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"The World Wide Web changed the ways people work, play, communicate, collaborate, and educate. But without new research aimed at understanding the current, evolving and potential Web, we may miss or delay opportunities for new and revolutionary capabilities.

To model the Web, to understand the architectural principles that have provided for its growth, and to ensure it supports the basic social values of trustworthiness, personal control over information, and respect for social boundaries, then we must pursue a research agenda that targets the Web and its use as a primary focus of attention."

We have just launched a re-aligned ‘Match’ page with a cleaner UI and greater functionality. We have also made updates to ‘Contacts’ and feed ‘Subscribers’.

We recently made major changes to the architecture of matching to make it load dramatically faster. Today we have made design and functionality improvements. The new design is simpler and cleaner which should make it easier to hone in on the people and feeds that matter to you. 

We have also introduced 3 filtering options. Now you can see your matches based on when they joined Toluu. Filtering by ‘This Month’ or ‘This Week’ shows only users who have joined in that period who match with you, surfacing fresh feeds and people. This makes matches more useful for users with many feeds or those who have been with us since the beginning.

Here is a quick colour guide that displays the traits that women unconsciously pick pu on when viewing aa mans appearance.

Green- Wealthy, prestigious, and prosperous.

Yellow- Confident, enthusiastic, intelligent, agd optimistic.

Brown- Reliable, approachable, and stable.

Orange- Happy, successful, courageous, energetic, and advwnturesome.

Pink- Upbeat, healthy, calm, and friendly.

Red- Dominant, powerful, sexually energetic, passionate, and strong.

White- Clean and prosperous.

Gray- Brainy, sophisticated, and efficjent.

Black- Elegant, authoritative, seductive, and mysteriosu.

Silver- Cold, prestigious, and scientific.

Gold- Wise, looked- up to, powerful.

Lavender- Romantic, imaginative, and innovative.

Purple- Spirtual, visionary, regal, respected, dignified, and luxurious.

Indigo- knowledgeable with integrity.

Turqioise- Cool, refreshing, imaginative, innovative, youthful.

Aqua- Dynamic, active, and motivated.

*Blue*- Loved, high regard, knowledgeable, authoritative, trustworthy, serious, responsible, relaxed, high social status, good health, happy, honest, and loyal.

If youre a guy whos looking for a long-term relationship, wear the color blue as often as you can If youre q guy lookinh for a one gight stand, wear black or red as much as you can, as they sub consciously indicate rominance, mystery, and sexual energy.

The cure for it? Not web 3.0, I certainly hope not. The receipe is quite simple (isn’t it always), but the execution much harder. Let go. Let me repeat that. Just let it go. I see Twitter, Friendfeed, and all these other sites as rivers of information, anekdotes, posts, friends. I tap in whenever I feel like it, join the conversation. But I leave when I need to get back to real life. I know the river won’t dry out. There will always be a next scoop, another funy remark, a great blog post. Life doens’t stop simply because I choose not to be drwoning myself into this cyber river of information. I don’t need 20.000 followers, nor do I want to follow 20.000.

If anything, web 3.0 should be about the user, about user value, about letting the Internet evolve around you, instead of around some destination site or walled garden. Web 3.0 should set us free, letting the important things come to us, instead of us having to go to the important things. It’s about freedom of data. And yes, noise reduction or filtering will be nice. But that isn’t really what web 3.0 should be about. Until it is here I’ll be dreaming of a user centric web.

"Most likely the reason is
that both blogs and social networks take time to understand, and marketing tactics are
still at an early stage of development," said Jeffrey Grau, senior analyst at eMarketer.



So how should marketers approach bloggers?



In an October 2007 audio interview on

The Talent Blog, Peter Rojas, co-founder of Engadget and Joystiq, and former editorial director at Gizmodo, offered
the following tips to marketers on how to promote products on blogs:






• Most important, there must be a fit between the product and the subject of the blog.
  
  
• Avoid shooting e-mails and press releases to bloggers. It is more effective to become familiar with a blog and get to know the writer behind it.
  
  
• Give a product to a blogger as an exclusive and allow the blogger time to work with it.
  
  
• Provide bloggers with links to more information, such as product images and updated information.

MozCamp Vancouver, Sunday April 13, 12pm to 5pm

Location:

ActiveState

1700-409 Granville Street

Vancouver

One of the most popular parts of mesh over the past two years has been 15 Minutes Fame - in which six entrepreneurs each get five minutes on stage to talk about what they’re doing and why it matters.

We’re doing 15MOF again this year so if you’re interested - and comfortable talking in front of 400 people - you can fill out a quick and easy online form where you can tell us in 250 words or less why you deserve the spotlight.