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The following keywords are top searches on Technorati right now.
1. kathy sierra
2. gmail
3. sanjaya
4. american idol
5. myspace
6. learning 2.0
7. twitter
8. dell
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Ever wondered what people are searching for on the Internet, particularly in google? Google Zeitgeist has the answer for you. Google Zeitgeist is a report of search statistics which are generated based on millions of searches performed on Google over a given period of time – weekly, monthly, and annually. [...]

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A conversation I had with a friend this afternoon. Thought it was cute.
A friend: Hey, I have a tech question for you.
Me: Yeah? What’s it?
A friend: I heard you can download books on the Internet. Is it true?
Me: Yeap, you can download ebooks from the Internet. Some online bookshops sell [...]

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Creating User Friendly 404 Pages
Top 10 Sites for Web Designers
Kid Chan Takes Photo Until Become Famous
Six most uniquely creative business cards of SXSWi 2007
Off-site optimization: Link building strategies

Technorati Tags: www, web designers, 404, tips, photography, interview, designs, business cards, seo, link building, strategies

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37 signals has just introduced a new addition to their web applications family – Highrise. Highrise is an online contact manager which keeps track of your clients, to-do lists, tasks, communications, schedules, appointments, follow-ups and the likes. It’s like Outlook’s contacts, tasks and calendar but more streamlined and can be accessed from [...]

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I just signed up with Blogsvertise after reading a post about it on Make Money Online blog. Why? Because the offer seems quite attractive; I can write about their advertiser website however I want AND get paid!
Has anyone have used their service before? If you have, let me know your thought [...]

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Mike Wadhera wrote a post on Wikipedia founder wanting to build a better Google.
Seems like there will be another ChaCha-alike search engine in the near future.
Technorati Tags: search engine, google, cha cha, search, web 2.0, wikipedia

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Found via: developer ID – the developer network
Technorati Tags: youtube, developers, microsoft, developer, video

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This week, instead of blogging about “5 interesting reads of the week”, I decided to plug 5 websites in my Bookmarks.
1. The Sydney Morning Herald Weather – A “must visit” for me everyday.
2. Technorati – Because I like to know what people are blogging about.
3. PopSugar – Celebrity goss [...]

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News.com.au Lab Blog has published an audio interview with James Edwards, otherwise known as Brothercake – the creator of Ultimate Drop Down Menu.
He talked about how he became a web developer, accessibility (the biggest problem with the Internet), Flickr (the website he visits most often), AJAX, microformats, user generated content, and telepathic xml [...]

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