Monthly Archives: November 2004

Delta flight attendant fired for blog content, pictures

News.com reports that Delta has fired a non-union flight attendant (“Queen of the Sky”) for the contents of her blog… namely, these ‘racy’ photos. This is becoming a rather disturbing trend.

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Microsoft hedges, renews deal with Overture for paid listing marketplace through 2006!

Ahead of the recent launch of Microsoft’s new search offering, I wrote: “…The real test for Microsoft will be their ability to create their own vibrant marketplace for paid listings (further breaking their ties to Yahoo)…” According to this joint

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Ignore – Feedster Blog Claim

No Need to Click Here – I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster

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TKG ILM 2004 PowerPoints Now Available

For those of you who weren’t able to attend, the PowerPoint slides for the various presenters at The Kelsey Groups’ Interactive Local Media 2004 conference are now available here. My recommendations for those with a few minutes on their hands:

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A quick rant to the boys at SiliconBeat

There are so many things in life that can frustrate you if you allow them to, hence the common (and appropriate) advice to ‘let go of the little things’. Then, there are the things that irk you so much for

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Google’s Orkut launches Op-Ed’s in hopes of finding a purpose

Orkut, the social-networking site that is still only loosely ‘affiliated with Google’ (perhaps because of lawsuits, or its rediculously slow performance…) announced in an email to members today that it was launching a new ‘Media tab’ where members could rant

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SBC, Microsoft in $400MM VOD/VOI Deal

As this Reuters article points out, Microsoft and SBC announced today that SBC will pay MSFT $400MM over 10 years to provide “video services over high speed Internet connections”. Services will include “customized channel lineups, video on demand, digital video

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Overture RSS Ads Out In The Open

John Battelle breaks the news; as promised only a month ago, Overture is now testing its P4P ads in Feeds, through a relationship-of-convenience (or, perhaps something more?…) with FeedBurner. As I noted earlier tonight, this continues to raise the question

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Feedster’s Angel(s) Partially Revealed

For those of you who, like me, are following the funding of RSS companies (and the reasons behind said funding), this might be of interest to you… A Business Wire press release announces that New York Angels is only of

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Thoughts on Beattie’s Mobile Web

Russell Beattie (who I had the pleasure to meet at VendorCon, after BloggerCon III) has a very interesting post tonight entitled “The Mobile Web”, in which he ponders (and envisions) ‘how much’ of the current Web will be available via

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