After a couple pretty long posts, I’m taking it easy tonight with the first One Thing New Web 2.0 Linkfest. These are links to some interesting stories I’ve come across in the last few days.
- Bokardo posted a great response / analysis of the report in The Economist magazine claiming that traffic to social networking sites will outstrip traffic to porn sites. If that happens, it will be the first time that porn on the Web has fallen to #2 behind anything.
- Apparently at last weeks Web 2.0 Expo, Google might have tipped off some of their future plans in a survey they gave to their Google Apps Premier users. Web Worker Daily discusses this and predicts eight Google Apps in our future. I know folks already use Gmail for storage, but a Google online backup app would be awesome.
- A friend of mine who has very solid traffic on his Blogspot blog is going to be switching to stand alone hosting sometime in the next couple of weeks. Darren at Problogger.net posted an “open mic” about hosted versus stand alone blogging. Problogger is a great resource for bloggers of all kinds, but he has some particularly awesome posts about this topic.
- I was searching Technorati for some good posts about writing and found a great guide to writing for the Web. Writing for the Web is just as much about organization and marketing as it is about good grammar, and Kevin sums it up very well in his article.
- Finally, Wired magazine’s story about the lamest technology mascots will remind you why you hated Clippy so much.
