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Google Tests CPM Ads

It will be interesting to watch Google manage the desire of advertisers against the desire of users.

From: The Search Engine Marketing Weblog

In an industry-rattling move, Google is today launching a test of a radical expansion of the Adwords model. The new system contains three major departures from Google’s traditional advertising model:

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Sparklines (Almost) in the Times, and Complexity Is Good For You

Joe has been excited about the possibility of sparklines as a UI element to represent complex data for decision support.

From: Anil Dash

Last year, Edward Tufte (information design guru beloved by many web design geeks) introduced Sparklines, a method of displaying dense data as a graphic inline with words. Despite the existence of code libraries to make sparklines more ubiquitous, the …

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IEBlog : IE7 beta 1 – A few details…

The first beta is coming this summer- and surprisingly, it looks like thet are actually going to address some of the complaints that web developers have had about IE (png alpha channel and CSS changes). Wow!

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Blogs Will Change Your Business

Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up...or catch you later

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NewsGator Technologies Completes Third Funding Round; Company Has Raised Over $10 Million to-Date;

10 Million is a lot to have spent at this point.

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Confusability: Bloglines users are a load of knitters

This is a great analysis of Bloglines usage patterns. A huge wake up call is the fact that a large number of Bloglines users appear to drop out quickly, adding feeds only the first day (or first few days). There is no reading data, sadly.

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QuickSub

Showing a dropdown of possible readers with terrifying names like 'Bot A blog' or 'Bottom Feeder' isn't exactly what I would call helpful. This is the opposite of what should be happening. Rather than publishers making subscription easy, the readers should be making subscription easy. How about a LINK tag pointing to the feed combined with autodiscovery in the reader instead.

From: The RSS Weblog

For information providers who want to make life easy for new readers, QuickSub furnishes a drop-down menu of popular newsreaders for one-click subscribing. Once seen, it must be used. QuickSub is an open-source, free download.

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Google Personalizes the Web (InternetNews.com)

This is pretty darn cool.

From: Yahoo! News - Search Results for onfolio

Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google has rolled out a seriously cool search history feature that automatically keeps track of all of your web searches and every page that you view from search results.

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Sneak Preview of ReSharper IDE - JetBrains.net

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Sweat Ship: offshore coding operation planned in San Diego

From: Boing Boing

Xeni Jardin: The LAVoice blog says:

Three San Diego entrepreneurs plan to start a cut-rate outsourcing plant for software development three miles off the coast of Los Angeles aboard a used cruise ship moored in international waters.

Wired with a fat T3 pipe fed by microwave, SeaCode would employ 600 developers - the bulk of them non-U.S. citizens - who could crank out code around the clock at a lower cost and higher rate of efficiency than their American counterparts. The beauty part (at least according to the proponents) is that business would be booming, the headquarters could change sail wherever business took it, and RnR would be just a half-hour water-taxi ride away. In your neighborhood.

Link (Thanks, Sean Bonner)

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