Today is Lag Ba’Omer, a Jewish festival of merrymaking and bonfire-lighting. What is it? It’s the 33rd day of the counting of the omer, of course…listen, we could be here all day explaining it, or we can get making merry with these links:
Burning for your blog RSS advertiser FeedBurner wants to expand its ad-serving network beyond feeds and into the publisher realm, taking particular aim at the blogosphere. The company hopes its ads, which would appear amidst content in the middle of pages, will be more effective than forms of blog advertising that shunt ads off to one side of a page. ClickZ has the scoop.
“Any rooms facing the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem Ocean?” The V7 Network-hosted V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO contest has concluded as of yesterday. The competition, to see who could create the highest ranking website for an entirely made up search query, paid 4000 clams and an iPod to the winner…and garnered some publicity for SEO in some top papers. The contest made for some creative SEO stunts; one site finishing high in the race represented the regal-sounding “Grand V7ndotcom Elursrebmem Hotel” (via Search Engine Journal)
Monkey see, monkey try AOL is running hot on the heels of all the hippest web trends. Last week they took a crack at a MySpace style site with AIM Pages (jury: out), and today we learned from Ars Technica that AOL has a decidedly YouTube-esque venture going as well. UnCut Video mimics the major functions of that other video sharing site, but imposes a time limit of five minutes per clip – half that of YouTube’s.
Look for inevitable Strawberry Fields webcam. New York City’s parks are about to go WiFi, says our local commuter paper. The parks department says that the tap-tap-tap of pastoral internet surfing looks to be a Central Park staple by the end of July, with the rest of the parks to follow by the “end of summer.”
