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Know what a Christmas market is?  If you’re American, you might well not - Wikipedia lists only six of them for our country, while there are closer to 30 entries for Europe.  Still, that’s all the more reason to show interest in a new Hitwise report on the subject.

Hamlet Batista commented on my last post that a problem with blogging is that many people look to the same sources for inspiration and information to blog about. Even in the most saturated markets there are a wide array of unique data sources. Here are some of my favorites: 

Sun Microsystems torture-tested its Project Blackbox portable datacenter by subjecting it to a simulated earthquake, and put the video up on YouTube to show how it fared.

There are two basic ways to do SEO. One is to look for the criteria you think the search engine wants to see, and then work to slowly build it day after day, chipping away doing great keyword research and picking up one good links one at a time here or there. If you understand what the search engines are looking for this is still readily possible in most markets, but with each passing day this gets harder.

Yesterday Greg Linden asked Is Web 2.0 nothing more than mashups? In that post, he makes the following claim ...

So you've translated your website into German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French, Arabic, Portuguese and Chinese. Now what?

Research and Markets has released a new report capturing the dynamics of wireless product usage in homes by consumers in the United States.

Verizon Wireless has expanded its EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) wireless broadband network by making EV-DO-based services, BroadbandAccess and V CAST available to seven new markets.