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10 People Who Don’t Matter

Along with it’s list of 50 People Who Matter Now, Business 2.0 has also released its list of 10 People Who Don’t Matter.

The former corporate A-listers include:

  • Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft
  • Jeffrey Citron, Chairman & Chief Strategist, Vonage
  • Reed Hastings,
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Campaign Study on PBS MediaShift

Our study on Internet usage by 2006 U.S. Senate campaigns got a nice write up on the excellent PBS MediaShift blog today. The article focuses on the use of tools like blogs and podcasts by the campaigns. It’s a good read.

For those of you interested, here’s a listing of our series of posts the last few months on this topic:

  • The Internet’s Role in Political Campaigns
  • Best 2006 Campaign Websites
  • 2006 Campaign Blog Review
  • 2006 Senate Blog Review…The Sequel
  • Politicians Who Podcast
  • Most “Web 2.0”
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MySpace Aims for Global Domination

A couple of days ago the Financial Times reported that MySpace was planning to go global, launching non-English localized versions of MySpace in 11 countries sometime this summer. Countries named at being potential targets included the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and India. MySpace currently has around 75 million registered users (it increases by the second)....

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Broadband Usage Around the World

I didn’t realize that the U.S. was such a laggard when it came to the deployment of broadband Internet access. See chart below, courtesy of the International Telecommunications Union. We’re 16th on the list of the top 20 economies, one-half Korea’s rate, and just under Liechtenstein’s.

Not very impressive;...

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Netscape Enters News Aggregator Space


Netscape has just entered the news aggregator business, launching the beta version of a news site that mimics the model of sites like Digg and Newsvine. These sites rely on users to vote on the stories they like and use this data to create the equivalent of a newspaper homepage,...

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