links for 2008-08-23

  • Advertising is taking a huge nose dive. The future is Word of Mouth, (a la blogs) “web 2.0” (again, blogs, twitter, plurk, friendfeed etc) and other online properties.
  • AJAX developers, get your game on. Firefox version 3.1 will deliver massive speed improvements for JavaScript, the language behind many of the cool interactive effects on today’s web pages.
  • There’s a pretty well known secret among top Facebook application developers: one developer is generating over $1 million a month.
  • In today’s post Seth Godin suggests you click on banner ads as a way of “tipping the writer” If you liked their content, click a banner ad on their site.