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Age of Conversation:
Age of Conversation Launches — Sydney, Australia; Des Moines, Iowa, USA, July 16, 2007 — In what may be a first-of-its-kind collaboration via the internet, more than 100 marketing professionals have joined together online to write The Age of Conversation, a book that will be published July 16.
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Matt Kinsey / AdAge:THE AGE OF CONVERSATION — Edited by Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton
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Michelle Thatcher / CNET News.com:
Intel announces Extreme mobile CPU — Mobile gaming just got sweeter: Today Intel announced the Core 2 Extreme X7800, its first laptop CPU under the Extreme Edition brand. The 2.6GHz dual-core processor features 4MB of L2 cache and an 800MHz front-side bus, making it the highest-end chip in Intel's mobile lineup.
The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Goodbye LinkedIn. Hello Facebook. — This morning I made the decision to focus all of my professional business social networking contacts to be on Facebook. That means that I am no longer going to accept new LinkedIn requests. After spending the past few months using Facebook, I no longer see the value of LinkedIn.
Hindustan Times:
Google, Yahoo may be eyeing Rediff — US-based Internet giants such as Google and Yahoo are eyeing Rediff.com India Ltd, which runs one of India's most popular consumer Internet portals, for a possible acquisition. Investment banking sources told Hindustan Times that the management …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
The Facebook lawsuit that hasn't gone away — Before he launched Facebook at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg worked for two brothers on a project called HarvardConnect.com that also wanted to connect students and alumni. — Zuckerberg later left that project, and showed up with Facebook.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Inside Facebook, NFO (News Feed Optimization) is the new SEO — Everybody with a website knows that Google owns two of their most important marketing channels: organic search (SEO) and paid search (SEM). In fact, entire cottage industries have developed around them:
Steve / How To Split An Atom:
How To Define Web 3.0 — Over the last few months I have written a weekly piece on how the Web is evolving. Taking into account the current trends in technology, and the direction in which the web is developing I have tried to define Web 3.0. At the end of volume one of this discussion piece, I think we have come a long way.
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BBC:
Paper gives away Prince CDs — Around three million copies of Prince's new album, Planet Earth, have been given away with the Mail On Sunday. — The promotion is believed to be worth about £250,000 to the musician, whose hits include Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret and Money Don't Matter 2Night.
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
In Push for Local Readers, Post Unleashes LoudounExtra.com — The Washington Post Co. today is launching LoudounExtra.com, an aggressive online push into hyperlocal journalism, combining traditional reporters and photographers with bloggers, videographers and extensive databases on schools, businesses and churches.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Sony's Grouper becomes Crackle, a "pathway to Hollywood" — The online video site formerly known as Grouper — the one purchased by Sony for $65 million last August — has a new name and a new direction. — Now Crackle, it will be a Sony Pictures-backed online talent studio (our previous coverage here).
Doug Mohney / Inquirer:
High speed granny has $250,000 of kit — On the Mohney It's just a Swedish stunt — PETER Löthberg is grinning ear-to-ear because he has people abuzz. Löthberg, as you may have read here, hooked up his dear old mum with 40Gbps Internet connectivity.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Net radio "compromise" hinged on DRM adoption — As we reported Friday, the looming royalty crunch on Internet radio that would have begun today (July 15) was narrowly averted last week by a temporary reprieve from SoundExchange. Now it appears that a lasting compromise is indeed possible …
Jesse Farmer / Inside Facebook:
The Dangers of Building on the Facebook Platform — The Facebook platform is great. Great, that is, except when a bug on Facebook's end renders your application useless. People expecting to see growth like iLike were sorely disappointed if they were unlucky enough to run into a series …
Duncan / duncanriley.com:
Wall Street Journal Tries to Re-Write Blogging History — Tunku Varadarajan at The Wall Street Journal wishes blogging a happy 10th birthday; one problem, blogging is not 10 years old, it's actually older. — According to my history of blogging (still No. 3 on Google BTW …
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