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Inbox 2.0 Makes Me Sad
It makes me sad because it is absurd for Yahoo to keep launching new social networking products, almost monthly, without what appears to be any sort of high level strategic vision.
(tags: socialnetworking socialnetworks yahoo Google)

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Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
And when I pressed him about the relationship between the social aspects of iGoogle and Gmail versus Orkut or some other social network, he said, “It is much easier to extend an existing habit than […]

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Slowing Economy Posing Test for Disney - New York Times
for the first time under Mr. Iger’s watch, Disney is sailing into some choppy waters. Two of the company’s four growth engines — theme parks and consumer products — turn on the health of the economy, which indicators suggest is slowing.

(tags: media)

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Note to N.F.L.: High Prices Cut Demand - New York Times
The league, you’ll recall, is furious that Comcast and Time Warner, with their combined 38 million viewers, have so far declined to add the four-year-old NFL Network to their basic digital tiers.
(tags: tv football)

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Engagement & The Future Of Online Advertising « GigaOM
Mo-dentity Management: People already have multiple online identities and managing them will become a key life skill.
(tags: marketing research advertising trends)

Setting the record straight about FEMA’s press briefing - PRWeek US
Mistakes were made by well-intended staff, and I made two. I did not ensure that staff had […]

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There’s an interesting story behind the Wall Street Journal firewall today about a new study of the ultra-rich. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is going to be asking folks in households worth $25 billion or more a battery of research questions with  such toughies as, “[On a scale of 0-10], how would you say […]

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OpenSocial: It’s the data, stupid
Set the data free! Allow social data mashups. That’s what will be the trump card in building the winning social networking platform.

(tags: opensocial google web2.0 socialnetworks socialnetworking)

Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles - Salon
Why this should be has to do with an economic truth that has not recently mattered much […]

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The social graft
Facebook, which distinguished itself by being the anti-MySpace, is now determined to out-MySpace MySpace. It’s a nifty system:
(tags: facebook advertising media web2.0)

Facebook Is Marketing Your Brand Preferences (With Your Permission) - New York Times
Facebook users will not be able to avoid these personally recommended ads if they are […]

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The Most Beautiful Planetary Maps Ever | Wired Science from Wired.com
I didn’t know that the United States Geological Survey even mapped planets in the first place. But indeed they do.
(tags: maps science art astronomy visualization)

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Well, the returns are in on Radiohead’s experiment in name-your-figure pricing and… it’s not pretty. At least not if you were thinking of model as having broader applications in a world where more and more consumers are ignoring the copyright restrictions that support many content-providers. A ComScore release says that of the 60% of Americans […]

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