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Robin Wauters / blognation Belgium:
First Look at Microsoft's Free Web Analytics Tool 'Gatineau' (With Slides) — SHARE THIS — I wasn't expecting any notable announcements at Web Analytics Day, an annual industry conference organized by Brussels-based web analytics agency OX2, but when Ian Thomas (Director …
Alan / Participate Media:
Joining Yahoo! — I am excited to announce that I am joining Yahoo! to run Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com) as Vice President and General Manager. Yahoo! is also acquiring BuzzTracker.com and related technologies as well as bringing on all Participate Media staff.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Invites Us Into Mash, Its New Social Network — A little more than two months after we first reported rumors about Yahoo!'s new social network Mosh, the company has given us a preview of a social network with a slightly different name: Mash. — The service includes features common to Facebook, MySpace, and My Yahoo.
Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
Brightcove Narrows Focus — NEW YORK While it once had ambitions to compete with YouTube for viewers and ad networks for media dollars, Brightcove is now focusing squarely on its video technology. — As part of that push, the company will cease to develop its less than one-year-old video portal …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Brightcove Ends Development Of Video Portal To Focus On Publishing Services — After a year of working on it, online video distributor Brightcove is giving up on developing its video portal - and the ad dollars that it hoped would go with it - to concentrate on building up its other online video technology services, Adweek reported.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
SCO files for bankruptcy — SCO Group, best known for suing IBM, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. — In a statement, SCO said it was filing to reorganize under Chapter 11. — The Board of Directors of The SCO Group (history lesson) have unanimously determined that Chapter 11 reorganization …
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TorrentFreak:
The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public — When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and, as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would, we checked and double checked our sources.
Scott Woolley / Forbes:
The iFlop — Steve Jobs tried to design —and dictate—the future of television. Here's how he failed. — Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley Svengali who gave the world geek chic in the form of the iPod, iTunes and the iPhone, looked ready to do it yet again last summer when he offered …
Peter Fleischer / Google Public Policy Blog:
Call for global privacy standards — As I've noted before, everyone has a right to privacy online — and governments have an obligation to keep their citizens safe. Yet despite the international scope of even the most ordinary Internet activity, the majority of the world's countries offer virtually …
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Power of Six — I wrote a few weeks ago about Google's attempt to influence the rules for redeployment of the 700-MHz radio band in the U.S. for voice and data applications. Google said it would agree to pony up the $4.6 billion auction reserve price if only the FCC would first guarantee …
CNET News.com:
Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal — Advertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads: it happened in the famous lawsuit against the VCR in 1979 and again with ReplayTV in 2001.
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Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, CenterNetworks, Things That, Deep Jive Interests, Inquirer, Macsimum News and Switched
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Google Code:
Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML — Google welcomes the ISO decision to not approve the fast track of Office Open XML (OOXML) proposed standard DIS 29500 (ECMA 376). — Our engineers conducted an independent analysis of the OOXML specification and found several areas of concern …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Odeo (Formerly SonicMountain) Acquires FireAnt — If you know who FireAnt is, you either love podcasts or you're a long time reader of this blog. The company built up a cult following in 2005 and 2006 as the podcast directory and player, and competed head on with Evan Williams' Odeo for mindshare and users.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
First Prince, now Village People target YouTube — Somebody combined the Village People's hit song, "YMCA," with footage of a dancing Adolf Hitler and posted the clip to YouTube. Now the company that owns the rights to the band's music is preparing to sue YouTube.
Bill Day / Search Engine Land:
Local Search Finally Living Up To Its Promise — Nearly a decade ago, I believed in the power and promise of locally focused Web sites and applications. Back then, I was COO of About.com and in hindsight can say that I was a bit ahead of market adoption, to say the least!
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Dave Barth / Google LatLong:
More of the world for you to explore — Here's great news for all of the virtual explorers out there: Today we added 54 new countries to Google Maps! We've more than doubled our coverage of Latin America and are now mapping three times as many countries in Asia as before.
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Gizmodo, ParisLemon, WebProNews, Google Maps Mania, Search Engine Land, The Raw Feed, Understanding Google … and Mashable!
