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Telcos
Lay $200 Billion Goose Egg
The U.S. is ranked 12th in broadband penetration, says AT&T CEO Ed Whiteacre,
and in order to bring America up to speed through fiber-to-the-premises (fttp)
wiring, content providers are going to have to pony up to use his "pipes."
The Wii is Nintendo's next-generation gaming console...
"Wii"
May Be A Great Platform, And A Nuisance
"Wheeee! I got a Wii!" Within the next six months or so, small children
throughout America will be rejoicing in this fashion. And with endless snickering
and repetition, at that.
Online
Trust Comes From Positive Feedback
The first few days before you start a new job can be full of anxiety. You don't
really know anyone. Chances are the only person you talked to was the interviewer
and you don't even know what that person is like in a work environment.
Online
Purchasing Simplified By Swaptree
A new online bartering service is hoping to simplify the way people get (and get
rid of) used goods. Swaptree intends to let consumers directly trade books, CDs,
DVDs, and videogames, with up to four users able to participate in a single transaction.
No
You Can't Sell NZ On eBay
There are a number of things one can't sell on eBay, like an immortal soul or
a baby; as it turns out, one can't sell New Zealand on eBay either. Not even if
the seller takes PayPal.
No
Yahoo Stake For Microsoft
Microsoft did offer Yahoo CEO Terry Semel a deal where Microsoft would get a stake
in Yahoo's search business, but suggestions that Bill Gates was ready to buy Yahoo
simply didn't happen.
Gmail
To Take Your Picture
A forthcoming feature in Google's Gmail service will let its users associate a
photo with a name in the Gmail inbox. Gmail Pictures did not receive a mention
at the recent Google Press Day...
AIM
Pages Users For Social Network
AOL is going up against MySpace and other sites as it attempts to draw some of
the younger online crowd to base their profiles where they do their instant messaging.
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Frequent media stories that aim at pushing Microsoft and Google into an all-out
battle royale don't really hit the mark according to Microsoft's CEO.
Editor's Note: Does Google have five years to live until
Google does to it what it did to Novell and Netscape? Is five years not nearly
enough time for Microsoft to even start having an impact on Google's lucrative
hold on advertising online? Don't wait five years to share your opinion at
WebProWorld.
If you're walking down a dark street, and a couple of tough guys step out of the
shadows, which CEO would you rather have at your shoulder cracking his knuckles
and grinning at the muggers, Steve Ballmer or Eric Schmidt?
I'm taking the ex-Harvard turned Microsoft boss. But despite the frequently combative overtones that have come out of Redmond, Ballmer claimed in comments made at a private event in California that the rivalry isn't quite as overheated as some would like to see.
"Let's not focus on Google,. The key is, what about the advertising business model? Have we done everything we need to do to drive advertising as a business model?"reported Ballmer as saying at the Churchill Club and Commonwealth Club in Santa Clara, CA, on Thursday.
Ballmer noted that Microsoft was arriving late to the online advertising game; the company was late in recognizing the importance of search, and it seemed the Internet had to be pressed against Bill Gates' nose before Microsoft really began to embrace the World Wide Web.
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"We'd like to be No. 2 and then No. 1 in advertising," Ballmer said of Microsoft's goals. That would mean displacing Yahoo from the number 2 spot as quickly as possible. Should that happen, maybe Yahoo CEO Terry Semel will think more of Microsoft's interest in Yahoo Search.
Ballmer noted Microsoft would pour $1.1 billion into research and development into MSN, and part of that cash would go toward adCenter. He also allowed that getting Microsoft to the dominant place in online advertising could take five years.
Microsoft's CEO also cited some of the strategic thinking behind adCenter:
"In creating AdCenter, we think of it as an eBay for advertising. How do you bring buyers and sellers of advertising together? How do you do it in a way that creates value for both of those?" Ballmer said. "We think we have a lot of ideas around that topic, but in a sense we're a Johnny come lately. The guys that came first were Overture, then Google, and we're late to the game, but we get what's going on."
Whether Microsoft has its efforts aimed at the market with Google in mind or not doesn't matter. By focusing on Internet advertising, Microsoft and Google will start trading elbows in force sooner rather than later.
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MySpace has stuck its finger in another pie with the launch of its own instant
messaging network. Called MySpace
IM, the company released a beta version on Tuesday that is closed to other
IM networks, and that requires the operating system Windows 98 or newer. The tag
line: "IM for Friends."
MySpace boasts about 70 million users, which would constitute an ample user base. AIM's instant messaging network is composed of roughly 40 million users. In an obvious attempt to imitate MySpace, even as MySpace copies it, AOL recently announced the soon-to-come AIM Pages, which will be a MySpace-like Internet social network.
MySpace
IM seems to have had a problem-free release, although there are a few minor
quibbles with the system. One issue is that users must manually build their friends
list (as opposed to having their MySpace friends imported automatically). On a
positive note, however, users needn't log into each network individually-logging
into MySpace IM accomplishes the same thing as logging into the actual MySpace
website, and users can do such things as check their inbox from the IM service.
But the bigger issue is the risk involved in launching yet another instant messaging network, and one that is incompatible with all other existing services. This puts MySpace into the position of having to compete with big-name programs like AIM, Windows Live Messenger, and Google Talk.
It remains to be seen how many of MySpace's users are willing to sign up for yet
another instant messaging network, or how many individuals are prepared to join
MySpace in order to be eligible to use MySpace
IM.
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At Least He Asked...
Well folks, I had this nice two-paragraph introduction written for this section,
but I stupidly overwrote it. Therefore, I am now rewriting the condensed version.
The poster below is basically asking if it is ok to take content from another
site's RSS feed and post it on his site after the content is DELINKED. I immediately
know how many of you are going to react, but at least he had the decency to ask
first.
As you can see by the responses in the thread, reactions were swift and to the
point. Be sure and let the poster know what you think about his idea, but please
do so in a professional manner.
|| Chris||
Fetch, delink and post: An acceptable practice?
It is easy to fetch RSS feeds and publish them in a site. However, those annoying links bleed PageRank and lead visitors away... But, what about editing them?
Also. If I can fetch and publish those RSS files, why not doing the same with ANY page? (let's assume a non-copyrighted page). Again, DELINKING the contents for better results before posting as my own.
This solution seemed too easy to be valid, but I want to hear opinions from fellow webmasters before launching my delinker script to the market.
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Anybody else getting an error message when they login to there Google personal
pages?... I get this, "We're sorry" message only when pulling up my
personal homepage...
- shaynorulz
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