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Entries from January 2007

Technorati Announces Ogilvy Alliance

January 31st, 2007 ·

The Progress Bar read by people interested in emerging Internet marketing, technology, social media, reputation, virtual environments, blogs, the Boston Internet scene and much more. If you like what you see you should subscribe to my RSS feed or via email in the sidebar. Thanks for visiting!This reminds me of other Technorati announcements of late. [...]

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Verizon VIP?

January 30th, 2007 ·

Besides 25% off on items ordered online, I can’t figure out how Verizon Wireless VIP is any different than the usual. Same pricing, crappy new every 2 and crippled Bluetooth.

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Best Of Macworld from TidBITS

January 23rd, 2007 ·

Great review of the best and the worst at Macworld.

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Get a First Life

January 23rd, 2007 ·

Get a First Life.

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PR Newswire Now Linking All Press Releases to Technorati

January 19th, 2007 ·

Dave Sifry of Technorati has announce that PR Newswire will now link all press releases to Technorati.
I’m happy to announce a new partnership with the largest PR network in the world, PR Newswire. Technorati will now provide real-time link tracking for all of their press releases. This will enable PR Newswire to provide its vast [...]

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Anatomy of MySQL on the MediaTemple Grid

January 19th, 2007 ·

My host, Media Temple, has had trouble moving MySQL to their new grid platform. This incredibly lucid explanation of the trouble they have had re-architecting the database system several times over showed up in my inbox this morning. Kudos to them for the transparency (if not a bit a delay explaining all of this to [...]

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AT&T All Over Again

January 19th, 2007 ·

Steven Colbert charts the split/merger/split/merger of ATT.

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Links for 1-19-07

January 19th, 2007 ·

George Clooney to develop Diamond Age, a six-hour miniseries based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer.
Touchscreen magic at Perceptive Pixel.
Cool looking bulbs at LampLamp. Wish they were greener.
I am an advisor to Amiglia, which was mentioned recently.

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MacWorld San Francisco 2007 Keynote Live Coverage

January 9th, 2007 ·

Live updates from MacRumorsLive.com.

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HitTail: The Long Tail As Muse

January 8th, 2007 ·

TechCrunch on HitTail:
Bloggers interested in building search traffic should check out New York based HitTail, a deceptively simple tool that makes suggestions for words to use in blog post titles or topics to write about based on the search terms that are already bringing people to your site. It’s based on the theory of the [...]

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