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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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There was really only one topic worth talking about this week, so here is our final round-up of technology-related election twitterings:

• Surfing the election (BBC)
• Watching the world watch online (Guardian)
• The hi-tech election (BBC)
• E-voting: Room for improvement (PC World US)
• Dancing avatars and online cash: a new way for a new generation (The Times)
• Barack Obama expected to be first US “Tech President” (Yahoo)
• Change.gov is gonna come (Guardian)
• Obama’s Election Night Flickr Feed (Flickr)

Don’t forget our own US election coverage on the blog.

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Here is our round-up of this week’s interesting bits and bobs:

• An online PR wallchart courtesy of E-consultancy
• Wine-blogger Gary Vaynerchuk on social media (E-consultancy again!)
• Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere - lots of interesting facts
• Great round-up of the whole Brand/Ross-gate saga alongside some interesting research

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This week’s round-up of interesting blog posts, articles, announcements and more:

• Will the internet survive the economic meltdown? (Independent) - Commentary from the Mirror’s Sly Bailey as to how the web will be affected by the credit crisis
• The Future of Newspapers - NMK’s Ian Delaney on the challenges for traditional media
• Online media consumption up by 7% - The credit crunch is not bad for everyone…
• A list of social media marketing examples - A great resource: a list of brands and their social media projects
• Why UK blog networks are really failing - A follow-up post from Patrick Altoft on a subject raised initially on TechCrunch UK
• “Tribes”: Ten questions for Seth Godin - Hugh MacLeod interviews his friend Seth Godin about his latest book
• Palin’s thought process - Ex-minister (for a week), blogger-MP Tom Harris highlights an entertaining viral about a certain vice-presidential hopeful…

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This week’s round-up of interesting blog posts, articles, announcements and more:

• What do journalists want from your website? - When writing a story about your company, the first place a journalist goes is your website. E-consultancy gives some good, practical tips and advice
• The Wall Street Journal is becoming just another pretty face - Jack Schofield reports on the WSJ’s redesign, but is concerned it has lost some of its identity
• CNN Heavily Promoting Twitter On Air - The US network is now promoting its Twitter feeds on air. Twitter still has some way to go to replicate that level of public take-up in the UK. [You can now follow Wildfire PR on twitter: @wildfirepr]

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This week’s round-up of interesting blog posts, articles, announcements and more:

• US Elections - As the countdown continues, the Guardian reports on the influence of satirist John Stewart and Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! Mail account gets hacked.
• Twitter - Twitter Grader is a great way to measure the words you use most frequently on Twitter and the rumours are circulating that Cisco, following its capture of Jabber, has Twitter in its sights.
• Google - US retailer Dan Savage reveals the real power of Google and takes the search engine to court over the new ‘landing page quality’ scoring. Elsewhere, the first phone to use Google’s Android platform will feature the Google branding alongside the handset manufacturer and Google founder Sergey Brin launches a personal blog.
• Finally… how to handle Tech PRs…

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This week’s round-up of interesting blog posts, articles, announcements and more:

• You’ve heard of Twitter, well now we have Twitter for the enterprise - Yammer. (thanks to Neville for the heads-up). Yammer also won the TechCrunch 50 event in San Francisco this week.
• A report out from analyst house Forrester reveals that marketers are increasingly turning to new media (including social networks, online video and UGC) and yet there is still concern about how these forms of marketing can or should be measured.
• This article is a bit old but I’ve only just come across it. Jeff Jarvis, writing in the Guardian, puts forward the notion that ‘Editors’ are actually a luxury that media organisations could do without.
• Finally, in a week when Andy Murray nearly made UK tennis history, Charles Arthur examines his use of micro-blogging…

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This week’s round-up of interesting blog posts, articles, announcements and more:

• Diageo fails to effectively deal with fall-out over a fake Guinness viral video - or do they? The comments here are more interesting than the article!
• Is Google Making Us Stupid? This article was syndicated in the Independent a few weeks ago and looks at the way the internet is changing the way we think and work
• Lastminute.com’s new social media press office
• A hundred million blogs - on the first day of the Olympics, a look at the growing popularity of blogging in China and from Press Gazette and an overview of how 24-hour online reporting at the Olympics is being managed by the UK’s media outlets
• The print v online coverage debate rumbles on…
• Finally a good spot from CounterValue on how the Guardian is using PPC and SEO (update: here is the response from the Guardian)

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