- Social Media Spending to Hit $757M in 2010 (over half in the technology, auto and media categories...)

- Growing The Buzz (Alex Bosworth on Buzznet: "Plenty of room in the 300 billion advertising industry for social networks, they just need to be more aggressive about grabbing their share.")

- Dave Winer: The Internet as “idea processor” (Dave says never mind 'user generated content', the real value of writing on the Net "is that you can solve problems quickly" using a network of people)

- Eric Schmidt Unplugged (Google CEO speech -- covers all the usual 2.0 bases. But he also mentioned that Google is working on auto-translation products... which if it comes to fruition would allow me to finally cover the Asian 2.0 blogs!)

- Michael Parekh on Google's auto-translation ("Already almost 70% of the content on the web is in languages other than English, and growing fast.")

- Another China’s Web2.0 100 List (on the back of China’s Web2.0 Conference, apparently held in Beijing yesterday, comes a list of China's top 100 web 2.0 companies)

- Marc Canter asks a great question about Google Base ("...we still don’t know whether or not all this data is for Google’s exclusive use - or whether this structured data will be available publicly or not.")

- A CTO's guide to Web 2.0 (Adam Green gives us all a nice spiel to use on the CTO or CIO, next time he/she asks: "What's all this web 2.0 stuff about eh?") 

- While Big Companies Deliberate, Small Companies Obliterate (Fred Wilson tells us what to say when the CTO/CIO pooh-poohs what Adam told us to say!)

Flickr pic by Rick Bruner: Peter Hirschberg of Technorati shares his thoughts on Social Media at BlogOn 2005, with the great Marshall McLuhan pictured on the screen.