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Photo of the Week: This is a photo I took in my old neighborhood in Lincoln Park in Chicago prior to moving on to AOL in Virginia. Happy St. Patrick's Day! Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 03.18.07 Viacom Drops a $1 Billion Nuke on Google Remember when Napster was a lawsuit...

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Have something witty to say about a particular item? Riffs, an ATTAP Technologies company, offers a feature-rich, social bookmarking, recommendation site for information-sharing details about movies, music, fashion and other sorts of interests. With Riffs you can recommend different items by starting a riff, registering and posting a witty comment...

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Del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site, has turned three years old this past weekend. Del.icio.us was one of the first web 2.0 social bookmarking sites to catch on with the masses and was purchased by Yahoo back in December 2005. I have referred to del.icio.us previously on SwF. Happy birthday del.icio.us!

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ResourceShelf Real-Time is a new ResourceShelf feature which provide links to web, software, mobile and other application that "offer real-time or near real-time" data and information. ResourceShelf, a site powered by librarians including search engine legend Gary Price, has been aggregating at least one piece of information a day for...

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WordPress.com continues to improve the free blogging platform as they have recently rolled out new widget features. These widgets are sidebar or rail elements which allow for additional customization to your blog. I first noticed the widget features while blogging on Ballpark Frank a few days ago. I stumbled upon...

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Applications that use a Yahoo API have a new trophy case as Yahoo has created a new site called Yahoo Gallery. Through the site you create a developer profile and submit your Yahoo application for others to see, rate, download and tag. The site also showcases some of the more...

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I was surprised to see the report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer that quoted Yahoo, Chief Financial Officer, Susan Decker saying: "It's not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search." Some may take this quote out of context and think Yahoo is no longer focusing on beating Google...

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Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has a conversation sparking post today (January 12, 2006) about the fate of Technorati the blog search engine. It was sparked by a print article in Red Herring* by Liz Gannes. Technorati after some technical shakiness in the early summer of 2005, has emerged as the...

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It appears del.icio.us which was recently purchased by Yahoo is having some technical difficulties. I went to the site yesterday evening and it was down for maintenance. I visited the site early this morning (December 19, 2005) and it is still down. However, the site was displaying this message: "Due...

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Dare Obansanjo wrote a compelling post recently in regard to flipping a start-up company. Aside from the fact that building a start-up just to flip it may be difficult as mentioned in these posts by Paul Kedrosky and Jason Wood it appears to be the Web 2.0 trend these days....

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aka Frank Gruber Google to launch PCs Google PCs are to launch soon in India...I wonder if they will be launching as a Beta?Google Music Search Live : SEO Consultant Esoos Bobnar Google Music search unveiled earlier this week and Esoos Bobnar weighs in on it.WSJ/NYT say Google HEARTS AOL...

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aka Frank Gruber iPod Nano knockoff - Engadget iPod nano knockoff anyone?MAKEbot Launched : O'Reilly Radar MAKE Magazine launched a bot that hooks into AIM to send articles to friends, etc.SES Chicago and Week Wrap Up Here is Lee Odden's breakdown on the SEO conference in Chicago last week. They...

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Yahoo’s acquisition of del.icio.us today (December 9, 2005) further emphasizes that that Yahoo is serious about moving forward with offering Web 2.0 applications and services. The move to acquire the popular social bookmarking and tagging service coupled with the previous acquisition of Flickr the popular public photo sharing application further...

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aka Frank Gruber Stanford earns $336 million from Google stock : googlecrumbs So you could say Stanford has Google right where they want them?Killer Bosses that Create Stress Mine isn't killing me at all, but maybe yours is. Personal Splogs : Russell Beattie Notebook Create a splog of your own...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 12-02-2005 by Frank Gruber Is Web 2.0 nothing more than mashups? : Geeking with GregDiscusses the mashup craze of Web 2.0. MoMB The Museum of Modern Betas is a site I just stumbled upon a few days ago.Emily Chang - eHub A HUGE list of Web 2.0-ish...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-29-2005 by Frank Gruber Santa Claus gets personal in Internet podcasts for children Santa Claus is not only watching he is podcasting too.Fuckr - The Next Big Thing : A Jack of All Blogs This should make you laugh.Happy birthday Technorati : Niall Kennedy's Blog Niall Kennedy...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-28-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber Ten Bloglines Hacks : Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel has some great tips on tricking out Bloglines.One in Six Online Americans Sell on Web Study shows that Americans on selling things online...surprise surprise.How to Gain Trusted Connectivity Some advice on how...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-22-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber Ask Jeeves Integrates GoFish Multimedia Search : Online Marketing Blog GoFish offers multimedia search integration options.Google Unveils Tool to Map Shopping Trips Google Maps API is now being employed by Google's Froogle website.Chicago : Emergintex Chicago has emerged on the...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-21-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber Journalists Who Won't Give Up : WashingtonPost.com "Investigatory journalism" … one of my favorite terms since it was used in a quote by Ben Stiller in the movie Zoolander.The Playlist: Great Online Sources for Finding New Music Some great places...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-18-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber It's not a boom I tell ya... it's not! : The Jason Calacanis Weblog Is there a beef between Jason Calacanis and John Battelle?The Economy Of Buzz: Blogs Are Market Conversations : Robin Good's Latest News Why do we talk?Google,...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-17-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber Hacking the Hybrid Vehicle : Wired News Kits allow you to hack your hybrid for even better gas mileage.I am NOT blogging about Google : Venture Chronicles Good luck with your promise!Yak Launches Free Video and Voice Service : Slashdot...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-16-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber Sports Lounge LLC launches the Sports Cartel Blog Network : The Blog Herald Sports themed blog network launched.Google's Classified Play Launches : Online News Squared Ironically, this post mentions how Google's founder was puzzled by the Newspaper online classified ads...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-15-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality : WSJ.com I wrote a post called Are $100 Laptops A Reality back in September so it's nice to see it in the news again.Microsoft Launches Search for Businesses : Yahoo! News Businesses...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-14-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber It's showtime for Trib's quiet CEO More talk of Tribune taking action.A Breakthrough Few Months for Portable TVA good recap of the feats of television in the last few months. Geez, times are a changin'.Blogpulse Top List Spammed Sounds like...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-13-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber 10 Most Powerful Women in Blogging : Jack of All BlogsTop woman bloggers ... congrats to all!Warren Buffett, Unplugged : WSJ.com A wonderful article highlighting Warren Buffett and his "hands-off" approach. Also gives 5 investing tips worth reading. 10 Best...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-12-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber Child Still for Sale on Craigslist?This is just so wrong! A mother tried to sell her 4 year old child on Craigslist for $500. 10 Best Entrepreneur Blogs : Lifehacker Entrepreneurs cannot miss these blogs.Cuban : SteelCityBlog I heard that...

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del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-11-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber Adsense Of The Future Interesting Google Adsense predictions on the jackol’s den blog.Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Die Celebrate cause life is short and sweet for certain...thank you Dave Matthews for that wonderful Two Step lyric.AOL Weblogs Inc., advertising for bloggers...

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