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Links September 12th, 2007

Facebook up, MySpace down | Technology | Guardian Unlimited

Compete statistics: “Facebook has grown not only in member base, but also in member engagement, while MySpace has fallen dramatically on these same measures.” However, MySpace is still miles ahead in terms of visitors, page views, and average stay.

(tags: facebook myspace statistics trends socialsoftware Research)

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links for 2007-09-11

Uncategorized September 11th, 2007

Optimize Product Reviews for Conversion Free Webinar

“In just 15 minutes, I’ll guide you through more than a dozen websites to show you the best ways to capitalize on featuring reviews on your website in order to maximize your conversion rate.”

(tags: ecommerce retail socialsoftware community reviews video)
40+ Free Windows Apps For You | Technology Bites

“Most of these apps serve as alternatives to commercial windows apps.”

(tags: Windows applications Freeware opensource software)

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links for 2007-09-09

Links September 9th, 2007

Google’s Search Pages Could Include Richer Ads

Nicholas Fox from Google gave an example of video ad for a local butcher that would work better than a standard text ad: “a video with shots of fresh meat and the overall store experience”.

(tags: Google Search Advertising adsense media video flash)

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links for 2007-09-08

Links September 8th, 2007

Internet People! -The Meth Minute 39 | Channel Frederator

“An animated tribute to the internet people of the world, wherever you may be.”

(tags: internet culture Humor video funny)

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links for 2007-09-07

Links September 7th, 2007

Google Testing Blog: GTAC videos now online

Google published videos from the Test Automation Conference (on YouTube of course ;-)

(tags: Google testing QA conference video programming software development TDD)

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links for 2007-09-06

Links September 6th, 2007

What Makes a Good Facebook Application? at FaceReviews.com : Facebook Application Reviews, Facebook Widgets, Facebook News

“The take away here: Build useful applications that engage users and you have the greatest chance of long term success and monetization.”

(tags: facebook platform applications Design)
Apple - To all iPhone customers

“Steve Jobs is giving us a $100 gift certificate for each iPhone purchased before price drop”

(tags: Apple iPhone Business PR)
Universal Finally Sues Veoh

“Veoh follows in the ignominious footsteps of other recent mass infringers such as Napster”. Adding, “Veoh’s rampant infringement will not stop until Veoh, and those who own, control, and run it, are enjoined and held financially responsible”.

(tags: video ondemand streamscraping Legal digital media)
Business 2.0 RIP - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

“We’re sad to report that employees of Business 2.0 magazine were told today that the monthly publication will close next week, after they finish the October issue.”

(tags: Business Magazine media publishing Technology web2.0)

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links for 2007-09-05

Links September 5th, 2007

acbToggleBT bluetooth headset Windows Mobile

“acbToggleBT is a lightweight utility to play sound over your bluetooth headset. If you have a paired headset, running this program will instantly send all audio through the headset.”

(tags: Windows Mobile Bluetooth Hacks PocketPC)
NBC Universal Television Content Now Available on Amazon Unbox: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

“Hit TV Series, Including The Office, Heroes, and 30 Rock, as Well as All New Fall NBC Series Available on Amazon.com’s Digital Download Service”

(tags: Amazon NBC TV media iTunes Apple ondemand video)
The Official Palm Blog: decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product

“I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering our next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market.”

(tags: palm Mobile phone)
Facebook making limited public search listings available to people who are not logged in

“we are making limited public search listings available to people who are not logged in to Facebook.” This will include natural search engines too like Google and Yahoo in the coming weeks

(tags: facebook socialmedia Search SEO privacy)

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links for 2007-09-04

Uncategorized September 4th, 2007

The Digestion Phase: How We Got Here And Where We Are Going Next

“Because we rushed to create a lot of new stuff, we might not have done all of it quite right. For us to be able to build on existing things, the foundation needs to be solid.”

(tags: web2.0 analysis Business economics internet socialnetworking socialsoftware Refactoring)

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links for 2007-09-02

Uncategorized September 2nd, 2007

iTunes Agent

“…synchronize your non-iPod MP3 player, your Playstation Portable and your Walkman phone with your iTunes Library”

(tags: iTunes iPod MP3 Music Audio Hardware Hacks Mobile windowsmobile Windows utilities)
WM5torage - Utilities - Phone Management

“This program will export the flash memory card inside the smartphone as usual USB Mass Storage device (ordinary “usb disk”) - effectively turning smartphone into flash reader.”

(tags: windowsmobile Windows USB storage Mobile phone Hack)

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