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Flemming Madsen / Onalytica Blog:
Who are the most influential authorities on "blog marketing"? — (A more comprehensive version of the report is available for download here (PDF, 10 Mb)) — In a previous analysis we analysed who are influential authorities on "business blogging". — Since then there has been great interest …
Nick / Rough Type:
When "direct" becomes a disadvantage — Dell's latest and greatest earnings disappointment pretty much settles it: The company isn't just struggling to overcome a blip; its traditional strategy is no longer working, at least not the way it used to. — What went wrong?
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Between the Lines, Newsome.Org, WebMetricsGuru, Scobleizer, robhyndman.com and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Damien Mulley:
How to use Google to get a girl and get laid — Please note that this is both a humourous and cynical piece on dating using Google. Try not to take this seriously. — This article is about using the many Google sites and applications to get yourself a girl and get yourself laid.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Online Dating 2.0: Thirteen Sites To Find Love — Online dating is big business, drawing about 4 million U.S. Internet users daily in June 2006 (and 25 million monthly), and they spend a daily average of nearly 17 minutes each on these sites. That adds up to a lot of page views - almost 4.5 billion per month (source: Comscore).
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
In the Race With Google, It's Consistency vs. 'Wow' — When Google introduced its mapping service last year, it did something that made its competitors look antiquated. Users could click on a map and drag it to see an adjacent area, a much faster approach than those offered by rival mapping services.
Darragh Johnson / Washington Post:
A Tough Call: Invisible Phone Or Invisible Friend — Crazy? — Or cellphone? — It's the latest sidewalk game in the urban canyon: — On K Street, a guy in a tie screams at the air: "Who do you think you are?" — In Dupont Circle, a woman downing dainty bites of a muffin ponders …
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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Advanced Micro May Buy ATI for About $5.5 Billion, Person Says — July 21 (Bloomberg) — Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's second-biggest maker of microprocessors, plans to buy ATI Technologies Inc. for about $5.5 billion, according to a person involved in the negotiations.
Devanshu / Science Addiction:
95 Theses of Geek Activism — Geek activism has not taken off yet, but it should. With the gamers recognizing the need for a louder voice, EFF gaining momentum and Linux taking on the mainstream on the one hand and recent severe losses in privacy, freedom of speech and intellectual property rights …
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John Clark / New York Times:
Hollywood Clicks on the Work of Web Auteurs — Scenes from "MySpace: The Movie," created by David Lehre. The 11-minute parody of the Web site MySpace and its users has had millions of hits since it first appeared on the site YouTube on Jan. 31. — EVEN as David Lehre's "MySpace: The Movie …
Kevin O'Keefe / Real Lawyers:
Best blogs send audience away — Jeff Jarvis writes "The problem with portals is that they aren't portals at all. ... They want to lure you in and then not let you leave." … Some of the best blogs are what Buzz Bruggeman describes as intelligence agents.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Gizmo to give users free VoIP calls... sort of — The Gizmo Project, a multi-platform VoIP service developed by SIPphone, now claims that users can make outgoing calls to landlines and mobile phones for free. The fine print tells a slightly different story, however.
Dick / Identity 2.0:
Google's Identity Silo — Ben Laurie from Google responded to my post on Google Account Authentication: two steps forward, one step back. A few comments that I'd like to respond to: … Uh, actually, yes. That is the idea behind Identity 2.0, that I could use my Yahoo login to authenticate to Google and to access Google services.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Rocky Times For MVNOs? — Things are getting a bit dicey in the MVNO Land. Helio is costing Earthlink some profits. Amp'd is d'amp'd. And now reports are trickling in about Mobile ESPN having some difficulties in that attracting sports fans to their service.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
The venture capitalist's Web 2.0 list — Venture capitalists are going nutty over Web 2.0 companies, pouring $870 million into these companies during the first three months of the year, up from $786 million the quarter before, according to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Remembering the post-bubble pain — Fred, over at A VC blog, writes about "scars from the last bubble." — Oh, that matches my psychological profile very well. It might seem from reading my blog that I have non-ending confidence that the advertising market (and the pressure on VCs …
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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
India Calls It a Technological Error, but Blog Blockade Continues — NEW DELHI, July 21 — After two days of angry inquiries and charges of government censorship, the Indian government took a step Thursday toward explaining a mysterious blockade on personal blogs, calling it "a technological error" that would be repaired soon.
