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• Ten things that will change your future - Technology - smh.com.au
  
  terrific predictions for 2008 tech

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• Internet Marketing Best Blog Posts of 2007 » techipedia | tamar weinberg
  
  phenomenally exhaustive list of article about social media, etc.
• Open Source Living
  
  excellent resources here

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• Active and Passive Verbs

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• Lijit | Home

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• Google Trends: Dec 27, 2007
• Terraminds twitter search
  
  search response to topics being discussed on Twitter to see all relevant posts

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• Inside Facebook » The Facebook Marketing Bible: 24 Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook
  
  My goal here is to provide an introduction to what’s possible on Facebook to the spectrum of marketers from brand advertisers to volunteer evangelists. Facebook offers many ways to get the word out and bring the people in. Here’s how to get started.
• For Bold Marketers, Downturn Can Point Up - washingtonpost.com
  
  Astute leaders will see the downturn as an opportunity to stay fresh and reach an increasingly fragmented audience more cost-effectively.
• MediaPost Publications - Online Spending Predicted To Surge In 2008 - 12/10/2007
  
  Pure-play Internet companies for the first time in 2007 captured a larger share of local ad dollars than locally-based traditional players, at 43%.
• Ad Targeting Improves on Web Sites - washingtonpost.com
  
  spending on behavioral targeting will nearly double to $1 billion next year and hit $3.8 billion by 2011.
• Developer’s Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code
  
  The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.
• www.opengovdata.org - Open Government Working Group
  
  The group is offering a set of fundamental principles for open government data. By embracing the eight principles, governments of the world can become more effective, transparent, and relevant to our lives.
• OpenDataPrinciples - OpenGovData
  
  Government data shall be considered open if it is made public in a way that complies with the principles below

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• john geraci’s blog » The Deal With Yahoo
  
  I’m totally blown away at how much they get it. I mean, they totally get it.
• Yahoo! Search Blog: Yahoo! Gets More Social with Applications for Bebo
  
  Yahoo! UK & Ireland is helping to improve the socializing experience for users on the leading UK social networking site, Bebo, with the integration of Yahoo! Answers and Yahoo! Music.
• Facebook to let other sites access platform code | The Social - CNET News.com
  
  Facebook has announced that the architecture for its developer platform will be made available to other social-networking sites, potentially dealing a huge blow to Google’s yet-to-launch OpenSocial initiative.

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• Dueling Fools: Yahoo! Bull
  
  When Yahoo! gets all its parts moving and making money efficiently, I find it hard to muster a scenario where Yahoo! stock doesn’t trade up around 20% from current levels over the next couple of years.
• LinkedIn opens site to developers | InfoWorld | News | 2007-12-10 | By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
  
  LinkedIn said its Intelligent Application Platform will let developers build applications that appear on LinkedIn as well as applications for their own Web sites that use information from consenting LinkedIn users

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• Where Is AJAX Headed? Discussing the Future of the Rich Web @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE
  
  we thought we would share with you what some of the world’s leading rich Internet application pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered. From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed.
• How to Crash and Burn in the Edgeconomy, Bebo Mini Case Study
  
  1) None of this really matters, because the marginal value of "apps" is almost zero.
  2) This game is competition for openness. The most open platform will win.

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• Ajaxian » YUI 2.4.0 Released
  
  Yahoo! just released YUI v2.4.0 with a host of new features that will surely please the YUI faithful.
• FORTUNE: Techland RIP Facebook? «
  
  Bad press is causing advertisers to jump ship. And that’s begetting even more bad press. It’s the opposite of a virtuous circle; it’s an economy being undone.

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• TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » 2008: VCs and startups get real across Europe
  
  Still loads of opportunity, even still in the right kind of social networking applications (web and mobile) and advertising. Great things to be achieved in a pan-European sense.
• evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
  
  I’ve been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I’ve been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here’s a first attempt at defining that.

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• Joe Kraus: OpenSocial is real, swears Googler in charge
  
  Facebook continues to add 100 (still entirely useless) apps a day to its now purportedly open platform. So is there any point to Google’s OpenSocial anymore?
• Online Extra: The Two Flavors of Google
  
  Facebook uses Hadoop to analyze user behavior and the effectiveness of ads on the site, says Hadoop founder Doug Cutting, who now works at Yahoo.
• » Economics that are impossible to stop | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
  
  Virtualizing and commoditizing servers, storage, and databases is game changing. Amazon’s most recent entry into it’s product line is just one more reason not to buy hardware.
• Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab » Overnight Success
  
  I don’t care whether it’s a Google server or a Facebook server or Salesforce or whatever combination, as long as it works on my iPhone.
• The Promise of Social Network Advertising - eMarketer
  
  37% of the US adult Internet population used online social networking at least once a month. That figure will rise to 49% in 2011.
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Googlepedia
  
  I’m guessing that serving as the front door for a vast ad-less info-moshpit outfitted with open source search tools is not exactly the future that Google has in mind for itself. Enter Knol.
• inside looking out » What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB
  
  Amazon SimpleDB has gone into limited beta
• This Blog Sits at the: Fire foxes, fire eagles, fire dogs: myth in a new media world
  
  A Firefox and a Fire Eagle are counter intuitive in exactly the right proportions. These names resist comprehension but only just.
• Stories we want to see in 2008
• The future of newspapers: The problem is in the newsroom, not the newspaper « Mr. Magazine
  
  Change must come from the inside, inside the newsroom, otherwise, newspapers will be committing mass suicide in this country and their numbers will continue to drop.

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• http://frozenpeafund.com/
  
  raising money for breast cancer research in honor of Susan Reynolds.

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• There’s No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere

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• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Using ALT attributes smartly

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• Phil Windley’s Technometria | A Framework for Building Reputation Systems
• NASA - Home
  
  new NASA website updated to appeal to young people, who don’t follow space launches. With all that could be on the home page, why are all those old guys the first thing you see!?

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• Katarina Sokolova

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• PLYmedia - interactive content on web video
• Welcome to In Good Company!

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• YouTube - Human Tetris II
• Community Home - MarketWatch Community
• Small Business Online Community

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• YouTube Partner Program Opens to All; Chocolate Rain Guy Gets Ad Deal
• YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
  
  youtube most viewed videos this week, part of the partner program. these sites will now have ads
• Le Web 3.0: Silicon Valley comes to Europe - International Herald Tribune

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• How Not to Think About Edge Strategy
  
  The fundamental problem is that Microsoft is playing massconomy games in an edgeconomy. Coercion doesn’t work; closure doesn’t work; and, most definitely of all, evil doesn’t work.
• Research Note: A Simple Question
  
  why can’t mediacos let their own Jimmy Wales’ out of the gilded cage? Unfortunately, it’s in the DNA.
• Mark Your Real Location with Google Maps
  
  The Google Maps team has been busy of late, adding in YouTube videos, expanding Google Transit support, and upgrading their mobile version.

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• When Does a Social Network Become a "Publicity Network"? | CenterNetworks - Web 2.0 News, Opinions and Insights from New York
  
  A social networking tool becomes a publicity tool when "I speak, you speak, I reply, you reply" becomes "I speak, you listen".
• Not just a homicide map
  
  multi-layered interactive project geared toward humanizing homicide statistics in Oakland, Calif., consistently home to one of the nation’s highest murder rates.
• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Guidelines for Building RESTful Web Services
  
  If you are interested in building RESTful Web services. Here are the top 3 ways I suggest one learn about building and designing a RESTful system.
• Microsoft, Google and Yahoo Acquisitions Compared
  
  The LibraryHouse blog has a nice summary of recent acquisitions (July 2006 through June 2007) by Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!, roughly color coded by category:
• Digital Platforms Add Revenue to Newspaper Coffers - Advertising Age - MediaWorks
  
  "The portals are running off with our best stuff, and we’re afraid or unable to make or enforce deals that drive fair value," Associated Press President-CEO Tom Curley told colleagues in an address earlier this month.

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• Clever, Clever Girl » BarCampLA-4 Wrap Up
  
  the breakdown looked something like this: * About 200 Participants over two days
  * Close to 40 unique presentations
  * 15 Sponsors
  * $5400 Budget

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• nullcheck: end of mashup camp
  
  If you are a web developer and haven’t looked at Yahoo’s Design Patterns and rules for Exception Performance, I strongly recommend you do.
• stevenberlinjohnson.com: The Pothole Paradox
  
  The idea of requiring geographic metadata for information might strike some people as excessive, but I suspect in a few years we will look back at the first decade of the web and be amazed that we went for so long without it.

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• Yahoo brings on Hadoop | TechWag
  
  Suddenly everyone can have a grid computer, meaning super massive sets of data can be easily scanned looking for information.
• Yahoo! Announces Distributed Computing Academic Program
  
  Yahoo!, who has been a key contributor to open source distributed computing framework Hadoop, today announced an academic research partership with CMU that will give students access to Hadoop running in a supercomputing-class data center.
• MindTouch - Yahoo! | MindTouch Blog
  
  On a personal note, I think Yahoo!, to date, has been the most adept of all the big boys in connecting and growing a Developer Network. These guys get devs and I, for one, am happy to help them evangelize their work.
• Murdoch Intends to Drop WSJ.com Fee - New York Times
  
  Mr. Murdoch said he believed that a free model, with increased readership for wsj.com, will attract “large numbers” of big-spending advertisers.
• IAB Press Release - The IAB Defines Best Practices for Lead Generation Data Transfer
  
  Internet advertising revenues are on an annual run-rate exceeding $20 billion
• Bebo Open Media: Bebo Makes Its Platform Move
  
  One of the most important aspects of Open Media is the fact that partners will be able to set up their pages and control how their content is distributed all by themselves.
• Social Networks Become The New T.V. - Covering All That’s Social All the Web
  
  As more people spend time on social networks, look for them to build similar patterns as television networks. Myspace, Facebook and a third network (Orkut or Bebo) will end up being the primary distributors of content (similar to NBC, FOX, CBS and ABC).

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• Your Ad Here: Web Surprise Hits ’08 Race - New York Times
  
  That jarring juxtaposition of candidate, message and audience highlights how political campaigns are still trying to get a handle on the power of the Internet to communicate with and motivate voters.
• Targeting online behaviors in a fragmented audience - Related Stories - IAB SmartBrief
  
  eMarketer’s prediction that behavioral targeting online will grow from 2.6% in 2007 to 8.4% in 2011 as a percentage of total online ad spending, further supports the notion that behavioral targeting will become more popular.
  www.eMarketer.com

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• Alibaba Group Launches Online Advertising Exchange Company Alimama
  
  Since launching the beta version of the marketplace on August 10, Alimama has already signed up more than 150,000 small- and medium- sized web publishers and 135,000 personal blogs, covering more than 1 billion page views per day.
• Newspaper ads down
  
  Spending on print ads dropped 9 percent to $10.1 billion. Online ads gained 21 percent.
• Do you have any idea who last looked at your data? | Technology | The Guardian
  
  The price of total personalisation is total surveillance.
• MoveOn Takes On Facebook - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
  
  In an approach not that unusual on the social networking site, MoveOn has created a Facebook group to protest against Facebook, complete with link to MoveOn’s petition encouraging Facebook to “respect privacy.”
• ProductWiki, unbiased product reviews and information
  
  ProductWiki is the resource for free, unbiased product reviews and information written and maintained by the community.

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• Frostfirebuzz.com | New Internet Products, Companies, Startups, Social Networks, Tech News

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• CRM Daily | Marketers Aiming for Brand Recognition
  
  Marketers Aiming for Brand Recognition
• Social Annotation: Seamless Integration of Social Bookmarking, Web Highlighter, Sticky-Note & Clipping

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• Hair Extensions, Clip Ins, Fusions, Pictures, Tips & Advice

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• News - The Daily Diddle

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• The Lord God Almighty’s Weblog

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• We Didn’t Start The Viral : Todd And = Marketing + Media

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• Review: Yahoo! YSlow for Firebug - PaulStamatiou.com
  
  I think it’s great that Yahoo! is working on a Firefox product and releasing their work to the community.
• Microsoft to Acquire AdECN, Inc.: Deal furthers Microsoft commitment to provide advertisers and publishers with a comprehensive search and display advertising platform.
  
  AdECN’s technology serves as a hub where advertising networks can come together in a neutral, real-time auction marketplace for buying and selling display advertising

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• Farecast | Airfare Predictions, Find Cheap Flights, Airline Tickets
• The Switchboards

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• Right Media Blog: Happy Birthday Direct Media Exchange … We’re One Year Old!
  
  As we look back, here’s our quick time line of things that happened along the way

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• » Social Media Index sixtysecondview: Sixty second interviews from pr, media and politics
• Random Mumblings: Just networkin‘

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• TwitterGram: Home

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• Center for Citizen Media: Blog » Blog Archive » Citizen Media: A Progress Report
  
  In my keynote at last month’s OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters’ Forum in Seoul, I was asked to offer a year-on-year progress report on the state of citizen journalism.
• Data finds data, then people find people « Jon Udell
  
  This process of discovery works best, of course, when there’s common data available to the syndication and search engines
• Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li’s Blog): 7 ways the Web makes writing a book better & faster
  
  I thought I’d take a moment to talk about how writing a book is different now — better, faster, more global, more collaborative — and the technologies I use that make this all possible.
• Washington Post’s LoudounExtra.com Isn’t Yet Hyperlocal Enough » Publishing 2.0
  
  hyperlocal is most meaningful at community level — even the county level is too big.
• Forward-Thinking Cultures
  
  Knowing how future orientation varies from culture to culture can help leaders shift their attitude from judgmental to understanding and focus their collaborative efforts
• The Doc Searls Weblog : Thursday, July 12, 2007
  
  As old and jaded as I’ve become in some ways, reading this re-energizes me. Not about blogging, but about writing. Because both are the same thing.
• MediaShift . Postmortem::Co-Founder Potts Shares Lessons Learned from Backfence Bust | PBS
  
  It’s not about technology, it’s not about journalism, it’s not about whiz-bang Web 2.0 features. It’s about bringing community members together to share what they know about what’s going on around town.
• MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Topix Capitalizes on Forums, Reaches Rural Areas | PBS
  
  Our mission from Day 1 is to zap the bottom 5% of all the posts every day. We use moderators or algorithms, whatever tricks we can, to get bad people off so it remains a good place for people to come and discuss things.
• Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
  
  there are network effects in cities - sometimes called urban economies - which can explode value creation. This is why most young people hate living in the burbs - it’s relatively boring.
• Zoho vs Google Docs
  
  Zoho’s future plans are to integrate their products and to provide a proper replacement for Microsoft Outlook: email, calendar, contacts and task management.

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• The Producers (1968) - Memorable quotes
  
  Not "ahahahahahahah!" Oops!

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• Towards the Attention Economy: Will Attention Silos Ever Open Up?
  
  The premise of the Attention Economy is that people are in control of their attention information. This control lets them use the information to receive utility and services.
• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - "Web 2.0" is the New Vendor Lock-in
  
  Being able to get your data out via APIs is a good first step but what is really interesting is being able to get everyone else’s data out of the service as well.
• Design your home with Floorplanner
  
  Floorplanner runs in Flash and employs a simple drag-and-drop interface to customize virtually anything you can imagine, making it fairly easy to replicate any room (to scale, even) and try out different layouts.

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