---
title: "Read/Write Filter"
date: 2006-01-18
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/Write Filter

Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don’t have to!

![digital summit 2006](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709im_/http://static.flickr.com/40/87481620_daf3a9d8d1_m.jpg)– [Digital Summit 2006](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://www.iamai.in/digital_summit.php3) (in Mumbai India. [Dina Mehta](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/) is [covering](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/2006/01/18.html#a774) the event in her blog and says so far there’s been little talk of social software, but she has some good real-time notes with stats on the India Internet market. See also [ContentSutra](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://www.contentsutra.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/17/1682119.html))

– [eyeTV and iPod integration](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/013135.html) (Michael Gartenberg says it’s “a great way to get legal video content on your iPod pretty easily”)

– [iLife and RSS](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/013127.html) (Gartenberg again… he is doing a great job covering convergence these days. He says the iLife photocast feed needs work and worries about RSS in general being fragmented)

– [Microsoft’s Don Dodge](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/01/digging_out_the.html) looks at collaborative filtering services such as Digg, Reddit, memeorandum (“The big players are likely to look for acquisitions in this space.”)

– [Can Murdoch Win on the Web?](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2006/tc20060117_679109.htm) (News Corp may spend $1 billion to push DirecTV into broadband)

– [ Yahoo misses Q4 Wall Street estimates](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://news.com.com/Yahoo%20misses%20Wall%20Street%20estimates/2100-1030_3-6027810.html?part=rss&tag=6027810&subj=news) (shares down about 13 percent in after-hours trade)

– [Yahoo Q4 Earnings Release Conference Call Transcipt](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://internetstockblog.com/article/5871) (The Internet Stock Blog transcribed the whole call – excellent work! See also the Yahoo [ webcast](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/scp/viewer/index.php?client_id=1173&event_id=16440) and paidcontent.org’s [audio](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2006_01_17.shtml#053189))

– [ Google to buy radio ad company](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://news.com.com/Google+to+buy+radio+advertising+company/2100-1024_3-6027499.html) (paying $102 million in cash for DMarc Broadcasting, a California company that works with radio advertisers in the sales, scheduling, delivery and reporting of radio ads)

– [Fred Wilson on Intelliseek/Buzzmetrics/Nielsen deal](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/01/consumer_feedba.html) (a big deal because “Nielsen is a major player in marketing research and data and they have embraced the idea of user generated content/feedback as a business opportunity.)

[Create iTunes playlists with WishMix](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=100) (but for your benefit or Apple’s? My latest ZDNet post)

[Pic from mohitinhere](https://web.archive.org/web/20110105044709/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mohitinhere/87481620/)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwrite_filte_2.php))*