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September 25, 2008

Filed under: Weekly Links — by chris @ 2:46 pm

This week’s tasty tidbits from the business and technology front, as well as other recommended links:

Fitting Network TV for a Toe Tag — Is network television as we know it dead? Yes.
FriendFeed crawls Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube so you don’t have to — FriendFeed is the social networking wave of the future, and this article is a great introduction to the service.
Google’s Picasa photo prints now available at Walgreens — An excellent example of Web 2.0 (in this case, Google Picasa) integrating with a traditional brick-and-mortar affiliate.
Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization — "The cost of shipping a 40-foot container from Shanghai to the United States has risen to $8,000, compared with $3,000 early in the decade, according to a recent study of transportation costs." Wow! This hardly means the end of globalization, but increased shipping costs will lead to strengthened regional integration at the expense of trans-oceanic trade. Mexico’s maquiladoras are suddenly competitive with China again…

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