Reading Sampler: July 5, 2006

More thoughts and links, thanks to all the emails I’ve been getting, sorry, i can’t blog about all the products that you’re sending me, just the ones that are interesting to me.

>Nick has a series of resources of interest, check out his collection of social media, business blogging, and web 2.0 discussions.

>Jason C from Netscape has offered Amanda from Rocketboom a job –it’s getting pretty out of control as most of the blogosphere seems focused on this.

>PBwiki has improved it’s search results, apparently some evil spammers were using the wiki to launch spam –things seem better now. I was suspicious about this a few weeks ago.

>Jeff Leong, a Web Analytics master in Silicon Valley (and a good friend) send me this link to XML site map, increase one’s SEO rankings. This site creates and XML site map index of a website (or blog) Andy Beal says it does very little for a website –I’m not an expert at SEO so I’m want to learn more. Here’s some resources to index your site for SEO before it’s even launched.

>Julio sent me this link to Bill Maher’s web show on amazon, did you know this was going on? Shoot, I didn’t.

>I’ve started to play with Pandora again, it’s an artificial intelligence that looks for ‘like’ songs –I recommend playing with it, it’s free, and we’ve been jamming to all kinds of tunes at home –even did a little salsa dancing. The last time I played with Pandora was a few months ago at Mike Arrington’s house for the Naked Conversations party.

>Denis T, sent me this link from CIO Magazine, Companies Look for Ideas in All the Wrong Places although a year old, it’s relevant –customers and product teams working together. This is the spirit of Microsoft and Sun as they use web tools to engage customers to build a product that customers will be satisfied, buy, and then tell others.,

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