NOVEMBER 2008 ISSUE FIVE
Website Grader

Smart

Is your website making the grade? Find out. Website Grader is a free tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of your website, and your competitors.

Interesting

Magpie

Need cash for the holidays? Magpie, an advertising network for Twitter, allows you to sell select recommendations to your network of trusted peers. (Tweeters beware, backlash is a’brewin.)

Wine Library TV

Hot

Gary Vaynerchuk changed the way the Web viewed wine when he began “Wine Library TV” and built a Web 2.0 movement around it. Learn more about what draws a cult-like following of over 80,000 viewers to his site each day.

Smart

Barack Obama

Barack Obama raised an unprecedented half a billion dollars online in his 21-month-long presidential campaign. Learn how Obama’s marketing team managed this feat through the use blogs, texting, social networking sites, YouTube, BarackTV and more.

Kevin Kelly

Cool

Wired’s Kevin Kelly had 10 minutes to discuss the future of the Web at a recent Web 2.0 Summit. In order to squeeze out the most bang for his buck, he left out a few “.0”s and skipped right to version 10.