links for 2007-05-17

The High Price of Creating Free Ads the pitfalls of inviting consumers to create ads for your brand (tags: advertising ugc) coRank: Build Your Own Digg Clone could a more focused Digg challenge the “original”? (tags: socialmedia ugc) Who Can Compete with Facebook? which matters more? platform or user base? (tags: innovation) Don’t Adjust My…

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. 

comScore stirred up a hornet’s nest with its recent "Behaviors of the Blogosphere" report that attempts to quantify blog audiences.  Jason Calacanis went on a rampage against the report, alleging it was biased since a rival blog network founder (Nick Denton) was a sponsor of the report. But now Jason raves about the Feedster 500,…

Kari Chisholm offers this: "Governing Magazine has a great discussion of the role that blogs are playing during the Texas legislative session"

Over at one of the companies I’m involved with, CustomScoop, we’ve been playing with a new tool that we’ve only soft-launched and are getting feedback on.  I thought I’d share it with readers of InterAdvocacy to see what you think. Basically, it’s a free service that let’s visitors see how two search terms do in…

PRSA’s New York chapter is putting on what should be an interesting event on September 29 called "NY MegaTech Day."  It’s essentially a daylong seminar on blogging and new technologies for online PR.  It features prominent bloggers like Steve Rubel and BL Ochman and should provide much food for thought. The agenda is here and…