links for 2005-10-11
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Much of the innovation we’re seeing in the use and spread of consumer-generated media (CGM) draws from the political blog space.
MediaPost reports that Yahoo has announced a leap into original content, featuring former war reporter Kevin Sites. Sites, a veteran of CNN and NBC, plans to leave for Africa on Wednesday. He will spend the next year traveling to 36 war-torn corners of the world, and reporting on how current events affect people’s lives. ……
Google Talk debuted today. It allows instant messaging using its own client software, or can be used with third party products like Trillian that allow you to centralize all of your IM communications. In addition, it has a voice component that sort of makes it like a light version of Skype.
For all of those who have heard about this cool new Web 2.0 technology called AJAX but have no idea what it is or what it means for the average user, the CNET did a decent write-up.
Telecom Asia – Ringtones and caller ringbacks get personal: Nametones are not that different from "true tones" that wireless subscribers with MMS-enabled handsets can download and use as either ringtones or caller ringback tones. But instead of a song having its usual lyrics, a nametone seamlessly integrates a user’s name into the song.
Cymfony offers a good recap of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association held this week in Chicago. On a separate note, P&G refers to it as Word of Mouth Advocacy — a term I think is more accurate and better explains the phenomenon when executed correctly.
I had a conversation yesterday that spurred me to think back to the “old days” of the World Wide Web. You see, I’ve been at this game long enough to remember Yahoo before it was at Yahoo.com. Most of you probably don’t know that it used to live at http://akebono.stanford.edu. In any case, I took…