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John Chow really has mastered the art of semi-organic link hustling building… in a recent post, the web marketeer asks for inbound links containing certain anchor-phrases (like “make money online“) in exchange for a pagerank 7 back-link from the frontpage of his blog. since the call is out since mid of may 2007, and literally hundreds of bloggers urging for traffic have joined John’s effort (and with this post, including me too), I really wonder why his page still ranks quite poorly on most term’s Google-queries…

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according to this Web Worker Daily-post, Cashboard looks like a good choice for freelancers and small business owners looking for an online project-management & -accounting tool. other than competitors Basecamp (which is supported by a cashboard-interface!) and FreshBooks, Cashboard is an allround-tool doing invoices, estimates, accounting and time-tracking (including a nifty dashboard-widget for mac os-x). the free version is restricted to one active project with account plans starting at 7 USD/month.

it’s an inconvenient but somehow accepted opinion that society & politics in europe (and Austria probably in particular) don’t really foster entrepreneurship and small-scale business the way they do overseas. YEurope, a (Micro-)Venture Capital firm based in Vienna and launched earlier this week by Paul Böhm (Metalab) is a welcome change. obviously inspired by US-VC Y-Combinator, YEurope is offering small-scale funding to local web/tech-startups. for more info read the controversial at Y-Combinator’s forum or the followup at my not-yet-launched-officially, german-language blog.

Steve Rubel (yes, Edelman, that is) asks the same question I did (implicitly) few days ago: how is Twitter going to cope with that SMS-bills? I really have no idea, but Rubel claims that “In the good ol’ United States of America, the receiver pays the SMS bill”. the comments on that post seem to be quite indifferent, but I guess the “recveiver” means the receiving network, not the individual customer? (at least from a ‘european’ standpoint, there’s no way the receiver is to bear the cost). some yanks wanting to comment? (please!!!) how are kick-ass services like Google Calendar’s SMS-reminders (I - thankfully - receive at least two each day) not going to be loss-leaders?

anyway, It’s probably obvious, that merging web2 with ‘oldschool’ mobile services is the thing to do right now.

Linden Labs has published some detailed metrics on Second Life-usage from their launch back in september 2003 to january 2007 (link to excel-sheets). the blog-post also explains the inner workings of the LindeX (Linden-Doller exchange market). though most metrics are quite impressive and indicate solid growth of the virtual world, total hours spent online still lacks behind. while total population (unqiue residents, alternate accounts adjusted) increased by almost 2000% during 2006, total hours spent rose “only” by 450%. interestingly, removing the requirement of holding a credit-card for account-registration last spring didn’t affect the age-structure of SL-users: the average resident is 33 years old, with a total of only 1% under the age of 18.

several deals got public within the past 24 hours:

• acquisition of swedisch mobile service company Kennet Works earlier this year got confirmed on GigaOM today. Kennet Works seems to work on ‘mobile real-time communities’. there’s not really any info on their product Kennet Community Connect on their website, however.

• karaoke & video-contest site Bix became a Yahoo!-property today as well. not much to say about the product, other than it’s probably a good match with online video-editor jumpcut, also acquired by Yahoo! few months ago.

• MyBlogLog, social networking site for bloggers (earlier report) has been acquired by Yahoo! today. is in early acquisition-talks with Yahoo! rumours evaluate the deal near the us$ 10mio-mark which - imho - seems not to bad for a company that young. however I agree with a commenter at TechCrunch, claiming that they would probably have made a much better price in a year from now.

update: looks like the MyBlogLog-deal was a false positive, fervently spread but nontheless wrong.

cogmap is definitely among the more interesting web-apps popping up these days. best described as ‘the Wikipedia for organization charts of real-life companies”, the application offers a graphical Wiki specialized in mapping of organizational hierarchies. using an AJAxified editor, contributors - weither they officially represent the mapped company or not - are invited to collaborate on charts. as rev2 points out, reliability of data is not always on par with reality. the AJAX-interface seems to be rather unresponsive, and MBAs might miss basic organizational elements like staff units.

No Inc, builders of cogmap, need to round off the featureset of what could evolve into a serious resource for business-research. for liable, up-2-date information, cogmap will probably need to implement functionality, allowing officially approved company-representatives to freeze in organizational structures. until this has happened, anybody can be CEO of Google for five minutes