Corporate networking site LinkedIn is the latest to join the “answers” game with LinkIn Answers. Users can pose questions which other members of the network can answer. Just like Yahoo Answers but for business…
Gates, Jobs and Dell in tag cloud form
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.
Send a message to Davos
Jeff Jarvis, along with the Guardian and BBC are participating in a project to get as many video questions posted on YouTube as possible, some of which they will get answered on video by the luminaries gathered at Davos. And he points out YouTube’s new “Quick Capture” features which takes over your webcam, so you can record and upload a message in one easy step.
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Video UGC – no cash yet
PaidContent ruminates on a couple of reports which suggest revenue from user-generated content will continue to be small and a compelling business model will prove elusive.
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Wikiseek – the next Google?
Steve Rubel ponders the consequences of the launch of Wikiseek – the new search engine from Wikipedia. Could this be a Google-slayer, he asks?
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Google, Yahoo! push ahead
John Battelle reports on Comscore’s latest figures on the search market. He notes that in December 2006, Google gained 0.4 share from November, to lead with 47.3% market, and Yahoo! went up 0.3, continuing with the second largest share of 28.5% . Microsoft share dropped 0.5 points to 10.5% share, Ask fell .1 points to 5.5% share, and Time Warner share shrunk by 0.2 points, to close at 4.9% share.
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How good is your writing?
Usingenglish.com has a free text content analysis tool which provides instant feedback on various aspects of a piece of work, including “lexical density” and its “fog index”.
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Tags 101
Here’s a quick tutorial on tagging and categorizing content on your site, and how they function on TML (The Mu Life).
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Blogs work for Newspapers
New data indicates that blogging is paying off for newspapers. According to Nielsen/NetRatings blogs accounted for 13 percent of overall visits to newspaper sites in December. This is up from four percent in December 2005. Unique visitors to newspapers blogs climbed to 3.8 million. Report from Steve Rubel.
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Google Reader 101
Steve Rubel points out some interesting resources which show how to extend the power of Google Reader.
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