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“It’s best to seed your lawn in the fall, if possible. Of course, lawn seed can be sown at other times of the year. But fall is the ideal time for seeding to rejuvenate an existing lawn or to start a new one.”
Monthly Archives: September 2007
links for 2007-09-29
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Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites – SocialMarker.com“SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.”
links for 2007-09-25
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“Open source software is booming: here we round up over 480 open source applications for you to use or build upon.”
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“Amazon MP3 includes a selection of a la carte MP3 music downloads with more than 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists.”
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“So while Facebook allows developers to build application off its platform, Google will allow programmers to write applications off Google and, presumably, other third-party platforms connected to this network. This is where the notion of Google trying to
links for 2007-09-24
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“…instead, think of yourself as a provider of useful news information, then you work on ways to continue to do that, no matter what the final “product” is for delivery.”
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“Microsoft Corp. is in talks with Facebook Inc. about making an investment in the social-networking startup that could value Facebook at $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter.”
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“The basic premise behind Hey! Nielsen is simple. After joining, you pick something – movie, TV show, famous person, web site – and post your opinion. You also rate whatever you’re posting about on a 1-10 scale.”
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“This hot little rumor has been bouncing around through the weekend: Google could be willing to purchase satellite radio provider Sirius.”
links for 2007-09-23
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“Google seems to be planning to add a social layer on top of the entire suite of Google services, with Orkut as their initial main source of social graph information and possibly adding third party networks to the back end as well.”
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“Your content and data should be yours to manage and do with as you please. Your images, writing, tags, profile, blog entries, comments, testimonials, video, and music should be yours to download and move anyplace you want.”
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“Ultimately make the social graph a community asset, utilizing the data from all the different sites, but not depending on any company or organization as “the” central graph owner.”
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“if you manage a social networking service, we strongly encourage you to embrace OpenID, hCard XFN, FOAF and the other open standards around data portability.”
links for 2007-09-21
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“This is a very smart move on Sony’s part. Check out this application and have a blast creating Bob Dylan Video Messages for your facebook friends.”
links for 2007-09-20
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“This AppExchange app integrates Facebook profiles *into* Salesforce — so it’s not really a Facebook application so much as it’s tapping into Facebook’s APIs.”
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“It certainly sounds like he’s still leaning in that direction, saying that he doesn’t see how making it free would hurt the paper, and that, if done right, it could help make the paper a lot more money.”
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I still believe! “Floyd Landis lost his lengthy, costly and very public doping case Thursday when an arbitration panel upheld the initial charges that the 2006 Tour de France champion used performance-enhancing drugs to win the race.”
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“One of Soup’s killer features is the ability to import outside activity streams. You can import your activity from Digg, Flickr, del.icio.us, eBay, LiveJournal, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Vox, YouTube, Zooomer, and even Tumblr.”
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“You can also email the link or share it on popular social networks like Facebook, Furl, del.icio.us, Social Poster, Reddit and Digg.”
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“The guy behind the SEO initiatives at About.com, which the NY Times noted was one of the reasons they acquired About.com, is Marshall Simmonds. The SEO policies and training of guides was the responsibility of Mr. Simmonds.”
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“I sincerely hope that Digg listens to what their community members have to say.”
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“NBC will offer its top television shows as ad-supported downloads for up to a week after broadcast on a new service called “NBC Direct†that will launch this fall”
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“Time Warner Inc, the world’s largest media company, will “look hard” in the next 12 to 18 months at possibly selling off its AOL dial-up Internet access business after doing the same in Europe.”
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Citing sources at “Taiwan handset makers,” DigiTimes is reporting that “Google will definitely launch its own branded handset.”
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“…but YouTube is monetized at an extremely smaller rate than Google search, it’s safe to say that if Google doesn’t find a way to monetize more of YouTube, and fast, it’s going to become a major drain on the company.”
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presentations — whether imported from existing files or created using the new slide editor — are listed alongside documents and spreadsheets in the Google Docs document list. They can be edited, shared, and published using the familiar Google Docs inter
links for 2007-09-17
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“eMusic, which is second to iTunes in music download sales, will offer more than a thousand books for download”
links for 2007-09-14
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“Salesforce will enter the custom software market next week with a new platform that will allow developers to create database driven applications and deploy them as services.”
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“deliGoo is an extension for Firefox (2.0+) and Internet Explorer (6.0+), which is built into your browser in the form of an additional button on the tools’ panel.”
links for 2007-09-13
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“here is some expertise involved in building Facebook applications that users will actually use to shuffle your content around their social network.”
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“Social video site Revver has paid $1 million to video producers and their affiliates over the past year, the company says”
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“it seems unnecessarily inefficient that developers have to work with both Facebook and a 3rd-party meta service to deploy successful applications. I’d like to see Facebook itself step in and fill this need for developers…”
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“measured 20 Web 2.0 community websites, that are ranked among the Alexa global top 100 sites, with YSlow.”
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“Yahoo just announced that they will handle advertising for the UK and Ireland sites of Bebo, one of the large social networks”
links for 2007-09-12
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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.
links for 2007-09-11
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“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.”
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“Most of these apps serve as alternatives to commercial windows apps.”
links for 2007-09-09
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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”.
links for 2007-09-08
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“An animated tribute to the internet people of the world, wherever you may be.”
links for 2007-09-07
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Google published videos from the Test Automation Conference (on YouTube of course ;-)