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Lumo / The Reference Frame:
Fix: IE7 with Sitemeter: Operation aborted — This posting is primarily addressed to those webmasters who experience a similar problem. — If your web page contains a Sitemeter counter, Internet Explorer users eventually see an “Operation aborted” error message.
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Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
Site Meter causing Internet Explorer failure — Traffic measuring tool Sitemeter is blocking users of Internet Explorer from accessing sites using the service. — According to a tip to The Inquisitr, the problem happens when anybody using Internet Explorer tries to open any sites …
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TDavid / Things That:
Site Meter fails to allow page viewing in Internet Explorer 7 (Update! tracking code fix) — If you are using Site Meter for your stats you might want to remove (or at least comment out) the tracking code until they fix the bug that is causing sites not to display in Internet Explorer.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Don't Want to Talk About It? Order a Missed Call — When Alexis Gorman, 26, wanted to tell a man she had been dating that the courtship was over, she felt sending a Dear John text message was too impersonal. But she worried that if she called the man, she would face an awkward conversation or a confrontation.
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
How “Janet” Fooled the Twittersphere She's the Voice of Exxon Mobil — The game is up, “Janet” is not an official Exxon representative — A few days ago, the Twittersphere was curious, interested, and excited to see a member of Exxon Mobil's employee ranks to join the twitter conversation …
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Rob Cottingham / ReadWriteWeb:
Tag Clouds R.I.P.? — I loved tag clouds from the moment I saw them, and I still do. Two years ago, they roamed the social web like buffalo on the pre-Columbian plains of North America... huge, thundering herds of keywords of all shades and sizes. And you'll see them to this day on many …
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GigaOM:
F| R: The Top 5 Reasons Tech Execs Fail — Regardless of the title your company's top technology executive uses — CTO, CIO, Chief Product Officer or VP of Engineering — your company will ultimately look to this person to produce the software and technical products upon which your business success depends.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mobile Web Wars Videos: Does Anybody Care About Android? — A week ago, I put together a roundtable about the upcoming mobile platform wars between the iPhone, Google's Android, and older platforms like Nokia's. One thing I discovered as I was organizing the event was that it was really hard …
The Technium:
People Want To Pay — Yes, everything will be free, but in my experience people want to pay. They really do! People, mobs of them, will grab stuff that is free. They will try stuff for free that they would never touch if they had to pay. They will always gravitate, on average, to the lowest price, and what is lower than free?
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon — Big Microsoft Study Supports Small World Theory — Turns out, it is a small world. — The so-called small world theory, embodied in the old saw that there are just “six degrees of separation” between any two strangers on Earth …
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Smart Mobs
Fred / A VC:
The Lazy and Smarter Web — If you spend a lot of time reading web/tech blogs, you'll be familiar with the concept of the “lazy web”. The idea is instead of doing a lot of work researching/googling, you just ping/spam your social net with a question and get them to do the work for you.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
AOL is Getting Serious About Lifestreaming: Buys SocialThing — SocialThing, a lifestreaming/social aggregation site, has been acquired by AOL. We currently have no information about the final price of the acquisition, but given that SocialThing was still in private beta, we assume that it was relatively low.
