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Good post on the trade-offs of joining or building an online community.

Many interactive marketers and web strategists are unsure of what to do, either to create a campaign on existing social networks (like Facebook, MySpace or Bebo) or to create their own branded social network around or on their corporate website.

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Read more from this blogger: Forrester Report: Online Communities: Build Or Join? (The answer is ‘When’)

Some new developments on google earth.

The Astana city administration has almost completed creation of the capital’s 3D model on Google Earth. But social service Second Astana is something more, the first spots (central block of the left-bank Astana from Bayterek to the Pyramid) of the Kazakh land in the popular virtual world of Second Life, with which the developers seem to be in the process of establishing cooperation.

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Google maps and other services are part of the growing linked data web.

What the front end will look like, I don’t really know. What I do know is that the smarter backend will result in better applications, but just like most people don’t really know that Google Maps is powered by MapReduce or Yahoo Search is now powered by Hadoop, they don’t really know that the superior performance of their application in finding and presenting information is because the web is becoming a linked data web.

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