All the attention in the financial world is focused on oil, the US dollar, and housing, but in the last 6 days gold has soared 5% to above $840. Is it just global unrest, or is something bigger on its way?
Clearly the top news item of the day.
Guy Kawasaki is a combination entrepreneur/heat-seeking venture capitalist who tries on new ideas like teeshirts. The latest jersey is Truemors.com, an SEO bloggers dream that posts any and all rumors about well-known people, places, and events. Truemor readers are even allowed to contribute posts.
Kawasaki built a “private label” Grazr widget, meaning the Truemors logo is prominently displayed at the top of the widget. With it, he collects the Truemors site feed, posts it on his “other” blog, and pushes it out to anyone else who wants to post the widget on their site. “It drives traffic from one of my efforts to another,” he says, “so that people who are reading my blog go to my Web site.”
Kawasaki says no technical know-how is required. “Between my web guy and the Grazr people, I didn’t have to do much at all.” He thinks a Grazr widget is a good way to add value to site content. “In my case, it’s from one property to another, but others can incorporate content from sites that they don’t own. It’s an easy way to enrich the information provided.”
The official end of Web 1.0 has arrived with AOL’s announcement that it is shutting down support for Netscape.
Cynthia Brumfield’s blog, IPDemocracy, is a far-reaching discussion on the policies and politics of new media. Brumfield’s Grazr widget is a fat collection of links to anything having to do with technology politics - and that’s a lot.
The world continues to focus on Pakistan, and the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.
Reading list on the life and assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Eirepreneur is a blog focusing on microbusiness, businesses with fewer than five employees that run on a shoestring. Eirepreneur’s Grazr widget is a collection of feeds from entrepreneurial experts in Ireland and the rest of the world, plus links to good information about this fast growing segment of the world economy.
Library Sharings is authored by a tech-savvy research librarian specializing in African studies. His Grazr widget is a collection of feeds about Africa and a host of other resources that would be useful for any researcher on the ‘Net, including tools, software, and anthropology/geography journals. Take a look; you’ll be impressed with the amount of information gathered into one small Grazr.