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by Shankar Gupta, Thursday, Oct 13, 2005 6:00 AM EST
BY THE SECOND QUARTER OF next
year, MSN Messenger users and IM Yahoo! Messenger users will be able to
seamlessly send each other messages, as part of a deal between the two
companies announced Wednesday. The arrangement, which provides for
interoperability between the two messaging services, will allow users
of each service to IM their contacts on the other, but doesn't entail
any combination of the actual programs.
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Thu Oct 13, 7:25 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Where else does a pagan witch vie for listeners with the mighty BBC, or President George W. Bush joust for airtime with amateur porn stars or Ray and Viv, a couple who dole out 'good home cooking' from their kitchen in Ohio?
Every hour, of every day, "podcasts" -- the latest front of the online
revolution, let listeners download audio files and homemade radio
programs onto personal computers or take them on the move with iPods or
MP3 players.
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Telephia recently reported that Internet-based telephone service (or Internet
telephony) is replacing traditional landline phone service among those who have
chosen VoIP, a technology that allows consumers to place telephone calls over
the Internet. Fifty-three percent of high-tech households subscribing to
Internet telephony have completely replaced and disconnected their landline
phones. High-tech households are identified as those who currently subscribe to
at least three bundled or emerging services (e.g., wireless data,
video-on-demand, Internet-based telephony, satellite radio, broadband, DVR,
etc.), or expressed an intent to purchase four or more services.
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| Saturday, October 15, 2005 | |
By Kevin Newcomb | October 12, 2005
What
do you get when you cross About.com, Wikipedia, blogs and social
networks? If you're author and online marketing guru Seth Godin, the
answer is Squidoo -- a new company he launched to host Web pages
written by experts in various topics
These
pages, which he calls lenses, aim to highlight one person's view of a
topic and hopefully distill the information into the perfect starting
point for researching a given topic. An ideal lens will provide a
searcher with the "big picture" on the subject, with annotated links to
the most relevant sites on the topic -- similar to the guidance a
trusted librarian would offer.
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by Ross Fadner, Tuesday, Oct 11, 2005 7:34 AM EST
IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE a
second dot.coming, offline media may be poised for a boom from an
unexpected advertising category: online media. Online retailers, or
so-called "dot.coms," have hefty ad plans to drive sales during the
holiday shopping season, and they plan to spend almost all of it
offline. According to a well-regarded survey released Monday, the 2005 Shop.org/BizRate
Research Online Holiday Mood Study, nearly all Internet retailers will
advertise offline this year. A robust 93 percent of the online or
multichannel merchants surveyed said they would not rely on the
Internet alone to market their Web sites to consumers this year.
Direct marketing was the most popular offline marketing tactic cited by
the survey respondents. Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) plan to mail
catalogs to consumers this holiday season, while 59 percent will send
direct mail to drive online traffic. Print ads were the second most
popular response among the Internet retailers surveyed: 54 percent plan
to invest in magazine ads, and 41 percent will buy newspapers. Over a
third of the Internet merchants surveyed said they plan to buy
television, while 32 percent will buy radio spots.
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| Thursday, October 13, 2005 | |
by Gavin O'Malley, Tuesday, Oct 11, 2005 6:00 AM EST
TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH current
trends, Yahoo! Monday launched a suite of podcasting tools to search
for, arrange, and rate the multitudinous digital audio files flooding
the Web. The free service, which has yet to be monetized, is intended
to make it easier for consumers to sort through the tens of thousands
of podcasts available online today. The service can be found at
podcasts.yahoo.com.
Unheard of until last year, podcasting is the act of uploading audio
programs to the Web, following which the files can be played via
personal computer or downloaded to multimedia players for listening at
a later date.
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| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 | |
By Eric Auchard SAN
FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. said on Monday it will begin featuring
the work of self-published Web bloggers side by side with the work of
professional journalists, leveling distinctions between the two. Yahoo
News, the world's most popular Internet media destination, is set to
begin testing on Tuesday an expanded news search system that includes
not only news stories and blogs but also user-contributed photos and
related Web links.
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| Tuesday, October 11, 2005 | |
by Shankar Gupta, Monday, Oct 10, 2005 6:00 AM EST
GOOGLE FRIDAY UNVEILED THE BETA version
of Google Reader, a free tool for Really Simple Syndication feeds.
Unlike many other RSS readers, Google's product allows users to search
for feeds, rather than cutting and pasting the location of XML files.
The product also saves subscription lists for Gmail users. The same
week that Google released its RSS reader, rival Internet company Yahoo!
and research company Ipsos Insight published a study reporting that
only 12 percent of the Internet users are aware of RSS by name. But
Yahoo! also reported that nearly one in three--27 percent--of Internet
users consume RSS content--without realizing that they're using an RSS
service.
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Published: October 9, 2005, 9:00 PM PDT
Last modified: October 10, 2005, 6:02 AM PDT
Yahoo launched on Monday a podcast service that offers access to much
of the streaming audio on the Web and features user reviews and other
information about the programming.
Yahoo Podcasts
is intended to enable people to easily search podcasts through
keywords, categories or user-generated topic tags. The beta site also
highlights podcasts of note, those that are particularly popular and
user recommendations and ratings, said Geoff Ralston, Yahoo's chief product officer. Click HERE to continue reading...
Dispute between Level 3 and Cogent causes e-mail, Web site management woes.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of Internet users have struggled to
send e-mail and keep their Web sites running after a dispute between
two service providers left large portions of the Internet unable to
talk to each other.
Computer technicians scrambled to shore up their networks after
Level 3 Communications Inc. refused to accept traffic from rival Cogent
Communications Group Inc., rendering large portions of the Internet
unreachable by others.
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| Saturday, October 08, 2005 | |
Newspapers Brace For Google Free WiFi Plan
by Ross Fadner
IF GOOGLE SUCCEEDS IN ITS bid
to provide San Francisco with free, city-wide WiFi, analysts say that
telecommunications firms and Internet service providers won't be the
only companies feeling threatened. Local newspapers, which generate
much of their ad revenue from local businesses, could find themselves
competing directly with the global advertising giant for local ad
revenue. Preston Gralla, a former editor in chief of a chain of local
newspapers and a blogger for Networking Pipeline, writes that a
Google-powered WiFi network could spell financial ruin for many papers,
because a city-wide network would enable the sponsored listings
provider "to deliver ads literally on a block-by-block basis."
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Network feud leads to Net blackout
By
John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Two major Internet backbone companies are feuding, potentially
cutting off significant swaths of the Internet for some of each other's
customers.
On Wednesday, network company Level 3 Communications cut off its direct
"peering" connections to another big network company called Cogent
Communications. That technical action means that some customers on each
company's network now will find it impossible, or slower, to get to Web
sites on the other company's network. Click HERE to continue reading...
| Thursday, October 06, 2005 | |
AOL Makes Move on Blogosphere With Weblogs AcquisitionBy Jennifer LeClaire TechNewsWorld
10/06/05 12:00 PM PT
"This exciting and groundbreaking combination
allows our audiences to be able to do a 'deep-dive' into a vast array
of compelling topics that keep them interested and entertained on our
network of properties, day after day," said Jim Bankoff, executive vice
president of Programming & Products at AOL.
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| Saturday, October 01, 2005 | |
EU Wants Shared Control of Internet
By AOIFE WHITE, AP Business Writer
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The
European Union
insisted Friday that governments and the private sector must share the
responsibility of overseeing the Internet, setting the stage for a
showdown with the United States on the future of Internet governance. A senior U.S. official reiterated Thursday that the country wants to
remain the Internet's ultimate authority, rejecting calls in aUnited Nations meeting in Geneva for a U.N. body to take over.
EU spokesman Martin Selmayr said a new cooperation model was important "because the Internet is a global resource."
"The EU ... is very firm on this position," he added. Click HERE to continue reading...
| Friday, September 30, 2005 | |
Did you say dogging or blogging? Brits confused
By Jeffrey Goldfarb LONDON (Reuters) - Proponents of the
latest Web trends were warned Tuesday that the rest of the world may
not have a clue what they are talking about. A survey of British
taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers -- often seen as
barometers of popular trends -- found that nearly 90 percent had no
idea what a podcast is and more than 70 percent had never heard of
blogging.
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