links for 2007-04-10

PlagiarismToday » Why WordPress.com is Virtually Spam Free

A recent study by WebmasterWorld found that an estimated 77% of all blogs on Google’s Blogspot service were spam. Similarly, AOL Hometown, had well over 80% of its results turn out to be spam.

(tags: blogging google wordpress spam blogger akismet mullenweg blogspam splogs)

Xbox Live’s Major Nelson : Details of the next dash update

While the actual update is about a month away from being released, today we released official details on some of the new features and enhancements the free update will contain. With Windows Live Messenger integration!

(tags: windowslive xbox messenger integration dashboard xboxlive marjornelson features udpate)

It’s the Conversation Economy, Stupid

It’s the conversation economy, stupid. One of the engines that is driving “2.0” growth is the fact that communities are forming around popular social platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Ning, Twitter—the list goes on and on. These platforms facilitate conversation. Conversation leads to relationships and relationships lead to affinity.

(tags: advertising business community consumer conversation innovation marketing media social socialmedia web2.0 web20 blogging businessweek article)

GigaOM » Just don’t call it a Web OS

When Richard MacManus published an overview of the so-called Web OS market almost a year ago, he said, “a lot of people don’t consider a WebOS to be a real operating system, but I think that’s semantics and not something worth debating.”

(tags: semantics webos os software saas service online webbased application)