- Esther Dyson talk (Yahoo is "intelligent design"; Google is "blind evolution.")

- CES Storylines (nice quote: "By the time Vista hits the street... it will be less about the OS itself, and more about the vast array of services surrounding it.")

-  Consumer Internet, Digital Media and Technology Conferences for 2006 (very useful list)

- Dave Winer defines Reading Lists: "Mashups" of feeds, forming virtual publications (I'm really excited about what Dave comes up with for Reading Lists!) 

- Neil Budde from Yahoo News talks to paidcontent ("I think the area that's growing and is most interesting, particularly in news, is behavioral.")

- Shore: Neil Budde Looks at Content Blown to Bits by Users ("This will be an exciting year in news aggregation, and tools and deals being developed by Yahoo will be a key part of that excitement.")

- It's all in the mix (Guardian article about mashups... I liked this quote from Ben Metcalf: "rather than simply combining data feeds, the future of mashups is with people providing interfaces that enable you to display data in ways you wouldn't normally see it.")

- TechCrunch: The Memeorandum Hunters (Excellent round-up by Mike. I'll be investigating some of these in-depth soon...)

- Mark Evans ponders Memeorandum's next move ("I suspect he's trying to build a viable business rather than positioning memeorandum for an acquisition by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.")

- Don Dodge on the meme trackers ("There will be a few winners who make a lot of money, and a lot of "also rans" who will fade away. ")

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