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Written by Richard MacManus / March 16, 2006 3:22 PM / 5 Comments

donovan mix- Microsoft's Remix Mix Contest Winners (more gadget goodness from MS... pic from Donovan West, one of the 3 winners)

- Notes from Mashup Camp on mashup business models (I hadn't seen these notes when I did my post on the same topic - makes a nice complimentary piece. Thanks John Musser for the link.)

- New Zealand's Big Hits (popular sites in NZ - TradeMe, NZ Dating and US-based Hi5... it still surprises me that not many tech news sites covered the TradeMe sale - it was nearly half a billion US dollars! Compare that to $30 M for Flickr et al and tell me which is more important....thanks Seb for the link)

- Wired: Man vs. Machine in Newsreader War (this is a very hard problem in the 'attention' era and none of the apps mentioned here have solved it... yet. Perhaps one clue is to get rid of the "vs" distinction and replace with "and".)

- More Info on Movable Type Enterprise (nice overview from Charlie Wood, who thinks "Six Apart has a ways to go".)

- Review of Publi.sh (Charles Coxhead's 'instant feeds' tool - this review notes some use cases: to publish feed(s) for grocery lists, movie nights, book-club assignments, etc)

- AOL Still Number One With Teens (YPulse notes from Comscore stats that teens use IM a lot, as well as online gaming... MySpace was second, Yahoo third... btw YPulse was the inspiration for my R/WW Filter)

- Phil Wainewright: Microsoft Live rolling along ("Live really has been achieving a lot, with more than a dozen new products introduced since its launch last November.")

- Netscape.com To Be Relaunched As a Digg-Like Site; Calacanis Heading It (the term 'raising the dead' springs to mind...)


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  1. I think the Hi5 referred to in that post is actually a kid's music group from Australia which is huge in NZ too: www.hi5.com.au

    Posted by: david | March 16, 2006 5:23 PM



  2. I wondered about that, but then wouldn't The Wiggles be more popular thann Hi5? They certainly play Wiggles ad nausuem on Nick Junior...

    Posted by: Richard MacManus | March 16, 2006 5:31 PM



  3. Ahh, Google Zeitgeist glory was just never going to happen for the Wiggles.

    The popularity of Hi5 in search results can be attributed solely to males googling for images of the three hot females in the band.

    Posted by: David Petrie | March 16, 2006 7:25 PM



  4. Trademe owns the findsomeone network of dating sites. They were big in canada for a while but I totally crushed them, i've gained 70% marketshare in the last year. The australian media companies are really going nuts buying web companies aren't they?

    Posted by: Markus | March 16, 2006 7:35 PM



  5. Dude, the Wiggles are so 2003, it's all about the Hi5 in our house...but then The OC is also a guilty pleasure so I probably can't be trusted.

    Posted by: Charles | March 16, 2006 8:31 PM



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