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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Predictions 2008 — Has it been a whole year? I posted my predictions for 2007 on Jan 1, 2007, and here it is, the first day of 2008, and here we go again. This year I am going to organize my predictions by companies (just the big ones) and trends. I'm focusing on advertising …
Katherine Zoepf / New York Times:
Saudis Confirm Detention of Blogger — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — An outspoken Saudi blogger is being held for “purposes of interrogation,” the Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed Tuesday. — Gen. Mansour al-Turki, an Interior Ministry spokesman reached by telephone, said that the blogger …
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Why Is Google Giving Its ‘Shared Stuff’ Feature No Love In Its Social Movement? — Back in September when Google quietly announced a new service called ‘Shared Stuff’ I hailed it as the first step towards a social Google - a potential stealth Del.icio.us-killer that could signal the future of Google Reader.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Artificially Promotes Recent Web Pages — Google paid a big price when it started to index pages faster and show them in the search results minutes after they're published. The problem is that you can't rank a page that has just been created because it has no backlinks …
Zed's So F**king Awesome:
Rails Is A Ghetto — I've more or less kept my mouth shut about some of the dumb and plain evil stuff that goes on in the Rails community. As things would happen though I'd take notes, collect logs, and started writing this little essay. As soon as I was stable and didn't need Ruby …
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Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
Denton to pay bloggers based on traffic — Gawker Media dark overlord Nick Denton (pictured) has launched a new pay system for all Gawker Media blogs, after testing it at four of his leading sites. Denton's goal is to discourage “self indulgent” posts and “mind-numbing frequency” in favor of …
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Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
Mac OS X market share sets new record at the end of 2007 — With the end of 2007, Apple celebrates two years of the Intel Mac, and what a two years it has been. Web metrics firm Net Applications has just released numbers for December. For those who care, they do it like this:
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
It's a security issue, folks — In 1980, I signed a deal with a company to market a product I was developing. The contract required me to turn over the source code, which I did. One day I went to a meeting at the office of the company, and there on the product manager's desk …
E-Commerce Times:
Enterprise Customers to Wireless Carriers: Can You Hear Us Now? — Enterprise customers repeatedly ask why the carriers don't just offer packages of millions of voice minutes per month for a flat per-minute rate, or true “pay-as-you-go” plans without the gotcha of a minimum per-user minutes requirement.
Dave Methvin / InformationWeek Weblog:
Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It — Conventional wisdom seems to be that existing Microsoft customers won't leapfrog Windows Vista and wait for “Windows Seven,” currently expected in 2010. There's a feeling of inevitability about the transition …
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Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
The State of Innovation in India — 10 years ago, in 1997, I wrote an article called Playing Against 5 Aces for a technology magazine in India called Dataquest. The article looked at how the deck was stacked in favor of American technology companies, because they were playing with 5 Aces in the pack:
BBC:
Technologies on the rise in 2008 — A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2007 from Facebook and the iPhone to the Nintendo Wii. — But what will be making the headlines over the next 12 months? — Here the BBC News website gives its predictions for five technologies that could become big in 2008.
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Patently busy: IBM filing 10 patents/day in technology — A recent article in Spectrum, the online magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), rated companies in nine categories (Aerospace and Defense, Computer Peripherals and Storage, Computer Systems and Software …
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Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:
Look back: Social Media moments & milestones to remember from 2007 — There are dozens, maybe hundreds of lists of things that happened in tech in 2007—Tech Crunch has multiples, read/write web has some. My interest here isn't in replicating lists of product releases, acquisitions …
Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Are your SEO efforts working, or failing? — (For a quick summary of Search engine optimization, check out the Wikipedia entry) — SEO is a black art - with an emphasis on Art not Science — If you've ever wanted to increase website traffic, you've likely stumbled on a dozen or more guides on SEO.
