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Thursday, 24th April 2008

Video Comments? No Thanks - 5 Reasons They Don't Work

Yesterday morning the web's largest web tech blog added video comments courtesy of of live video startup Seesmic. About 24 hours later, video comments had turned into a mini-trend with another 80 blogs installing them. While adding them at TechCrunch was a smart move by founder Michael Arrington -- who is also an investor in Seesmic -- because…

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Yahoo! to Rewire for Social Graph and Data Portability

Yahoo! announced today at the Web 2.0 Expo the availability of the first program in its large vision for a dramatic overhaul of the company across all its properties. The Search Monkey developer platform will let site owners alter their search results listing, including through semantic markup. Mark Hendrickson at TechCrunch has an in-depth…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Product Reviews

ThoughtFarmer's Tubetastic Marketing Campaign

Earlier this month, we opened up and shared with readers the different ways we're pitched by companies wanting coverage. We mentioned our favorite way (hint: RSS) and have been enjoying the feeds that have been sent in since. We also noted the arrival of the twitpitch - the new trend of pitching via Twitter. Meanwhile, another company had a…

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Social Networks

Twitter to Hillary: You're Doing it Wrong!

If Twitter is anything, it's a platform for communication. Tweet and reply. Follow and be followed. As Robert Scoble recently pointed out, "the secret to Twitter is how many people you are listening to, not how many people are listening to you." If that's the case, then someone needs to tell Hillary, who is using Twitter as a platform for being…

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Wednesday, 23rd April 2008

Product Reviews

MySpace Apps Are Go For All Users

MySpace officially opened its Application Gallery to all users this morning after launching it in public beta last March. In that time over 1,000 applications have been approved and added to the gallery and there have been over 2.1 million application installs across the site. Today, MySpace began promoting applications to users by adding an icon…

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