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Monday Blog Roundup October 15, 2007

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More content consolidation: Discovery acquires How Stuff Works for a reported $250 million. It’s apparently a step toward Discovery bringing its video library online — more bandwidth cholesterol, though if you know anything about both of these companies, its goooood cholesterol.

A great debate on Vonage’s place in communications history rages over at Realtime Community | Unified Communications. Garret Smith, through his own blog, takes the tack that we owe Vonage a “thank you.” David Beckmeyer, though, claiming the company “contaminated the VoIP investment pool back in 2003,” basically says “thanks but no thanks.”

Some sad news from O’Reilly: OET will be “winding down” publishing its blog, as well as canceling its 2008 ETel show. The blog was home to occasional diamonds of insight and I greatly enjoyed reading it throughout the week. As for the show, we have seen that trend toward less-ubiquitous trade shows, though I think it speaks well of NXTcomm that it was able to outstrip expectations last year and should do so again this year.

16 GB iPhone “MacRumors” are greatly exaggerated, according to engadget.

Retail broadband at Wal*Mart is a good thing, says Bruce Mehlman at IIA. As it does in consumer goods and prescription drugs, Wal*Mart’s price-cutting model will bring resold broadband to the masses, he argues.

Does new media ad money stop at the river’s edge for smaller players? Ed Sim seems to think so, and yahoo.com seems to agree.

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