TrendsSocial media is becoming an irresistible force drawing together media and enterprise content markets for professionals... Source: Yes, LinkedIn and News Corp. are working on a deal Venture Beat
OpenSocial Has Been Good To Plaxo TechCrunch
Widgets make a big splash on the Net USA Today
Memo to just about everyone: in a Google-shaped world is any business model safe...? Yes, Google Is Trying To Take Over the World Slate
Google Magazine? TechCrunch
The Google Set-Top Box (Think Android For TV) TechCrunch
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data WSJ Online*
Google and Other People's Content BusinessWeek
Google U.S. Web search share jumps to 58.5 pct Reuters
Facebook's surge in attention doesn't mean that it's totally tuned in to what works in social media... MySpace Chief: Facebook "Substantially More Entertaining" Reuters MediaFile
Facebook Stealing Google Employees At An Alarming Rate TechCrunch
Facebook: We’re More Annoying than MySpace Mashable
Facebook faces UK data probe The Register
The Problem with Facebook's "Beacon" Web Pro News
Cory Doctorow: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook InformationWeek
Amazon's Kindle gets off to a quick start but is likely to hit a wall as its limitations become more apparent... Kindle sells out in on Amazon in 5.5 hours Engadget
Amazon’s Kindle ebook not so kind to reading rights P2P Foundation
eBook’s future isn’t ebooks: the makings of Apple’s tablet Gadgetell
5 Arguments For the Continued Viability of the Book PC World
Tango Founder: Print Not Dead, But Going ‘Yearly’ FOLIO: Magazine
Ann Moore's Time Inc. plays hard to get at it tries to position itself as an online cash cow for its parent...Time Inc. Bolsters Digital Brands AdWeek
But Rupert Murdoch is focusing on developing the ability to reach far more contexts than traditional editorial output can create... News Corp builds online ad network Reuters
Yahoo is tuning up more competent me-too Web offerings, while AOL focuses more on mobile messagers... Yahoo! launches stealth beta of myM: A Meebo competitor? Download Squad
Yahoo deal lets users upload, edit music; Catching up with Google is impetus for new video deal Chronicle via Content Agenda
AOL launches mobile assault Mad.co.uk
Search engines that cannot adapt to delivering more specialized content are falling by the wayside... Feedster Quietly Slips into the Dead Pool... So Which Blog Search Engine Do You Use? Read/Write Web
Search 3.0: The Blended & Vertical Search Revolution Search Engine Land
Slowly the music industry emerges from kicking and screaming at its customers to giving them what they want... DRM-Free Classical Music: Deutsche Grammophon Launches Online MP3 Store TechCrunch
IPhone Must Be Offered Without Contract Restrictions, German Court Rules The New York Times
Criticism of Cdn pro-P2P study was sponsored by recording industry BoingBoing
Good enough to use as a source of plagiarism, in any event... Part of an Oil Book Relied on Wikipedia The New York Times
One month's darling gizmo becomes another month's source of frustration... Browsing With iPhone Is Abject Faliure Web Pro News
Deck the halls with boughs of...emails...? CyberMonday: A Gimmick Becomes a Real Trend The New York Times*
In other major trends in content this week...Making Social Connections and Selling Cookies The New York Times
SCImago: a new portal ranking journals and countries Really Simple Sidi
Wolters Kluwer €175 Million Share Buy-back Program ABN Newswire
Study: Web Will Slow by 2010, Video a Culprit USA Today
Newspaper Advertising Fell 7.4% in Third Quarter WSJ Online
Best Practices Online Video Ad Model Mimics TV Sales Approach MediaWeek
Seth Godin's Meatball Sundae: How the Internet Changes Marketing Web Pro News
Are You Sabotaging Your Social Stories? Blogging Experiment
Wikis While You Work: Using Wikis in the enterprise requires a careful balance of freedom and control eWeek
The Rise Of Hyperlocal Information Read/Write Web
European vs. American Texting Cultures Zephora.org
Books versus documents: what's wrong with so-called "e-books" Ars Technica
An Important Lesson About Grassroots Media Editor and Publisher
Digital Music Startups: Asking Permission vs. Begging Forgiveness GigaOM
Losing the Journalistic Security Blanket MediaShift
Could a Billion TinyURLs Go 404? Micro Persuasion
Facebook To Drop 'Is' From Status Updates Read/Write Web
Cool Tools First Look: Amazon’s Kindle Reader: The Gap Between Description and The Device paidContent.org
Flux Adds Content Sharing And Embedding TechCrunch
Upload a Batch of Images to Flickr.com from the Desktop Digital Inspiration
Screenshots And Details On Upcoming MySpace "News Feeds" TechCrunch
Live Documents to Challenge Microsoft Office, Google Apps eWeek
NBC Direct Sucked…Your PC Resources NewTeeVee
SeeToo: Broadcast yourself. To one other person. Download Squad
Google Maps goes wiki-style Monsters & Critics
GPhone Pics! Open-Source 'Bug' Can Run Android Silicon Valley Insider
Deals, Partnerships & Sales SAGE and Hindawi announce landmark open access agreement First Science
British Library Selects Apex CoVantage as Digitization Partner in Expanding the Repository of UK Pub PR USA
Sony Attracts Dubai Cash WSJ Online*
Dow Jones Renews Longstanding Licensing Arrangement with Bloomberg PR Newswire via CNN Money
ABC News, Facebook Partner for Political Content All American Patriots
Enterprise Communication Solution integrates with Facebook. ThomasNet
Intuit Finally Buys Homestead for $170m Read/Write Web
Lionbridge Launches CMS Alliance Program With Top Tier Content Management Partners PR Newswire via CNN Money
blinkx Partners With Kiplinger.com to Bring Trusted Personal Finance Advice to Users Worldwide IT News
Acxiom acquires MKTG Services BtoB Online
Macrovision Buys Rights to Blu-ray Disc DRM Scheme Daily Tech
The New York Public Library and Kaltura Team to Enhance Online Collaborative Rich Media Marketwire
Products, Markets & People Copyright Clearance Center Adds Blogs to its Licensing Programs Ad-Hoc News
Reed Construction Chief To Advise Service Provider PR Newswire via CNN Money
Elsevier Expands ScienceDirect College Edition PR Newswire via IT News
Elsevier Announces Launch of 2collab, New Research 2.0 Platform CNW Group
OCLC Enhances WorldCat.org Weekly News Digest
RightNow Focuses on Customer Outreach With Syndication Widget CRM Buyer
ProQuest Introduces Marketing Toolkit for Academic Libraries PR Newswire via EarthTimes
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