links for 2006-12-15

• Gartner: Blogging to peak in 2007 - Yahoo! News
  Rubel said it first, but now Gartner predicts the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide.
  (tags: blogger peak)
• GigaOM » Bill Gates on the Future of Web Apps
  “Leaders in various aspects of the web community” spent a day at Microsoft which culminated with a roundtable with Bill Gates.
  (tags: blogger relations)
• Devices, Media, And The Future Of Everything: iTunes sales are NOT plummeting! Press credibility, on the other hand . . .
  How “news” can flow from blogs to MSM. Interesting case.
  (tags: case MSM)
• ABC News: Amanda Congdon Index
  Remember her from Rocketboom? Amanda Congdon now joins ABC News.com with the same irreverent, edgy attitude. WOW.
  (tags: videocast amanda abc)
• Pew Internet & American Life Project Commentary
  51% of internet users ages 18 to 29 look online for housing information — 9% do so on a typical day. Only 1% make travel arrangements.
  (tags: pew internet use)
• One of Four Big-Brand Search Links Go to Consumer-Generated Content · MarketingVOX
  More than 25 percent of search results on Google for the world’s 20 largest brands are links to consumer generated content, according to research released by Nielsen BuzzMetrics at the Word of Mouth Marketing Summit & Research Symposium this week.
  (tags: search womma)

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