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As many may have noticed, my blog posts have seemed to have come to grinding halt. This is temporary, following Markus’s lead I decided to put down the pen and glasses and stop reading and writing blog posts, to inturn spend my time on actually putting my knowledge gained from blogs to good use. Do not get me wrong, there is definitely value in blogs, but there is only so much that one can learn from reading them. 1 ounce of experience is worth 100 pounds of theory. This said if you have intentions of practicing what you read, stop reading and do it.

More posts will be coming shortly. I Promise.

Until then, if you have a start up, you simply must check out Center Networks latest offer.

I subscribed to this feed a few months ago, boy is there some good stuff on here.

Thanks to CN, I will also be posting my review of TapeFailure shortly. So far it looks amazing.

Currently posted on ProgramableWeb.com there are 377 APis with 1538 mashups. This makes roughly 2.99 mashups submitted daily, this seems like an astonishing rate, although I understand their popularity. Many webmasters see this as an easy cash cow. Take two or more API’s made readily available by larger companies and put them together to make something useful. What a great idea, plug in Adsense and you are good to go. I too have been thinking of making a mashup, but more and more the web has become about setting yourself apart. With an already flooded market the question is how to set yourself apart to offer a truly unique service to the end-customer. With more API’s popping up daily it seems the list will keep on growing.

To check out the Mashups that have already been created visit: The Mashup Matrix.

Some useful mashups:

• Web20Toolbar.com
• Valentines Day Map
• Census Dashboard
• The Hype Machine
• Mpire - Amazing Online Shopping Store

For those of you who haven’t been watching this circus check out ShoeMoney’s post: Calacanis Plays SEO People Like A Fiddle.

I am absolutely astonished at the effect this little marketing ploy has had on the SEO industry. Who would have thought by pissing off a bunch of SEO gurus you could get instantaneous backlinks from well ranking sites and lets not just stop at that, you can get your site optimized with 20-30% more traffic.

I think Calacanis has just been crowned the King of Linkbait.