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Microsoft’s Shoe Circus
December 10, 2008 – 12:30 pm | No Comment

Where Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates try to invent the Microsoft brand…….

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Research shocker: Consumers don’t trust corporate blogs
December 10, 2008 – 11:38 am | One Comment

Forrester Research has released a report which finds that people do not trust corporate blogs –
which rank below newpapers, portals, wikis, direct mail, company email and message board posts in the trustworthiness stakes. Josh Bernoff, …

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How Twitter could beat Google to the semantic web
December 9, 2008 – 12:14 pm | 2 Comments
How Twitter could beat Google to the semantic web

Nick Bilton, design integration editor and user interface specialist at The New York Times and The Times Research & Development Lab, thinks he’s hit upon a business model for Twitter. Writing for O’Reilly Radar, Bilton …

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Social media at risk of self-referential implosion
December 8, 2008 – 11:45 am | 2 Comments
Social media at risk of self-referential implosion

Unless we find the tools to silence the chatter, that is. Om Malik at GigaOM has started a thought-provoking conversation with his post about the challenges facing the social web, itself inspired by Elliot Ng’s …

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Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect – the nerd fight commences
December 5, 2008 – 3:31 pm | No Comment
Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect – the nerd fight commences

Without a doubt, the hottest news of the moment is yesterday’s launch of Facebook Connect and rival service, Google Friend Connect. The ensuing brouhaha is easily understood — these guys are changing the shape of …

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Old skool reporters turn to blogging after layoffs
December 4, 2008 – 12:10 pm | One Comment
Old skool reporters turn to blogging after layoffs

Amy Gahran, E-Media Tidbits editor at PoynterOnline has spotted a few old skool reporters who’ve taken to blogging in response to their recent axing by Gannett, the largest US newspaper publisher and owner of USA …

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YouTube and Ning crack down on sexually suggestive content
December 3, 2008 – 10:56 am | No Comment
YouTube and Ning crack down on sexually suggestive content

In unrelated stories, we hear that YouTube and roll-your-own social network site Ning will be imposing restrictions the type of content that can be uploaded by users.
YouTube will now apply a stricter standard for mature …

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MySpace users accused of being backwards cretins
December 2, 2008 – 11:30 am | No Comment
MySpace users accused of being backwards cretins

BusinessWeek reporter Jon Fine in his blog Fine On Media has published an excerpt from an interview with veteran journalist Michael Wolff in which Wolff says MySpace will go the way of AOL, adding: “…if …

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Facebook Connect sparks debate over the future of the social web
December 1, 2008 – 11:12 am | No Comment
Facebook Connect sparks debate over the future of the social web

A year after the Beacon privacy debacle which left its execs totally feeling the *facepalm*, Facebook has begun its publicity push for Facebook Connect, announced in May.
Seen as the next iteration of the Facebook platform, …

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