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Link Roundup for Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Project-D: Universal Threatens Apple. Apparently the labels are getting antsy again about being able to change prices on a track-by-track basis. Perhaps Apple’s non-DRM pricing is giving them ammunition.
Project-D again: If tracks are selling so well on iTunes, why do artists bother writing and recording the filler that composes most of any given album -… »

Link Roundup for Wednesday, June 27, 2007

SpringWise on Craigslist Meets YouTube at RealPeopleRealStuff - will video classifieds take off for anything other than houses? Speaking of which, why aren’t their video classifieds for houses?
Janet Johnson discusses Michael O’Connor-Clark discussing lack of portability of social network profiles. Interesting stuff - perhaps an extension of APML is in order…
Janet Johnson double header -… »

Link Roundup for Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The Wired Jester: 5 ways to get through writer’s block.
Rob Hyndman: Lawyer ranking service Avvo gets sued — by lawyers.
Gino Cosme: Get ready for Christmas ‘07.
WebWorkerDaily: Three location-based social networks you should check… »

One of those Weeks

I’m up to my eyeballs at work and home again, meaning light posting. In the spirit of sharing I’m going to lean on some comrades from the blogosphere instead and just point you to the great posts out there that I’d love to be commenting on myself:

Scrawled in Wax: iTunes and Zeitgeist - iTunes as… »

Stranger and Stranger

Just a quick one on Amazon vs. Statsaholic. Extortion, criminal recods, litigation, pay-offs. Zoli and TechCrunch sum it up.
Who’s gaming who here? I find it hard to believe the Amazon, under media and shareholder scrutiny, with entire departments devoted to communication, litigation, and oversight, would try to blackmail Hornbaker into paying them an insignificant sum… »

The Google Roundup - big week

Many of these announcements have been sort of under the radar, but overall, Google has had quite the week:

GooglePoint: Google pulled the powerpoint trigger, completing the bulk of their anti-microsoft suite with the purchase of java-tool-maker Tonic.
Google Vs. StumbleUpon: After eBay’s questionable purchase of StumbleUpon, a pouty sounding Google fired back by adding dice to… »

Ask put their foot in it, SEO 95/5, Metasearch = Bad

3 quick ones that stuck out for me today, with the common thread of being search engine related:

Valleywag: Ask launched a guerilla campaign against Google that has pissed off and alienated users. Whoops - shows what attack/smear ads will do for you.
Danny Sullivan breaks down the 5% of SEO that earns SEO firms their dollars:… »