links for 2007-11-07
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Two new citizen journalism sites plan to cover the 2008 elections. Will they change the way politics is conducted online?
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A ridiculously long list of tech tools for nonprofits. Not much more than a listing of what the tools are, tags and links to the tools themselves, but it has almost 2000 tools.
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The latest estimates show 5 percent of electricity used in the United States goes to standby power, a phenomenon energy efficiency experts find all the more terrifying as energy prices rise and the planet warms. That amounts to about $4 billion a year.
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Work colleagues who spend their day gossiping, organizing their home lives, or who press "reply all" on e-mails are among the biggest nuisances in the office, according to a survey released on Monday.
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It’s an innovative online tool for organizing and sharing files within a team or workgroup. Tag-based file storage.
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Nonetheless, some privacy advocates are proposing scrapping the system entirely because they can’t agree with the people who use the system on how to give domain name owners more options when they register — such as designating third-party agents.
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The residential real estate market may be troubled, but property-focused Web sites are still attracting visitors and investors.
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ALTHOUGH 50 million people in the United States have some form of physical or mental disability, they spend money just as easily as others. But there are few efficient ways for advertisers to reach them, and that’s what a new Web site, Disaboom.com, hop
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MySpace still dominates the category with nearly 80% market share of visits to the top 20 sites. US Visits to MySpace increased by 70% from April 2006 to April 2007, while visits to Facebook were up 126% and visits to Bebo were up 184%.
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Old article but it covers the basics.
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Events, Concerts, Tickets, Festivals, Kids, Singles, Sports, Music.
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New journalism blog.
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Media News & Intelligence for PR Pros.
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Congress has refused to take no for an answer, and based on the way an argument unfolded on Tuesday at the Supreme Court, it appears that Congress may have finally fought the court to a draw.
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On Thursday, an alliance of companies led by Google plans to begin introducing a common set of standards to allow software developers to write programs for Google’s social network, Orkut, as well as others, including LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo and
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People will soon be able to sign up for do-not-track lists, which will help shield their Web surfing habits from marketers eager to deliver specific ad pitches to them.
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On-demand education.
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In a trend known as consumer-generated content, an 18-year-old student and Apple devotee was hired to make a television commercial for Apple’s new iPod Touch.
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The new Ratchet is a watershed for gaming because it provides the first interactive entertainment experience that truly feels like inhabiting a world-class animated film.
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These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all Web content developers (page authors and site designers) and for developers of authoring tools.
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Psychologist Steven Pinker has been thinking a lot about the words we use, and the way we use them. He argues that language doesn’t simply convey messages, but provides a window into our thoughts, emotions, and social relationships.
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The Slingbox (not as famous as the TiVo) has a new version that is cheaper, takes up less space and is more flexible than the original.
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Like the iPod Touch, Chumby plays music and has a crisp touch screen, but unlike an iPod its underlying technology is built on open-source software that is ripe for tinkering.
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The chumby is a compact device that displays useful and entertaining information from the web: news, photos, music, celebrity gossip, weather, box scores, blogs — using your wireless internet connection. Always on, it shows — nonstop — what’s online
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A moratorium on Internet access taxes received a last-minute extension Wednesday, one day before it would have expired.
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The Federal Trade Commission will hold meetings today and tomorrow about online privacy. The questions they will entertain include how much control people need or want over the vast trove of information that corporate America routinely collects about peop
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Free, open source internet tv and video player.
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A credit card for Second Life.
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Next generation of the critically acclaimed I-Sonic features category-leading sound quality and is the first to combine HDâ„¢ Radioâ„¢ technology, iPod compatibility and revolutionary new iTunes Tagging
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Online calendar services including reminders, planners etc
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Google’s standard APIs for social networking sites and functionality.
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Create a free private or public Groupsite for sharing and keeping your group connected.
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Lean the FaceBook Markup Language
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Facebook Markup Language (FBML) is an evolved subset of HTML with some elements removed, and others which have been added that are specific to Facebook.
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The complete details on Platform and how it works from the inside out.
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The benefit of the Google approach is that developers can use much of their existing front end code and simply tailor it slightly for OpenSocial, so creating applications is even easier than on Facebook.
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MySpace and Bebo, two of the world’s largest social networking sites, on Thursday joined a Google-led alliance that is promoting a common set of standards for software developers to write programs for social networks.
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A MEMBER of the Federal Trade Commission said yesterday that the agency would be exerting a tighter grip over online advertising, partly because of increased tracking by marketing companies of people’s activity on the Internet.
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Emory University psychiatry and psychology professor Michael Davis found that a certain chemical reaction in the amygdala is crucial in the way mice and people learn to overcome fear. When that reaction is deactivated in mice, they never learn to counter
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According to comparison figures from August 2007 released today by Nielsen//NetRatings, US teenagers aged 12 to 17 who visit both MySpace and Facebook spend more time at each site than those who visit just one site or the other.
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Teenagers who smoke are five times more likely to drink and 13 times more likely to use marijuana than those who are not smokers, according to a report issued on Tuesday.
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Demographic profile of MySpace users.
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Demographics of Facebook users.
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Quantcast is the world’s first open internet ratings service. Advertisers can find reports on the audiences of millions of web sites. Publishers can ensure their sites are represented accurately by tagging them for direct measurement. The service is free
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New York-based Warner refused to license its music for the service, taking issue with Nokia’s operation of a file-sharing Web site called Mosh, an executive familiar with the negotiations between the two companies said Friday on condition of anonymity, ci
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Whether it’s on MySpace, Facebook, "Second Life" or other Web flavors of the moment, criminals and victims — especially young ones — are leaving clues in plain sight online, even for offline crimes.
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Searches conducted on Google News on Friday occasionally returned photos from Reuters Group PLC that didn’t match the stories they were listed next to, such as a shot of bunches of vegetables that appeared alongside a story about a Japanese merger firm.
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The broadcast networks are clearly adopting more of an “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em†philosophy toward the Internet. Harnessing a natural human inclination toward gossip, complaint, prediction and obsession, they are using TV show Web sites
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Contributors to Mr. Rottler’s sites don’t pull any punches.
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Microblogging on Twitter.
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While the impact of digital technology on record labels gets more attention, it also affects the fan-star dynamic: online social networking tools promise us more interaction, or a more direct connection (to use the buzz terms of the moment), with artists.
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Viewers seeking interaction and discussion turn to polemical clips about religion or politics, including incendiary hits like “Macedonia Is Greece,†“Atheist†and “The Truth About Islam From an Ex-Muslim Lady.â€
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In addition to conventional printed information throughout the gallery, those using NeuTour have access to a wealth of supplemental material through personal laptops or digital devices.
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How does the august Times, which has long stood for dignified authority, come to terms with the fractious, democratic culture of the Internet, where readers expect to participate but sometimes do so in coarse, bullying and misinformed ways?
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Employees and visitors can also use their cellphones, BlackBerrys and wireless laptops anywhere in the building’s 46 floors, including the lobby and cafe.
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Suppose, however, that you could leave the island compound of a social networking site and take your network of friends, and friends of friends, anywhere on the Web?
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Marketing blogs and corporate social media strategies for innovative companies
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Internet marketing strategy, social media trends, news and commentary.
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Author’s blog.
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Rethink Intellectual Property.
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Guide to Corporate, Business Blogging
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The gloves came off last week after Chris Anderson, the executive editor of Wired magazine, chided “lazy flacks†who deluge him with news releases “because they can’t be bothered to find out who on my staff, if anyone, might actually be interested
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Confirming its long-rumored foray into the mobile market, Google said Monday it is developing a free cell phone software package so the Internet search leader can more easily peddle ads and services to people who aren’t in front of a PC.
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Microsoft Live Search blog.
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The campaign, with a budget estimated at more than $10 million, is emblematic of the changes sweeping through the world of consumer marketing as the Internet becomes an increasingly common, and important, source of information, entertainment and, yes, adv
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Google took its long-awaited plunge into the wireless world today, announcing that it is leading a broad industry alliance to transform mobile phones into powerful mobile computers that could accelerate the convergence of computing and communications.
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MySpace will announce today that more than 50 large advertisers, including Ford and Taco Bell, are using its so-called HyperTargeting ad program, which scours user profiles for interests and then delivers related ads. And, within the next few days, Facebo
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Retailers and brands are increasingly relying on the Internet to market $3,000 skirts and $5,000 suits to consumers who think nothing of spending that much on clothing. The trend represents another byproduct of high-speed Internet connections, but it also
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Copyrighted work like a news article or a picture can hop between Web sites as easily as a cut-and-paste command. But more than ever, as that material finds new audiences, the original sources might not get the direct financial benefit — in fact, they m
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Public Relations blog.
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America’s Health Rankings – 2007 Edition shows Vermont at the top of the list of healthiest states. This is the first year Vermont has been ranked number one.
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Chefs are using science not only to better understand their cooking, but also to create new ways of cooking.
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The drop, reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, reflects the growing shift of readers to the Internet, where newspaper readership has climbed, and also a strategy by many major papers to shed unprofitable or marginally profitable print circulation
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Microsoft Buys Some Of Facebook; PageRanks Drop On Paid Link Penalties & More
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The Gphone Arrives (Well, The Operating System Does); Google Breaks $700 Mark & More
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Star Tribune’s shopping section.
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Facebook now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product. So each user’s news feed will contain items like “Bobby Smith is now a fan of Toyota Priusâ€
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eMarketer projects that the number of affluent users in the US will increase from 43.7 million in 2006 to 57.1 million in 2011.
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Marquest said that real-time viewing in DVR homes dropped to 36% of all TV viewing, down from 45% in 2006.
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One might think that’s an obvious "yes," but not necessarily, according to Advertising Age. In fact, there’s a good deal of confusion as to what online privacy actually means.
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A list of some of GrokDotCom’s favorite Web copy resources in hopes that copywriters everywhere will steal the best tips from our colleagues.
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When given a choice about how Web content should be paid for, the vast majority (72 percent) of Web users preferred that websites not charge them, and instead be funded by advertising.
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