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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo's Talks With Facebook Get Bogged Down — Days after Google Inc. announced a $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube Inc., rival Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to extend its Web reach through an acquisition of Facebook Inc. aren't making much progress, say people familiar with the matter.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is Facebook worth as much as YouTube? — I was reading Steve Ballmer scratching his head in BusinessWeek where he was wondering about the valuations that are getting paid out for companies like Skype and YouTube. — Good to hear that Ballmer's leadership on the social software industry …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Facebook worth more than YouTube? — The Wall Street Journal says "Yahoos talks with Facebook get bogged down" Yahoo is reportedly offering $1B for FaceBook. The talks have been on and off most of this year. — Robert Scoble asks "Is Facebook worth as much as YouTube?"
Palm:
Palm Unveils New Slim, Sleek Treo Smartphone — MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: — For people who are ready to move up to a full-featured mobile phone that includes everything needed to stay organized, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 680 smartphone, a GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band world phone.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
With YouTube, Grad Student Hits Jackpot Again — For Jawed Karim, the $100,000 or so he would have to spend on a master's degree at Stanford was never daunting. He hit an Internet jackpot in 2002 when PayPal, the online payment company he had joined early on, was bought by eBay.
Asack / A Sack of Seattle:
What's been hard at Judy's Book — Following up on my post yesterday, below are answers to the question of what's been harder than expected at Judy's Book. — Achieving critical mass in local — Momentum in any one location doesn't transfer to others - you have to fight the same fight over and over.
Todd Weiss / Yahoo! News:
Could a 30-in. monitor help you do your job faster? — Providing employees with 30-in. computer monitors can boost worker productivity at companies where 17-in. or 19-in. monitors are typically used, according to a French consultant hired for a study sponsored by Apple.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Oprah and Bono to unveil Product Red iPod nano tomorrow — Exclusive: Activist and rock singer Bono, with help from Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities, is partnering with Apple Computer on a red-colored iPod to promote his new charity aimed at battling AIDS, AppleInsider has learned.
BBC:
Libyan pupils 'to have laptops' — The government of Libya is reported to have agreed to provide its 1.2m school children with a cheap durable laptop computer by June 2008. — The laptops offer internet access and are powered by a wind-up crank. They cost $100 and manufacturing begins next year, says One Laptop per Child.
Joe Mandese / MediaPost Publications:
Analysts Downgrade Ad Outlook — Again — Detect Shift Vis-A-Vis Economic Growth — A WELL REGARDED WALL STREET research team has once again downgraded the outlook for U.S. and worldwide ad spending, and may have uncovered a fundamental shift in the way ad industry growth corresponds to the expansion of the general economy.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Partners to Offer New Windows Vista-Ready Products for Holidays — Windows Vista logo program designed to help encourage compatibility and performance in partner software and hardware. — Today at DigitalLife 2006, Microsoft Corp. announced the holiday availability of PCs …
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Aaron Wall / SEO Book.com:
Announcing ReviewMe! — In April I mentioned that I wanted to create some sort of a social network. I left that description intentionally broad such as to not tip my hand too much. But the idea was a social ad network. — I had a good idea, but hate the idea of having employees and running a company.
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... Disclaimer (added 3:15pm): Obviously I work at Yahoo and obviously I know the people who work on Flickr and Zonetag personally. Other clients for uploading information from your phone and capturing context do exist and if you're interested …
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Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Mobile Ad Trend Grows — Advertisers from telecom provider Verizon to olive oil brand Bertolli are experimenting with new mobile ad offerings from business listings providers Citysearch and WhitePages.com, and mobile ad software outfit Third Screen Media. Coming on the heels …
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Trying Again to Make Books Obsolete — "The market for downloadable books will grow by 400 percent in each of the next two years, to over $25 billion by 2008," predicted the keynote speaker at the 2001 Women's National Book Association meeting. "Within a few years after the end of this decade …
