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Our round-up of what was hot online this week:

• Twitter use in the UK explodes by ten times says Hitwise – TechCrunch UK
• The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House? – Wired
• New phone features ‘baffle users’  – BBC
• Blogging your way into the big time – The Times
• iTunes for news? That’s the last thing the newspaper industry needs – Guardian
• Channel 4 and Five held secret talks over possible merger – Guardian

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The top links this week:

• Why Steve Jobs’ leave of absence from Apple won’t matter – but everyone will think it will – TechCrunch UK
• Celebrities on Twitter – plus a few MPs and porn stars (updated) – Guardian
• Good list of SEO blogs – Vertical Leap
• Norwich Union marketing director explains name change in video blog – Brand Republic
• Growth of UK online shopping starts to slow – FT.com

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Our top tips from the web this week:

• Humble mouse turns 40 and loses its touch (Guardian)
• Can Stephen Fry kill a gadget? (BBC)
• Barack Obama’s plans for the web (BBC)
• Twitter comes of age with fast reports from the ground (Guardian)
• Madison, we have lift-off – Advertising on mobile phones finally seems to be getting through (Economist)
• Wikio’s top 20 influential UK tech blogs (Neville Hobson)
• Is the future in bits? (BBC)
• Tesco to use Clubcard data to tailor third-party advertising across Tesco.com (NMA)
• UK sees biggest ever online shopping day (NMA)
• 40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Content (Chris Brogan)
• Most employers restrict staff time on internet, says survey (Guardian)

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Our round-up of interesting links this week:

• Facebook buying Twitter? Talks have died… (Guardian)
• Mobile internet is growing eight times faster than PC-based web (NMA)
• Puppies Power a Web Video Start-Up (New York Times)
• Bigger Isn’t Always Better… But in This Case, We Believe It Is (YouTube Blog)
• Why Robert Peston blogs (Jem Stone Blog)
• Firms to spend more on social media (Brand Republic)

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Our round-up of interesting web-based content:

•  Star-spangled banner headlines (Guardian) – the press and the US election
• 14m Brits visited a blog in August (Netimperative)
• What editors should be talking about today (Guardian) – Roy Greenslade’s memo to the UK’s editors
• Using Twitter for customer service (E-consultancy)
• Look out Skype, Google’s calling (BBC) – Google’s latest offering
• SEO Beginners Guide From Google, what about links? (BlogStorm)
• What now for the London Evening Standard? (Guardian)
• Is Jeff Jarvis gloating too much about the death of print? (Slate)
• Is Apple Building A Search Engine? (TechCrunch)
• A Crash You Don’t Know About Yet (BiteMarks) – Attention Crash: “the demand for our attention is so intense with the current information overload, that we’re careening towards a massive cut back in what we pay attention to”

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