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THE REGION Teresa Hanafin was named to a newly created post, editor of community publishing for Boston.com, Boston Globe editor Martin Baron said. Succeeding Hanafin as editor of Boston.com will be David Beard, currently assistant managing editor for the paper's five regional editions. Boston.com is a regional Web portal and the online partner of the Globe. Hanafin has been Boston.com's ...
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Google &#038; eBay Partner for &#8216;Click to Call&#8217; The WSJ (sub req&#8217;d) and NY Times (reg. req&#8217;d) are reporting this morning on a deal in which Google will distribute ads on eBay&#8217;s pages outside the US. eBay has a similar deal with Yahoo! domestically. This is something of a surprise given that eBay aggressively courted Google [...]
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(InfoWorld) - To understand the Boston-based high-tech community, it seems you must understand baseball: Bostonians' signature neurosis over being second-best flowers in both arenas. And when financiers and technology executives met recently to talk about creating a climate for Web 2.0 startup success here, they used the language of the operatically accursed, beloved Red Sox, invoking RBI more often than ROI. It was clear at the MIT Enterprise Forum Wednesday that whatever game they're playing here, they're not used to winning. Even the eclipse of the homegrown minicomputer giants like Digital Equipment Corp. still rankles. "There's a cultural challenge here; we perceive ourselves as the lesser, smaller coast," said Michael Skok, partner with North Bridge Venture Partners. "We live in the shadow of DEC, but there's no reason for it." While Skok counseled Boston-area entrepreneurs to be power-hitters who can rack up home runs, Fox Interactive Media's Adam Bain said he looks for steady players who reliably get on base. Bain invoked the strategy followed by Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, who couldn't compete with the big-spending Yankees to hire star players, so instead concentrated on what had been an overlooked statistic -- players' on-base percentage -- to build a winning team made up of unglamorous but strong players. "If the goal is to swing for the fences, you'll have a lot of strike-outs," Bain said. "Guys like us look for on-base statistics." Jeff Taylor is certainly a local home-run hitter: He co-founded job-listings site Monster.com and boasted that he was able to retire in August of 2005 and start a new company. His new venture, Eons, is a Boston-based Web venture targeting the 50-and-older demographic. Eons' first round of funding was bicoastal, with $10 million raised between Silicon Valley's Sequoia Capital and Cambridge's General Catalyst Partners. But Taylor notes that the tech giants are no longer based in the Northeast. "We're missing the companies that will buy us and keep us here," Taylor said -- no doubt mindful that the most realistic exit strategy for Web 2.0 era entrepreneurs and investors is the acquisition, not the blockbuster IPO of the last decade. Taylor thinks Boston firms need to do a better job of promoting their strengths, particularly in what he called "deep technology" -- even though the glamour these days is not in technology as much as in the services that ride on top, such as those provided by Google and Yahoo, he acknowledged. North Bridge Venture Partners' Skok also thinks Web 2.0 can let area entrepreneurs play to Boston's traditional advantage. "There's a phenomenal amount of infrastructure under Web 2.0," he said, adding that it is "very much happening on the East coast." And despite the local inferiority complex, Boston's cultural values do give it an edge in some respects, Skok said. If he were a CEO choosing a company location, he would pick Boston "in a heartbeat," he said, because employees are more loyal and hardworking. While denizens of Silicon Valley drive themselves hard, Bostonians are less motivated by money and more by love of the work itself. So it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game?
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Defending champion Lidiya Grigoryeva, 2006 winner Rita Jeptoo, and two-time runner-up Jelena Prokopcuka top a strong women's field for the 112th running of the Boston Marathon, set for April 21, sponsor John Hancock Financial announced yesterday.
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Former Globe columnist Michael Holley traveled with the Patriots with unprecedented access to coach Bill Belichick and the team during their success of recent years. Today the Globe offers readers the second of two excerpts from Holley's new book, "Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion," published by William Morrow & Co., an imprint ...
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THE REGION The New England Media Group, which includes The Boston Globe, appointed Christopher Pircio chief financial officer. Pircio, who joined the company in 2000, previously was executive director of financial planning and analysis for the group, which also encompasses Boston.com, the Worcester Telegram &amp; Gazette, and Globe Direct. Pircio, 37, succeeds George Barrios, who was named treasurer of The ...
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The Boston Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies 2-1 on Thursday to take a two-game lead in the best-of-seven World Series and move a step closer to their second Fall Classic crown in four seasons.
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AOL denies responsibility Someone is surreptitiously adding unauthorized chat buddies to AOL instant messaging clients running across the Web. This afternoon, three separate Register employees have noticed the offending buddies, which show up under the "AIM Bots" portion of the AOL buddy list, carrying the names "Prof Gilzot," "sharethisdotcom," "Spleak," and "WSJ." In one instance, they appeared on a third-party Adium client that ties into AOLâs instant messaging network.â¦
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By Beth Macy beth.macy@roanoke.com  981-3435  She presents herself as an 88-year-old from Thailand, and her screen name is "omg its kim!" That's MySpace talk for "oh my God, it's Kim," but never mind the abbreviations. Or the missing apostrophe.
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Description: A look at the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, past and present. The Red Sox and this evening and same date on the last day in the season players on a nice day between a Polish champagne.
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Tony Gonzalez, a former Globe All-Scholastic quarterback from Framingham High School and the Globe's Division 2 high school Player of the Year in 2000, is now a sophomore on the Boston College football team that is off to a 4-1 start.
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Joba Chamberlain, the newest New York villain in the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry thanks to a pair of fastballs that nearly nailed Kevin Youkilis in the head, has at least one friend in the Boston clubhouse.
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Since we launched at Web2  last week there has been a log of great feedback about Rojo .    First off is this *great* new Austin Power logo from Constantin Basturea   Smashing Baby!  On the subject of eye candy check out the CafePress store  that Chris  put together.  Very hip indeed!  I might get this for my girlfriend:  ... and this for my backpack:  We've been getting a lot of great feedback.  Thanks to everyone  for helping us out during our beta trial!  We even have our first Rojo external plugin :  "My room mate, Dylan Parker, has just released a plugin for FireFox named JustBlogIt. JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension that allows easy right-click posting to a weblog. It a ...
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Boston.com will switch to a registration format in the first quarter of next year, said Lisa DeSisto, vice president and general manager of the website. While no date has been set and details remain to be worked out, DeSisto said readers will be asked to register and be given the opportunity to receive new editorial and advertising e-mail products. &quot;This ...
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Jerry York's players are getting a lot of ice time at the TD Banknorth Garden. It's not just the Boston College players, who competed in last night's Beanpot final against Boston University; the Bruins added their third former Eagle Saturday night when they traded Brad Stuart and Wayne Primeau to the Calgary Flames for Andrew Ference and Chuck Kobasew .
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Andy Beal had the priviledge of a sit down chat with Google&#8217;s Adam Lasnik at the Australian Search Summit early this morning. Beal and Lasnik discussed Google&#8217;s stance on paid links and the use of NoFollow (more information on NoFollow). Andy reviews the discussion in his post; Google&#8217;s Lasnik Wishes &#8220;NoFollow Didn&#8217;t Exist&#8221;; and here are [...]
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com December 13, 2004, 3:26 PM PT. The Internet may soon see two new top-level domains: .jobs and .mobi. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) said