• We’re now supporting geotagging with Twiiter updates on Android – PixelPipe
• Make the most of TripIt for holiday travel – TripIt
• Confidence required – Derek Sivers
• Britain’s new Internet law – Boing Boing
• How to Work from Home Without Going Crazy – task.fm
• The Tension Between Getting it Done and Getting it Right – Bob Sutton

• Kaltura Integrates its Open Source Video Platform with Artivision’s Video Monetization Technology – Kaltura
• Use Centrl to pick a place to meet a friend – Centrl
• Dual Launch: I Love Traffic and I Hate Traffic – Armor Games (these two are very addictive)
• Major Update to Glue for Internet Explorer – AdaptiveBlue
• Getsatisfaction.tv: New Look, New Content, New Feed – GetSatisfaction

• Scanning Coke or Water? Why? - Big In Japan
• New advanced features give you absolute control in analyzing your cash flow – moneyStrands
• The Do’s and Don’ts of Presentation Fonts – SlideShare
• Profiting Across Search Networks: Expanding Your Reach to Microsoft adCenter – Clickable
• A Friendly Suggestion to Our Competitor (this is an awesome post) – VerticalResponse

Twenty startups are involved in the media-equity program to-date and all are in different stages of development.

Any company can apply for the program as long as they meet the criteria set forth by Seven Brand Ventures. The main criteria is that the startup has not appeared on any television stations. It appears that the media buys that will be used for this program will be remnant slots.

Regarding one of the startups in the program, Deutsche Startups notes (translated), “At Outlet Online Shop Sneakerloft can already draw a first conclusion: Since the campaign began three months ago are in the Web store, according to ProSiebenSat.1 has already received over 10,000 orders.”

The story concludes by noting that this program is a win-win for both parties. The television stations fill their open ad slots and the startups get free television advertising with a small equity position in return. This program could also lead to future partnerships between both parties as well.

• Doodle connects calendars and works now with Lotus Notes – Doodle
• Two new JimdoBusiness Layouts – Jimdo
• Super Gluer and Glue Crew Stickers – AdaptiveBlue
• Comments: New Translations Available – Disqus
• Announcing Zoho as Online Spreadsheet Partner – Zoho
• 5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me (about starting a company) – Bluyah Development Blog
• You Don’t Know Jack About Software Maintenance – Communications of the ACM

• Brand new design – Sobees
• Print your Photobucket photos with QOOP – Qoop
• modu Moving Forward – modu
• Why Advertise Online? Here are 7 Important Reasons – Startup Your Online Advertising
• edocr Launches “edocr Exclusive” an exclusive club for our customers – edocr
• AddThis Now Supports 198 Link Sharing Services – AddThis
• What drives online collaboration in a company? – OneHub

• Rollover to Lending Club’s new No-Fee IRA! – LendingClub
• Startup Weekend comes to NYC $75 for 2 days – Startup Weekend
• Kyte Extends Mobile Video Support To Android and Nokia – Kyte
• New Feature: Forums – LifeMojo
• New web goodies – Dropbox
• How to Buy a Television – Gliffy

• A Boxee Box is coming! – Boxee
• Announcing the OpenX Video Plugin – OpenX
• Small changes with a big punch coming next week – Ning
• OpenDNS matching Google’s free airport WiFi gift with free services for the holidays. – OpenDNS
• Can’t Take Credit Cards? No Problem! – LetMeGo
• Buy Sponsored Links on Reddit – Reddit
• Job of the day: Flash Developer/Designer in NYC

The concept is pretty simple…a startup blog exchange. Nearly every startup I visit either for CN coverage, requests for assistance or URL verification at my startup has a blog. Startup Ticker is a great place to find all of the blog posts in one place. We run the ST ticker on the right menu of CN.

Instead of an aggregator, what I am proposing is a blog exchange where each startup blog includes a post from another startup on their blog. To make it simple, let’s assume there were three blogs in the exchange – they might exchange a post once a month in the following fashion:

• Blog A guest posts on Blog C
• Blog B guest posts on Blog A
• Blog C guest posts on Blog B

For this concept to work, we would need enough blogs in the exchange network to make sure that there is a good variety. I guess we would need some sort of categorization system as well. My initial thought is that the guest posts must be non-promotional but they should include a note about the author and his or her startup.

The goal would be to provide startups with a new layer of visibility to a new set of users and potential customers. Most startups want more visibility but it seems these days only a small batch of startups receive the majority of the press attention. This startup blog exchange would give all of us a chance to reach further outside our communities. What would it take to make this exchange successful? One new user? One new customer? The nice thing is that it might not even take any real work as the content would most likely already be posted on the startup’s blog - it would just be syndicated to another blog in the exchange.

Let’s ignore the back-end technical piece for now. Please leave your honest thoughts about this concept in the comments. I purposely tried to keep this post simple so we can iterate (potentially) towards a stronger final concept.

• Announcing Page.ly WordPress Hosting – Now with more Woo – Page.ly
• Two companies that have moved completely to the Amazon Cloud – Reddit and EasyBib
• WhichBox Media Launches fotobox Web-to-Print Service – WhichBox
• PubMatic Introduces Version 3.0 of Real-Time Bidding Technology for Targeting on Over 250 Million Unique Users – Pubmatic
• Surf Canyon Surpasses One Million Queries A Day – SurfCanyon
• ClickTale on Yahoo Store Pages – ClickTale

• Managing your Posterous just got easier, and your posts are now even more realtime – Posterous
• New BigOven iPhone App Now Available – BigOven
• The “Customer Love” Effect – Andrew Dumont
• Cadmus Filters Real Time Streams to Reduce Clutter – Louis Gray
• Epic Win: News Corp Likely To Remove Content From Google – Inquisitr
• CrazyEgg 2.0 Goes Live – CrazyEgg
• Web Developers Can’t Sell. Sorry. – Michelle’s Blog

• How to Boost Ad Revenue: Speed is Your Secret Weapon – BuySellAds
• Drop.io Outlook Plugin Release – Drop.io
• I’m starting out in Email Marketing. Should I buy an email list? - Toddle
• Alice makes it even easier to find the best price – Alice
• Dropbox is to Ubuntu as eucalyptus is to koalas - Dropbox

• Microsoft calls Zoho the “Fake Office”, so does that mean Bing is … – Zoho
• Productive at 36,000 feet - Saas 2.0
• Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? – Inc
• Lessons from Rackspace’s downtime – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
• What I Used To Know Isn’t Good Enough - dy/dan
• Job of the day: Web Designer at Investor’s Business Daily

• How to Be Productive In Spite Of Monday Morning – task.fm
• The new TechVI is live – TechVI
• I’m not selling – RSS2Twitter
• Make Testing Your Online Advertising Easy and Effective – Startup Your Online Advertising
• The Blurry Picture of Open APIs, Standards, Data Ownership – Louis Gray
• Making the Shortest Path Even Quicker – Microsoft
• Paypal X Innovate – Stay ‘n Alive