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This week’s signposting
A selection of our recent reading taken from the internet over the last week:
Blogs becoming advertising force (from The Scotsman)
European awareness of blogs and blogging.US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
A fabulous example showing the power of tag clouds to paint a picture. Take a look at what the big issues were on State of the Union addresses since the 18th century.Map My London
Museum of London meets Google Maps mashupGoogle, Yahoo and Microsoft Agree to Standard Sitemaps Protocol
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an encouraging act of collaboration, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft
have announced that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps
protocol to index sites around the web.The real story of Web 2.0: Advertising 2.0
The
real story of Web 2.0 has little to do with the bells and whistles says Jason Calcanis and
everything to do with the stunning growth of online advertising‘Beta’ Is Not an Excuse
Released
software that is labeled “beta” is still released software, argues Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, and is fair
game for the same level of criticism as any released software. You
can’t “semi-release” your 1.0 just because you want it out there but
aren’t yet finished.Url.com
Another take on social searching - utilising other search engine results and user input
