Entreprenews of the Week

Each Saturday we want to give you some light weekend reading and share with you some interesting Entreprenews that popped up in the last week. Below you’ll find a dozen or so interesting links and our thoughts on each news item.

Facebook Video Launches: YouTube Beware!
“While Myspace is overrun with spammers, scammers and horrible banner ads… Facebook continues to make smart decisions and grow as a quality mega-social networking site. I think this new video feature for them could give them another leg up.”

Publisher to Let the Public Have a Vote on Book Projects
“Why don’t we have our own ‘choose your won adventure’ style television show yet? Where each week we all go online to cast our vote for what direction the show should go next week. We might not be all that far off, as more and more mediums are being set-up to allow the global community to cast their vote on what makes it and what doesn’t.”

An Introduction to Social Media Strategy and Socially Driven Content
“A good article by Wendy about social media, what it is, how you can use it, and how to learn ever more about it. If you have business on the web… it is worth a read.”

Google Announces Purge of Ad-Heavy Web Sites
“Google announced some pretty big news affecting ‘made-for-AdSense’ site owners. I’m happy to see Goggle taking a proactive steps towards cleaning up the giant mess they made with Adsense and encouraging the pay-per-click spam sites.”

$100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed
“Every body is now concerned about seeing ‘Ads by Google Adsense’ but I’m still hoping Google won’t mess with the Feedburner system much.”

Some People Will Click On Anything
“A 6-month study reveals that internet users will click on just about anything, including an ad that reads ‘Get infected here!’ and is up front that clicking will install a virus on their computer.”

34 Places to Get Design Inspiration - Online and Off
“Aside from the fact that Kuler is listed above www.COLOURlovers.com, Cyan at FreelanceSwitch put together a solid post for finding design inspiration on the internets.”

The Man Who Owns the Internet
“An interesting article about some of the Big Dogs of the Domain Squatting world. You’ll see the #1 guy in this months issue of Business 2.0 too.”

Avis to Offer Wireless Internet Gear in Car Rentals
“It looks like Avis is embracing the ‘information’ super highway with a service to its car rental customers. Since I already have a Verizon Air-Card, I don’t think I’ll ever use this service… but nonetheless, I like the idea of it.”

The Best 100 Products of 2007 by PC World
“PC World editors compile a list of what they consider to be the best products of 2007. A good list to keep track of what products are hot and what markets are growing.”

LifeHacker’s Coolest Workplace Contest: The Organizer Installment
“Some pretty clever ways to organize your work space, and make sure you check out the previous installments… I’m pretty envious of some of the places people work in.”

 
Do you have any interesting news from the past week to share? Lay it on us, brothers & sisters.

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