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My 2 featured articles for the week ending Dec. 8, 2006:

Archived blogs for the week of Jan. 8, 2007

1287 - Jan. 11, 2007 - 5.21 PM EST

The Net Neutrality debate, again...

As many political observers had expected, Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe and North Dakota Democrat Sen. Byron Dorgan teamed up one more time in trying to introduce an identical version of their older bill, known as the IFPA (Internet Freedom Preservation Act) which died in the Senate in 2006.

The Internet Freedom Preservation Act's reintroduction "marks another step toward ensuring the fate of the Internet lies in the hands of its users and not in the hands of a few gatekeepers," Snowe said in a written statement.

Overall, Net neutrality is the idea that network operators such as AT&T and Verizon should be prohibited from prioritizing any content or services that travel across their networks.

As a practical example of what lawmakers are trying to prevent would be charging YouTube extra fees for the privilege of being delivered faster than, say, Revver.com. Read more...

Posted on Businessblog™

1286 - Jan. 9, 2007 - 2.24 PM EST

Yahoo acquires MyBloglog.com

Yahoo has acquired MyBloglog.com, an Orlando-based Web site that permits bloggers to share data about themselves, build a social network among fans and write Internet publications or personal Web logs.

As a whole, MyBloglog also looks at reader behavior inside Web logs (blogs) like what is being read and where readers go next, delivering information it can sell to Internet advertisers. Yahoo isn't revealing what it paid for Mybloglog, but reliable sources say it probably cost a little over $10 million. MyBlogLog.com initially went live in July 2006.

Bradley Horowitz, v.p. of product strategy at Yahoo, said Mybloglog will likely remain branded as a separate entity, but Yahoo users will be able to register on it with their Yahoo password. Reader communities will soon be able to access Yahoo services, like the Flickr photo site or the Yahoo Answers information service, to their groups.

“This closes the loop between readers and publishers,” he said. “Every Web publisher wants to know his readers, and the readers want to find out about each other. It’s the power of implicit networking.”

Of course, Internet advertisers want to know about everybody. Mybloglog is currently available on about 45,000 blogs, according to company chairman Scott Rafer, and has registered the photos and personal information (like the address of their blogs) of about 33,000 readers.

Rafer also said it looks at about 3 million readers of blogs a day. Its most popular blogs are, not surprisingly, on technology subjects, but also on real estate – making the user information valuable to multiple advertisers.

Posted on Businessblog™

1285 - Jan. 8, 2007 - 3.35 PM EST

Yahoo launches new mobile search service

According to various news reports, Yahoo has launched a new mobile search service called Yahoo One Search which the company says takes a different path towards displaying search results on cell phones and other mobile devices.

Yahoo's new mobile search service has very different requirements. With limited bandwidth and a tiny screen size, this new service makes information available without having to click on multiple links.

Yahoo OneSearch finds information through a rather convoluted navigation process, as you might have to do on more conventional mobile search services.

Marco Boerries, senior v.p. of the company said “Yahoo One Search modifies the mobile search lansdcape by fundamentally improving the way consumers access and use the Web on their cell phones.”

Posted on Businessblog™

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