Catching Up: Ad Spending, Linkedin IPO, Facebook Follies, etc.

Catching up and emptying my ever-overflowing link box:

• Great iPhone review consensus grid (Valleywag)
• Firstsecond Facebook app has been acquired … for $60k (Inside Facebook)
• If you’re not reading Inside Facebook, you should be (Inside Facebook)
• New study argues iPhone is too expensive (Park)
• Marchex just launched more than 100,000 “local and vertical web sites” (which still look more like SEO spam to me) (Marchex)
• Total ad spending to be up marginally in 2007, but Internet spending up 17% (McCann)
• GM cut first-quarter ad spending by 31%, making it the fourth straight quarter of 25-percent-plus declines (NY Post)
• Linkedin aiming for $100m in revs, IPO coming (Reuters)
• Big companies don’t know what big companies will do (pmarca)

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