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Who Are The Top Tech Bloggers? — We've been analyzing historical TechMeme data to dig a little deeper than the leaderboard information on the site that shows top blogs over the trailing 30 days. We're slicing the data in a number of ways and will publish in shortly on CrunchBase.
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Top Tech Bloggers: #34 + #38 = #8 (Bitchmeme Watch) — TechCrunch has taken the Techmeme Leaderboard and extracted the top authors since the beginning of this year. Not surprisingly, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch is #1 with Erick and Duncan of TechCrunch coming in at #2 and #4 respectively.

Trolling for links: The top tech bloggers — As we all know, the number one rule of the blogosphere is that you must write about the blogosphere (it's like the opposite of the Fight Club), and in the absence of a “bitchmeme” for this weekend — although Twitter's intermittent issues come close …


Sources: Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni — Two independent sources tell us that the Microsoft/Xobni deal is moving along and that Microsoft signed an acquisition LOI in the last week. I have not yet been able to track down the price, but a previous offer of sub-$20 million was supposedly rejected by Xobni.

Social Networking Advertising - It Will Be Even Harder than we Think — I've had a few experiences in the past few weeks that continue to bolster my belief that monetizing social networks and communities will continue to be a lot harder than people think. — 1. I posted a question on Twitter …
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My Life on Facebook as a Woman and Why Social Network Advertising Doesn't Work — Last weekend I joked around on Twitter regarding the ads I see on Facebook on the left menu. As a single man in my 30s, the ads are always sexual in nature — some examples: “Hot Singles Waiting For You” and “30s Singles Looking for Love”, etc.
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Join The Web Content Conservation Movement — The other day Erick Schonfeld wrote a post about how he's feeling even more overwhelmed by new web content steams like Twitter and FriendFeed, and how he's desperately in need of a better filter. I certainly agree with Erick's clarion call …


If Twitter Breaks in the Woods and No One Can Tweet About It, Is It Really Broken? — I noticed a few people thinking the same thing as me today: is everyone taking a break from Twitter? People do get burnt out from the web after all and it was a pretty nice weekend day in a lot of cities.
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The Last Podcast, Scripting News, mathewingram.com/work, Drew B's take on tech PR and The Blog Herald
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Inside the Eee PC 900 — I know, we've probably been all Eee'd out for a few months; well, at least until Atom gets here. But there was this niggling itch to break stuff, and it was sitting there, and this is bit-tech after all... Where can we find that extra 16GB of SSD storage?


Recent Searches To Influence Google's Results — Danny Sullivan reported earlier this month that Google will start to personalize search results based on the previous query. “For example, if someone were to search for [spain] and then [travel] after that, BOTH the ads and the organic results …


Holographic storage ships next month! — Even since astronaut Frank Bowman disconnected the HAL 9000's holographic memory in 2001: A Space Odyssey techies have been wondering when we could buy real holographic storage. Now we know: May, 2008. — Promising super-high density …

The Social Map Is All About Me — Written by Mark Sigal, a digital media and Internet platform entrepreneur who has done eight startups, four of them as a co-founder. — Call me a cynic, but there has to be more to the Web 2.0 story than accessorizing my Facebook page with one-dimensional pseudo applications.

The problem with Web Mission — I've noticed that TechCrunch is fully supporting Web Mission '08 and I just can't hold my tongue any longer. — Web Mission exemplifies everything that's wrong with the UK and European web start-up scene. — The description from their site says:
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When Monetizing ISP Traffic Goes Horribly Wrong — In seeking to further monetize Web site traffic on their networks, a number of major Internet service providers may be inadvertently exposing their customers to a greater risk of online attack from identity thieves, according to research released today.
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WebGuild, InfoWorld, DSLreports, toorcon, Ryan Naraine's Security Watch, Mashable! and Threat Level
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ISP typo pimping exposes users to fraudulent web pages
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