EyeWonder has super takeover ads – annoying or innovative?

Clickable published the Clickable Guru Guide to Search Marketing*

A great writeup on the RFP process agencies go through – and how painful it can be.

Google announces Google Chrome OS – competition is a good thing, especially in the OS wars

Great images from around the web in 2008

What did I miss this week? Let me know in the comments or contact me.

*Clickable is a portfolio company of my employerUSV

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Links Roundup 07.10.09

Are you a founder? Great writeup of what it takes to be a founder and see if you fit the bill.

TubeChop Great way to microchunk youTube videos

Ad supported Internet report from the IAB

Blind Search Blind search between Yahoo, Google, and Bing without knowing the results publisher – very cool

Google Page Speed Google introduces Page Speed and a great tool for webmasters

Deliver something of value every week – Very straightforward

10 Ways to launch a blog

Ignore Sunk Costs – from Seth Godin

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Links Roundup 07/02/09

In it he explains the coming wave of game dynamics that are finding ways to engage users in tasks that formerly had no “points” or “achievements” systems. I think its good insight, and concur that we should expect this type of thing to increase rapidly as the next generation of business professionals spent large chunks of childhood “leveling up”

There are now several generations of users who have grown up with video games (and it is certainly true for all coming generations).  Elements such as points, quests, leader boards, challenges will seem completely natural to them and provide a higher level of engagement.  In fact, Katie Salen who co-authored Rules of Play, a book about game design, is starting a High School in New York where the curriculum and instruction will be organized around quests and other gameplay concepts.Continuations, Apr 2009

You should read the whole article.

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ReBlog: Gameplay is the new social

Bloggers quoted:
Chris Brogan, Seth Godin, Eric Friedman, Tim Jahn, Brian Solis, Chris Anderson, Peter Kim, Matt Dickman, Steve Hodson, Robert Scoble, Mitch Joel, Skellie, David Armano, François Rocaboy, Mark Stevens, Mark Dykeman, Kevin Kelly, Maki, Leo Babauta, Jamis Buck, Jeremiah Owyang, Sarah Lacy.

Also enjoy the original presentationbelow:

22 Smart, Inspirational Quotes From Bloggers In 2008

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Have other good quotes or good quote presentations? Let me know!

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Quotable Bloggers from 2008

In a time where everyone is feeling the affects of the financial markets I have found that being personal can go a long way. Even with something like my own blog – providing a personality can mean the difference between thinking about a blog as a company vs. a person. Marketing.fm actually turned 3 years old this month, and it has been quite a journey.

I was recently reminded that my own blog was “an experiment” and something that is ever changing and evolving. I realized that one of the major reasons I have not been posting as much is that I cannot compete with a longer more complete post found elsewhere, nor could I compete with an exclusive story or break information.

I provide insight into things that happen through my own filter.

That was always the genesis of this blog and what I will be returning back to. Posting has been light, and I have always preached that you should not apologize for that but rather find out what the roadblock has been. I discovered that I was writing for too many different sources and without the personality that once ran through the veins of every post.

This blog has provided a number of different things – podcast, marketing network, advertising opportunities, friends in real life, networking contacts, a job!, insight, a frame of reference, a springboard for my own voice, a platform for others, and an ongoing experiment.

Marketing.fm Turns 2
Marketing.fm Turns 1

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Being Personal

Blackberry vs. iphone vs. treo failure rate
Social Media is like the Matrix – Because you have to USE social media to understand it.
No more windows 3.x - the end of an era
Ways to fail and come out on top
Are holographic reporters going to become the norm? I hope not…
Things you wish you knew when you were younger

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Links Roundup

If you are familiar with the FreeConferenceCall.com service you will no doubt appreciate this remix by Anil
Great writeup by Adam Singer – Where are all the digital natives
Will be interesting to see what happens over at CrowdFusion
Tips and tricks for Google Chrome
MTV Tribe Ad network - interesting idea as more and more companies are thinking about this.
This simply cracks me up – RealNetworks
If you have not already seen it – checkout the Microsoft Mojave Experiment

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Radar 10/03/08

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My Agenda:
Looking forward to a number of Web 2.0 sessions – All Week
Will not miss the @ShakeShack event – 09/16/08
I will also be going to OMMA later this week.
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Web 2.0 Expo Week

Hosted and developed using yourminis Rolling Stone is the latest publication to start allowing users to embed content on their website, blog, myspace page, or anywhere else they want band information to show up.

The upside of widgets for both parties are the added benefit of up to date information from a valid source and of course tracking information for the company distributing the widget.

I have been bullish on widgets for some time and I think that as companies get smarter about building and tracking them we will see more innovative applications. Right now we are seeing the beginning of what will one day be a more content connected web – something I plan on going into further detail on in a different post.

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RollingStone.com now has widgets

I can now be found on another micro blogging platform called Plurkhere is my Plurk page. I found out about Plurk this morning via Inquisitr and it has an interesting format. I spent some time reading reactions to the Plurk service and feel basically the same way – except I am looking for a centralized login system to all these services.

I still wish there was a centralized way to login to these new services and bring my social graph with me. I know about OpenID and others, but it just seems silly to import my friends into yet another social network. Even if this system were active, I would want a way to screen and filter the friends I do import so that I do not bombard them with yet another invite to another service. It would be nice to have features like importing friends with a certain friends\followers ratio, activity on the service, last login etc…

Back to Plurk; I think the interface is polished. I like the response system and the ability to choose what you are broadcasting. Although it is usually obvious, choosing your beginning “plurk” makes conversations easier to follow. Conversations also happen inside many “plurks” which can sometimes be very confusing – at least to me.

Follow, message, friend, chat, annoy, ping me on Plurk!

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Thoughts on Plurk