I know you’re eager to see the winners of this week’s book contest. The winners are…

…below today’s Picks!

• Should Mozilla be concerned that 91% of its revenue came from its partnership with Google? The same Google that has launched a competing web browser.
• Video search company Blinkx has made a second (less attractive) bid for the ad network Miva.
• Search Engine Roundtable questions the ethics of Yelp.com. Does the site manually change positive and negative reviews?
• It seems Yahoo is bringing its “Glue Pages” to the US after all.
• SEMPO would like your input for the 2008 State of the Market survey–they have prizes for those that participate!
• Congrats to the organizers of the first Internet Summit in Chapel Hill, NC. I’ve said for many years that we have a strong internet marketing industry in this area and 650 attendees (a sellout crowd) didn’t prove me wrong. You can check out some photos here.

OK, so now for our book contest winners. Congrats to…

• Saad Kamal
• Sarah Fowler
• Patrick

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Since PC Magazine is for the tech crowd the announcement that the publication (can’t call it a magazine anymore I guess) would cease printing a hard copy and be a strictly online operation isn’t a surprise. The New York Times covers this change in the flagship of Ziff Davis Publishing while the company reports that the magazine would be profitable in 2008 but it is forecast to lose money in 2009.

Magazines as a whole are facing increasing competition from their online foes which are eating into advertising revenue. Coupled with a general economic malaise that is getting a tighter grip on the world economy and the increase in the raw material costs to print a magazine it was a bit of a no-brainer to shut down the print version. Right now the online version of the magazine generates 70% of the revenue and 80% of the profit of PC Mag.

This is a natural progression as the online edition of the publication was the first stop for news anyway. It’s kind of hard to be on top of the breaking news in any industry when you only go to print once a month. That’s so 80’s!

The magazine’s circulation is ½ of what it was in the late 1990’s. The magazine industry as a whole is suffering a 17% decrease in ad pages for December of 2008 when compared to December of 2007 according to the Media Industry Newsletter. This is the latest magazine to say goodbye to its print edition and my suspicion is that many will follow suit in the very near future.

What are some titles that you think will be online only in the next year or so? Are there any magazines that you would rather have in a print edition v. an online one? What place will magazines play in the future of media and marketing? Looking forward to some Pilgrim input for this one.

PC Mag Goes All Online All the Time

If you took the time to nominate a company for the Open Web Awards, you might be interested to know that final voting is now open.

Mashable Open Web Awards

You have until Sunday, November 30th 11:59 pm PST to vote!

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Voting Open for the 2nd Open Web Awards

It took two years to develop Lively–the 3D world from Google.

It took less than 5 months for Google to announce it is shutting it down.

…despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we’ve decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year. It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business.

Isn’t that basically what I suggested?

…there’s a long, long way to go in perfecting Google’s search engine. Right? So, why are Google engineers focusing their free time on projects that don’t serve that goal? Are they bored with search? Is this a sentiment that is pervasive among Google’s top talent?

I’m sorry for Niniane Wang–she developed Lively–but glad that Google put it out of its misery.

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Today is the last day of the year with all odd digits: 11-19 (or 19-11 if you’re so inclined). Thought you’d like to know.

• Facebook has found a way to turn its platform into profits by rolling out a Verified App program—$375 per application application. App application…. Ahem. Per year.
• Now that we’ve got that out of the way, on to the rest of the Googly news. Still looking for its nonsearch monetization sweet spot, Google is adding ads across its web properties including image search and news.
• Tired of the way Gmail looks? Good news: Gmail is getting themes. Soon.
• And in case you were wondering what kind of traffic you get from a PR 10 website (You know—Google’s homepage?), Read Write Web looks at the case of the G1 link. Wonder if Google Chrome’s gotten the same boost now that it’s occupying the coveted spot. . . . But whatever happened to that “magic number” of 28 words on their “pristine homepage”—you know, their reasoning behind not linking to their privacy policy on their homepage?

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Linky Goodness, November 19