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Clive Thompson / New York Magazine:
Blogs to Riches — The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom. — T — wo years ago, David Hauslaib was a junior at Syracuse University who was, as he confesses, "totally obsessed with who Paris Hilton was sleeping with." So he did what any college student would do these days: He blogged about it.
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Blogs to Riches — To analyze the disparities in the blogosphere, Shirky took a sample of 433 blogs. Then he counted an interesting metric: the number of links that pointed toward each site ("inbound" links, as they're called). Why links? Because they are the most important and visible measure of a site's popularity.
Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:Peter Rojas gets his due
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Technorati adds authority weighting — Technorati just turned on a new feature: if you are searching Technorati, for, say "Technology" blogs you get a choice: you can see them all, or you can see the ones that have a lot of "authority" in that space. I didn't see that feature over the weekend …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
What is Authority? — Scoble says that Technorati just turned on a new feature that sorts keyword searches by authority (e.g. in-bound links). This triggers the philosophical side of Steve. Just what IS authority? — According to the Oxford Dictionary, authority is:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Technorati now has Authority — Assigning some sort of quality …
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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 2: Beyond Search — In Part 1 of the State of the Blogosphere report, I covered the overall growth of the blogosphere. Today I'm going to cover the growth of the blogosphere as media, and discuss some of the emerging trends that deal with handling information overload.
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Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
Juicy new google feature — Maybe you've seen it, I hadn't. This is a new feature inside of Google AdWords. Do a search, in this case for the Artisan Hotel, and a string of ads pop up. But one ad has a green phone. — Click on the green phone and an ajax window opens up.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
BlogCode helps you find blogs similar to... Ever find a blogger you really like and wonder "are there other blogs similar to this one?" Well, that's what BlogCode is trying to do. Mine will be indexed shortly (I filled out a short "code" about my blog and at the end of it I learned that Matt Cutts of Google is similar to me.
Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
Yahoo! Open Sources UIs and Design Patterns — Kudos to Yahoo!, who today released two pieces of goodness into the commons. The first is their UI library, and the second is their Design Patterns Library. The UI Library is a collection of DHTML/Ajax/Javascript (pick your favourite term) controls and widgets.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / desktoplinux.com:
Google Windows apps coming to Linux — Google and CodeWeavers Inc. are working together to bring Google's popular Windows Picasa photo editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program is successful, other Google applications will be following it to the Linux desktop, sources say.
Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
How to Almost Live on Blogging — Enter a Google search for Harold Davis, and some resulting links will inevitably lead you back to Google. — As the author of two books on Google, operator of a blog called Googleplex and longtime user of Google's keyword advertising program …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
As an Alternative to a Trip to a Video Store, Movies Through a Set-Top Box — Will people pay $230 and hook a new gizmo up to their television sets so they do not have to drive to the video rental store? — That is the question to be answered by MovieBeam, a service being introduced in 29 major markets today.
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Is Firefox dropping the ball, like Netscape in 97? — Lately I've been noticing a number of people criticising the performance of the latest versions of Firefox, since 1.5. Nik Cubrilovic, a developer at online storage company OmniDrive, is the latest to point out performance issues with Firefox 1.5 and above:
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Johnnie Moore / Johnnie Moore's Weblog:
Podcast: Zopa Revisited — A few days ago, James and I revisited two of the founders of Zopa, James Alexander and Dave Nicholson. Zopa is the "eBay for money" who I first podcast about in April 2005. We've produced an edited version of our new conversation as another podcast.
Steven Levingston / Washington Post:
Olympics Web Site a Winner for NBC — Page Traffic Runs High as Network Finds Ways to Increase Viewers' Control — The NBC Olympics Web site is attracting visitors in much larger numbers this year than during previous Olympic Games as consumers increasingly demand control over how and when they get updates and watch video.
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Ellen McCarthy / Washington Post:
BearingPoint to Help Sell Google Technology — Consulting Firm to Integrate Search Product That Sorts Companies' Records — BearingPoint Inc., a McLean consulting firm that has been mired in accounting problems for the past year, has struck a deal with Google Inc. to sell and integrate technology …
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