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Yahoo! Shares Links, Adds More Value To Its Homepage

Erick Schonfeld writes that, "visitors to Yahoo's homepage will start to see links going to blogs and media sites that don't have a syndication deal with Yahoo."

Facebook Bubble Cult Pushes Value To $100 Billion

Put your coffee down, you'll spit it. Facebook cheerleaders, from within what must be a social networking tunnel (or cave?), have transformed themselves into prostrate worshipers, transubstantiating reason to whatever the digital equivalent is of 72 virgins.

Gmail Storage Ticks Upward, Lags Yahoo, AOL

Google has given the storage counter for Gmail a little boost to its spin, but believe it or not they could be doing more.

Values And Egos Inflate: The Bubble Returns

A $750 billion Google? A $15 billion Facebook? $100 million for TechCrunch? Valuations like these are inspiring one of three reactions: laughter; elation; and déjà vu all over again. Even as that word is at the back of everyone's (well, at least the skeptic's) mind, some analysts say fat times are ahead in e-commerce.

How Do You Value Podcast Content?

CEO of Gigavox Media, Michael Geoghegan answered that question in a video interview with WebProNews report Kara Ratliff at the Podcast Expo.

(non)Value of Open Communities

Many web companies significantly profit from the appearance that they are open, but anything of value eventually needs to have some limitations placed on it. In spite of no longer having MovableType installed on this server, the mt-comments file is one of my most requested files. Registration moves you away from The Tragedy of the Commons to something more sustainable.

SES - More Takeaways

Continuing with the theme of providing the most value from Search Engine Strategies San Jose, here's what I found useful in Day 2. The session was called Personalization, User Data & Search and featured Jonathan Mendez, Richard Zwicky, Dave Davies, Gord Hotchkiss, Sep Kamvar and Tim Mayer.

Bolt.com Drops Dead

I suspect that Bolt.com has received more traffic in the last few hours than it did in the past week.  Unfortunately (for Bolt), people aren’t using the video-sharing site; they’re looking at its corpse.

Is Link Authority Dead (Dying)?

After extensive gaming, Google's algorithm (it is assumed) shifted from using the quantity of links as an indicator of source authority, to measuring the quality (reputation) of the linker in order to determine relevancy. Gamers are still there though, this time with bigger budgets, and things may be about to change again – most likely to a much more complicated game.

Online Consumers Value Privacy

Consumers are willing to pay extra to buy items from online retailers when they know how a retailer's policies will protect their privacy, a new Carnegie Mellon University study shows.