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links for 2007-05-28

• Mashable: Screw You, Kermit! 10 Websites To Save the Planet
  So many green sites, so little time!
  (tags: greening)
• ReadWriteWeb: Google Making $1 Per Internet User
  Each search query is worth $0.12. Each 1% search market share = $1B market cap.
  (tags: advertising stats)
• ReadWriteWeb: Amazon Widgetizing Recommendations
  I didn't know that - JavaScript from Amazon Associates can look up Amazon cookies while visitor is on 3rd party sites and generate recommendations right there.
  (tags: advertising Amazon)
• In the heart of Texas, a mayor goes 'green' | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
  Austin to go carbon neutral by 2020
  (tags: greening)
• Promising antispam technique gets nod | CNET News.com
  "MediaPost puts DomainKey adoption at 48 percent among large online retailers. Yahoo has used earlier versions of DomainKeys to sign all outgoing e-mail since 2004."
  (tags: email domains)
• Online shopping tops £10bn - Retail & Leisure - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
  UK online purchases represent 4% of total retail spending, expected to reach 8.9% by 2011.
  (tags: stats)

links for 2007-05-25

• Dennis Forbes - The Search For A Domain Name
  Via Dan from ModernBill. Lots of fun stats. For instance, the most popular domain length is 11 letters.
  (tags: domains stats)

links for 2007-05-24

• The new EQO Mobile
  Via MobileCrunch. 2.3 cents/minute on international calls (plus minutes from existing voice plan). Works with Blackberry. Will sign up and check out.
  (tags: mobile tools)
• FT.com - Google’s goal: to organise your daily life
  “The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’ ”
  (tags: google personalization)

links for 2007-05-23

• TechCrunch: Fare Tracker Yapta Launches Public Beta
  Hmm... del.icio.us for airfares? Will have to check it out. I didn't know that airlines offer vouchers/refunds if they drop fares after you buy a ticket.
  (tags: tools)
• Business 2.0: Kevin Ham, the $300 million master of Web domains
  "When Ham buys a domain now, he's not doing pay-per-click math but sizing it up as a potential business. He aims to turn his most valuable names into mini media companies in hundreds of niche categories." That sounds a lot like what Demand Media is doing?
  (tags: domains)

links for 2007-05-22

• GigaOM » Virtual World Population: 50 million by 2011
  Gartner: “80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 companies) will have a ‘second life’, but not necessarily in Second Life” by 2011". Also, Linden is like early AOL; many popular metaverses are yet to come.
  (tags: stats secondlife)
• Google, Salesforce.com Weigh Alliance to Battle Microsoft - WSJ.com
  Is that why CRM is up by almost $4? They announced Salesforce SOA and AppExchange Venture Network this morning also.
  (tags: Salesforce google)
• Illuminata Perspectives » Blog Archive » Red Hat’s Subscriptions for Virtualization
  "Red Hat’s issues described here just highlight the difficulties of applying pricing that’s fundamentally rooted in the physical world to the realm of virtualization."
  (tags: RedHat)
• Google AdSense disabling arbitrage publisher accounts as of June 1st - JenSense.com
  Google is shutting down "made for Adsense" publisher accounts; GoDaddy and other domain parking providers may be main beneficiary as domain owners won't be able to monetize traffic as individuals.
  (tags: advertising Google)
• A VC: Delicious For Money
  Been meaning to try out Wesabe. Finally signed up thanks to the title of Fred's post; great way to describe the service.
  (tags: signedup)
• Official Google Blog: Google Apps Partner Edition
  Google was webmail vendor to ISPs?
  (tags: google)
• Aftermarket Domains Valuation Factors - Dan Warner for DNJournal.com
  (tags: domains)

links for 2007-05-21

• I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Risk Is for Losers | PBS
  "Reagan could have worked at Google." and "Microsoft needs a personality transplant."
  (tags: MSFT google)
• Google Experimental Search
  That timeline thing is neat. Via Redmonk.
  (tags: tools google)
• Micro Persuasion: The 4-Hour Workweek - Behind the Meme
  Wow - it debuted at #123 on Amazon. Good book, too!
  (tags: stats)
• Box.net Launches Office On Demand
  "Office On Demand is a Microsoft Office plug-in that enables you to save documents to your Box.net account, directly from any application in the Office suite"
  (tags: MSFT)
• A Marketer is No One without a Programmer
  So totally true!
  (tags: marketing)

links for 2007-05-17

• Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Freemium - Free to paid conversion rates
  DealMaker Forum attendees have 1.5%-5% free-to-pay conversion rates; average is 3%. Most offer small/medium/large service plans.
  (tags: stats SaaS)
• Google Operating System: Informational Voyeurism
  Want to check this out: Clicky has a "spy" feature "that shows you actions on your web site as they are happening, delayed no more than five seconds". You'll spend hours finding who visits your site and why.
  (tags: tools stats)
• SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Sun Honeymoon Update: Storage
  (tags: storage)
• mattheaton.com » Blog Archive » Microsoft, take note!
  My goodness! "I WILL NEVER EVER IN 1,000 YEARS USE A MICROSOFT PRODUCT FOR BLUEHOST! NEVER! We will never do windows hosting, we will never do Exchange hosting, and we will never use Longhorn server or advanced server."
  (tags: MSFT)
• Startups and The Challenges Of The Freemium Pricing Model
  (tags: SaaS)
• Everything TypePad: Go beyond blogging with TypePad Pages
  Awesome! That was one missing feature which gave me WordPress envy.

links for 2007-05-11

• » How is AppExchange really doing? | Software as services | ZDNet.com
  Phil hears "more disgruntlement than enthusiasm" from AppExchange partners.
  (tags: Salesforce)

links for 2007-05-04

• Enterprise IT Planet: Big Blue Makes Grid Moves
  Cool - NetLab's AppLogic grid mentioned in an article about IBM :)
  (tags: 3tera)
• Parallax : Calculating Technology's Future: Adsonomies
  Brilliant idea - Niel suggests that in addition to search ads and content network ads, Yahoo! could sell tag ads. You choose a set of keywords, and Yahoo! displays your ads on web pages that del.icio.us users have tagged with matching terms.
  (tags: advertising)