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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:34:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Know if You Should Fire Your Social Media Consultant]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/76122</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/76122</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:34:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/76122</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If your company, no matter how big or small, has hired a social media consultant to augment (or God-forbid, replace) your PR team, there are some things you should probably be sniffing out and identifying as red flags.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google at 10 - a Decade of Innovation - But Challenges Ahead]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/75077</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/75077</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:36:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/75077</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As they grow and mature, it will be difficult for Google to maintain their corporate culture, but not impossible. The perks of working at the Googleplex make complete and total sense. Help people forget about their mundane day-to-day worries so they can think, be creative, and work.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I'll Take Links And 11 Gold Medals Please]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65858</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65858</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:41:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65858</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A lot of successful &quot;linkbait&quot; is launched on the heels of breaking news or changes. We can't anticipate the future but we can plan around upcoming events, holidays, elections etc and write for them NOW. That way when the time comes you're ready and there before the competition.<br/><br/>23 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter and Pownce Implement Following Limits]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65162</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65162</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:01:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65162</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Both Twitter and Pownce seem to have introduced limits to the number of people you can follow, and neither change seems to have come with much fan fare.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Seven Ways to Get Your Mom on Twitter :)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62978</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62978</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:06:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62978</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here's how to get your mom, friends, and colleagues on Twitter.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Consulting is Here to Stay: Aaron Wall is Wrong (for once)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59438</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59438</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:05:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59438</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A brilliant post contradicting Aaron Wall's piece &quot;Why Traditional SEO Consulting usually sucks.&quot;<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Organise your Internet Business for Maximum Efficiency]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58230</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58230</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:02:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58230</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A look at organizing yourself for maximum effectiveness and efficiency in your actions.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How a Search Engine Might Use a Searchera4s Knowledge, Interests, and Education to Rerank and Validate Search Results -SE]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53232</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53232</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:28:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Yahoo SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53232</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How might a search engine verify page ranking results of a search algorithm with respect to the specific needs or characteristics of specific groups of users?<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Get Free Links on Search Engine Watch!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50655</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50655</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:19:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50655</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Witty post explaining XSS security hack.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook Does Keyword Research]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/43576</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/43576</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:29:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/43576</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An anonymous aggregation of &quot;public and semi-public&quot; keywords from across the site, Facebook Lexicon does not provide actual statistics as to how many times a keyword or two-word phrase appears, but like Google Trends, it shows spikes and trends in keyword / phrase popularity.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[To Slash or Not to Slash. Thata4s A Server Header Question.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42446</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42446</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:20:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42446</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Let's say you are setting up your keyword rich links to point to a subdirectory. Should the link point http://www.somedomain.com/subdirectory or http://www.somedomain.com/subdirectory/ ?<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Applies Copyright-ID Technology to Fight Child Porn Online]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41366</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41366</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:54:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41366</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google has been working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's program for just about a year to  come up with software that will allow the NCMEC to automate the once-manual process of identifying victims and suspects in images.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Do I Stop Building Links?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34143</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34143</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:05:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34143</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How long should I build links for? and when should I stop building them? Both frequent SEO questions, with the answer &quot;it depends.&quot;<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Tools Google Uses Internally]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34140</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34140</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:53:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34140</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An insight into how Google manages projects and communication internally.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Exclusive: Activity SocialStream Goes Portable With Blogcatalog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32739</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32739</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:20:46 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32739</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Blogcatalog have introduced a new exciting widget to help keep blog readers connected with your other activities.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[There Is A Sucker Born Every Minute]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32480</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32480</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:42:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32480</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You can't please all of the people all of the time and everyone has a different experience and mindset, which isn't always positive. No matter what you sell, there are people who will take issue with what you do and how you do it to the point where they feel the need to publicly state their disapproval.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Make Email Look Good In Gmail]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31315</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31315</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:44:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31315</guid>
<description><![CDATA[8 great tips on for optimizing emails when images are turned off for Gmail.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pros and Cons of Niche Blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31310</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31310</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:43:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31310</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Making money with a niche blog: pros and cons.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[[Official]: Google's secret sauce]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30898</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30898</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:56:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30898</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google shares its secret to success. So why has Google done so well?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Oracle at Yahoo: Using Yahoo News to Search the Future]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29278</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29278</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:22:17 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29278</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Future search, or future retrieval, might be able to support the making of decisions in many different fields.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile Search Is Finding Its Way]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28662</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28662</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:27:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28662</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that online search is huge. Could mobile search match it, maybe even surpass it?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 X 55 = 5i]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28055</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28055</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:01:00 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28055</guid>
<description><![CDATA[5 business books + 55 minute = Insight, Improvement, Inspiration, Influence, and Intelligence.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[6 Tips for Blogging in 2008]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28052</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28052</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:47:54 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28052</guid>
<description><![CDATA[6 quick tips that will make your blog even better!<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Domain Name Fetches Record Price]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27850</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27850</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:46:13 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27850</guid>
<description><![CDATA[World's most expensive domain names - I can't believe anyone can afford this...<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fast Alarm For Hidden WordPress Hackers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27846</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27846</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:24:15 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27846</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How Can You Guard Against Hacking?<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PageRank Superstition: 200+ Signals Are Not One Google Juice]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27462</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27462</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:30:31 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27462</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ranking is not about Google PageRank, toolbar Pagerank or the invisible and yet unnamed Google juice.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Youa4ve stalked your friends, now get a newsfeed from your family]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27306</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27306</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:56:59 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27306</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kindo covers the &quot;next generation&quot; family tree, with communication features, stats and a family a4news feed' not unlike a Facebook feed.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mixxed Up Minds]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27300</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27300</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:20:32 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27300</guid>
<description><![CDATA[New exciting features at Mixx reviewed by SEO Chicks.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media By the Numbers: Flickr]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26923</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26923</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:57:49 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26923</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Interesting Flickr stats.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google: Like A Rock (That Is, Falling Like One)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26917</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26917</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:58:01 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26917</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google has thus far today dropped another 5% of its stock price to drop below the $500 mark.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MySpace Developer Platform Launches]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26916</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26916</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:54:11 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26916</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Over the next month, developers big and small will have the opportunity to begin developing applications for MySpace using the company's new, OpenSocial-based APIs.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Losing faith in Yahoo]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26103</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26103</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:52:36 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26103</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yahoo reported a 23 percent drop in profit for the fourth quarter from a year ago.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Definitive Reason Why Facebook Is Worth At Least $15 Billion]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/26095</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/26095</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:06:41 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/26095</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Recently Microsoft spent $240 million for a measly 1.6% share of Facebook Inc. This figure sets Facebook's valuation at a whopping $15 billion. Danny Dover over at SEOmoz explayns why Facebook might be really worth the money.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg Nearly Triples Registered Users In a Year]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25730</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25730</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:26:50 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25730</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apparently Digg continues to grow fast no matter what...<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Should Yahoo Cede Search? Yeah, When Pepsi Bottles Coke]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25517</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25517</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:55:41 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25517</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google's won search. Yahoo can't compete, so why not get out? Should Yahoo let Google serve up search results and ads and just take a percentage.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Two Google search tricks for international business]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24633</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24633</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:11:08 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24633</guid>
<description><![CDATA[2 Google search operators you might be unaware of. Instant currency converter and world clock...<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The New Yahoo: Leaner and more focused?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24631</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24631</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:03:30 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24631</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Yahoo has embarked on a multi-year transformation that includes making tough decisions about the business to help the company grow&quot; (Yahoo spokesperson Diana Wong)<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Network Solutions Exploits I-CANN's Five-Day Refund Rule to Hoard Domains]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22491</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22491</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:12:42 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Domaining</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22491</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today, there are allegations flying around that Network Solutions, a very popular internet registrar, has been exploiting that same five-day-refund rule to park domains and then sell them at an increased fee. If the allegations are true, then Network Solutions was operating a very cunning business.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google To Devalue Links?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15568</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15568</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:48:37 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15568</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is that possible that Google completely removed inbound links from its algorithm?<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[To Sphinn or not to Sphinn...]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15382</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15382</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:19:11 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15382</guid>
<description><![CDATA[5 reasons to social bookmark articles written by you.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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