What I Missed

Not that much it seems. With both Saddam and James Brown dead in the last week, I was expecting major ructions.

Digg has raised another $8.5mn in Series B funding from previous investors Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network who invested $2.8mn back in November 2005. It’s not yet prof­it­able, apparently.

Google blog search is now getting more traffic than Technorati. Apparently the Google search actually works.

Chinese internet use has grown by 30% (not just over the last week, over 2006…)

Microsoft gave some US bloggers nice laptops pre­loaded with Vista as a PR freebie. Some people are upset. Most just wish it was them.

The word ‘user’ is starting to rankle. Great quote in the article from Rishad Tobaccowala of Denuo high­lighting the negative con­nota­tions of the word: “Since when did I become a heroin addict?” Not sure anyone has come up with an accept­able altern­ative, though.

There’s also a bunch of posts about a new wiki­media found­a­tion search. Early reports seem a tad con­fusing. Will try to work out what’s hap­pening before my New Year’s drinking oblig­a­tions kick in.

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1 comment to What I Missed

  • Bob Boydston

    Ructions!??!!!!

    Good one! New word for me! Love it. When I saw the word, I lit­er­ally had a riot…I mean ruction?…well you know what I mean?

    Love your site!

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