Mar
23rd
links for 2007-03-23
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us at 1:21 pm
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Blackberry addicts and news junkies can get their fix more easily thanks to a new RSS reader. NewsGator Go for BlackBerry lets you view and manage feeds from the ubiquitous mobile device.
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A unique service that allows you to submit cool, hot, beautiful stuff, preferable with a link where it may be bought. If enough people agree that it is hot it will get promoted to the front page and thus exposed to a broad audience.
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Forget the marketing gurus and poo-bahs who tout the need for SEO (search engine optimized) text. The information upon which you’ve based your on-line marketing strategy is outdated. It is soooo last millennium.
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YFonGlobal, a leading-edge provider of turnkey social network marketing technology, reports raising its second angel round of funding for a total of $1.8 million with an opportunity to raise $2.1 million from one angel investor’s matching funds offer.
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I’m flying out the door this morning, but thought I’d draw attention (once again) to Paid Content, where I found the following quote from Yahoo! boss, Terry Semel:
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Following a conversation on the use of “I” in blogging, CorpBlawg does an incredible analysis of the discussion.
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For those of us who can’t get enough of Digg.com, well, you’re in luck. Now you can wear this t-shirt and have your friends poke you in the chest all day long.
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Laptops will overtake desktop PCs as the dominant form of computer in 2011, according to a report by analysts IDC.
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Two US television networks are to combine their TV shows into a single online portal, to counter the threat of video-sharing sites such as YouTube.
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At least two federal government agencies are refusing to upgrade their computers with Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista operating system, citing concern over costs and compatibility issues.
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Seth writes a great post about how he published Purple Cow. The great part of this is that he utilized the premise of the book to promote it. Of course it worked fantastically. There’s some great inside scoop on the promotion, too. Check it out.
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The San Francisco Chronicle is in big trouble. Apparently, Phil Bronstein, the editor-in-chief, told staff in a recent “emergency meeting” that the news business “is broken, and no one knows how to fix it.” (”And if any other paper says they do, they’re l
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Borders announced that it would be ending its alliance with Amazon.com and would run its own online bookstore starting early next year. This is a great little post on strategies… Borders will build their own solution, Amazon will build its own platform
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This morning, Yahoo announced the release of Yahoo Widgets 4, the company’s platform for web-enabled mini apps on the desktop. It’s a cross-platform release, with (required) desktop engines available for Windows and Mac OS X.
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Apple just might create the most parody-inducing advertisements in the world. Both the dancing iPod-listeners and “Get a Mac” have kept YouTube busy over the last year, but very few of the parodies have reflected the efforts of a competing company to actu

