The dollar value is completely irrelevant, but a useful list for social media marketing. -- KM *** Here’s a collection of 115 social bookmark and news sites ranked by PageRank, number of links and value of each site. Go to Full Article

Video still needs to get easier to do, but the trend is clear, and will continue for some time. -- KM *** http://www.techmeme.com/071228/i23.jpg More Americans Creating Content Online — Thirty-Two Percent Call Themselves Broadcasters — Close to 40 percent (38%) of...

Sales of new homes in the US plunged to a 12-year low last month, signalling that the flagging housing market will remain a drag on the US economy well into 2008. Go to Full Article

Nice video of Ron Paul talking about the assassination of Bhutto in Pakistan yesterday. As usual Ron Paul is not hard hitting enough because he is playing politics and catering a bit to sheeple, but this is a nice analysis on his part nonetheless. -- KM *** VkpRaGvK1Lo Go to Full...

http://www.techmeme.com/071227/i72.jpg3 down, 1 to go: Warner Music Group drops DRM — Warner Music has bent beneath the force of the anti-DRM winds sweeping the globe. The label will now offer its complete catalog, DRM-free, through Amazon's new MP3 store. — The announcement...

The cross-platform aspect of this is interesting. I would expect some platforms to respond by not allowing this app. Normally I would think such a move is pretty stupid, but I can see how it might be advantageous and even necessary for a platform to be less than friendly to a cross-platform app....

The "glue framework" outlined in the post below is useful, in my opinion. Reminds me of Kevin Kelly's advice to "connect everything." -- KM *** The massive proliferation of web services, their corresponding APIs, and the notion that "the web is the platform" has caused me to spend a...

Tagging infants is a step towards implanting them with microchips, a key part of the NWO agenda (see our section on microchipping the population). Remember that Verichip is child of IBM, the company that sold Hitler the technology to track Jews. I kid you not. -- KM *** <img...

Google is set to sign a deal with Japan’s biggest mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo that will see Google become the default search provider to 48 million NTTDoCoMo customers. The deal will also see NTT DoCoMo switching to Google Apps for ... Go to Full Article

When you combine two key trends -- ads becoming content and online communities/interactivity -- you end up with games, which I think are going to be a huge part of Internet marketing over the next few years. This is a very nice post on the subject. -- KM *** Alternate Reality Games...

Video thumbnail. Click to play. Click To Play. Although the consumption of streaming Flash video will continue to dominate the bulk of online video viewing, the growth of downloadable media to a desktop application is going to quickly ... Go to Full Article

Who owns what is one of most challenging issues for people in the web services business. On some level, everything is shared. Ultimately, though, I think of personalization as the guiding light in terms of decision-making. -- KM *** Some users are complaining about the recently...

The FBI is planning to build the world's largest biometric database to aid the agency in its law enforcement duties. Little has been said, however, about the impact such a system would have on American citizens, or on the technology and policies that would be used to keep false positives minimal. ...

What's missing is the content management system designed specifically to get the most out of RSS. I know there are a bunch of teams working on this issue, although I haven't found anything that comes close to vBulletin. Anyway, once we see content management systems make RSS easy to use, that is...

Why do they even bother. On the Internet, these types of laws are impossible to enforce. It's the code that sets the law now. -- KM *** Australia is preparing to enact new rules that will require age verification for multiple levels of content, as the country tries to apply movie...