The Praized Blog

Meta-Praized is a collection of links & stories we’ve “dugg” on Digg.com in the last few weeks. Feel free to add us as a friend: PraizedDotCom .

• “What Google can’t do” in the Red Herring
• “Are Web portals becoming passe?” in CNN Money
• “Silicon Valley vs. Madison Avenue: Publicis Acquires Digitas for $1.3B” in Publishing 2.0
• “Web kid with attitude (Facebook) says sucks to $1bn” via The Times Online
• “Local Search’s Killer App: Real-Time Inventory” via the Small Business SEM blog
• “Social network users have ruined their privacy, forever” via Hexus.net
• Blake Ross loses faith on Google via his blog
• “Seven Ways to Find Local Political Blogs” via the Personal Democracy Forum
• “Mozilla Did $53M in Revenue in 2005″ via Mitchell’s Blog
• “Search Every Word Said on YouTube” via the SplashCast blog
• “Digital sales boost music industry: Album sales drop yet again” via Variety Magazine

Meta-Praized is a collection of links & stories we’ve “dugg” on Digg.com in the last 7 days. Feel free to add us as a friend: PraizedDotCom

• “Computers could store entire life by 2026″ via The Daily Telegraph
• “Auditions Come to YouTube” via the Wall Street Journal
• Time’s Person of the Year is You! via Time Magazine
• “10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Acquire Yahoo In 2007″ via ShoeMoney.com
• “RUMOR: Apple ‘iPhone’ may include JAJAH VoIP software” via MacDailyNews.com
• CraigsNumber: an auto-expiring, FREE anonymous phone number via the Voice 2.0 blog
• “New NYC taxis to have TV and tracking” via SiliconValley.com
• “Google teams up with NASA” via CNN.com
• “Ask X - New UI for Ask.com Secretly Launched” via Read/WriteWeb
• “2007 Web Predictions” by Read/WriteWeb
• “Google axes search API” via the Register
• “BBC moves to file-sharing sites” via BBC News

Meta-Praized is a collection of links & stories we’ve dugg on Digg.com in the last 7 days. Feel free to add us as a friend: PraizedDotCom .

• “Media biz is hungry for acquisitions” in MarketWatch
• “Google, the OS for Advertising” in GigaOM
• Jason Calanis resigns from AOL in TechCrunch
• “French video site (DailyMotion) takes on YouTube with local offering” in The Times Online
• “Universal Music sues MySpace.com for copyright infringement” via the San Jose Mercury News
• “The race to create a ’smart’ Google” in Fortune via CNN Money
• Google CEO: “Don’t bet against the Internet” via The Economist
• “You Tube vs. Boob Tube” in Wired
• “MySpace is Dying” via the PuddleGum blog
• “RSS for the People”, explaining RSS via Paul Kim’s blog

Meta-Praized is a collection of links we’ve dugg on Digg.com in the last 7 days. Feel free to add us as a friend: PraizedDotCom .

• A summary of the Widget Live! conference on the Somewhat Frank blog
• “Google Checkout Rolling Out Features and Waiving Fees” on Techcrunch
• “TV Networks Need to Wake Up Before Video Boom Leaves Them With Dead Air” on DigitalJournal
• “A glance into the crystal ball hints at a future without 800-numbers” in the USA Today
• Google Earth adds historical maps on the ZDNet blog
• “Study: Users Prefer Moderated Sites” on MediaPost (registration required)
• Google adds Skype to Google Pack on the Google Pack page
• “What if online portals had nothing but ‘digital fish wrap’?” in the opinion pages of the San Francisco Chronicle
• “Google introduces Click-to-call in Google Maps in the US in Google’s blog
• “Bubbleshare bought by News Corp.” in the OneDegree blog
• “Second Life faces threat to its virtual economy” in Cnet’s News.com

Meta-Praized is a collection of links we’ve dugg on Digg.com in the last 7 days. Feel free to add us as a friend: PraizedDotCom .

• “For Start-Ups, Web Success on the Cheap” in the New York Times
• “Hitwise: Social Media Drives E-Commerce Traffic” in MediaPost
• Kelsey Group: Local Search & Online Classifieds Advertising: $31.1 Bil. by 2010 via IMediaConnection
• “Microsoft prepping its move into Voice over IP” in Ars Technica
• Geotagging in the New York Times (subs required)
• Mozilla Starts Work On Firefox 3.0″ in InformationWeek.com
• “YouTube is Time’s Invention of the Year” in the New York Daily News
• “Entrepreneurs and VCs descend on Silicon Valley for Startup Camp” in ZDNet’s Blog
• DigitalJournal.com: “Readers cash in on Social Network” in Journalism.co.uk
• Google launches Google Print Ads in Business Week
• MIT creates new “Web Science” discipline in ThreadWatch.org

Meta-Praized is a collection of links we’ve dugg on Digg.com in the last 7 days. Feel free to add us as a friend: PraizedDotCom .

• “Interview with Federated Media“, Folksonomy.org
• “Kudzu.com, a Local Search Engine, Expands Into Three New Markets“, press release via Yahoo Finance
• “Google acquires JotSpot“, Google Blog
• “A hyper-local hero that can save the newspaper business online “, Fast Company
• “Analyst: Microsoft Should Buy Yahoo“, Red Herring
• “Revenge of the Portal“, MicroPersuasion
• ” Private Conversation Is Aim Of New Blog Software“, Information Week
• “Is there an IPTV boom in the making? “, GigaOm
• “Yahoo launches Food Vertical“, Yahoo Food
• “YouTube, Startups to Go ‘Moblogging‘”, CNN Money
• “Teens: Email Is Just So Old-Fashioned “, ExtremeTech.com

Many people ask us: “for all the posts you write on Praized.com, you must have read 10 other articles that did not make the cut”. The answer is obviously, yes! But starting today, and once a week afterwards, we’ll write a Meta-Praized post that covers the top articles that did not make the cut. Remember, you can always get a taste of what we’re following by looking at the various articles we’ve “dugg” on Digg.com. Feel free to add us as a friend: PraizedDotCom

• “In Teens’ Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year“, Washington Post
• “Wikipedia Leaves $100M on the Table“, Calacanis.com
• “Is Google Evil?“, Mother Jones
• “Is Microsoft Office Doomed?“, PC World
• “Facebook Officially Launches “My Shares” / Social Bookmarking“, Facebook’s blog
• “Skype founders plan to launch Web TV service“, Reuters via Yahoo News