The Independent Web: You’ll know it when you don’t see it. It’s opposite, the Dependent Web, is also a term that’s not just a cute variation on nonsense – it’s about money. The strongest asset, ever, on the Internet is you. The World’s biggest guesswork business is advertising and its getting more help than you know to better figure out who you are.

I’m not on the lookout for “new” sites, but bumped into the perfect site for thsoe of us who like surveys, personalized suggestions and polls that never end comparing us to strangers around the globe. It’s Hunch.com and the model they seem to use is a positively A+ 100% money-maker that’s discreet, perfectly tailored to each visitor and is only there when I want it. Hunch.com could teach every last Web 2.0 site a thing or two…

I’ve even spoken with experts and experienced computer users who fear the Social Network driven Web 2.0 “stuff” out there. Good news! Before I got to busy with Ruby on Rails to update the site everyday, I bounced around with Web 2.0 services like Facebook, MyBlogLog, Flock, friendfeed, Flickr, PodCastAlley, MySpace, Seesmic, Ma.Gnolia and OpenID and received absolutely stunning results without more effort. I expect that this won’t fully sway skeptics, but you should hear what benefits came from my work of several days in plumbing the depths on your behalf.

To say Kontera’s contextual advertising is a scam is not accurate. It’s is a thorough disappointment. If you’re considering placing script that manages contextual advertising or already do, please consider the following, balanced arguments against Kontera Technologies service.

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In examining the stability of Cloud-based app engines of which I’ve always been skeptical by reason of erring on the side of caution, I stumbled on to a text app from TechCrunch that tested Google’s Cloud-based app engine, AppEngine. It’s a basic voting system that scours TechCrunch’s CrunchBase (database) and delivers a company name and logo and allows you to vote its reputation UP or DOWN. If you’re not familiar with the company, you can click on the logo to transfer yourself to the CrunchBase description. It’s all quite nice and could be less transferry, but it’s a very neat and practical way to learn about many of the new companies out there in the big web.

http://appengine.crunchbase.com/