I compiled a list of links to articles and features from various sources, reflecting on 2007:

• 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
  Fortune
  
• 2007 CyberNet Awards: Worst Tech Products
  Cybernet
• 2007 Year in Review
  ET Online
  
• 70 Best Ideas of 2007
  NY Times
  
• Best (and Worst) of 2007
  PC Magazine
  
• Best and Worst Consumer Electronics, 2007
  BusinessWeek
  
• Best of 2007: Top 7 Coolest Web Apps
  Mashable
  
• Consumer Apps: 2007 Year in Review
  ReadWriteWeb
  
• Google Zeitgeist 2007
  Google
  
• Pictures of the Year 2007
  Reuters
  
• The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007
  PC World
  
• The 100 Best Songs of 2007
  Rolling Stone
  
• The Biggest Celebrity Paydays of 2007
  Forbes
  
• The Popular Technology Bloggers of 2007 - Annual Roundup
  Digital Inspiration
  
• The Worst Games of 2007
  Gemaga
  
• Weirdest work stories of the Year
  Careerbuilder
  
• Year-End Report Cards
  Gizmodo

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For anyone looking to get a crash course on Google’s contextual advertising program, Adsense, take a look at “The Adsense Code” by Joel Comm. I recently picked this book and gave it a read and surprisingly learned a lot more than I initially expected to.

Inside, Comm covers everything from the very basics of the Adsense program, to building content and optimizing your web site(s) for search engines. In addition, Comm dedicates an entire chapter to case studies and even gives brief synopses of the other major contextual advertising programs (Adbrite, Kanoodle, Yahoo! Publisher Network, etc.).

This books is probably most ideal for beginners and could serve as a useful reference for intermediates and people like me who haven’t had a real need or opportunity to use Google Adsense extensively.

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I just finished reading Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. I’m not going to write a full book review, but I did want to mention it as I liked it a lot. The book basically applies economics to everyday life. Levitt basically asks questions about every day life, analyzes data, and finds connections.

Some of the links discovered and discussed are that legalized abortion led to decreased crime, parents with swimming pools are more of a threat to children than parents with guns in the home, and gangs’ organizational structures often reflect that of a corporation’s. I thought the most interesting aspect was how he discussed the hidden incentives behind certain behaviors, and basically shows that everything in life is incentive based.

Give it a read. I wasn’t really shocked or surprised by anything in it, but there were a few times where I had “huh, interesting” moments. If nothing else, it makes you think a bit more about everyday things, or at least makes you think about them in a different light.

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