We’ve got a link to an article that gives you step-by-step instructions on how to combat such web thieves and spam blogs, and help reclaim your content.
The new YouFig platform allows users to simply and easily setup their own social networks, with an emphasis on work collaboration.
The music industry is approaching internet service providers with the idea of charging them a dollar or two per user per month for all-you-can-eat file sharing. This is the kind of thing that could mean an end to the music wars and eventual legalization of peer to peer music downloading, thus clearing consciences all over the world and giving the Free Line a big push.
Rasba is a site that’s part online store and part social network. Shoppers can make friends and also earn affiliate commissions on Rasba. Rasba can even notify you when someone buys something you’ve bought recently or when a friend buys something new.
Xoopit can turn your gmail inbox into a social environment that’s relevant to you. Xoopit is a FireFox plugin that searches through your inbox, and finds and organizes attachments along with links to Flickr, YouTube, ShudderFly and others. It then displays these in a gallery view that’s simple and easy to browse. All for free.
Even though Time Warner has put AOL up for sale it looks like the web giant still has some power left in its punch. It announced the acquisition of Bebo, the United Kingdom’s premier Social Network, for a reported $850 million in cash. This will allow AOL to tap Bebo’s 40 million customers for money using web advertisement, a common tactic these days for web companies.
Rumors are flying that Yahoo plans on finally adding video toFlickr in the next three weeks. In order to compete in the very busy and very flooded web video battle field Flickr has been taking it’s time, planning on how to make their contribution unique and different from the rest. It seems like some design decisions have finally been made, and we should expect an announcement saying exactly what it’s going to offer users sometime later this week.
Evernote plans on taking all the data in your life and stores it in an online library, making it easy to search and retrieve every aspect of your existence with a click of the mouse. No matter how trivial or how important, Evernote wants to store it all, making their services like a backup for your own brain, stored conveniently on the web.
The executives from both Microsoft and Yahoo finally met last Monday to discuss the Microsoft’s bid on Yahoo. No banker’s attended the meeting, and raising of the original offer was not discussed. The whole plan of the meeting was to reason with Yahoo, to accept the current bid it had rejected. It seems like the meeting did not work, and Yahoo is still shopping around for ways to get around the Microsoft bid.
FlickrVisionis a really addicting, free web application that gives you a map and image of the latest Flickr uploads in real time. Each second the page reloads, showing you where in the world the picture was uploaded and by who. Lots of fun, and completely free!
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.
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