Clips and Tips (April 11, 2006)
by Brian Reich | 11 Apr 2006, 2:00am
A Web Site Born in U.S. Finds Fans in Brazil (New York Times)
“Orkut, the invention of a Turkish-born software engineer named Orkut Buyukkokten, never really caught on in the United States, where MySpace rules teenage cyberspace. But it is nothing short of a cultural phenomenon in Brazil.”
Online sites are the new line of political attacks (Boston Globe)
Old News, but another country heard from — “Once a boon to candidates who wanted to market their positions to a wide, online audience, the Internet has increasingly become a forum to establish a line of attack and create a potentially devastating caricature of an opponent.”
A Home Where Bloggers Can Plumb Those Obscure Passions (New York Times)
Late last month, Squidoo.com, began offering Internet authors the chance to earn money on their obscure expertise, be it on taxidermy, vegetarianism or, yes, beef jerky (www.squidoo.com/jerky/). “The idea is to harness the knowledge that bloggers typically offer the world, but which average readers might struggle to find on their own. And while the site is not old enough to judge as a success or failure, it helps point to the enormous opportunity Internet entrepreneurs see in Web sites that are built on the postings of average people, as MySpace was, and the continuing zeal among users to publish their ideas online.”
Social Networking Is Your Friend (ClickZ)
“If you haven’t yet approached social networking, now is the time to formulate your strategy.”
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