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Mr Scoble is a popular resident in:
? Second Life (secondlife.com), the multiplayer online world
that launched its beta version in 2003.
Today Second Life has more
than 5 million registered accounts, as reported on the Linden Life
blog, which runs on:
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WordPress (wordpress.org), the popular open source It first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt
Mullenweg and Mike Little.Today it hosts more than 893,000 blogs,
many of which feature ads from:
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AdSense (google.com/adsense), born with Google's 2003
acquisition of Applied Semantics.
The "Ads by Google" contextual
advertising was, at last, a reliable commercial model for
independent website owners.
Revenue is based on advertisers' bids
for specific keywords, such as the current top bid of $US1.04
($A1.26) for the search term:
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iPod, which became much more than a cool gadget with the 2003
launch of the iTunes Music Store and the Windows version of the
iTunes software.
More than any other (legal) internet site, iTunes
drove demand for downloads of digital audio and video.
It is also a
source of podcasts, which are now distributed through many
channels, including:
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MySpace (myspace.com), the social networking site founded in
July 2003, now one of the world's most popular websites.
In 2005,
News Corp paid $US580 million for the site at a time when many
called the internet strategy of Rupert Murdoch's (below) a:
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