May 21, 2008: Around the Web in Blogging
Here are today’s links. Included is a new program from Microsoft that pays users who buy from advertisers, 101 uses of Twitter, a site that looks at all videos taken down from YouTube, and more.
- Here are 101 examples of how Twitter members regularly use the service. Note that the content below has been taken directly from Twitter users’ posts, with all grammar, syntax and spelling left fully intact. - InsideCRM
- A new Microsoft program will return money to online users who find and buy selected products through its Live Search engine - Todd Bishop
- edlasso, a TV clip service favored by bloggers everywhere, is being threatened with legal action by three of the major media conglomerates: Fox (NWS), CBS (CBS) and NBC (GE).- AlleyInsider
- According to an AppleInsider Story, Mac sales are soaring. It posted a 50% year on year growth for the month of April. A staggering figure compared to 17% for the PC market. - TheAfterMac
- YouTomb is an interesting project by MIT Free Culture that collects YouTube videos taken down because of copyright infringements. - GoogleSystem
- The latest stats from Nielsen Online show a significant decline in month-over-month unique visitors to Facebook in the US. In April, traffic fell to 22.4M uniques, down from the 24.9M reported in March. - Mashable
- Now that FeedBurner is owned by Google, it makes sense to integrate with other Google services. One of the most requested features, a FeedFlare that shows the number of comments for each post from a Blogger blog, has been recently added - GoogleSystem
- I thought this was kinda funny. Someone thought that Google was taking stronger action on excessive reciprocal links. So did they ramp down their reciprocal linking? Nope. Instead, they put their offer into an image thinking that Google wouldn’t notice - MattCutts
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