media trend links

• The New Wave of Dot-Com Riches - Why the price tags of online properties like YouTube and Facebook may keep heading higher. - CNN Money
• Communities Will Likely Drive Online Ad Growth - Combining search and social networks seems inevitably powerful - Bambi Francisco, Marketwatch
• Online Video Madness - Web video sites are proliferating like bunnies that broke into a vat of Viagra - Kevin Maney, USA Today
• Deloitte's Top 10 2006 Media Trend Predictions - From Deloitte: #10: The proliferation of blogs will create the need for a new intermediary, a blog aggregator, which has the potential to lure advertising dollars - Umair Haque, Bubble Generation
• Corporate Blogging, Time of Death 8-17-06 - blogging and specifically corporate blogging, is tantamount to the Second Coming. It's certainly, they [the blogging gang] profess, the cure for whatever ails ya. - Strumpette
• The Tail May Not Wag the Web - I've looked at some of the same data, and some more of my own, and I don't think things are changing as much as he [Chris Andersen] does - Lee Gomes, Wall Street Journal
• Attention to Detail Lost in Rush Toward Web 2.0 - many new sites feel rushed and have annoying little bugs - The Inquirer
• Join the Huckster World on the Internet - As consumers whip up catchy commercials, some companies see new age of advertising - Atlanta Journal Constitution
• Blogging Is Big Among the French - the French distinguish themselves, both statistically and anecdotally, ahead of Germans, Britons and even Americans in their obsession with blogs - International Herald Tribune