links for 2007-07-14

One of the most frustrating things for early adopters like ourselves to deal with is the private, limited invitation beta. The startups seed a few invitations to their friends, and each new account has 3 or so invitations that can be given away.

I’ve found some great new blogs through lists like Mack Collier’s Top 25 Marketing Blogs, the Power 150, and the Z-list. However, it strikes me that most of the voices blogging about marketing today are ones that offer advisory services (mine included)..

Obviously some of you have already discovered the coolness that is Windows Live Writer because we found it was our most used blogging client, but XML-RPC usually accounts for fewer than 10% of our posts so I thought it would be nice to introduce you.

Samsung is set to launch a new cellphone in Europe that comes with a pretty interesting feature; the ability to create videos and upload them straight to YouTube.