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A company called Chitika releases a new revenue service for blogs and blog feeds:

contextual ads that are both relevant to their content and also targeted to their audience interest profiles

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As if the insanely cool new stuff at Apple aren’t reason enough…

Crackers Tune In to Windows Media Player:

..as one person asks:

One has to wonder why an application whose primary purpose it is to just display data is such a huge vector for infection. What was Microsoft thinking when they made it possible for movies to automatically open URL’s and install stuff?

No thanks.

One more:

This has kept my computer safe and my mind happy for the last twenty years. I don’t plan to change it:

Don’t buy products from Microsoft!

There is one exception: The Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse is a great product. You can’t fuck up a mouse, though.

Wait, Apple’s round one-button mouse.

Now, that’s a deal: Apple could learn from M$ how to design mice, while Steve explains to Bill what an Operating System is.

Deal?

Update: 19 Jan 05

TechDirt reports

Microsoft Quietly Admits They’ll Patch DRM Loophole..

… though, they still claim it’s really not their problem.

Typical.

No live broadcast this time, but there’s nothing like following the running commentary on Steve’s keynote across 10 different sites:

While most sites just conked out under the onslaught, the best coverage I found came from a SpyMac member called mac_daddy1704 on his site:

• mypersonalgetaway.com

In Germany the best were:

• Apfeltalk
• MacTechNews.de
• MacGuardians

Good value!

The way I see it, three items stand out in Bob’s Predictions for 2005:

Microsoft’s entry into the anti-virus and anti-spyware businesses will be a disaster for users. This is based on everything I know about Microsoft, having watched the company for almost 28 years. They will make a big fanfare, spend a lot of marketing dollars, but in the end, the company simply won’t be able to keep up with the demands of keeping virus signatures current…

(…)

Apple will take a big risk in 2005. This could be in the form of a
major acquisition. With almost $6 billion in cash, Steve Jobs hinted to
a group of employees not long ago that he might want to buy something
big, though I am at a loss right now for what that might be. Or Apple
might decide to throw some of that cash into the box along with new
computers by deliberately losing some money on each unit in order to
buy market share.

(…)

…affiliate programs like Apple’s iTunes Affiliate Program that I am sure will be shortly copied by all the online music stores. These affiliate programs turn bloggers into shills and blogs into record stores, with the result that record company’s last source of power — marketing clout — is taken away. This will take time, but it is the beginning of the end for old-style record companies.

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