Say It With Links #2

Hop, it’s Friday, have a look at what the Trendwatch Daily team has been enjoying (online) this week.

• Surf the Web like Tom Cruise. No, not like this, but like you’re in Minority Report!
• Without a doubt trend blogs would have very little to write about if it weren’t for a certain small California-based company. Read the fake thoughts of the fake genius behind it all.
• Being Wikipedia the tool it is, it makes sense to learn a few things you can do with it besides searching for random information - such as how to carry Wikipedia on your IPod. If marketers aren’t already thinking about how to place their brands into Wikipedia, then they definitely have to start reviewing their strategy…
• Web 2.0 can be bullshit sometimes and real smart services most of the time ! Amiando mixes 2 services in one : First you can create groups and send invitations to any event you organize (from your birthday to the annual conference of your company). Then you can add payment to this event and do everything online ! No more excel listings and last minute arrivals, a short and efficient path to bring your attendees to your event. Nice ergonomy with some ajax/javascripts tricks and it is totally free. You can also build a small website for the event, exchange pictures, messages and even organize grouped car trip to your event.
• Sure, we’d all love to be able to see past each season and take a peek at what’s next, but if you’re at all interested in the bigger picture [cue Reading Rainbow theme song] take a look at this.
• Created by the same people who did the amazing Techcrunch Blog comes this Website, where all the websites related to Web 2.0 YOU HAVE TO KNOW are listed and described.
• Warner Brothers spent less than $3 million to produce 24 web-specific video projects, or the approximate cost of one episode of a high-end television drama. While NBC decides to stop selling its series on iTunes despite the huge success of The Office and Heroes to start a video-diffusion joint-venture with News Corporation: Hulu
• Really good article about Virtual Goods as a business model - how many pleasure units can one have upon receiving a virtual flower? It shows the reasons for success of the virtual good business.
• Two galleries of 404-pages best practices, from the ones giving the users different ways to escape the error page to the cute or hilarious ones.
• What? You’re not on aSmallWorld?

Thanks Daniel, Jeremy and Luis. If you guys (read readers) want us to list your www gems, please email us. Oh and for those who know her, Camille is officially a New Yorker, not missing a connection with the local web 2.0! Happy Rosh Hashanah and enjoy the weekend, cuz it might not last more than 2 days!