links for 2007-09-20
- Faceforce kickstarts the social business app movement: “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.” (tags: facebook, Salesforce, socialnetworking, CRM, SaaS, applications)
- Techdirt: Murdoch Seems Poised To Drop WSJ’s Paywall As Well: “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.” (tags: online, media, WSJ, content, Business)
- Landis’s Positive Doping Test Upheld – New York Times: 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.” (tags: Floyd, TdF, Cycling, Laws)
- Soup: Tumble Blogging with Friends: “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.” (tags: blog, blogging, publishing, social, web2.0, tumblelog)
- Google Shared Stuff: “You can also email the link or share it on popular social networks like Facebook, Furl, del.icio.us, Social Poster, Reddit and Digg.” (tags: Google, socialmedia, blogging, RSS)
- The Man Responsible for NY Times Going Free: Technology Evangelist: “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.” (tags: Search, SEO, News, media, publishing)
- 23 Community Reactions to the New Digg: Outlook Not Good » techipedia | tamar weinberg: “I sincerely hope that Digg listens to what their community members have to say.” (tags: digg, socialsoftware, UI, UGC, community, tools)
- NBC Launching VOD Service — What about Hulu? : NewTeeVee: “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” (tags: NBC, video, tv, media, ondemand)
- Time Warner mulls sale of U.S. AOL access business | Technology | Internet | Reuters: “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.” (tags: AOL, internet, Bandwidth, Acquisitions, Business)
- DigiTimes: Google will definitely launch its own branded handset – Engadget: Citing sources at “Taiwan handset makers,” DigiTimes is reporting that “Google will definitely launch its own branded handset.” (tags: Google, phone, rumors, Mobile)
- YouTube Accounts For 1/3 Of All Google » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel: “…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.” (tags: Google, youtube, trends, analysis, analytics, Bandwidth, socialsoftware)
- Official Google Blog: Our feature presentation: 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 (tags: Google, Office, powerpoint, presentation, online, Presentations, web2.0, software)
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