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links for 2008-01-31

Award Winning Release for BlackBerry Now Available.
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Attention Viigo users – our newest release for BlackBerry, Version 2.2.80 is now available. For an immediate download click here (from your BB Browser) or head over to http://getviigo
(tags: viigo BlackBerry RSS RSSReader)

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links for 2008-01-30

Music Blog Zeitgeist of 2007 / The Hype Machine
50 Best Songs, Albums and Bands of 2007 as determined by popularily on The Hype Machine. The best songs by month is especially interesting.
(tags: 2007 aggregator blog mp3 music bestof zeitgeist)

Extra Helping – Consumed – Marketing and Advertising – New York Times
Over the last few months, [...]

links for 2008-01-29

Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and John McCain
(tags: election2008 mccain obama technology politics techcrunch endorsememt internet)

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links for 2008-01-28

The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You
Excellent diagram of the vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web.
(tags: blog blogging blogs visualization spiders searchengines pingservers technology wired aggregator socialbookmarks)

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Viigo Adds Google Reader

Viigo, the RSS feed reader application for BlackBerry and other smart phones that I recommended in my review has added Google Reader as an aggregator. I’ve no idea when this addition took place since there have been no press releases or blog entires about it, which would have been nice, but then again there’s [...]

links for 2008-01-27

Email tops poll as most requested mobile service
A survey identifies email as the most desired service for mobile phone users (33%) followed by social networking (25%), access local information about their surroundings (20%), obtain travel and route planning information (13%), and ecommerce (9%).
(tags: poll mobile phone email socialnetworking ecommerce travel maps survey)

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Media Multitaskers

BIGresearch released a similar study to the one that I blogged about earlier.
“Technology is creating new media options faster than most people can assimilate and is causing more multitasking. Consumers seem to be seeking information from digital platforms while TV has traditionally been viewed as a brand building medium, which isn’t providing [...]

links for 2008-01-26

Books That Make You Dumb
Average SAT (with margin of error) for the 100 most popular books on facebook based on the average SAT score of schools that who read them. Lolita and 100 Years of Solitude increase your intelligence most, Zane and The Color Purple make you dumb fastest.
(tags: humor lists intelligence college SAT [...]

Another Rationale for Lower Online Spending for Politicians

Borrell Associates have identified another justification for 9% share of political ad dollars going to the Internet as opposed to 60% for television.

Older, affluent voters remain the core of candidates’ political support, according to the Borrell report. The best way to reach the over-55 crowd is still TV, since most of that group spends less [...]

links for 2008-01-24

Women More Likely to Turn to Internet than Friends or Family for Health Information
A recent study shows that – second only to consulting physicians – women turn most often to the Internet for health information.
(tags: health internet study women data research marketing)

Challenge: figure out Amazon’s crazy-ass “proprietary” MP3 tagging system — UPDATED – Boing Boing
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