The first blog is said to have gone up on Dec. 17, 1997 from a techie who wanted to log cool sites on the Web.

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Facebook and News Corp. site MySpace are cool places for young Web denizens to hang out now, but I predict that these sites will lose their appeal as they are increasingly discovered and polluted by everyone--especially marketers.

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Facebook and News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ) site MySpace are cool places for young Web denizens to hang out now, but I predict that these sites will lose their appeal as they are increasingly discovered and polluted by everyone--especially marketers.

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ShopDAQ is a really cool price comparison plug-in that works for most Web browser, which displays in real-time other retail sites where you could find the same product, cheaper!

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