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43 Things

I'm probably slow on the uptake, and you may already know about it, but today I took a look at 43 Things, also the subject of this Salon article.

(this post illustrates one of my hopes for this blog:  that the N people I would e-mail about this site are, in fact, reading this post)

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I'm certainly not the only one who gave 43Things a shot after the Salon article that has been so widely discussed. Suffice it to say that the "there's no such thing as bad publicity" adage probably holds true here. Their traffic (via Alexa) certainly... [Read More]

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I had run into 43Things a couple times and only gave it a glance. Today I gave it a good look, too, because of the Salon article. I'm guessing that 43Things gained more users than it ticked off through their non-disclosure of the Amazon connection.

43Things is pretty neat. It's fun and social. It provides an excellent goal-setting service. And yes, the data is very useful. Is using that data to help Amazon sell more books worse than the Google Ads along the right side of each page?

Snorkeling, anyone? http://www.43things.com/things/view/9711

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