A Few Quick Hits

Here's an AP story exploring the privacy implications of high-resolution online mapping. Nothing particularly new here except that the issue is getting flagged. We may be in an era of new privacy initiatives (we'll see). The consumer zeitgeist may be…

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MLK Jr. Day

Some/many people are not working in the U.S. today because of Martin Luther King Jr. Here's a piece on "globalizing" his legacy from The New York Times (reg. req'd). And here's bio info from Wikipedia. And here's Google's "I have…

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Not So Fast on the Newspaper Obit

Shawn Riegsecker, president of local media buying agency Centro, wrote a thoughtful commentary in MediaPost (reg. req'd) that argues online editions of local newspapers are far from dead in the water and represent desired inventory from an advertiser perspective. I…

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Ads on the Map

John Battelle points to an Andy Beal post pointing a Pamela Parker ClickZ story about Google putting sponsored links on the map itself. (Click one of the blue "pushpins.") We knew this day would come (and have been talking about…

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IPTV Article of the Day

The Washington Post's Leslie Walker penned an interesting post-CES piece today about IPTV. From the article: No single company put everything together into a magical product at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, but you didn't need much imagination to…

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More Google Mobile Moves

In addition to the announced button on Motorola phones, BlackBerry says it will support Google Talk IM (among others) and Google Local Maps. Separately, Google filed a patent application in the mobile space that appears to be about delivering calls…

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News Survey

There are a number of interesting things I ran across today. Given my schedule this morning, here's an abbreviated roundup: Fast Search & Transfer's Stephen Baker points me to a results page on the Denver Post site to show FAST's…

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