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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:24:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The PR Roadblock On The Road To Blissful Blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/65422</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/65422</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:24:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/65422</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Most PR folks don't read blogs and certainly don't understand them. All they see is a Google alert with their clients name, and rush to put out a fire. Down the road they may try to bring those bloggers into the fold, largely relying on word of mouth as to the best way to approach them in lieu of actually reading the blog itself.<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Example of How to get KW Rich Links With Social Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64367</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64367</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:26:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64367</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Most business owners and website publisher still look at social media with short term goals. They are willing to invest the time and energy but are still looking for direct sales. As a result the editorial tone of the piece takes a different angle, is less useful, and ultimately generates less links.Here's an example of an exceptional piece that is well written, and resource rich without being salesy. Do you think it will generate more links with the KWD's &quot;business cards&quot; than one concerned with selling?<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Your Customers Define Your Business]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64362</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64362</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:08:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64362</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Don't believe me, think about all the websites you've visited this week. Of those you've found, how much time have you spent reading the content in full? And if the website was a blog, how many of the static pages have your even looked at, let alone read over the entire time you've been reading the blog (and the about page doesn't count).<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[6 Lessons I Wish I Knew When I Started Online Freelancing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63907</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63907</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:05:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63907</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there for a client the second they needed me, regardless of what time it was or what I was supposed to be doing. This year, I started setting a maximum of 3 hours a week of real-time client support and an assistant arranges the queue based on urgency. Some overly demanding clients weren't happy with this setup, but they understood that this would help me get work done faster.<br/><br/>60 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Because People Don't Speak in Buzzwords. Marketers Do.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63906</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63906</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:59:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63906</guid>
<description><![CDATA[the good news is that social media gives us a surefire way to avoid using all those words that are confusing, over-hyped or just so overused they've been rendered meaningless: read the comments and conversations of consumers and prospective customers at many blogs that are relevant to your business and target audiences. See what they're talking about, and what's meaningful to them. But mainly look at how they say things. Because now you're afforded to actually &quot;see how they speak&quot;. And let that be your barometer.Because people don't speak in buzzwords. Marketers do.&quot;<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Marketing by Color: Dona4t Try To Sell Blue Potatoes]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63904</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63904</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:46:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Display Advertising</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63904</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For example, what colors do you associate with a spooky night? Most likely, you'll choose black, shades of gray and maybe a little silver or even orange. Haunted evenings generally don't come in vivid blues and fresh greens, after all.Did blue potato sales skyrocket? No. Did people rush to the stores for blue potatoes? Nope. Did the blue potato become a household staple? Nope. If it weren't for their novelty factor and a few cooks with exploratory minds, these potatoes would never have sold at all.The reason is that people don't associate the color blue with potatoes.Do you want your business to become a blue potato?<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The DIY trend: The Market and the Search for a4How Toa4]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63899</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63899</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:23:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63899</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How To and DIY articles have been time proven tools for publishers to build links and evergreen content. Trendspotting takes a look at the trend and has ideas to help you jump start the process.<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hollywood's Behind the Internet Times]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60934</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60934</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:04:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60934</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;How do we bridge this gap? The question isn't how you meet us, it is how do we meet you? In a world operated by handshakes and meetings in private rooms where everyone has an agent, it's next to impossible for a startup without Nike cred to meet a mega star.&quot;Bottom line: Hollywood wants and needs to get into the Internet groove. I predict more celebrity elbow rubbing at tech conferences and more merging of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. I call this the next phase of entertainment, straight to your fingertips and right off the Internet.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[London Hotels Invading Privacy and Using Google to Build Customer Profiles]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59084</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59084</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:29:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59084</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What is check-in like? &quot;Mr. Johnson, welcome back to the hotel! Congratulations on your recent transition to a new job! I'm also glad to see your female companion today is more attractive than your last en-suite partner! You may be pleased to know that we have some new big-bottom adult-film selections, which you enjoyed at such length on your last visit! Enjoy your stay!&quot;<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media: Get Productive with Social Media (and Stay Sane)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57602</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57602</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:40:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57602</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Social media is the equivalent of digital food. It's nourishing, tasty and, for many of us, necessary. However, consume too much and you can get sidetracked and create larger consequences. The good news is you can participate in social media in a way that adds value to your life. You just need to know how to manage it so so that it does not devour your attention-the most valuable commodity of the digital age.<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Not Everyone Thinks Google is the Greatest Company to Work For]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55501</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55501</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:35:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55501</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm's personnel department is &quot;collapsing&quot; and that &quot;absolute chaos&quot; reigns. When she was hired, nobody knew when or where she was supposed to work, and the balloons that all Nooglers get delivered to their desks ended up God knows where. She started receiving detailed e-mails &quot;enforcing&quot; Google's outward informality by reminding her that high heels and jewellery were inappropriate. Before the corporate ski trip, it was explained that &quot;if you wear fur, they will kill you.&quot;Google is a paradise only for some, she argues. Employees who predate the IPO resemble aristocracy. Engineers get the most kudos, people with other functions decidedly less so. Bright kids just out of college tend to love it, because the Googleplex in effect replaces their university campus-with a dating scene, a laundry service and no reason to leave at weekends. Older Googlers with families tend to like it less, because &quot;everybody, even young mums, works seven days a week.&quot;<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Conspiracy Theory: Google Using the Bookmark Data Stream]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55489</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55489</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:41:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55489</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So a Firefox plugin developer was contacted by Google who asked him to stop distributing his plugin because &quot;google couldn't scale&quot;.I'll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I'll bet they also didn't want him using it because it &quot;polluted&quot; the bookmark data stream, with every site the person visited instead of just the ones the user &quot;voted&quot; for<br/><br/>61 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Review of  Voice Search Services Tellme and oneSearch]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49071</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49071</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 10:17:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49071</guid>
<description><![CDATA[While both services figure to improve in short time, they work well together for the moment. Given the way software is developing these days, it's not unreasonable to think that oneSearch will adopt some of Tellme's location services, while Tellme might take on further Web searching capabilities. But until then, they're two BlackBerry applications that are tough to live without.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's Plans to Expand into Travel]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48784</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48784</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 08:02:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48784</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The search giant plans to expand its travel offering, which currently seems to be confined to one-off videos and ads from tourism boards. In the future, the site will have marketer-sponsored pages where would-be vacationers can learn tons about a destination and see related user-generated content.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google kills Anti Scientology "Anonymous" AdSense Account]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46421</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46421</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:57:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46421</guid>
<description><![CDATA[According to Google: &quot;While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers&quot; Kinda Funny when google chooses the ads to be sold.Google has also killed several anti Scientology youtube channels but leaves the Scientology channel intacthttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/youtube_scientology_channel/<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ask.com Misspells Cinco do Mayo on Homepage]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44378</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44378</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 10:27:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44378</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After abandoning search it looks like ASK.com has abandoned proof reading and spell checking as well. Instead of &quot;Cinco de Mayo&quot; Ask celebrates &quot;Cinco do Mayo&quot; instead. Maybe now that Microsoft has some extra cash not buying Yahoo they will buy you instead ;-)<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Guerrilla Google Video]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/43793</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/43793</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 17:35:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/43793</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google set up an empty frame as an advertisement for Google Video in Germany<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Encyclopedia Britannica Barters Free Content for Links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41528</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41528</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:02:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41528</guid>
<description><![CDATA[According to TechCrunch Encyclopedia Britannica is giving free access to people who will link to them &quot;Instead of going free and opening up to all, they're using the new program to simply price discriminate. Give people who may link to the site free access.&quot;So where does this fall in the Google paid links debate? Sure Encyclopedia Britannica has great content but is giving up something which has a cash value in exchange for a link the same as buying a link? It's a slippery slope to be sure.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New York Closes the "Amazon Loophole" on Taxes]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40308</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40308</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:07:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40308</guid>
<description><![CDATA[New York has become the first (so far as I know) state to try to close the &quot;Amazon Loophole&quot; in its sales tax collections. With the passage of a new state budget, they're requiring out-of-state interstate retailers who do $10,000 or more of business per year with New York residents to collect and remit sales tax on those purchases.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's Australian Director Maintains Sock Puppet Identities]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40226</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40226</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:07:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40226</guid>
<description><![CDATA[According to Australian Securities and Investments Commission documents, Tucker maintains six different versions of himself, complete with varying birthdate, for his various corporate investments:<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sphinn Community - Who's the Best Star Trek Captain?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32272</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32272</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:22:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32272</guid>
<description><![CDATA[At the Google Groove during SMX several of the Sphinn moderators and admins got into a heated debate about an important question, who's the best Star Trek Captain, Kirk or Picard?I'm an old school guy  with a &quot;damn the torpedoes full speed ahead&quot; approach, so it's obvious I'm a fan of the classic Trek and Captain Kirk. However Picard really seems to have captured the hearts of many of the other Sphinn administration. So in a completely un-scientific and non structured way, voice your opinion below.PS: Someone came by and made the suggestion of Janeway, but I'm guessing that had more to do with the alcohol than anything else, and since Sisco came is a LT and was only promoted mid series run, he totally doesn't count ;-)<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Migrate a Wordpress Install in 10 Steps]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/29520</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/29520</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:04:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/29520</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you're migrating from one domain to another or moving from a development domain to a live one, moving Wordpress is never fun. Here Joost brings it down to 10 easy steps.<br/><br/>66 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nickycake Post]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28210</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28210</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:57:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Moderator</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28210</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I dunno everytime I see posts like this I feel usedhttp://sphinn.com/story/28065<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Docs Goes After Microsoft Access]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27302</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27302</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:30:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27302</guid>
<description><![CDATA[But really we aren't competing with microsoft office, really. Pay no attention to the fact we're duplicating every product in the suite.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Illegal & Illicit vs Who's Getting Paid]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25275</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25275</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:14:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25275</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When the networks screw people over it is the fault of &quot;users&quot; or &quot;the algorithm,&quot; but when the central networks do not like what we do we are &quot;criminals performing illicit acts.&quot;<br/><br/>46 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scoble Sells Out]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25123</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25123</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:02:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25123</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Robert Scoble a long time advocate of not putting advertising on blogs, changes his tune, and agrees to start selling ads through a deal with his new employer Fast Company. Techcrunch wonders will his long time supporter Dave Winer, critical of ads on blogs in the past change his opinion as well?<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Offline Linkbait Ignores the Online Componet]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22673</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22673</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:39:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22673</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. I am a celebrity gossip addict. I love to look at pics and see what people are wearing. While browsing one of my favorite sites yesterday I came across what looked to me like pay dirt for some great link bait.<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Reader Learns the Hard Way Not Everybody Wants to Share]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/20232</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/20232</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:10:44 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/20232</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When Google Reader's team came back on Monday, they found more than 70 complaints in their public forum. Given Google's fine reputation dealing with their users privacy  people were expecting a quick fix and some kind of apology, but the official response was appalling. As one user said &quot;wow. this is a politician's answer....i.e. answers that don't address our specific questions/complaints&quot;.More than one week has passed, and there still is no acceptable stop to this private data leak caused by the new Google Reader &quot;feature&quot;.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Perez Hilton in Catfight With Google's YouTube]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19965</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19965</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:48:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19965</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, Hilton expressed anger at YouTube for sending him a standard, generic e-mail informing him of his account's violation and temporary shutdown. Don't they know who he is? They should, his YouTube videos generate millions of views, according to him. Doesn't he rate at least a phone call? In his farewell video, Hilton tells his fans he probably won't be posting any more videos to YouTube and that neither should they. Dis.The automated solutions of viacom and YouTube backfired on both of them, starting a very nasty, very public dispute.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google sees own shadow, jumps overboard]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18908</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18908</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:50:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18908</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So Google makes an algo that puts wikipedia at the top of all the results. But questioning the the wisdom of this algorithmic choice is off the table. So they say, &quot;Whoa. Look at that site at the top of all our results. We made them that big with our traffic. We should have a site like that, and then we could be there, instead. But we'll do it right this time. Our way. And put our ads on it!&quot;<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Whata4s In A Name: The State of Typo-Squatting 2007]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18769</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18769</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:48:39 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18769</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In an effort to further quantify and understand this phenomenon, McAfee studied 1.9 million typographical variations of 2,771 of the most popular and well known Web sites. Of these, we found 127,381 suspected typo-squatters.<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Republicans Targets Google on Privacy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18455</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18455</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:53:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18455</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A top Republican in the House of Representatives is demanding that Google answer a barrage of questions about privacy, some of which are related to the company's proposed purchase of the DoubleClick advertising firm.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Matt Cutts praises WordPress SEO benefits]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18007</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18007</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:01:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18007</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Matt talks about using wordpress for SEO, but this video is also very good for convincing people that they actually need to do SEO for their website<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebooks Still Gets Data Even After you Opt Out]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16639</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16639</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:33:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16639</guid>
<description><![CDATA[According to an interview with Chamath Palihapitiya of facebook ( http://tinyurl.com/2lg4gq ) they don't recieve the data if you've opted out:Q. If I buy tickets on Fandango, and decline to publish the purchase to my friends on Facebook, does Facebook still receive the information about my purchase?A. &quot;Absolutely not. One of the things we are still trying to do is dispel a lot of misinformation that is being propagated unnecessarily.&quot;However looking at the http data stream Facebook is still getting data. You would think with all the flak they are taking they would bend over backwards to do the right thing.<br/><br/>30 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon Redirecting Typo Traffic - Are They Breaking Net Neutrality]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13421</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13421</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:13:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13421</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is redirecting typo traffic to an landing page where Verizon makes a profit from ads a violation of net neutrality? Many Fios customers are already reporting this happenning.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google / Plaxo OpenSocial Application Hacked Within 45 Minutes]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12299</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12299</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:53:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12299</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It didn't take long for someone to hack the first OpenSocial application. In fact, it took just 45 minutes.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Are Your Secrets Safe with Google?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10354</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10354</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:57:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10354</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A series of missteps have left it facing claims that it has gone from a benign project - creating the first free, open-all-hours global library - to the information society's most determined Big Brother. It stands accused of plotting some sinister link between its computers and us: that it wants, somehow, to plug us into its giant mainframe - as imagined in The Matrix or Terminator.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Steve Rubel - Search is Broken]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9050</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9050</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:46:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9050</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Steve is on the money with his post how &quot;search is broken&quot;. It's something I've been talking with other people about to, for search to get truly personal it needs to tie into the things we as users use, outlook, gmail, yahoo mail, twitter, jiaku, online docs, offline docs, feed readers the whole thing. It needs to be fast, flexible and open ended.<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Acquires Zingku]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7405</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7405</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:10:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7405</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google aquires mobile service Zingku here's a idea of what they doOur service is designed from the mobile phone, outward, allowing you to create and exchange things of interest ranging from invitations to &quot;mobile flyers&quot; with friends in a trusted manner. On the mobile phone, Zingku uses standard text messaging and picture messaging features that come with every phone. On the web, our service uses your standard web browser and instant messenger. There is nothing to install.It would be nice if Google marries  it with dodgeball and does something that would challenge twitter. Either that or just buy twitter already. Yahoo hello you guys paying attention?<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Google Buying Sirius Radio]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7030</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7030</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:50:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7030</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The MotleyFool is running a story with the rumor of Google buying sirius radio<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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