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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Privacy when conversing with Bloggers

I’ve been having some interesting email conversations with tech industry execs (some of whom are also fellow Bloggers), and have noticed an interesting trend… more and more of them are including privacy notes in their emails to ensure that the

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Gannett dates, weds eHarmony

SocalTech reports that Gannett has hooked-up eHarmony; all Gannett properties, including “USA TODAY”, will feature eHarmony’s personals. Some quick thoughts here: 1) Expect Knight Ridder and Tribune to follow suit. Newspaper’s are (surprise) late to the game in the dating

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Social Networking meets File Sharing at Wirehog

Topix.net‘s Social Software feed captures an article from The Harvard Crimson Online about Wirehog (note: LOVE the name), a new file-sharing solution integrated with TheFaceBook (a social networking site for the college set). While there are tons of social networking

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AOL to take RSS mobile

Deeje Cooley of RSS News points to a PaidContent.org post about AOL building a mobile RSS Newsreader. Search Google for ‘Mobile RSS‘ and you’ll find plenty of folks are, no surprise, ahead of AOL on this front… But the bigger

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MSN Search’s Blog

Here’s MSN’s new Search Blog. RSS feed here. Quite a select ‘Sites We Read’ list; they might want to try Feedster, Bloglines or PubSub to broaden their perspective a bit. 😉 Subscribed.

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Correcting the BloggerCon record on ‘The Incident’

Roland Tanglao, who I really wanted to meet, but missed, at BloggerCon III, writes a bit about the SNAFU between Dave Winer and a couple of the Vendors at BloggerCon (I hinted at this before), stating: “My take on the

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