Web Stories 2007-08-31

Three stories noticed in the Drive-By section for this week: Scott Rosenberg on the strategic case for NYT adding updated corrections to its resurrected pages (from the newspaper’s recent SEO effort)….The Economist explains Web 3.0, the Semantic Web…Cringely predicts telepresence in our homes next year, and Apple will bring it to us

Hunter and Associates: Stories We Noticed 2007-08-03

Cringely says Game Over for US broadband….FCC Commissioner despairs over US broadband….Openness, network effects, and competition in social networks…Professional bloggers could get journalist shield….PR industry creates social media release

Hunter and Associates: Stories We Noticed 2007-07-17

Three stories about FREE as not just a marketing ploy but a complete business model, with ROI built in for those who understand the network effect

Hunter and Associates: Stories We Noticed 2007-07-13

Cool thinker James Cherkoff points out that our personal data might actually be worth something (and here we are throwing it away for others to profit from) ~~~ and maybe, he says, VRM is one of the answers

Hunter and Associates: Stories We Noticed 2007-06-22

~ Customer reviews are increasingly important to online shoppers over price
~ ad agency culture-shock continues; agencies hustle to thrive and survive; the digital age of advertisng becomes ever harder for ad veterans to deny
~ citizen media is subverting the old order of media control
~ Facebook opens its API to developers, and the land rush is on, with one typical entrepreneur’s story here
~ with Facebook’s move, what happens to MySpace now?
~ love those widgets, but they sure slow down the page load times - until now with this new fix