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The Ten Million Dollar Ad-Spot

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Interested in purchasing what may be the blogosphere’s and perhaps even the world’s most expensive ad-spot?

I’m selling this advertising space on my blog for $10,000,000. I will not split it up and sell parts of it. I am also unwilling to take any offer less than $10,000,000. For this price you will purchase all of the space on this blog and you will be able to place ads on here forever.

If you are interested send me an email.

$$$$ bling

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Originally posted on February 9, 2007 @ 12:04 am

Movers 2.0

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Ever wanted to have one website that had a comprehensive list of the major properties in Web 2.0 today and displayed it in an easily accessible manner?

Movers 2.0 tracks the traffic trends for all the main Web 2.0 websites using data from Alexa.

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While the site represents a good concept, their usage of Alexa may not be the best metric for determining popularity. Alexa doesn’t accurately represent a cross-section of Internet users and therefore unfairly weighs certain websites over others. Perhaps using the criteria offered by Web 2.0 Innovations may prove more useful.

Originally posted on February 9, 2007 @ 3:00 pm

Wal-Mart’s New Download Service: A Journey of Suckance

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Wal-Mart, already the most dominant player in DVD sales launched a bid to extend its dominance to digital movie downloads. With the new service, the company becomes the first major retailer to offer such a service that encompasses movies from all the major studios.

When Amazon.com launched its Unbox service, it lacked movies from Disney, and since the launch of the iTunes movie store, it only offers movies from Disney and Paramount. Wal-Mart on the other hand offers movies from the following studios:

Disney and Pixar, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros. Pictures, Lionsgate and MGM, as well as TV shows from Fox, Fox Reality, 20th Century Fox Television Classics, Comedy Central, VH1, MTV, Nickelodeon, the CW, Warner Bros. and more. Wal-Mart initially will not offer shows from ABC, CBS or NBC.

The problem with the service, though, is that it doesn’t work with the Firefox browser. Furthermore, as so eloquently stated on Boing Boing, the service entails,

paying $20 for a 240X320 movie in a DRM-laden Windows Media file that won’t play on a Zune or an iPod, or a computer running Mac or Linux.

So in conclusion, give the Wal-Mart movie download service a try only if you would like to embark on a journey of suckance. Of course I would write a comprehensive review of the site, but you can see how the site renders for me:

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Thord previously covered the service for 901am.

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Originally posted on February 7, 2007 @ 11:13 am

“Facebook Diaries” Television Series

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Facebook has partnered with Comcast to produce a television series of ten half-hour episodes, entirely composed of user-generated videos. The TV series called “Facebook Diaries” will be shown on Comcast’s YouTube clone, Ziddio as well as on Facebook.

“We’ve been having some dialogue with Comcast for a couple of months just on and off, just as they were putting their video plans together,” Owen Van Natta, chief operating officer of based Facebook, said Tuesday. “Then we engaged R.J. Cutler and we came up with this idea.”

The companies will be asking users to submit videos built around themes such as “who am I?” “heartbreak,” and so on. The move largely mimicks the videoblogging phenomenon and will leverage Facebook’s more than 16 million users to drive traffic to Comcast’s service.

Businessweek has more.

Originally posted on February 7, 2007 @ 3:38 pm

What is Web 2.0?

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Before you answer the question, look at what Wikipedia has to offer,

Its exact meaning remains open to debate, and some experts, have questioned whether the term has meaning.

There is no simple answer to the question and possibly no right or comprehensive answer either. In the absence of a complete definition of the term, here is what we can gather from what the experts have to say on the matter:

O’Reilly: “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I’ve elsewhere called “harnessing collective intelligence.”)”

Om Malik: “[Web 2.0 is] a collection of technologies – be it VoIP, Digital Media, XML, RSS, Google Maps… whatever …. that leverage the power of always on, high speed connections and treat broadband as a platform, and not just a pipe to connect.”

SitePoint has insight from many more.

Originally posted on February 7, 2007 @ 10:50 am