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Links of the day

YouTube – Social Media Revolution – great video in the similar vein to Shift Happens

PRX: huge, searchable library of public radio goodness – Boing Boing

Facebook and Nielsen Look for What Makes Consumers Tick | WebProNews

U.S. Leading the Global Mobile Data Boom

Business Insider Puts IPG on “Veering Toward Bankruptcy” List – mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

Under new management…yours | Yodel Anecdotal – not terribly impressed by this and its design shafts the Yahoo! brand the way the Y! bang is used on the ad artwork. More hail mary pass rather than reinvigorating a moribund brand

China market: Home-grown blue laser standard picking up momentum, reports say

Vodafone Readies ‘Vodafone 360’ Platform – But What Is It? | mocoNews – interesting idea

WPP’s Sorrell: We Can’t Fire People Fast Enough To Keep Up With The Collapse In Ads (WPPGY) – things will never be the same again

Yahoo Seeking Buyer For Zimbra? – Barrons.com – its like the 80s. But its Silicon Valley being asset stripped

Interbrand | Best Global Brands | 2009

Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy – The Boston Globe

PodSubmitter – bringing podcasting together!

PR boozy event season kicks off again… « Becky McMichael’s PR Balancing Act

Social Media Policies from 80+ Organizations

Only Five Percent Of Readers Would Pay For Online News | paidContent:UK

Ever wonder what the differences between Arial and Helvetica were?

A Twitter Analog to PageRank | The Noisy Channel


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Hi Ged, the Social Media Revolution video was first posted on http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/2009/08/coolest-social-media-video-ever.html on Aug 19th.

Posted by Valerie Gagliano on 23 September 2009 @ 4pm

The use of the Y! bang is fucking awful on the press add, doesn’t even sit well let alone sit within the Yahoo! brand guidelines. Just looks cheap.

Posted by Stephen Holmes on 24 September 2009 @ 9am

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