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Tristan Teunissen of Kimengi was at the Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara, CA last month where he observed many of the other companies and speakers.  Teunissen gives us a view into his thoughts on "Web 3.0" as a term its uses and companies implementing new ideas and technologies in this space.

Jennifer Zaino of the Semantic Web Blog writes about semantic social search engine TipTop Search, which will be building a better shopping portal. The site directs queries to Amazon and brings back specific products in the category of interest (handbags, perfumes, etc.). TipTop then pulls together ratings for key attributes such as overall quality and value for the money based on its extraction and analysis of the unstructured data for that entity culled from user reviews about it.

Each year the World Economic Forum at Davos holds number of technology focused sessions. One such session brings together the top executives from major name social networks.  TechCrunch has conglomorated the associated participant videos in one blog post so we can easily watch the thought leaders in this space.

Erick Schonfeld of Techcrunch writes an analysis of the events which transpired Wednesday December 30, 2009 in Times Square -- a bomb threat.

Writer Chris Minnick takes a look back at what he considers to be the highlights from the last 10 years of teh Internet, along with his predictions for the next 10.

Jake Hird at the eConsultancy blog makes his 2010 predictions and while they aren't, "dressed in tin-foil and driving hover cars, we are going to see the relative equivalent of this in digital marketing, with developments in technology and user-behaviour meaning that I’m expecting to see the following during the course of the next twelve months".

A great deal of attention has been given to social media as a new form of customer-centric relationship building.  Some feel that success depends on a company’s network or use of social media to deepen customer intimacy.  However, often overlooked is the impact of social media to change behaviors, and the potential to use social media to impact a professional’s decision-making processes.