U.S., so Zillow.com isn't much use to me as a real estate site, but from all I've heard it is a fantastic service backed by some smart guys, including several of my friend Stuart MacDonald's pals from the old Expedia days.
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Xavier / notebooks.com:
Logitech MX Air Mouse - Gesture Based Navigation for Notebooks — Logitech is introducing an innovative wireless mouse that works on a desk or in the air. The Logitech MX Air Rechargeable Cordless Air Mouse let's users control multimedia playback or any other mouse function with in-air hand gestures.
Mark Schliebs / NEWS.com.au:
Watchdog takes Google to court — GOOGLE, the world's biggest search engine, is being taken to court by the Australian competition watchdog, alleging misleading and deceptive conduct. — The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleges Trading Post Australia, Google Ireland …
Helen Branswell / Toronto Star:
Lightning blasted IPod-wearing jogger — Vancouver man suffered permanent hearing loss after bolt struck — Victim was left with jaw broken in four places, running shoe in shreds, burns all over his body — Wearing the device that is said to put "1,000 songs in your pocket" …
Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica:
At the races with the Kangaroo TV — Getting the best of both worlds — As anyone who follows racing knows, it can often be a lot harder to follow what's going on when you're actually at the track compared to watching it from the comfort of your own couch.
