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POPSTwitter, the next big thing? Bigger is gettting the current big thing right.
David Berlind in his recent post to his Berlind's Testbed blog, recalls how he was drug into the last two computing revolutions by his colleage, Dan Farber. He then talks about how Twitter, or stuff like Twitter, is the next big thing. In the paragraph before that he talks about the multi-medium publishing story (see excerpt below). I believe we are getting closer to delivering on that story. But there is much that needs to be done before it is complete. Especially in the area of monetizing all this stuff. We have to figure out how to count it, we have to understand the connection between the content and the user, and we have to do a great job of understanding how to deliver relevance. Said another way, the publishing is the stupid-easy part. What is next is not more short messages... that will be helpful. What is next is helping users get more out of the content and helping them get more out of products closely relevant to the content. Fair enough, David is talking about th
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POPSFeedCycle: "serialize" your feed Apparently they invented "serialized" feeds. This means that when someone subscribes to your feed, they will automatically get episode 1 that day, then episode 2 the next day, etc., even if you are already up to episode 15 when they subscribe. I don't know what I'd use this for, but it sounds handy.
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POPSWeb2.0 and more web2.0 I just clipped a tiny tiny portion of this site. Go to the source for more than enough to make the geekiest geek's head spin. Just kidding I think. This is really a treasure trove of web 2.0 resources. Even the might Clipmarks is proudly listed.
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POPSCNN's Anderson Cooper has a podcast Well, they're about a year later than many of us had thought, but big media is finally waking up to podcasts and rolling on in. It'll be interesting to see if the little guys survive the advent of major media podcasts.
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POPSGoogle Top Searches 2006 Simple people have voted their persons and their concerns for people of the year 2006. It is remarkable to see that issues such as cancer, bankruptcy and autism are included in the top 10 of news searches amongst others not so .. serious searches!
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POPSWhat do we Google? The nr 5 top 'how to' query was 'how to scream'. Do so many folks really honestly not know how to do this?? Amazing... Well, you take a hammer with your right hand and then aim at your thumb on your left hand and then.....*bang*.... end of lesson! Go the site and check the tabs too. (Alternative lesson: Check Bush's resumé...chuckle chuckle)
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POPSMixtapes for podcasts "Like mixtapes for podcasts" is the tagline of this site. Bookmark and "pop" your favorite podcasts and get recommendations.