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Microsoft Launches MSN Video
Has the net continues to become one of the first places people go to for entertainment, be it music or video, many Internet-based companies are embracing this trend by upgrading or debuting features to attract more users.
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Date: 2005-03-31
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Blogger Jeremy Wright Needs A Job
He is very short of cash, and has many unforseen bills and expenses that he is unable to pay. Following his very well publicized non-admittance into the United States, on a business trip that would have helped both his company and his American client, Jeremy is needing a job.
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Date: 2005-03-31
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IBM To Assist With Cell Integration
IBM announced yesterday they would be assisting others with integration of Cell microprocessing technology. In order to accomplish this, IBM is developing new services designed to help others with the forthcoming upgrade.
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Date: 2005-03-31
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Transparency at MSN Works
MediaPost reports that when MSN unveiled its new search engine, it put up a Web page, Inside MSN, which collects user comments on the product and posts them for all to see.
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Date: 2005-03-31
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Fed Ex, UPS Blog?
Nope, the leading expeditors are not blogging..not that I am aware of anyway. But Bloglines just announced that you can track your packages through your Bloglines Feeds.
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Date: 2005-03-30
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Search Google for Stock Quotes
I know, I know, free stock quote sites are everywhere. But, since you use the Google search field for just about everything else, why not use it to get your stock quotes as well... To retrieve the quote, just enter into the search field the operator "stock:" followed by one or more stock symbols:
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Date: 2005-03-30
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Blaster Author To Perform Community Service
Jeffrey Lee Parson, author of the Blaster-B Internet worm, settled his case with Microsoft today. In January, Parson was sentenced to 18 months in prison for launching a denial of service attack against the Redmond-based company.
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Date: 2005-03-30
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Google Buys Urchin
Google has purchased the web site stat company Urchin. Urchin is a competitor to companies such as Webtrends which help webmasters track visitors.
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Date: 2005-03-29
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WebTrends Sold Too!
WebTrends has announced that it is being acquired by Francisco Partners from NetIQ. Francisco Partners is one of the world's largest technology-focused private equity funds.
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Date: 2005-03-29
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Apple OS X Virus Contest Cancelled
A contest to develop a virus capable of infecting Apple OS X has been cancelled. DVForge.com, makers of a number of accessories for the Apple family, sponsored the competition.
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Date: 2005-03-29
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Amazon’s A9 Launches OpenSearch
Claiming, "We want OpenSearch to do for search what RSS has done for content," fledgling search engine and Amazon-owned A9 has launched OpenSearch, a technological bundle allowing content providers, like WebProNews, to "publish their search results in a format suitable for syndication."
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Date: 2005-03-29
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Grokster Case Goes To The Supreme Court
The peer-2-peer file sharing community is having its day in court. Starting today, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments from developers of the P2P clients Grokster and StreamCast Networks' Morpheus.
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Date: 2005-03-29
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Initial thoughts On Yahoo! 360
Ok, so i got my invite to Yahoo! 360, their new blogging/sharing network we reported on earlier this month and after a minimal play around with it i have a few thoughts.
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Date: 2005-03-29
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Sony Ordered To Halt Playstation Sales, Pay $90 Million
A ruling in a US court has caused some major upheaval for Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). A federal district court in California ruled the SCE must cease sales of its Playstation and Playstation 2 consoles, while paying the company Immersion $90 million because of complaints stemming from a patent infringement case.
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Date: 2005-03-28
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Easy Podcast Tag Editing
If you do podcasting on a Windows PC, you'll find AudioShell extremely useful. AudioShell is a freeware Windows Explorer shell extension plugin which allows you to view and edit music file tags directly in Windows Explorer.
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Date: 2005-03-28
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When A Company Can Do No Right
Normally, Jim Hill's predicament wouldn't raise an eyebrow. But since his adversary is The Walt Disney Company-a business hamstrung by years of negative publicity...
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Date: 2005-03-28
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Blogging Styles
A client of ours was joking around with me last week and said I was the "West coast version of Steve Rubel." I had to laugh...
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Date: 2005-03-28
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New Social Network Focuses On Building Trust
A new business networking service hopes to set itself apart by de-emphasizing the friends-bringing-in-friends strategy of many social networks and, instead, matching up people according to their professional affiliations and interests.
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Date: 2005-03-28
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Supreme Court Gets Cable Modem Case
In what looks like the makings of busy week, the Supreme Court is preparing to hear statements from cable modem-based Internet service providers about the sharing of cable modem capable networks with competitors.
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Date: 2005-03-28
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BellSouth Awarded Favorable DSL Decision
Telco giant BellSouth was awarded ruling by the FCC, which stated the company was not required to offer stand alone DSL subscription packages, meaning BellSouth can require customers to accept the company's landline service when offering DSL.
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Date: 2005-03-28
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The Largest Tech Buyout ... Ever
The Mercury News reports on the largest tech buyout, ever. Silver Lake Partners and other private equity firms are acquiring SunGard Data Systems, a risk management software company, for $11.3 billion.
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Date: 2005-03-28
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Nuclear General Is Blogging
MarketingVOX: "General James Cartwright, the man in charge of America's nuclear arms, has a blog, according to a defense industry publication that summarized reports and commentary from military blogs.
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Date: 2005-03-28
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A Tale Of Search Engine Noise
I used to have a NetMeeting site. It's the reason I still have a warm spot in my heart for Google. I was just telling some people about why Google has a better brand name in my mind than other search engines.
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Date: 2005-03-28
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Looking at Desktop Search
The Washington Post is running a story on the various DTS apps available. They seem to favor Google and MSN above the others, but the point I found most interesting was this...
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Date: 2005-03-27
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Blog and Wiki Best Practices
Infoworld has written an article on a comprehensive package on the use of blogs/wikis in internal communications as well as for corporate communications/PR.
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Date: 2005-03-27
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Videocasting to PSP
It hasn't even been out a week and already there's a site showing you how to do PSPcasts. Videos to your PlayStationPortable.
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Date: 2005-03-27
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iTunes Hacked Again
Apple's iTunes was hacked by PyMusique programmers allowing music to be downloaded without Apple's digital rights technology.
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Date: 2005-03-26
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VCs Don't Invest In Ideas
SiliconBeat looks at the overhang in venture capital because interest rates have led to a general glut of capital, and wonders if all that supply benefits demand...
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Date: 2005-03-26
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Google Search Cheat Sheet
I know this isn't much of a tip, but hey, it's Easter weekend so this is all I've got. Google has a Web Search Cheat Sheet on their site ...
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Date: 2005-03-26
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Blog Burnout
Robert Scoble is getting a life and giving up his linkblog. Good for Robert. Marc Orchant also ...
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Date: 2005-03-25
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The Flickr Analogy
Earlier today, we invited a group of folks to Yahoo for a preview of Yahoo! 360. Danah Boyd wrote a bit about the event this evening.
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Date: 2005-03-25
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Is Microsoft Feeling The Heat?
Well, we are feeling the heat. That's for sure. Oh, but that's just cause we're experiencing a drought this winter and the sun has been out in abundance lately.
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Date: 2005-03-25
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Sending Gmail To Your Mobile Phone
Did you know you can have Gmail forward your new mail to your mobile phone? It's very simple, and takes just minutes to set up. Don't want all your email sent? Apply a filter to what you send.
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Date: 2005-03-25
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Kazaa Case Goes To The Judge
The trial pitting Australia's recording industry against the makers of Kazaa may be coming to a highly anticipated end. With closing arguments complete, Judge Murray Wilcox of Australia's Federal Court is expected to rule whether or not the makers of the P2P client are liable for copyright breaches and lost income resulting from files being shared across the Kazaa expanse.
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Date: 2005-03-25
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IBM Supercomputer Beats Own Speed Record
IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer, while running benchmark software, beat its own speed record by performing 183.5 trillion calculations (183.5 teraflops) every second. The previous record was 92 teraflops per second and was established 6 months ago.
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Date: 2005-03-25
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It’s a Fun Time to be in PR
For all the headaches and challenges that blogging represents, it has at the same time brought a new level of enthusiasm and interest in the corporate communications process that's unlike anything I personally have ever seen before.
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Date: 2005-03-25
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Blog Crisis Catches Museums Sleeping
A UK painter has installed four of his own works of art in New York's most prestigious museums - The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Natural History.
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Date: 2005-03-25
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Podcasting Picks up Speed
Last year, as the word podcast began to spread like wildfire, we took a look at it in several posts here at Threadwatch and despite still thinking that the majority of amateur radio like podcasts suck, i have to confess to being a fan of the medium in many ways.
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Date: 2005-03-25
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My Video Rant For The Day
I really like the idea of OurMedia.org. After all, I want to have a service that makes it easy for me to share my entire life with you. Text. Photos. Video. Audio.
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Date: 2005-03-25
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Ten Internet Trends To Watch
Wouldn't it be great to have a good handle on what will happen this year to make sure you could plan around it? asks Mitchell Levy, CEO and executive editor of Happy About, a US publisher of books for corporations.
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Date: 2005-03-25
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Is JupiterResearch For Sale?
Jupiter Research is up for auction according to SVG today - Forrester has refused to say if they're bidding but clearly wants the world to know that they are indeed moving to pick up rival analytics firm JupiterResearch.
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Date: 2005-03-24
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Sony PSP Launches To Large Crowds
Today is the official launch day for the highly anticipated Sony Playstation Portable gaming system, and it has been ushered in with crowds lining up outside of stores to get their hands on it.
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Date: 2005-03-24
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Streamload Launches xStreamMail
Streamload, the leading Internet service for transfer and storage of personal digital entertainment, today announced the launch of xStreamMail, the first email enhancement system specifically designed for sending and sharing collections of full-quality videos and photos.
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Date: 2005-03-24
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Symantec's Hosted Mail Security
Symantec intends to reduce the burden faced by many IT organizations associated with increasing costs and difficulty maintaining on-site solutions, with its Symantec Hosted Mail Security.
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Date: 2005-03-24
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Yahoo Mail To Offer 1-Gigabyte Storage
Although the initial hubbub over email storage capacities has died down, it appears as if it's ready to start back up again. Apparently, Yahoo's email service is preparing to offer another increase in member storage, bringing the fight for email subscribers back to the front.
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Date: 2005-03-23
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EFF Files Appeal in Apple Suit
Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ) filed an appeal in a case that has broad implications for the rights of reporters to protect the confidentiality of their sources.
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Date: 2005-03-23
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IBM's Weapon Against Spam
IBM has unveiled technology that blocks spam by identifying the domain of the sender as opposed to looking at the actual content of the message.
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Date: 2005-03-23
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Dell Delivers For Data Centers
Dell introduced 2 new database servers, systems management software and data center assessment services that bring outstanding performance, value and manageability to customers' data center environments.
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Date: 2005-03-23
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Respect for Web Developers
Back when I was first paid to build web-based applications (around 1998 or so), the world of Web Development as we know it today did not exist.
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Date: 2005-03-23
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Microsoft Knobbling the EU
A report from the Enquirer says that Microsoft may have deliberately borked the XP registery on the Windows Media Player free version of XP it's been ordered to ship to the EU under anti-monopoly rulings.
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Date: 2005-03-23
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New GM Podcast Hits the Right Spot
GM posted a new podcast to the GM FastLane Blog yesterday - and hits the right spot with content, production and presentation that validates the concept of this rapidly-emerging medium as a business communication tool.
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Date: 2005-03-22
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Apple Strikes Back at iTunes Hack
Apple Computer has "closed" (cough) a security hole that allows users to download mp3s from the iTunes Music Store and purchase songs stripped of antipiracy protections ...
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Date: 2005-03-22
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Search Engines using Smoke and Mirrors to Hide Flaws
Over at the ABestWeb affiliate forums X10, who deal in consumer electronics, are announcing a new feature to their affiliate program: A free website, all ready to go. Some of the members are concerned over "duplicate content" penalties and the X10 rep steps in to dispel a few myths about Search engines and ranking penalties.
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Date: 2005-03-22
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How To Optimize Firefox
If you want to set up Firefox on your Windows PC so that it runs as fast and smoothly as possible, and without having to figure out all those cryptic programming commands when you type ...
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Date: 2005-03-21
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March Madness
March Madness has an entirely different meaning for me this month, it's just been absolutely crazy, thus my sparse postings here - but don't get me wrong, it's been fun too.
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Date: 2005-03-21
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Blogs Get Prime Exposure on CNN
USA Today: Mainstream media continue to be wary of Internet bloggers because the reporting and opinions on their Web sites are often not subject to journalistic checks and balances, such as editing and rules on sourcing.
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Date: 2005-03-21
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AFP Sues Google
Agnece France Presse announced they would be suing search engine Google for their use of AFP news, images, and headlines without permission.
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Date: 2005-03-21
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LookSmart Revamps FindArticles.com
LookSmart (remember them?) have revamped FindArticles.com and added new tools and organization to around 5,000,000 articles - you can now search on a whole bunch of criteria for articles on many topics.
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Date: 2005-03-21
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SEO Blog Power Revisited
Blogs are still a mystery to many people. When hearing about blogs, many people still equate them with personal online diaries, or the high profile political blogs.
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Date: 2005-03-21
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Blog Event Postponed: So What?
New Communications Forum Europe has been postponed, as you probably have seen on a few blogs. There is a rather interesting discussion going on as to why not enough people wanted to attend.
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Date: 2005-03-21
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Hackers Crack Apple iTunes’ DRM
A group of hackers from the United States and Norway have released a crack, which bypasses Apple's digital rights management software used by songs downloaded from iTunes.
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Date: 2005-03-21
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PC Forum Company Presentations
Trumba: It's not easy being me. You wouldn't know that from looking at my outlook calendar. Trumba is not just a personal calendar or group calendar we help people build calendar networks across communities.
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Date: 2005-03-21
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Why Wiki?
Socialtext developer Chris Dent has a long and well considered post on social software and why he does wiki.
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Date: 2005-03-21
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A Stroll Through Amsterdam Via Flickr
Today is the first really spring-like day of the year in Amsterdam. A hazy but sunny day, temperature about 19 Celsius (about 66 F), so it felt nice for my wife and I to take a stroll for an hour or so around our neighbourhood with my camera this afternoon.
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Date: 2005-03-20
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Jerry Yang on Buying Flickr
Notes from one of the first PC Forum sessions, while hanging out in irc://irc.freenode.net/#pcforum just after Jerry said something about how most bloggers are bad bloggers and new competition from real writers will crush us...
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Date: 2005-03-20
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How Much Was Flickr paid?
OK, now, the little secret about Yahoo buying Flickr has been out for weeks (as Jason Calacanis says it was all over SXSW. So much so that I asked Caterina about it when she was on stage last weekend). Now the new secret that I'm watching my blogs for? How much Yahoo paid.
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Date: 2005-03-20
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For Immediate Release
Today I had the pleasure of chatting with fellow PR bloggers Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz for their amazing PR podcast, called For Immediate Release.
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Date: 2005-03-20
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More Autolink discussion
Matthew Gertner: Why Autolink (and Greasemonkey) is evil: They may provide fleeting satisfaction, but anything close to widespread adoption is going to create a big mess.
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Date: 2005-03-19
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Ego Surfing With Preople
Anyone who writes a blog does a bit of ego surfing now and again. Or even again and again. It's true, isn't it? You know, looking for your name on Google and Technorati to see how many mentions you have.
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Date: 2005-03-18
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Jeansonne Goes To Jail
Louisiana's David Jeansonne recieved a six month sentence for spreading a malicious program that caused WebTV customers to call 911 without their knowledge.
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Date: 2005-03-17
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Yahoo! 360 - Blog and Social Networking Tools
AP report that Yahoo have finally announced plans to join the blogging and social networking game with Yahoo 360, a mix of tools to be released on March 29th that includes blogging, photo sharing and social networking.
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Date: 2005-03-16
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How To Create Your CV For Machines To Read
If you're career searching, you know how crucial a well-prepared CV/résumé is. You've probably read various guides on how to prepare it, what format it should be, layout, use of typefaces, how many pages, etc.
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Date: 2005-03-16
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Yahoo For Blackberry
Research In Motion (RIM) will now offer instant messaging on Blackberry handhelds as part of an agreement with Yahoo.
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Date: 2005-03-16
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CinemaNow To Sell Music Videos
CinemaNow announced agreements with Warner Music Group and TVT Records, to sell music videos on a download-to-own basis via a newly launched service, WatchMusicHere.com.
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Date: 2005-03-16
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Track Traffic With Webalizer
The April 2005 issue of Linux Magazine has my Feature "Track Traffic With Webalizer - A Fast, Free and Feature-rich Log Analyzer", and it provides a decent overview of how to configure Webalizer.
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Date: 2005-03-16
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New List of PR Blogs
If you want a comprehensive and up-to-date list of blogs authored by PR professionals - and want a one-stop place for all the RSS feeds ...
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Date: 2005-03-16
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The RSS Opportunity
Susan Mernit writing in the digital edge: The growing popularity of RSS among information-hungry consumers is having a direct impact ...
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Date: 2005-03-15
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TypePad Access Problems
TypePad have had some server issues during the past few days, meaning that you may have had some problems at times in accessing blogs hosted on TypePad.
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Date: 2005-03-15
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PSP Gets Fashionable Attention
To kick off the North American launch of PSP, a collection of fashion's biggest talents and rising stars came together under one roof for an exclusive fashion accessories show dubbed Pret a PSP.
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Date: 2005-03-15
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FTC Calls Out Spyware Company
A company fraudulently claiming to detect spyware infections and selling bogus spyware removal software has been targeted by the US Federal Trade Commission.
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Date: 2005-03-14
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The Age of Media Personalization
If the 19th century was the age of the newspaper and the 20th century the age of radio and television, this century will be defined as the age of media personalization, says Reuters CEO Tom Glocer.
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Date: 2005-03-14
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Brits Invade US Again at SXSW
My RSS reader this morning is full of posts about SXSW, the South by Southwest Festivals and Conferences taking place in Austin, Texas, from 11-20 March.
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Date: 2005-03-13
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Clueless Emailing Rages On
Seth points to an ironic mixup by the producers of Spamalot ... And I thought it was ironic when I heard that one of the Jupitermedia brass was heading out to see the show with a Yahoo notable.
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Date: 2005-03-12
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Google Mobile Launches
A Threadwatch reader, Michel emailed me a little earlier to point out that mobile.google.com had apparently, and very quietly launched.
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Date: 2005-03-12
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Judge Rules Against Bloggers and For Apple
AP: A judge on Friday ordered three citizen journalists to divulge confidential sources in a lawsuit brought by Apple, narrowly interpreting who is a journalist and thereby entitled to First Amendment protections.
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Date: 2005-03-11
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AMD Introduces 64-bit Mobility
Today, AMD introduced their AMD Turion 64 processing technology to the mobile environment, promising enhanced security and compatibility with the latest wireless technology.
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Date: 2005-03-10
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Listening to Learn
Blogging can be bad for you if you let your Technorati profile go to your head. But, it can also be good for you as well - if you really listen to what the feedback is telling you and apply what you learn.
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Date: 2005-03-10
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Off-Target Email Marketing
I received a wonderful email offer today from eWeek. The type of marketing email that illustrates a keen awareness of how to make a complete ass of yourself, diminish your chances of success and ruin an opportunity for developing any relationship.
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Date: 2005-03-10
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Apple To Join BDA
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced that Apple will become a member of the consortium's Board of Directors.
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Date: 2005-03-10
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IABC Chair Blog Can Succeed
Fellow IABC member and blogger Allan Jenkins posted a scathing commentary about IABC and Chairman David Kistle yesterday (and has attracted a bit of flack in the comments to his post as a result).
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Date: 2005-03-09
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Is Linking a Sexist Activity?
Very funny post by Shelly Powers via Susan that states that Guys don't link! She references Google's disastrous Autolink and the way it spread around the web.
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Date: 2005-03-09
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Microsoft Releases Malware Remover
Today, with a new approach to security at the forefront, Microsoft released a free malware remover tool designed for computers operating in the Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 environments.
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Date: 2005-03-09
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The Blogger Google Fired Gets Hired
According to InformationWeek, Mark Jen, the guy who only lasted a few weeks after a controversy over blogging at Google, has landed an engineering job at Plaxo, the company that helps people keep up-to-date contact lists.
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Date: 2005-03-08
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Durst Sues for the Nookie
Fred Durst, vocalist of has-been rap/rock band Limp Bizkit is suing several websites for hosting clips and images taken from a sex video of him and an ex.
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Date: 2005-03-08
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SES Scandal
Yes, I saw the girls and yes, I've seen the uproar about the indecency. I wasn't going to mention it, but Kim Krause gives some thoughful comments.
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Date: 2005-03-08
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PDAs Will Become Irrelevant
InternetWeek: PDAs are moving toward irrelevance, a new study by In-Stat released this week says. [...] The devices are entering a stage of serious decline.
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Date: 2005-03-07
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TV Over IP Feedback
I've gotten a lot of verbal feedback from various technology marketing execs about Jeremy Allaire's new company Brightcove.
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Date: 2005-03-07
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Google's Grating Silence
TheStreet's Kevin Kelleher talks about Google's secretiveness when it comes to talking to Investors and says that this is all well and good in good times, but Investors won't stand for it in bad...
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Date: 2005-03-07
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The Globalization of English
Newsweek has an excellent feature article in the 7 March issue (this week) of its international edition on how the English language is evolving and changing the way we communicate.
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Date: 2005-03-07
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Google Caught Cloaking and Keyword Stuffing?
A short while ago, Threadwatch member Adam_C discovered what for all appearances seems to be Google pulling dirty SEO tactics on it's own pages and thus going against it's own guidelines in an effort to rank highly within it's own results.
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Date: 2005-03-07
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Yahoo Not a One-Trick Pony
While Google may be picking up the "one-trick pony" tagline - with 98% of revenues coming from search - Yahoo demonstrates why they might have a better model for low-risk growth.
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Date: 2005-03-07
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Kanoodle Launches LocalTarget
Kanoodle, a leading provider of sponsored listings for content pages and search results, today announced the launch of Kanoodle's LocalTarget, currently the only available sponsored links product built solely for local targeting on content pages.
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Date: 2005-03-07
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Kanoodle Goes Local
Kanoodle have launched Kanoodle LocalTarget which they say is the first sponsored links program for local targeting.
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Date: 2005-03-07
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Apple Faces Lawsuits Aplenty
The legal teams representing Apple certainly have their plates full at this time. Apple is facing a number of legal matters concerning leaks of privileged information, patent infringement, and those of an intellectual property manner.
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Date: 2005-03-07
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IBM Has 2,800 Internal Blogs
Like many companies, especially in the tech industry, IBM is no stranger to public blogs with more than 20 employees listed at the developer blogs' portal.
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Date: 2005-03-05
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Martha Stewart Talks?
She's baaaack ... It is interesting to witness Martha's post-prison strategy with the media. She is being selective on how she merchandises her prison stay, but clearly she is merchandising it.
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Date: 2005-03-04
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Dude, Where's My Blog?
Portland Oregonian Public Editor Michael Arrieta-Walden tells Cyberjournalist his readers routinely call or write "to cite stories they've seen blazing the Web ...
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Date: 2005-03-04
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Video Games Get New ESRB Rating
In an effort to help parents tell the difference between games with mature content and those without, the Entertainment Software Rating Board has introduced a new rating standard.
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Date: 2005-03-04
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Judge Forces Apple Blogs to Reveal Sources
The Mercury News reports that "in a case with implications for the freedom to blog," a judge tentatively ruled Thursday that Apple can force three online publishers to surrender the names of confidential sources who disclosed information about the company's upcoming products late last year.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-04
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Anyone use Jeeves for Image Search?
Because they say they've improved it: Until this week, we relied exclusively on the relevance algorithms provided by our partner Picsearch, which provides the roughly 500 million-image index for Ask Jeeves.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-04
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Podcasting Is Music To the Ears
Podcasts are making audio blogging a reality for many bloggers. By starting a podcast version of a blog, the blogger is adding independent radio to their already existing personal publishing.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-04
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Google May Launch UPC Code Autolinks
This is getting ridiculous. Marissa Mayer from Google told the Washington Post (reg. required) that more Google Toolbar autolinks are in the works, probably using other numbers you can already type into Google's query box to get special results.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-04
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Does Google have a Goal?
Interesting post at Aways-On that runs through a whole barrage of Google services, Betas and improvements to demonstrate that none of them appear to have any short-medium term profit making capabilities.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-04
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There Is No Template For Executive Blogs
A story in the Financial Times earlier this week (title: "Why executives should steer clear of the blogosphere" - paid sub needed to read it) took a critical look at a few blogs by senior company executives, and mentioned a senior HP exec with a blog that I hadn't seen before.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-04
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Competition in Search
If you want to see just how competitive the search space has gotten, you need look no further than the complete mix of tools that I use on a regular basis.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-04
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SES, or Hell?
Great conference, as usual. From hearing Danny interview Jerry Yang, to learning new things from the panelists on the Compelling Ads and Landing Pages session ...
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-03
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Intel Eyes Mobility Platforms
Microprocessor developer supreme Intel is currently in the midst of their annual Intel Developer Forum, a platform for the company to highlight upcoming technologies and future goals.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-03
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Google Bashing In Vogue
I had no idea. I mean, it wasn't on my calendar and I'm sure I didn't see the search engines create a special logo to mark the event; but it appears that this week is Chicken Little Week.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-03
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Intel Pentium 4 Becoming Obsolete
With Intel putting more focus on dual-core processors and 64-bit processing capabilities, some are wondering what's going to come of the existing Pentium 4 processor line.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-03
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Feds to Regulate Blogs?
Federal Election Commissioner Bradley Smith tells CNET that bloggers and news organizations could soon risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign's Web site.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-03
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Technorati Searchlet Broken
I started testing the new Technorati searchlet in January. This is a bit of code you stick on your blog that gives you a Technorati-based search capability for your blog.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-02
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Podvertising the Message
BusinessWeek blogs that as advertisers get more interested in podcasting, one way to get their brand messages in without polluting the medium would be to write and produce interesting radio plays that are entertaining so that podcastees don't mind the embedded message.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-02
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Blog Traffic Builders: Ideas That Work
Blog visitor traffic is important to many bloggers. While readership numbers aren't important to every blogger, many blog owners are attempting to build their visitor totals as much as possible.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-02
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Basic SEO Answers For CFDynamics' Newsletter
I just completed a question and answer session with CFDynamics, a ColdFusion Hosting company. The questions were geared towards their hosting customers with a basic understand of the search engines but little or no understand of search engine optimization or search marketing
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-02
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Nokia Debuts 3 New Mobile Units
With eyes on mid-level quality, today Nokia introduced 3 new mobile phone units, bringing multimedia and Nokia's excellent track record with usability to consumers without the big-ticket price.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-01
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Blogging Planet Launched
Today marks the beginning of a new venture that brings together four European-based communication professionals to offer organizations something a little different in the field of communication consulting and communication technology.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-01
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Mac Daddy Remembered By Bloggers
Jeff Raskin known as the founder of the Mac has sadly passed away this week. Many bloggers have commented on his death and have in effect created an internet memorial honoring Jeff's genius.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-01
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The Diminishing Slashdot Effect
BusinessWeek is running a piece on Slashdot's diminishing "slashdot effect" - citing analysts and site owners that are saying a link from the grandfather tech site no longer means what it once did to the sites it links to.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-03-01
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