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Apres means after, Dunc. ;)

I wonder if they'll add support for Twitter, Pownce or Jaiku.

Wait, so there is a problem with YouTube - i.e. Google - showing video AdSense ads next to copyrighted videos, but there is apparently no problem with Google showing text/image AdSense ads next to copyrighted videos, nor with Google showing text/image AdSense ads next to copyrighted text or images. That makes zero sense.

Your definition of spam is rather strict, Seth. Spam is also the word used to describe the manufactured marketing pitches that you seem to welcome on Squidoo. People might go to a "search engine" like Squidoo/who expecting to see relevant, original content, but instead they get endless links to Amazon/eBay affiliate ads, interspersed in some cases with pitches for the authors' external sites. I'd call that spam. So does Google, evidently.

You would think that Seth Godin would have learnt from the Squidoo Slap in June. People are already using SquidWho to spam affiliate links:

http://ebaysquidoo.blogspot.com/2007/09/using-s...

Yes Fred, but what about when a product becomes a platform for spammers? SquidWho looks to me like a goldmine for SEO operatives to increase their linklove for free. For instance, this person spams his own Jessica Alba eBay auction items:
http://ebaysquidoo.blogspot.com/2007/09/using-s...

I distrust applications that look like they haven't had much effort put into them, and SquidWho looks like a very quickly developed application which has very little worth.

I think Techmeme is worth more than $5 million. But the fact that Yahoo is now out of the market for Techmeme maybe knocks their valuation down some - and by extension the other News 2.0 players.

Tom: "Paul: Actually Pope’s do write new doctrine based on (and presumably inspired by) the bible which constitute new commandments to the church."

Yes, but how many Catholics take any notice of what the pope says? Similarly, how many RSS users and implementers are going to take any notice of the RSSAB's clarifications?

Tom: the key point there is what "clarifying" means.

I mean really, you don't see each new pope writing a new chapter of the Bible, do you? That would just be rude. Sure, popes release a "clarification" every now and again in Latin, but it's not gospel (to coin a phrase).

Rogers Cadenshead is not called Rogers Godhead. Just saying, is all. ;)

Very nice pickup. Geek cred points to you, Pete!

Don't lump in Hitwise with the others. Hitwise's methodology is not based on toolbars or surveys or log books, it's raw numbers they get from deep inside ISP networks. I'd trust Hitwise far more.

Why not wait until after the conference to pass judgment on whether Hammer is a worthwhile speaker? Who knows, he might be entertaining and/or insightful. Stranger things have happened.

I don't know about Australia. I don't think the market's big enough.

So... you're into skinny blondes then, Pete? :P

Is it a boy or is it a girl?

I blogged about this a couple of days ago. Most MSM sources have always refused to link, but I think there is a growing backlash against links among bloggers which I would guess is partially caused by Techmeme and its clones, due to the hierarchical power structure that the Techmeme algorithm has engendered.

I'd rather see a campaign to get Google et al to take Wikipedia out of their search results entirely, as Shelley Powers suggested. That has more chance of making a difference.

I daresay Moob would not be so gauche as to "make" a move. Their style would be to "bust" moves. :D

Would you need $15 million? ZDnet doesn't pay that much, surely.

I would like to assure all and sundry that I did not pay a red cent to get Tinfinger at top left position.

Where's the backchannel? I need to heckle via IRC.

I distrust anything someone attributes to "influentials". That's usually code for "me and whoever I know because we're so cool", and it's bunk. As is anecdotal evidence. Give me cold hard sales figures.

We know the Wii launch lineup, and we know Sony has a history of getting dev support for killer titles (although not necessarily at launch). As your brother referenced at the start of his article, this is Sony's market, and it's Sony's to lose. Microsoft is either a distant second or an awful third, depending on whether you use the metric of popularity or profitability.

Robert, you have demonstrated why you don't write about video games: you have nothing to say other than gushing fanboiism for the 360. Which is fine, you can't be good at everything. It's not your fault that you haven't done enough homework on the PS3 or Wii to say word one about them... that's not your job.

It is your brother's job, though. Presumably your brother would have seen these figures: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/06/09/us-hardware-s...
They make it hard to justify saying that Microsoft is a chance of "winning" at the moment, given how the lowly PS2 is outselling them in the US after a recent price drop and the release of Kingdom Hearts II, with Sony also leading the handheld market with PSP. And that's in Microsoft's strongest market.

It's unfortunate that the Ask.com product got all the headlines in the last couple of days and Gnoos seems to have been largely ignored. Good to see you pumping Ben up a bit, Pete.

I'm looking forward to seeing a 10x10 matrix of favicons. In fact, I don't know why nobody has made a Web 2.0 favicon matrix in the manner of the logo lists, it would look hilarious.