Archive for September, 2008

Talking ’bout a revolution…

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Is MySpace back? I’d say…
MySpace music should create a pretty serious racket across the music marketplace. Most interesting from Michael Arrington’s overview is; The playlist functionality and sharing will let users discover new music as well from the 4 million mostly unknown artists that populate MySpace Music along with popular mainstream artists…"
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Mike Davison, September 24th, 2008
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social science meets proper science

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Microsoft colliding scientists in an effort to better understand social behaviours and networks. A hugely interesting project…


Mike Davison, September 24th, 2008
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conflicts of interest (cont’d)

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More food for thought on the whole conflict of interest debate.
http://www.inquisitr.com/3618/conflicts-of-interest-and-blogging/
"We are seeing a sea change, one where we have created jobs that didn’t exist only 5 years ago, and one where in the coming years the idea of being a full time blogger will be something to aspire to, and a far more common [...]


Mike Davison, September 22nd, 2008
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blog content based advertising

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Something I have mused about for some time. Does conversational advertising ie a revenue stream attached to social media run the risk of leading the direction of content itself?
http://www.buzzlogic.com/blog/2008/09/buzzlogic_announces_coversatio.html
Question is - if I know I get paid via ads if I create content on a particular product, and the more positive I am about a product the more clicks I’ll have on the ads [...]


Mike Davison, September 20th, 2008
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Google ask: Is there life beyond wonder Chrome?

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So – we all know it’s here, and Google are claiming that their new ‘chrome’ platform is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
Boasting one box for everything, thumbnails of your top sites, shortcuts for your apps and a whole heap [...]


Sam Chimes, September 3rd, 2008
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