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“Other than IM, the report found that RSS and podcasting showed “the highest average business value”, while social networking and blogging showed the lowest.”
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“MicroMedia: Quick audio or video messages published to a trusted social community. May be created and consumed using mobile technology, and often distributed using other social media tools”
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“Facebook is a fad – a Web 2.0 walled garden – being glamorized by people like Robert but as with all fads it will be replaced by something newer and cooler; and chances are Robert will be leading the charge with the newest flavor of kool-aid.”
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The Green Office is an online retailer of recycled, environmentally friendly, and sustainable business products, school supplies, and paper.
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“We evaluate the pros and cons of SaaS adoption with an in-depth analysis of deployment costs and the projected impact of this service model over a three-year period.”
Monthly Archives: July 2007
links for 2007-07-28
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“The act of aggregating and presenting streaming video or audio content in environments which that producer or distributor hadn’t intended.”
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“Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc.”
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“Microsoft’s coder-in-chief, Ray Ozzie, described in broad strokes the software giant’s plans to build its utility computing business as more and more computing functions and software applications turn into services supplied through the “cloud” of the Int
links for 2007-07-27
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“YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.”
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Did the designer of the Euskaltel-Euskadi kit who put that half-moon at the top of the shorts want to make it to look like all the riders on the team have a horrible, horrible case of Plumber’s Crack? Or is that just an entertaining side-effect?
links for 2007-07-26
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Hello! I’ve been saying this for years! “Site visitors are decreasingly entering via the homepage and instead are entering through other entry points, such as responding to an offer or following a search inquiry.”
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“AOL this morning announced that it would be acquiring Tacoda, a behavioral targeting (BT) ad network and technology provider (which works with many newspaper publishers). AOL owns the largest online ad network, Advertising.com, and will be integrating BT
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“So as most of you know by now, FeedBurner is now part of Google and I’m now working on the AdSense Product Management team helping integrate all we built over the last three years into Google.”
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“According to Hitwise US, 31.3% of the traffic to Linkedin.com, a business social network, came from the 25-34 year old age group for the week ending 7/14/07. Now you know.”
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“If we got an offer from someone for $10 billion, we probably would listen to them… I don’t think we’re going to get that offer, and we’ e not going to solicit it.†— Wired Blog
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“Media powerhouse Hearst Corporation announced the acquisition of UGO Networks … Forbes estimates the acquisition to cost $100 million based on UGO’s $30 million annual revenue and $82 million in venture capital.”
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“a horde of companies are doing their best to reduce the fundamental features of these websites to mere commodities”
links for 2007-07-25
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“PayPal will award $10,000 to whoever mashes up the PayPal API to create the most interesting Facebook app. Two second-place runners up prizes of $5,000 will be awarded, while four third place winners will get $2,500.”
links for 2007-07-24
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“The first step to putting the Del.icio.us Lesson into practice is asking a simple question that serves as the litmus test. Is your system useful to someone even if nobody else uses it?”
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Turn your Facebook News Feed into RSS (a bit dated from 9/2006)
links for 2007-07-23
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“For those who want more out of Google Reader and can’t wait, check out the hacks”
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“JBoss Rules 4.0 lays the foundation for bringing rules-based solutions into Simple, Open and Affordable SOA deployments and business process workflows.”
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“Facebook is the new facebook…it facebook-ed itself into being more facebook-ish with its facebookâ€
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“Facebook is growing at a faster clip than MySpace. And the fact that News Corp. felt the need to put out this press release at all is an indication that they are at least somewhat worried about Facebook.”
links for 2007-07-21
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“Peter Norvig, the head of Google Research talks about his group’s projects.”
links for 2007-07-19
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“Google Print Ads is now available to hundreds of thousands of United States-based advertisers who currently have a Google AdWordsâ„¢ account.”
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Timothy Lister’s Law: “People under time pressure don’t think faster.”
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“because it will enable Google to dominate online advertising and dramatically increase the opportunity for market collusion and price manipulation in the market for consumer click data, ad-performance tools, ad-brokering and ad-exchanges.”
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“…simply as with any analyst or lobbyist, he makes a case that is usually in line with the concerns or beliefs of the industry that backs him. The only real question with this report: who wants Google’s DoubleClick acquisition to fail this badly?”
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“BusinessWeek reports that Google is planning a corporate version of YouTube to host training and employee communications videos. It also looks at Google’s move to generate revenue by offering applications for the corporate market.”
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“I’m always surprised by those who find their first generation SOAs slow. When I dig into the architecture, and the process of getting their, I almost always find that there was little of no consideration of performance, no modeling nor testing.”
links for 2007-07-17
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“Web professionals use the iMacros add-on for functional, performace, and regression testing of web applications. With the built-in STOPWATCH command exact web page response times can be captured.”
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“Microsoft executives have got to be looking at Facebook, if for no other reason than expanding the existing advertising relationship.”
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“The plaintiffs have demanded that Facebook be shut down and that full control of the site – and its profits – be turned over to them.â€
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Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft Execs on Facebook — BFF
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“I find that the interactions I have through Facebook are at once more rewarding and more nuanced and meaningful than what I experienced on LinkedIn.”
links for 2007-07-16
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“The Facebook platform is great. Great, that is, except when a bug on Facebook’s end renders your application useless.”
links for 2007-07-14
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“send out invitations to people waiting to get into services, the more invitations you send out, the higher you move up the waiting list for invites to services you aren’t yet a member of.”
links for 2007-07-13
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“…question will become the center of a highly controversial and popular topic of conversation for the wider technical community in 2008.”
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“The company will do well over $100 million in revenue, and profitable, and significant EBITDA positive this year. Right now our job is to build out the company as significantly as possible.”
links for 2007-07-12
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A message from an anonymous Facebook app developer
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“document-driven wiki product – upload just about any kind of file (office docs, images, whatever) and Versionate will create an editable, wiki-like page with version and access controls.”
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“According to the latest search market share figures released by Compete, MSN/ Live increased its market share by 67% from May to June 2007, putting Microsoft’s share of search at 13.2% behind Yahoo at 19.6% and Google on 62.7%.”
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“TiVo users will be able to purchase and download movies from Amazon via their set top boxes starting today.”
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“Facebook is now the Social Operating System, and that new platforms and systems historically lead to a new economy. Bay wants to be in the middle of that economy and fund as many of the “killer applications†as they are able to find.”
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The same can be said for may online services that achieve critical mass
links for 2007-07-09
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“…you can follow every nail-biting sprint, every gut wrenching climb, and every blistering descent of the Tour de France on Google Earth.”
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“The Face of the Web, Ipsos Insight’s annual study of Internet and Technology trends, shows (probably quite obviously) an increasing use of video and social networking sites.”
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“Create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks.”
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“Project Zero introduces a simple environment for creating, assembling and executing applications based on popular Web technologies.”
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“Ten million streams is huge for an Internet event, and is beginning to get close to the number of viewers that hit television shows get.”
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“Google … has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide.”
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“More than 30 of these second-generation social networking sites have sprung up around books, serving as an online gathering place for hundreds of thousands of avid readers”