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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Launches “My Ads” Self Serve Ad Platform: Is This Their Google Moment? — MySpace launches their self serve ad platform, called My Ads, tonight, which was first talked about a year ago. Like Facebook's similar product, it allows anyone to quickly create a targeted ad and serve it on MySpace.
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Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
Can Search's ‘Beautiful System’ Extend to Display? — NEW YORK If there's been a “killer app” of Web advertising to date, it's search. Targeting is near perfect, thanks to consumers directly expressing their intent. The auction system has proven an incredibly efficient way to match supply and demand.
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Newspapers' Web Revenue Is Stalling — Newspapers, already facing a grim economic forecast, are digesting another piece of bad news: the growth in online advertising they saw as their salvation has slowed to a crawl. — In the last few years, newspaper companies have been rapidly expanding …
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
$7.5B sales plunge forecast for newspapers — Unless the global economy miraculously turns around on a dime, newspaper advertising revenue may plunge some $7.5 billion in 2008, according to a new projection attempting to assess the impact of the meltdown on the industry.
David Cowan / Who Has Time For This?:
Take Back the Web! — When Tim Berners-Lee conceived the web, he dreamed of inter-connected documents, of surfing along from one person's page to the next, following a fluid path rich with information and discovery. — Instead what we we got is a big honkin' billboard, as commercial interests hijacked Tim's vision.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Prickly Prince From Microsoft Strikes Again — Dare Obasanjo, a Microsoft employee and the son of a former President of Nigeria, doesn't like it when people disagree with him. I found that out in 2007 when Obasanjo vandalized the TechCrunch Wikipedia page in response to a post we wrote …
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Robin Harding / Financial Times:
Sony rules out PS3 price cut for Christmas — Sony, the Japanese consumer electronics group, has ruled out cutting the price of the PlayStation 3 console before Christmas, insisting that the PS3 is better value than rivals half its price. — “The answer is yes, if you're asking …
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
What is the mystery port on the MacBook Pro? — So, today's case spy shots would reveal a couple of interesting nuggets if they turn out to be the final designs of Tuesday's MacBooks. Firstly, the 13 inch-ish case is sans Firewire. Systems Admins will have to move those Boot images over the network now for all but the Pro models.
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server — SAN FRANCISCO — Instead of having a big, loud and complex computer on your desk, what if you could have a quiet, thin machine that rarely needed an upgrade or a fix? — That has been the goal of many technology companies over the last 15 or so years.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
T-Mobile launches BlackBerry Pearl 8220, available today for $149.99 — The BlackBerry Pearl 8220 runs neck-and-neck with the Storm for the title of “most leaked RIM device of 2008,” but for what it's worth, T-Mobile is just now getting around to announcing a date and price for the most fliptastic phone …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites — “Thou shalt not link to outside sites” — a long-held commandment of many newsrooms — is eroding. — Embracing the hyperlink ethos of the Web to a degree not seen before, news organizations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Eyealike Sets Its Image Recognition Technology On A New Target: Advertising — Eyealike, the startup that lets you use photo recognition to help find your ideal mate, is expanding to apply its image processing technology to a new market: advertising. The company says that the new system …
Joe Wilcox / Apple Watch:
Google's Devil Phone Reaches for Heaven — Or so it would seem following reports that T-Mobile has sold out preorders of 1.5 million units. Whoa. — GOT A TIP OR RUMOR? — In September, Clint predicted: “I think the Dream will ship nearly 1 million units by 2009 …
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Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0:Google Android: 1.5 Million T-Mobile HTC G1s Have Been Pre-sold
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Stephen Castle / International Herald Tribune:
Did you hear? MP3 players threaten hearing loss — BRUSSELS: Noise from personal music players is a routine annoyance for travelers on buses, trains and planes. — But it also threatens permanent hearing loss for as many as 10 million Europeans who use them, according to a scientific study …
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TechRadar.com:
Complete guide to Google Analytics — Google's Brett Crosby reveals the secrets of driving targeted traffic to your website — Things change so quickly on the web. When I started working at software firm Urchin in 1996, web analytics was a niche product, important to (and understood by) …
