It is often said that “third world” countries have the advantage that they can leap-frog legacy technologies and move straight to better and cheaper ones. China proves the point by jumping to 4G mobile.

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Browsing the BBC site I notices a nice timeline feature to illustrate the Northern Ireland Peace Process – a good example of a web-friendly interface which can’t be achieved in paper.

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MacWorld has a few useful hints and tips about how to find things more successfully on the web.

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IBM ceo Sam Palmisano says Second Life or the 3D internet that it exemplifies could be the next big online revolution for business.

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Google has added blog search to the standard search blog, according to the Google Operating System blog. All you have to do is add the word “blog” to the end of a search string and the latest blog posts will pop up in a box at the top of the results page.

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Steve Rubel reports on developments at ZDNet:

During a recent interview with Podtech’s Maryam Scoble, Mary Jo Foley revealed that ZDNet has a payment scheme in place that rewards its bloggers based on the number of clicks their posts get. Foley recently left Ziff Davis to become a free agent. Her primary gig involves writing a well-read blog on Microsoft for ZDNet.

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The dos and don’ts of linkbait – the Cornwall SEO blog offers a perspective

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The Frantic Industries blog has an “RSS Cookbook” which shows 10 ways to extend the power of the RSS.

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Todd Bishop has run the recent keynotes from CES and MacWorld through lexical analysis tools to come up with tag clouds and statistics for each one which provide an interesting comparison.