Speedlinking - 26th April 2007

Ask.com is launching a contextual ad network which they hope will be a viable alternative to Google Adsense. Mid-sized publishers can sign up for the program now, but it won’t be till the end of the year that smaller publishers can get in on the action.
The hype surrounding Twitter just keeps on growing and there has been some talk of late on how they can capitalize on their popularity. Download Squad have an interesting article discussing six ways Twitter can make money. However, the best method isn’t on the list: Get acquired by Google.
Wikipedia 0.5 has been released on CD. It contains around 2000 articles from the English Wikipedia and can be purchased for $13.99 or you can download a CD image and burn your own copy.
Google takes over the Internet, Bill Gates sheds a tear. Complementing their recent milestone of becoming the most valuable global brand, Google has now overtaken Microsoft as the world’s most visited Internet property, attracting 528 million unique visitors in the month of March, compared to Microsoft’s 527 million.
In what looks to be a completely pointless exercise, Time Magazine wants your help compiling a list of the 100 most influential people in the world today. Currently at #1 in the poll is Stephen Colbert.
Ars Technica reports on a dubious study by ScanSafe which found 80% of blogs contain offensive content.
Josh over at TimeforBlogging has a great article on how to drive traffic to your blog using MyBlogLog.

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Joshua Dorkin
April 26th, 2007 at 10:11 am

Dan - Thanks for including us in your round of speedlinking! Much Appreciated!
dan
April 26th, 2007 at 10:16 am

No probs Josh.
Rodrigo Asensio
April 26th, 2007 at 12:52 pm

Ars Technica reports on a dubious study by ScanSafe which found 80% of blogs contain offensive content.

People talks things that are important to them, might be offensive for others, that means that people maybe do not talk about that in public because the law.

I’m Argentinian living in the US and I really feel that the advertised “freedom” turns a lot of people into slaves of a system.
lyndonmaxewell
April 27th, 2007 at 12:41 am

hrmm.. Now I wonder if Google will storm on Twitter next. That would be nice. Seems like they have many other ads network coming right up to compete with them as well.
dan
April 27th, 2007 at 12:52 am

Rodrigo - True. They may as well have said 100% of blogs contain offensive content.

Lyndon - At least if Google took over you could be certain the servers wouldn’t be running like garbage. Twitter is so slow sometimes. They really need to sort that out.