Here are some blogosphere highlights from Acircular the Web.
- Google’s G-1 Phone ignited a tech blogstorm.
- Technorati recently acquired the BlogCritics network. This makes Technorati a search/content/ad-network hybrid sort of like Yahoo has become - but obviously on a smaller scale than Yahoo.
- Study finds more hiring managers are using social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn to evaluate potential hires.
- Twittermoms is a site where Twitter moms can connect with other Twittering moms. (via TechCrunch)
- Bits reports that Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers have started a blog about the iPhone and their $100 million iFund in mobile applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. The blog is at ifundvc.com
- Another Bits post asks
how many web services one person can use. A person can update a lot of web services with tools like Ping.fm but they can’t really maintain an active presence on too many websites.
- TwitterKeys will let you add some UFT8 icons to your Twitter conversations.
- Editor and Publisher launched two new blogs: Fitz & Jen and The E&P Pub.
- Giga Omni Media acquired The Apple Blog.
- A blogger was arrested for posting 9 unrelease Guns N’ Roses songs.
- Boing Boing and Kevin Kelly discuss the idea of the Whole Earth Catalog as a blog from the 1970s.
- Valleywag says that 2/3 of Heavy.com’s salesforce has left.
- Gwyneth Paltrow is launch a lifestyle site called Goop. Some details here.
- A blog with a long name
thingswithapproximatelyasmanypeopleaswasilla.com attempts to point out that
lots of places and things have as many people as Sarah Palin’s hometown where she was mayor.
- Boing Boing Gadgets was not impressed with Esquire’s E-Ink cover.
- 1.1 million people read the Wikipedia entry for Sarah Palin in the 36 hours following her introduction. Slate says a college sophmore gets credit for pushing Palin as the vp choice.
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If you’ve got a knock-out idea that you think will change the way people live, help the world in anyway or improve something in the planet, you just may win a US$10 million prize from Google.com. Google wants to hear your idea and if it can, help make it a reality. Just go to www.project10tothe100.com to find out more.
Or watch this video below as an intro.
I think this is the largest public campaign that has ever hit the internet for the past decade. Maybe the past 2 decades even. This campaign was launched to celebrate Google’s 10th year anniversary. What a way to celebrate! I really feel the community getting together to achieve a milestone project with Google.
Google announced the project live on CNN on Wednesday morning.
“These ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple — but they need to have impact,” Google said in a news release. “We know there are countless brilliant ideas that need funding and support to come to fruition.”
This campaign runs to October 20 only, remember, they’re only asking for ideas, you don’t need to develop a full working prototype of it. In a narrative form, and in any of the 25 languages they have listed, you just need to type away. Hey, it could even be an idea with your blogs or something.
This is your chance to put your dreams to reality… and possibly help the human race!
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Below is a video of someone using Twitter to turn the lights off in their room. This might be useful for confusing potential criminals about whether you or home or not. We have seen similar uses of Twitter like the plant that tweets when it needs to be watered and the Laundry Room hooked up to Twitter that tweets when washers and dryers are available. (via Rocketboom)
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Mashable reports that Twitter is growing like a weed. The Mashable post cites new figures from Nielsen Online that show Twitter has grew 422% from August, 2007 to August, 2008.
The latest numbers are in, and Twitter is apparently growing at a torrid pace. According to stats just released from Nielsen Online, Twitter recorded 2.3 million unique visitors in August (US-only), an increase of 422% from the same period last year.
Moreover, visitors to Twitter spent 55% more time on the site on average - a total of more than 7 minutes per user. Those numbers point to rather robust growth for the site, especially considering many of its most rabid users access it thcoarse a third-party client like Twhirl or Tweetdeck.
It helps when a CNN anchors is
incorporating Twitter into his show. It also helps that everytime there is a major disaster somewhere in the world there are immediately stories about how Twitter was the first place to hear about it. Twitter has always been a awesome way to cover breaking news invents and share information. It’s use by news organizations alone should continue to foster growth and let Twitter remain
follower central despite spam and uptime issues.
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