Link Blog November 5th

Here are some posts that caught my eye in the last couple of days:

• Grip Your Readers With These 7 Knock-out Opening Sentences .....explains how a great opening sentence can draw readers into your blog posts....
• Publishing Digital Fair Use
• What Price Would You Pay for "Old" Content?
• All Control is....
  
• IL2007 Internet Librarian 2007: Info Pros, Library Communities & Web Tools
  
• Dilbert says: "Free is more complicated than you think"
• Scopus content powering QS World University Ranking

Link Blog November 2nd

Here are some posts that caught my eye in the last couple of days:

• Write apps once, run them everywhere but Facebook Google and MySpace just dropped a major bomb on Facebook: they are joining forces to build a new social networking application platform that overnight will be considered the standard..........
• Seth Godin: Meatball Sundae Webcast -- common sense meets the future
• Why VoIP is the next target for spammers Industry experts believe that attacks over services such as Skype are moving from proof of concept to becoming a real threat...
• Virtual China looks for real benefits Anyone who still thinks that virtual worlds such as MindArk's Entropia Universe or Second Life are the plaything of geeks should look at what is happening in China....
• SlideShare at Internet Librarian 2007Looks like SlideShare is the tool of choice for the IL presenters this year. You can find many presentations from IL07 already online on SlideShare
• Google OpenSocial will (hopefully) make social apps more relevant

Link Blog October 31, 2007

Here are some posts that caught my eye today:

• Andreesen explains impact of Google’s OpenSocial
• Google to Launch OpenSocial Social Networking Platform In a direct response to the Facebook applications platform, Google will announce the OpenSocial platform on Thursday...
• Google joins the corporate super-league The world's favourite internet search engine has a market value of $219bn, which ranks it among America's top five companies....
• 50 Ways to Green Your Business Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!)....
• Surveys Thanks to the internet, surveys are a lot cheaper than they used to be....
• How to Pitch to Bloggers - 21 Tips
• Twitter is low-expectation IRC
• Will Facebook Ever Make Money? An interview with Chamath Palihapitaya, Facebook's VP of product marketing and operations....
• Sustaining the Digital Library: Symposium List of presentations from the Sustaining the Digital Library : Symposium....
• Cory Doctorow: Policing the net will never work

Link Blog October 29, 2007

Here are some posts that have caught my eye recently:

• Early adopter: Parrot DF7700
• Stephen Fry: Welcome to dork talk He owns the second ever Macintosh computer sold in Europe, and has never met a smartphone he hasn't bought. To introduce his new column, Stephen Fry explains why he's deeply dippy for all things digital...
• Feedheads: my Favorite Facebook application Mark Zuckerberg won’t tell you his favorite Facebook application but I will...
• Have You Tried Microsoft's Live Book Search Yet? It's still technically in beta stage, but I've been impressed with Microsoft's Live Book search..
• We Are Smarter Than Me, by Barry Libert & Jon Spector The folks at Wharton School Publishing launched the We Are Smarter Than Me website project last year and invited everyone the...
• Facebook Flyer test results
• Sony Tries to Re-Kindle eBook Interest with a New Reader
• Microsoft HealthVault: A Solution Seeking the Right Problem?
• Mashups Meet SaaS: Facebook's Integration with SalesForce.com Makes Networking Simple
• FriendFeed Aggregates Social Network Activity
• Facebook to enable “levels of friendship”
• Mary Meeker at the Web 2.0 Summit Morgan Stanley technology analyst Mary Meeker was among the notable speakers...