links for 2008-09-20

"Yet of 30 videos The Times flagged between 1pm on Monday and 11.15am on Tuesday, only three had been removed by Google before it was contacted by our reporter at 4pm on Tuesday".

"Indeed, Mayer envisages a - perhaps slightly sinister - future in which we wear a device, permanently connected to the internet, that could listen in on conversations and run a constant stream of searches based on the keywords it 'hears', flashing up a rolling stream of facts to the device's wearer". Hmm, maybe substitute 'facts' for 'adverts' in that sentence?

"This is absolute madness: each section of the site is considered separate from the others so, if you begin shopping in the DVD section, add something to your basket, then decide to visit the Flowers section, all of your items will be lost". Bonkers.

In the course of dissing Tynt: I can't help wondering whether, with the financial world in a state of severe trauma, worrying about web 2.0 startups is a bit like fretting about a mosquito bite whilst a shark nibbles at your ankles."

A-ha, I need to post this list as the disclaimer on my irritatingly popular "How to promote blog comments" post that is an absolute spam honeypot

Peter Oborne doesn't *explicitly* suggest we all just give up and commit suicide in this article, but it is hard not to draw that conclusion from his doom-mongering...

"Again, it's becoming all too clear at the Telegraph, whose online business plan seems to be centred on chasing hits through Google by rehashing and rewriting stories that people are already interested in". A strategy possibly reflected in their phenomenal success at social media.