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You might be surprised to learn that Google’s pay per click advertising revenue is not growing as much as expected the last two years. In fact, the growth last year was flat, and it dropped 7% in the month of December alone.

In the internet marketing world, Brand for Power is doing a free teleseminar series with marketing experts on branding for your business. I’ll be one of the speakers and there are many others who worked on online branding for companies like Apple, Pizza Hut and Staples.

Digg has released a new Firefox extension that will allow you to see the current number of Diggs for every web page you visit. You can also see the last ten comments and the first sentence of the description. And it will also show any previous stories submitted to Digg from the same Domain.

Adobe is trying to bridge the gap between your online and offline data with the new release of Adobe AIR. The idea is to no longer have data available only online by making a copy on your hard drive. Like, if you need to check your Google Calendar, but you don’t have an internet connection right then. Adobe AIR will make things like that possible.

Cake Financial has just released its very own Facebook app that lets you view the stock portfolios of your friends. And these are real portfolios by the way- not examples, or ones used in a virtual stock market- it’s the real thing, done in real time. Kind of cool for investing clubs – but it makes you remember where they’re going to draw the line at too much information.

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Yahoo launches Yahoo Buzz this week to great fanfare. This Digg clone has one big leap over its competitors- the most popular sites get listed on Yahoo’s front page. The downside? So far, content needs to be go through pre-approved publishers before it’s posted, getting rid of the democratic angle that makes Digg so popular.

Got a blog? Love Google Talk? Finally you can combine the best of both worlds and enhance your connection with your blog audience by using the Google Talk Chatback widget. With a few lines of code, readers can get into instant contact with you via Google Talk.

We have news of a free tool called Digg Friend Finder, which helps you find other Digg members who post the same stories as you. This makes networking and moving your latest news article up to the front page much easier and less time consuming.

Here’s a spiffy new plugin for Wordpress that lets you see the crawl trends of the top three search engine: MSN, Yahoo and Google, right from your dashboard. This lets you monitor everything in real time, and gives you a graphical overview that makes the information easy to read.

From Search Engine Land we get a list of cool Link Building Tools, that can help you in that tedious of all tedious jobs. All of the tools are free and powerful when used together, saving you a lot of extra time and effort when building your SEO campaign.

Facebook has opened up their friend feed service, so that users can put in feeds from any of their social networks. Not content with other companies to support its now open friend feed platform, Facebook has taken the initiative and lets you pull in information from other platforms. Now you only need to log in to Facebook to see what all your friends are up to.

Got an old laptop lying around collecting dust? Why not bring it back to life and make it useful again! We’ve got a link to several free and low-cost projects that can turn your old laptop into a webserver, photo frame, LCD monitor or wireless network extender.

Google’s moving into the healthcare business by storing medical records online for doctors and hospitals. Their test environment will be in Cleveland, and all patients must approve these records to go live in the new search environment. These records will be password protected, and available to healthcare professionals only.

XineDesktop, a web based desktop platform, has changed it’s name to CloudO. CloudO is a web based desktop that is nice to look at and has tons of functionality, but is always in prebeta stage. Maybe the name change is a good sign, and we can see an actual product to play around with before the year is out.

Apple’s second version of Apple TV makes some massive improvements over the old, clunky, poor selling model. With the new version of Apple TV you can connect directly to your iTunes, and the shows you purchase now look crisp and clear. With news of Netflix creating their own set top box to do the same thing, it seems that the next computer battlefield will be the living room. When will Microsoft join in the fray? It seems very soon- since Netflix will also work with any Xbox 360 system.

Last week my friend John Reese, the guy who brought us Blog Rush, released his new Traffic Jam software. This cool new utility allows you to speed-read your way through thousands of blogs for quick and easy access to the most popular topics in the blogosphere. Using Traffic Jam you can title your next blog post using the most popular themes and get more traffic to your blog. You can even share links to big blogs, and discover new ones — all in a few seconds. Very cool idea — thanks, John!

Paul Graham released a new essay this week — it’s pretty thought provoking. It’s called Six Principals for Making New Things. He explains what made the VC funding website, Y Combinator, such a success. I won’t spoil any of the details here, but as usual - Paul Graham gives some great advice to both Startup Businesses and Venture Capitalists, too.

Social Blade is a new program that launched in Public beta this week. This cool new web app collects data from Digg and displays interesting stats on the articles that hit the front page, INCLUDING how many BURIES a post receives and the friend voting percentages. Really fascinating stuff at a glance.

Flickr has added nofollow tags to their image descriptions, which makes it harder to use Flickr for SEO purposes. Bummer. But as of yet, these nofollow tags are only for IMAGE descriptions — so you can still put links into your Set and Collective descriptions and there’s no nofollow tags on those links.

SheerSEO is a tool that lets you monitor up to 200 keywords at a time so you can get up to the minute results for any website. It tracks your progress over time, and you can see not only where your page ranks for a bunch of keywords in Google and Yahoo, but you can also see how much TRAFFIC the keywords are generating. Very slick.

And a quick reminder — if you want to stay up to speed on Web 2.0 in just 2.0 minutes a day, join our email list or grab the RSS feed.

Looks like the long awaited iPhone Software Developers Kit is going to be late. It was promised for February, but rumor has it that it will out Mid-March at best. This is the handy little tool will allow programmers to make applications and games for the iPhone, and then sell them via iTunes. We’ll wait and see.

Yahoo’s shareholders are taking the embattled web Goliath to court, saying the spurning of Microsoft’s offer is contrary to shareholder’s best interests. Well at least the lawyers can make some money while we get another example of the problems inherent in running a public company these days. Note to shareholders. If you’re unhappy with the directors you elected, pick new ones. The idea of getting a judge or jury to change corporate policy, if they’re not breaking the law, is stupid and wasteful. But hey it’s great for lawyers, and since they seem to make the rules, go figure.

Wisemapping is like mind mapping on steroids. Do you use mindmaps? They’re a great way to help you think and organize your thoughts. And you can do them with groups, too – they foster better brainstorming and puts everything in a format that’s easy to view and understand. Now, Wisemapping offers a free, easy to use web interface for making mind maps, and you can embed them in your own web page ala YouTube, and invite others to contribute.

DoubleTwist, the new app we told you about last week, allows you to share your music – and videos and photos — regardless of the format. For example, it re-records iTunes songs as MP3’s so they work on any digital media player, not just iPods. Now, we have a link to a tutorial that takes you through it. Free and easy to use — you can’t beat that. And they even have a Facebook widget.

Live Video is another live video streaming service joining the bevy of applications like BlogTV and Yahoo Live. This one was created by MySpace founder Brad Greenspan. It has some pretty unique features that raise the bar a bit, including the ability to archive live videos to show them at a later date.

This week Scribd launched a new online application called iPaper. This little application plans on being the YouTube of text documents, being able to embed into any website a PDF, MS Word or PowerPoint file. This program runs in flash and displays inline in the webpage, so the reader doesn’t have to download any special utilities to use it. And best of all, it’s free, fast, and easy to use.

If you’re one of the many that purchased HD-DVD’s in the last year, you might be a little upset that you will need to buy all those movies again just to get them to work in the Blu-Ray format. Fear not! We have uncovered an article that shows you step by step how to convert your HD-DVD discs to Blu-Ray format.

iPod Shuffle just got it’s price slashed down from $79 to $49. This is making room for the new 2 gigbyte shuffle, debuting later this month at just 69$.

Bungee Connect has officially moved out of private beta and into an open, public beta. The program is an online software creator for programmers who wish to create robust web based applications. The service is free until end users start using the products built with it.

GotVoice stores all of your voicemails in a list containing MP3 files. This allows you to sort through voicemails, looking at who sent what and when, and listen to them in the order you want, rather than shuffling through them listening to each one before moving to the next. There is a free service and a paid service that’s only about 10$ a month.

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明天就是我40岁的生日了，可惜是个星期六，不过我保证星期一回来的时候会给大家更多免费的帮助，工具和资源。别忘了加入我们的邮件列别或是订阅RSS，使你每天在2.0分钟内了解web2.0的最新新闻。

首先，Traffic Jam是一个由Blog Rush的创始人John Reese创建的全新网站。它是一个能使你的博客赚取更多流量的好东西并且你可以知道时下什么最热门。它会分析从Blog Rush联盟点进的流量，这样你就可以了解那些文章得到了最大的关注并且可以使你的博客让更多的人看到，无论你的博克是什么话题。如果你经常写博客，千万别错过了。

本周Scribd推出了一个新的网络程序叫做iPaper。这个小程序就像一个文本文件版的YouTube，它可以在任何网页里嵌入一个PDF，Word或是PowerPoint文件。这个程序在网页中以Flash的形式显示，所以阅读者不需要下载特殊软件去使用。最好的是，它免费、迅速并且简单易用。

如果你是一个在去年购买了HD-DVD的人，你也许会感到伤心，因为你还要再买一遍你买过电影，去适应蓝光播放器。也许不用！我们为大家找到了一个软件，它能将任何格式的碟片转换为蓝光格式。

iPod Shuffle的价格刚刚从79美元降到了49美元，此举是为了配合即将在月底上市的2G新款，售价为69美元。

Bungee Connect官方公布了它已经从内测阶段进入了全面的公测阶段。这个程序是一个用来编写在在线软件的在线软件编辑器。这项服务是免费的，直到终端用户开始使用通过它创建的软件为止。

GotVoice会把你的语音信箱存储在一个含有列表的MP3文件当中。你将可以对语音信箱进行排序，查看时间、内容和发送者，并可以按照你想要的顺序听取它们，而不是按照顺序一个接一个的听下去。这项服务包含免费跟每月10美元两种套餐。

The Mozilla foundation has created a new roadmap for its email client, Thunderbird. This free alternative to Outlook and Eudora is getting some major advancements within the next year, including VoIP support, RSS feed support, instant messaging support as well as calendaring.

Toshiba announced Tuesday that they will no longer build HD-DVD players or software. They will continue to provide support for all HD-DVD products. This was decided after the recent market report, showing HD-DVD’s lagging far behind Blu-Ray in sales.

The hostile take over of Yahoo by Microsoft just got more hostile. Microsoft hired a proxy group in a plan to oust the Yahoo’s 10 member board, all of who are up for re-election this year. There are rumors of Microsoft approaching the shareholders directly, and asking them to sell their stock to Microsoft directly. In the meantime, Yahoo has taken precautions to protect their employees, in case Microsoft succeeds.

Double Twist is a new, free desktop application that allows you to share any music, video or audio file no matter what format it’s in. Want to get those songs off of your iTunes and onto your cellphone or Facebook page? Just drag and drop and Double Twist does all the work for you. Currently there is only a windows version, but a Mac version is in the works.

We’ve got news that Samsung plans on releasing two Google branded Android phones later this year. These phones will not carry the label Samsung, but instead will say gPhone on the front. The first model will be a high end, expensive blackberry replacement and released around October. The second model will be released in December and will be moderately priced under 100$.

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Mozilla基金会为它旗下的邮件客户端软件Thunderbird设置了新的路标。当我在离线不能登陆Gmail的时候我会使用Thunderbird，而这个Outlook跟Eudora的替代品将会在明年取得更大的进展，比如对VoIP和RSS的支持，已经实现即时通讯以及日程表等功能。

东芝在星期二正式宣布放弃HD-DVD播放器及软件，不过会继续提供对现有HD-DVD产品的技术支持。由于市场报告显示HD-DVD的销量已经远远滞后于蓝光，东芝才最后作出这个决定。

微软对雅虎激进的收购最近变得更激进了。微软甚至雇佣了一个代理公司去争取雅虎的10个今年即将面临重新选举的董事会成员。也有传言说微软正在直接与股东对话，劝说他们把股票直接卖给微软公司。与此同时，雅虎也正在寻找对策去留住自己的员工以防止微软得逞，但是还是不断有人跳槽。

Double Twist是一个新的免费桌面程序，人们可以用它分享任何音乐，视频或音频文件，而且没有任何格式上的限制。如果你想把这些音乐从iTunes里导入到手机或者facebook上的话，只需要简单的拖拽就可轻松实现。目前它只有windows版本，Mac版也正在制作中。

我们刚刚得到消息说三星将计划在今年晚些时候推出两款基于Google Android的手机。这两款手机上不会出三星的标志，取而代之的是gPhone字样。第一款将是一款高端手机，黑莓的昂贵替代品并将于10月份发布。第二款将于12月发布，而价格也比较大众化，不到100美元。期待中。

ComicQ’s is a new web app that makes building your own online comics as easy as posting a blog or using twitter. Just upload a picture, drag and drop word bubbles, type in the text and your ready to share your masterpiece.

On the 13thUGame officially launched into private beta, making the social networking portal for gamers one step closer to reality. With UGame you’ll be able to use a MySpace and Facebook like interface to talk about video games, share high scores or even find people nearby you can get together with and play your favorite game. Wii sports anyone?

This week saw the release of the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the first new Indiana Jones movie in over ten years. The trailer is in hidef and looks absolutely amazing, even at the lowest quality.

Two Fish just released a system for doing video game microtransactions. Right now small video games that are free to play are all the rage, and most of this have in game enhancements that can be bought for a few dollars. This system will make it easier for anyone to make a cellphone game or a Flash game to take advantage of this new market.

Terrible news from Yahoo- the giant cut over 1,000 employees from their innovative design vision. That means the current influx of cool new applications like Yahoo Buzz, Yahoo live is just a temporary rush, while they get all of these in development applications out of the door before they release their designers into the wild.