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Eric Eldon, of VentureBeat, has a nice write up on the Dell Graffiti Execution that we did over the last two weeks in January.
Excerpt:
The contest, which ran over two weeks in January, generated more than 1 million votes on more than 7300 Graffiti entries. Check out the top 150 here [...]

MyBlogLog appears to be creating communities that I always thought Technorati would be all over.
I think the key to these newer communities will be allowing users to own their networking data and make it extensible. i.e. mycommunity.jamesgross.com
I like what Scott and the gang are up to over there. I think Technorati missed a [...]

The only sad thing I see about the whole Facebook PR debacle is that the Facebook kids actually think they are right and their privacy is restored.
I mean, you like totally need a college ID right?
In response to the uproar, Facebook came out and told the kids to chill; these features are simply [...]

Check out her photos on Flickr. (via 37 signals)
Very impressive, but you have to wonder how much revenue she is leaving on the table by not hosting her photos on her own. That is, of course, if she would be interested in taking on, say, some sponsors on her site.
I guess it begs the question, [...]

It is bright, cute, user-friendly, and it definitely confirms the idea of blog search as a portal.
Niall Kennedy points out some of the walled garden features:
Unlike many other search sites Technorati’s link structure seems designed to keep people within its pages. A linked blog post title on the site homepage points to a URL search [...]

So here is an idea to file under “thinking out loud”:
After having my window broke for the 3rd time in the last 9 months, seeing all the trash bags over car windows and glass on the sidewalk in my neighborhood. I think I came up with an idea.
This is not some get tough on crime [...]