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Three Keys to Wikipedia Monitoring

Increasingly, a user looking for your organization's name on a search engine like Google or Yahoo! is going to see a listing in Wikipedia near the top of the search. Wikipedia is a user-generated, user-governed online resource which like a hard-copy encyclopedia provides information on just about any topic you can imagine. But unlike the leather-bound version, Wikipedia can be regularly updated by virtually anyone to reflect new information, correct errors and provide additional resources, images and links. Therein lies both Wikipedia's advantages and its challenges.

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Virgin America's In-Flight Techie Nirvana: Do I really want to IM with the guy in 23B?

This post takes a quick (light-hearted) look at the tech-friendly bounty to be offered by Virgin America Airlines.

According to news reports and the airline's website, Virgin America plans to offer a host of nifty features for the tech-savvy, iPod/iPhone/Zune/Blackberry/Laptop-toting traveler on its new coast-to-coast service.

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Online Storage Sites Reviewed at Mashable

Pete and our friends at Mashable.com have a great post on 80+ online storage sites today.

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Buzz Box #2: Search Trends - Lindsay Lohan, The Scourge of Diet Soda

This week, Buzz Box watches Google Trends send Harry Potter out of the top 100 while Yahoo's Buzz Index still sees Hogwarts' bespectacled hero in its top 5, but down sharply from his dominant place last week.

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Google Launches Custom Site Search Service

Expanding search services to the small-to-medium size enterprise beyond their appliance offerings, Google rolls out their Custom Search Business Edition.

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WebDriven's Buzz Box on Search Trends : Harry Potter and NBA Refs

Buzz Box #1: Harry Potter, Earthquakes & NBA Refs
A snapshot of search trends (Yahoo vs. Google) as we head into the weekend.

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Video Sharing Site Scouts Future Hollywood Stars

Sony purchased video-sharing site Grouper last year and has changed the name to Crackle. But there's more going on than just the name change.

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5 Keys to Effective Web Design (Key #1 - Audience)

"How can we make our website more effective?" It's a question we hear routinely from our clients. We find it to be particularly relevant in the Web 2.0 -soon-to-be Web 3.0 - world where communicating clearly can often be obscured by the perceived necessity to generate social buzz and numbers at all costs (we love social buzz (!) but it's helpful to know why you want it).

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Google Gets Voicemail with Grand Central Acquisition

According to its blog, Google has acquired Grand Central a web-based voicemail management application for an undisclosed figure.

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What's That: Vertical Search

Vertical search, as the name suggests, refers to search engines which focus on a specific industry or topic. Examples of vertical search engines include Kosmix, Healthline and Spock a "person" search engine which allows you to keyword-search your neighbor (the Spock website claims to have 100 million already indexed).

Spock is still in beta.

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Helping JDRF volunteers tell their stories in pursuit of a cure

WebDriven created a social networking site which gives individuals with a connection to Type 1 diabetes the ability to post their photos and stories. The site features an interactive map which displays photos and stories from the Tell Your Story network across the U.S.