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Additional analysis on some of the technologies and trends at the Peak of Inflated Expectations that will reach the plateau in two to five years are included below:

Cloud Computing. As enterprises seek to consume their IT services in the most cost-effective way, interest is growing in drawing a broad range of services (for example, computational power, storage and business applications) from the “cloud,” rather than from on-premises equipment. The levels of hype around cloud computing in the IT industry are deafening, with every vendor expounding its cloud strategy and variations, such as private cloud computing and hybrid approaches, compounding the hype.

E-Book Readers. Sony’s e-book reader and Amazon’s Kindle have attracted a great deal of attention during 2009. However, the devices still suffer from proprietary file formats and digital rights management technologies, which along with price, are limiting their adoption and will drive them into the Trough of Disillusionment.

The following have tipped just past the Peak of Inflated Expectations:

Social Software Suites. Awareness of social technology is high because of the popularity of related consumer social software and Web 2.0 services. Within businesses, there is strong and rapidly growing evidence of experimentation and early production deployments. The movement from point tools to integrated suites has brought broader adoption but also high expectations. Disillusionment is beginning based on the realization that, even with a suite, much work must be done to build an effective social software deployment.

Microblogging. Microblogging, in general, and Twitter, in particular, have exploded in popularity during 2009 to the extent that the inevitable disillusionment around “channel pollution” is beginning. As microblogging becomes a standard feature in enterprise social software platforms, it is earning its place alongside other channels (for example, e-mail, blogging and wikis), enabling new kinds of fast, witty, easy-to-assimilate exchanges.

Splashup

http://www.mailchimp.com/

Most reports and punditry on the death of email are a bit premature. The good old fashioned mailing list is still a good way to maintain relationships with customers, especially when done well.

The web-based mailing list manager MailChimp offers list management, tracking and analysis, and custom HTML templates for up to 500 subscribers and 3000 emails a month for free. Paid plans kick in at larger subscriber numbers. Featuring integration with WordPress, Twitter, Salesforce and more, MailChimp is the list manager of choice for an impressive list of heavyweights including Mozilla, Intel, Canon, Fujitsu, Staples and more.

Pro Tip: MailChimp has a well-documented API that allows you to integrate the service with your own existing applications, tools, content management system or CRM solution. There’s a growing list of plug-ins already created for a number of platforms.

Google launched Internet Stats online tool – worth to check and use – http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats

This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.

LinksFor.Us gives you link-sharing stats for any web page.

• Every time posted on Reddit, votes up and down, the subreddit, number of comments
• Every time posted to Digg: votes, comments, categories, titles, descriptions
• Del.icio.us bookmark count, with tag list
• Mixx and Sphinn stats
• Twitters of the link plus the TinyURL and several other shortened forms.

It’s fun for bloggers because you can monitor how your posts are doing, whether new comments have been written, and which link-sharing sites are working for you.

It’s fun for snooping/research because you can see how other people’s posts are doing.  See which link-sharing sites work best for other bloggers in your space — maybe you should be concentrating on those too!

It’s useful for businesses because you can track who’s talking about your company website or blog.

This is a transparent project, meaning that I’m going to be posting about its stats, how it’s promoted, which marketing techniques work, and the technology behind it

Warning Labels and Signs

http://www.warninglabelgenerator.com/

Street Sings

Generated just in minutes – here –

from http://mashable.com/2009/08/22/image-generators/
http://www.streetsigngenerator.com

http://blog.opencircle.co.za/useful-web-tools/seo-tools-you-should-not-live-without/

http://www.linkdiagnosis.com/

Link Harvester

Link Harvester returns:

• unique linking domains
• their IP addresses & unique c block addresses of the links
• links from .gov, .mil, .edu, or .ac.uk domains. Links from these domains are likely rated better in authority type algorithms such as Hilltop or TrustRank.
• Link Harvester also bolds and autochecks domains that link from 5 or more pages. You can then requery the Yahoo! database and spider deeper than the 1,000 link limit.
• Link Harvester uses the Yahoo! API, provides CSV outputs, and is an open source tool. If you are a heavy user or the query limit (5,000 daily requests) is exceeded feel free to host your own copy of Link Harvester on your site. Setup should take under a minute.

Find broken links on web sites – go to http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/