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<title>Sphinn / onreact / Hot Today</title>
<link>http://sphinn.com</link>
<description>Sphinn</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:09:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter Optimization: The 10 Most Common Reasons I Have to Un-Follow You]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/95396</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/95396</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:09:30 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/95396</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When and why you lose your followers on Twitter and how to prevent that.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Cutting 1/3 of Workforce]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/87393</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/87393</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:03:40 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/87393</guid>
<description><![CDATA[CNET News: &quot;Google is in the process of paring back a contractor workforce that numbers about 10,000, the company confirmed Monday.&quot;<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Ghoulish Collection of Links | This Month In SEO - 10/08]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/82561</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/82561</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:00:28 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/82561</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Best of October with blogging, social media, web tools, SEO etc. links.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Company, SEO and Search Engine Optimization Google Results Are a Disgrace]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/82134</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/82134</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:09:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/82134</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEOmoz is right, more than that: The key phrase SEO company is not the exception. Take a look at the more generic terms SEO and search engine optimization and you'll quickly realize that the Google results there are even less relevant.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ann Smarty: How Guest Blogging Backfires]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/79856</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/79856</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:13:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/79856</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ann Smarty, one of the best SEO bloggers around, writing for Search Engine Journal etc. reports how her frequent guest blogging backfired in several cases.<br/><br/>66 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Suggestions for a Beginning Blogger]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/76847</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/76847</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:28:28 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/76847</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Veteran SEO blogger Bill Slawski of SEO by the SEA asks &quot;What suggestions would you offer a beginning blogger?&quot; and offers 10 of his own.<br/><br/>71 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Traffic trends for Digg vs. nine other social news sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/69786</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/69786</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:18:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/69786</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Social news traffic: Mixx is the fastest growing, Digg still the biggest, Sphinn is not bad at all for a niche community with targeted traffic.<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 30 Easiest Ways to Get Links and Exposure]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/69035</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/69035</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:10:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/69035</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are difficult ways to get links, like link exchange for instance and there are easy ones. Check out these 30 easiest methods to gain links.<br/><br/>82 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[30 Quick and Clean One Minute SEO Tweaks for Higher Profits]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64121</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64121</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:13:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64121</guid>
<description><![CDATA[These 30 &quot;intermediate SEO&quot; tweaks take one minute each and can increase profits significantly. They're &quot;quick and clean&quot; on top of that, they're no &quot;SEO tricks&quot;.<br/><br/>65 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Majority of SEOs Wants to Buy Nofollow Links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64122</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64122</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:27:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64122</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Poor Matt Cutts, SEOs adapt once again. A recent Search Engine Roundtable survey reveals: SEOs want to buy links even if they're nofollowed: 50% of respondents said they would.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Trust Made my Blog Triumph]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63467</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63467</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:20:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63467</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What is the single most important factor in the success of my blog? Why? How to make your blog trustworthy enough to get 1000 subscribers after one year of part time blogging.<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Insights for Search - New Killer Keyword Research Tool]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63851</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63851</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:58:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63851</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Forget Google Zeitgeist, Trends and Adwords Traffic Estimator as well as the Keyword-Tool. Google Insights for Search is the new killer keyword research tool we will work with daily and gladly.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You Can't Separate Social Media and SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60484</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60484</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:56:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60484</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Social media and SEO are now inextricably linked. You couldn't separate 'em if you tried.&quot; - Ian Lurie.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Rankings Highly Unstable]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57705</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57705</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:34:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57705</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google breakdance anybody?<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Catch the brainwaves of Jeff Quipp]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56949</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56949</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:55:43 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56949</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jeff of Search Engine People about himself, prophecy, social media, search conferences, early computers in the eighties etc.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter Magic: Force Your Readers to Click!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49692</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49692</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 20:04:30 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49692</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How to make people click your links on Twitter.<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Bullshit Bingo]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46339</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46339</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 08:57:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46339</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Don't let Calacanis and Shoemoney have all the fun, do some SEO Bullshit Bingo yourself!<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Stand Out on Social Media: Avatar Trends Analyzed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44815</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44815</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 13:55:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44815</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Your avatar is the first thing that catches attention, make sure not to lose out on that.<br/><br/>63 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Findability is Bullshit! I mean SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44298</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44298</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 02:36:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44298</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Findability is just bullshit*, that means SEO, on-site SEO...*A synonym for SEO used by people anti-SEO.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Semantic SEO Can Increase the Number of Page Views by 500%]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/43056</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/43056</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:27:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/43056</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I might be biased on this one, but with semantic SEO we have a new set of methods for on-site SEO - one that can double, triple or even increase the number of page views by 500% (during my test) among other benefits.<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media for Dummies: Stop Selling and Start Giving]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41138</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41138</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:04:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41138</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Is it just me, or is there a 'Social Media' piece that's somehow being overlooked here?Addressing the 'social' in social media..&quot; Kimberly teaches the &quot;think inside the box&quot; marketers about social media.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to really make friends and influence people online]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40737</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40737</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:41:52 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40737</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mark takes a look at tactics to enlarge ;-) your online social network, especially at seemingly random mass addition of friends and how it really works.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why StumbleUpon Users Hate Us: Impressive SEO?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/41009</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/41009</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:19:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/41009</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wow, indeed &quot;Very Impressive SEO Service&quot; as one of the 150+ bots stated.<br/><br/>51 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Help! SEOs Hacked my Blog!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39363</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39363</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:59:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39363</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Now this is an issue the SEO community has to deal with not hiding behind &quot;white hat or black hat anything goes as long it works&quot; slogans. Either we ostracize people doing that and make people aware that it's not SEO or soon people will spit on us in public transportation.And yes, one of my blogs was hacked too in a similar stealthy way a few weeks ago. They even inserted their own Adsense on my page.<br/><br/>63 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Removes Search in Search for Amazon.com]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36988</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36988</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:17:06 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36988</guid>
<description><![CDATA[...among other sites it seems.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Image Optimization 101]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34840</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34840</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:29:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34840</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This how to covers the most important factors for image optimization for all relevant media.<br/><br/>68 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Now Selling SEO Services Via Performics]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34353</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34353</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:45:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34353</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Prepare for a big competitor with an unique selling proposition. ;-)<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 SEO Myths]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32238</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32238</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:19:12 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32238</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What every client should read before engaging an SEO.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Be the WordPress Ping King...]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32032</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32032</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:00:17 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32032</guid>
<description><![CDATA[...to get noticed with this list of currently 67 blog pinging services.<br/><br/>46 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Make Your WordPress Scream with This SEO Plugin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31823</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31823</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:11:47 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31823</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tired of SEO 1.0 meta tag optimization plugins for WordPress? Try this one. I will.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Your In-house SEO Will Fail in Social Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25690</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25690</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:04 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25690</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This here raises a very good point: In-house SEOs just can't handle a campaign on social media. You need someone from outside to do that.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This Title Really Sucks]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24415</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24415</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:06:01 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24415</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Read how to deal with it. Obviously so called &quot;superbugs&quot; can help.<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO 2.0 Resource List: 40+ Sites For Writers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23196</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23196</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:24:42 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23196</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In SEO 2.0 you do not even need a website to succeed online. This list entails many more UGC sites to spread your message than most of us know.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Silly Marketers... Sphinn is for Kids]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23193</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23193</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:20:17 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23193</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A blog post yesterday correctly described the traffic at Mixx as not substiantial. Like at Mixx the traffic outcome at Sphinn is also very low. Go away, you are wasting your time here! ;-)<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Come Clean: SMO is Not SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23195</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23195</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:20:20 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23195</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tim argues that SMO is by now not SEO anymore. While most people out there do not know the term SMO and only a minority is familiar with the concept of SEO or what the difference between the two is, do you really want to use a new term to confuse people Tim?<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What's The Point of Social Media Marketing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23112</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23112</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:41:31 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23112</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Does it make sense to generate worthless traffic or is there something else? If there is how to grasp it?<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[7 Evil Tactics to Conquer the World with SEO 2.0]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19639</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19639</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:33:54 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19639</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Submit to the evil SEO 2.0 empire now or I will use these 7 evil tactics to dominate your country and the rest of the world.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[3 Types of Social Media Marketers, Guess Who's Winning]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18990</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18990</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:27:39 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18990</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are basically three kinds of social media marketers. Guess which type is winning in the long term.<br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digg Bury-Brigade Exposed... at Mixx!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17996</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17996</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:42:55 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17996</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered who those poor lowly creatures are who have nothing else to do but bury your submissions all the time at Digg disregarding whether they are great resources or not? At Mixx you can watch the same people messing up the community. Here &quot;negative votes&quot; are displayed though.So who are they? They do not contribute nothing of value themselves. They hate art, women and they love Bush even if he wants another lie to lead to a new war.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[12 Ways to Explain Social Media to Your Grandma]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17863</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17863</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:34:37 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17863</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, your boss, 5 year old son or grandma does not understand social media whatsoever? Try one of these 12 analogies!<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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