Steve Rubel on why is makes absolute sense to invest in “people like you…” technologies such as those pioneered by Amazon.

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Interesting post from The Editors Weblog on the power of video to change the fortunes of embattled newspapers – a point which has been well-made in the past by, among others, Carolyn McCall, ceo of Guardian Media Group.

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PaidContent points out that the Daily Mail has launched its first “e-paper edition” this week.

The Mail eReader, a fully downloadable version of the UK tabloid with the same graphics and design as the print edition, allows readers the flexibility to either click through content as they would on the web, or flip through page by page as they would with the actual paper.

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Steve Rubel point out that Google has just launched another tool for bloggers – the Goodle Newsbar Widget. This allows you to monitor topics you are interested in and have news stories which match your criteria constantly presented to you.

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The copyright status of pictures is one of the most intractible problems on the web and this post from Wired offers what could be a sensible solution: add a tag in (X)HTML:

Currently there are eleven attributes for the img tag, two required and nine optional. Frankly the tag is already bloated enough that I don’t think one more attribute is going to matter. Something as simple as lic="license-abbr" would do wonders for image rights on the web.

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Some tips from Glenn Wolsey on how to get a good blog going.

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Amazon’s online pay-as-you-go storage solution S3 has saved photosharing site Smugmug $500k in one year and this post shows you how the maths works out. Amazing.

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Josh Norem, a former editor with Maximum PC magazine, offers his take on the relative strengths of magazines and the web – and, he say, the web wins hands-down. Nothing particularly new in the arguments, but they obvious have some resonance as it was on the front page of Digg. 

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Even though I wasn’t able to be at the second day of Future of Web Apps (see previous posts for an account of day one), through the magic of blogs, I am able to provide an account of what went on.

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David Neeleman ceo of US budget airline JetBlue has recorded an apology for poor customer service directly onto YouTube. It comes across as unpolished and sincere. Is this the way company ceos will now talk to their customers in the bad times?

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