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The first team to dominate the world wins, just like IRL. The other team tries to break those links and, Othello-like, flip the areas back to their side.

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After Delicious melted down, I quickly migrated all my past links to Diigo, only to re-migrate them back to Delicious after it was bought by AVOS, led by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

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Even Google, the Web's self-proclaimed "Do no evil" company, is experimenting with a technology called AutoLink that inserts button-shape links on other people's Web sites that lead back to Google or to Google partners like Amazon.com.

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Banners (often hidden behind at-work listeners' spreadsheets and documents) back up audio ads with, for example, telephone numbers or links to the advertisers' sites.

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