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I’m pretty good at spotting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, but this is something that I wouldn’t ever have noticed: Wikipedia’s logo…
I was supposed to be a guest speaker at a meeting on the East Coast last Friday. I was invited by PodCamp founder John Havens, who set up a BlogTalk Radio connection.
As “Brands in Social Media” go, Google, Yahoo, Apple, and Microsoft stand head and shoulders above the rest. Indeed, Google appears to receive more than ten times as much attention as Amazon. But even within these four leaders, there are some big differences.
If you want to get the Google Mini or Google Search Appliance, talk to Ingram Micro - even as sales surpass 9,000 units, the company has been selected to distribute Google’s hardware.
Via ThreadWatch, this study of where Wikipedia pages appear in Google results for a search for that phrase, and found that in about 580 out of 600 randomly chosen Wikipedia pages, the Wikipedia page appeared in Google’s top 10. That’s just incredible, a number we can pretty much point to and show how much power Wikipedia has in Google, with 96.66% of those pages surveyed…
It’s interesting to see that a market for Facebook applications — or widgets — is developing, although the prices are still small. In one of the latest transactions, Inside Facebook notes that Slide.com (run by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin) has bought the app Favorite Peeps for a reported $60,000. Another site, FaceWatch, has also written about the purchase.
