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Link roundup: The ultimate landing page and the decline of blogging

Twitter feels the TWiT effect: Popular TV, radio and podcast host, Leo Laporte, was one of the first and most vocal supporters of the microblogging success Twitter.com. However, after expressing concern over branding issues and confusion of Twitter with his podcast This Week in Tech (TWiT), Leo has jumped ship and taken his microblogging to rival service, Jaiku. Will he bring his thousands of Twitter followers with him? Will people ultimately prefer the stark simplicity of Twitter or the more powerful, and complicated, Jaiku?
Shift happens: A very interesting short video presentation on the nature of demographic and technological shifts around the world. It raises a lot of issues and questions that anybody founding a business should ponder long and hard. The world we live in is very different than it was 10 years ago, and in another 10 years it will be even more changed.
Google launches free 411: First free Wifi for the San Francisco area, now free 411 service (accessed via a toll-free number). Google has been described as the ultimate money making engine, and that is at least in part due to their reliance on ad revenue rather than subscription or customer usage fees.
Should bloggers observe a code of conduct?: After the recent death threats made against popular blogger Kathy Sierra the blogosphere has been abuzz with discussion over bullying, freedom of speech, and what to do when the mean kids take it too far. Tim O’Reilly responded by suggesting a Blogger Code of Conduct, and sparked a second round of vigorous debate. Be sure to check out the responses listed in the trackbacks at the bottom of the page.
Postful.com converts email to snail mail: Google ran an April Fool’s joke suggesting they were adding an option to have your email sent as a physical letter, now a few short days later, it seems you can do just that using Postful.com.
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