Links of the Week – November 9th
Everybody loves links, so here are my links of the week:
The 22 Step Social Media Marketing Plan
As corporate adoption of social media emerges, there’s nothing wrong with learning lessons from others and making them your own. Here’s a 22 step social media plan.
Yahoo faces the long, slow goodbye – Jerry Yang, perhaps a shorter one | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Yahoo’s failure to tie up an ad deal with Google may be the last straw. Prepare for a slow drift into insignificance.
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Why Google Forked OpenID and Other Stories
Recently I’ve seen OpenID geeks berating large vendors like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google for the way they’ve incorrectly implemented OpenID. Looking at these situations it has become clear that the problem OpenID solves is actually different from the problem these companies are trying to solve.
Brad Abrams : .NET Framework 4 Poster
We created a very cool poster that shows off the new stuff in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and .NET Framework 4.
The Canadian Press: Knives come out for Sarah Palin; McCain aides tell tales of an ill-informed diva
Less than 24 hours after McCain lost the presidential election to Democrat Barack Obama, those close to him apparently wasted no time burning up the phone lines to dish the dirt on Palin, the Alaska governor who portrayed herself as a sensible hockey Mom when she was chosen the Arizona senator’s running mate in late August.
Microsoft’s Silverlight heats up fight for online video players – USATODAY.com
“There’s no question this is the biggest threat to Adobe in years,” says Michael Olson, an analyst at Piper Jaffray. “But the market for online video is massive. There’s room for both Silverlight and Flash.”
Microsoft’s BizSpark initiative offers free servers and software to startups VentureBeat
With the negligible cost, BizSpark presents a pretty irresistible offer to startups, especially in tough economic times…
Google Pulls The Plug On Yahoo Advertising Deal
After vowing repeatedly to go through with its search advertising deal with Yahoo no matter what the Justice Department does, Google reversed course today and pulled the plug on the deal.
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