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The portal experiment has quietly moved to full version status, as AOL.com's repurposing as an audience driven presence online continues.
Many people get Google news alerts. They're pretty simple. You pick your topic, say the timely subject of hurricanes. When hurricane stories appear, you get an email. You can pick the frequency upon which they appear and whether or not the alert scoura just the news or the entire web.
Reporters Without Borders, in their attempts to promote free speech and discussion of and exchange of ideas, recently published a downloadable handbook on blogging called "Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents" It's for folks who want to discuss issues but, based on the rules in their homelands, can't discuss things openly.
Sponsored search placements for local advertisers will see spending move over from display ads.
Time Warner's chairman says AOL is not up for purchase or partnership, but if it were, one of Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo could make an AOL deal work.
Search engines have caused users to become dependent on their functions, even to the point of becoming "fans" of one or another; that does users a disservice.
