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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Top Blogs On Google Reader — So Google recently made it fairly easy to determine the number of Google Reader subscribers around a particular blog. Gabe Rivera at Techmeme did a little work on excel and came up with an unofficial list of the top blogs and the number of subscribers each blog has on Google Reader.
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Search Engine Land, Matt Cutts, Online Marketing Blog, WinExtra, Technology Evangelist, louisgray.com, /Message and Digg
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
How many Google Reader subscribers do you have? — Darren Rowse on ProBlogger showed me how to look up how many subscribers I have on Google Reader. — So, I went looking for some numbers. — Keep in mind that these are ONLY for Google Reader, which is only a small percentage of subscribers (although a growing number).
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Loic Le Meur Blog, Data Mining, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Sam Harrelson, ongoing and The Webpreneur
Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips:
Google Reader Reveal Subscriber Numbers to Feeds — Google Reader have just started showing how many readers are subscribing to an RSS feed in a similar way to the way that Bloglines have been showing subscriber numbers for years now. — The subscriber numbers can be seen simply by doing …
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Matthew Karnitschnig / Wall Street Journal:
Discovery Plans to Buy Web Site — Discovery Communications Inc., looking to jump-start a stalled Internet strategy, plans to acquire the HowStuffWorks.com Web site for $250 million. — Discovery, owner of cable channels such as Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, said it will use the site …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Discovery Does Its Biggest Online Buy: HowStuffWorks For $250 Million — Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) has made its biggest online acquisition till date: it is buying Atlanta-based online reference site HowStuffWorks.com for $250 million. The purchase also includes a number of digital properties …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
When Does a Social Network Become a "Publicity Network"? — Over the last week or so, Robert Scoble has mentioned several times that Facebook currently limits him to 5,000 "friends" and that the limit should be lifted. If we check his Twitter account, currently he has 6,500 friends.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Video Chat Service Aims to Follow YouTube's Path — A Web start-up company with some of the same backers who helped catapult YouTube to glory wants to do for live video chats what YouTube did for video watching. — The company, TokBox, allows people with Webcams and broadband Internet connections …
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TechCrunch
Scott Kirsner / Boston Globe:
Ex-colleagues, chilly competition — In August 2004, two entrepreneurs were having drinks at the bar at Rialto, the Harvard Square restaurant, following a board meeting. — Hilmi Ozguc was the chief executive of Maven Networks Inc., a Cambridge company pioneering Internet video delivery …
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NewTeeVee
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
The Declining US Dollar: Winners And Losers — Many within the United States might not have noticed the trend yet, but the rest of the world has: the US dollar is in serious decline. Americans have long made fun of their friends North of the border, but today the Canadian dollar buys $1.02 US dollars making …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Competing for Clients, and Paying by the Click — You can do cool things with Google, like take the pulse of the legal profession. — Google is, of course, more than a search engine. It also sells advertising, including the shaded "sponsored links" that run next to the real search results.
John Markoff / Bits:
Bill Gates Presents the One (Really Big) Ringy Dingy — For Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and the other companies that make telecommunications equipment, this Tuesday is a sort of D-Day. — That day, Bill Gates plans to introduce Microsoft's invasion into their business, with a new line of software …
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Hitachi develops world's smallest read-head technology for hard disks; result may be 4-terabyte drives — Disk drive technology marches on. We take it for granted. But there is some serious science behind it all and Hitachi is showing some off today. The Japanese company is announcing …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Introducing Digg-Like Voting To Celebrity Gossip Aficionados — While Digg seems hard pressed to break out of its geek-infested niche, other sites are using Digg-like voting mechanisms to attack a much larger and much less tech savvy crowd: celebrity gossip aficionados.
Kurt Hutchinson / Ars Technica:
Windows Home Server in depth: the Ars Technica review — System requirements: 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 70GB hard drive, Ethernet card — When Microsoft announced Windows Home Server earlier this year, it was greeted with a mixture of curious disdain and eagerness.
