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Avatar Posted By: MattC 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://trinixia.wordpress.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Google says they are not currently planning on running Audio Ads on satellite radio because they generate their own revenue with subscription fees. While that is accurate, it is not the entire picture. Satellite radio only has commercial-free music read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://trinixia.wordpress.com)
Category: Yahoo
While Yahoo continues to disappoint Wall Street, life with Microsoft, Google or News Corp. wouldn't be any better. If Microsoft takes them over it could potentially kill their identity. If they aligned with Google we would loose a much needed altern read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 248 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo Other
I just got an email saying I was now an Yahoo! Power Mailer although from the email I really can't tell what is so special.

As one of the few in our Power User program, you can take advantage of some new, complimentary features that we've added t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 282 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo Searching
[Forgive me if this has been commented about before]

How well does un-tweaked Wordpress blogs rank in Yahoo. My wordpress blog ranks #4 in Google for my main phrase but in Yahoo I'm #45.

I do use my own domain name for it, but I did check for read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 284 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sketchcast.com)
Category: SEO
A goofy-voiced guy walks beginners through the basic optimization process talking about pink fluffy dog widgets and how SEO is not rocket science. (this is for entertainment purposes only, if not yours then the authors)  read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 284 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
If a Sphinner wears a black hat in their avatar, do other sphinners think he or she is a black hat seo or just likes black cowboy hats? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 284 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ft.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Online advertising spending is widely predicted to continue its strong growth even if a US economic downturn squeezes the advertising sector as a whole. Pressure on companies to cut costs if the economy softens could even hasten the switch in spendi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 302 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
I was just reading Vanessa Fox's recent post about privacy on Facebook and how they are now gonna be open up to the search engines.

Since I do enjoy myspace, it make me question how Myspace was being indexed. I Googled the URL of a known private read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 315 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portfolio.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Mark Cuban made his $2.3 billion fortune as an internet entrepreneur and now in a recent Portfolio.com interview, Cuban says the internet is "dead and boring".

"We have reached the point of diminishing returns with today's internet. The speed o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 332 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google Other
I was on Google Reader earlier this morning but starting about 30 minutes ago my browser keeps freezing/locking up as I try to access it. Anyone else? I checked the Google Reader Blog but nothing is posted. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 332 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://uk.reuters.com)
Category: Google
The Premier League and music publisher Bourne & Co said on Monday that eight more parties including the NMPA (National Music Publishers' Association) have joined their lawsuit charging Google and its YouTube online service with deliberately encourag read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 337 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.abcnews.com)
Category: Blogging
Are bloggers part of the news media? The U.S. government -- led by two of its most secretive agencies -- is increasingly saying, "Yes, they are."

...the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have altered polici read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 339 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Blogging
... or as I like to call it: "The Many Faces of Rand".

Randfish wrote up a good article ranking a handful of emotions that compel people to link or share content. And just in case you were wondering what that emotion looked like, Rand added a vi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 340 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Jobs Wanted
Okay maybe its just too early in the morning for me. What is the difference between Jobs Wanted and Jobs Offered? The descriptions for each make it almost the same thing.
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Have a job to offer in online or search marketing? Feel free to pos read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 344 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: Water Cooler
"Americans who feel bored and underpaid do work hard -- at surfing the Internet and catching up on gossip, according to a survey that found U.S. workers waste about 20 percent of their working day." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: Domaining
"A U.N. agency has ruled that ownership of the domain name thesimpsonsmovie.com must be handed to News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox, which owns the rights to the film and the popular TV series."

I wonder if a domain buyer will have any protectio read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 345 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
It doesn't appear that too many of us sphinners or sphinncters are voting on individual comments. I have done it a couple times myself but what are the actual benefits of it? Is it like a Karma system for that particular user or are actually comment read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cbronline.com)
Category: Google
"The Federal Communication Commission appears ready to reject some of the conditions behind Google’s offer to bid at least $4.6 billion for some of the UHF TV spectrum that will be put up for auction next year... it became clear that there was littl read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 346 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: Water Cooler
As of yet there have been no reports of people getting their phone hacked but researches at Independent Security Evaluators found a flaw that not only applies to the IPhone but also Apple computers running Mac OS and the company's Safari Web browser read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 347 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.forbes.com)
Category: Google
"Yahoo! defended itself against the Click Forensics report by saying that its advertisers have not been billed for 12% to 15% of the clicks on its network due to fraud."

"Google, meanwhile, has called the report's findings into question, denounci read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 347 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seattlepi.nwsource.com)
Category: Google Other
For the first time, Google Inc.'s revenue edged out Microsoft Corp.'s sales of Windows for PCs in quarterly results reported by the companies last week. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 350 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ft.com)
Category: Google
"Google has disclosed for the first time that it is prepared to bid in a forthcoming auction of wireless spectrum in the US, a move that could eventually mean it will emerge as a fully fledged operator of a wireless communications network." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 350 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mirror.co.uk)
Category: Water Cooler
Mirror.co.uk put out a list of 101 websites that will change your life. While I'm not sure that I found Zen by clicking on some, I was very happy to see a website by a friend of mine in the Top 10.

And for you Facebook fans, sorry but Myspace go read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 352 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
This one is for you Natasha. Now let's here your rant!! But remember in cyberspace no one can hear you scream :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 352 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aosep.com)
Category: News Sites
Matt Drudge had posted a Hitwise PDF for web news traffic for the last week (ending 07/14/2007). Not knowing how long it was gonna stay up I took a screen grab and posted it on my forum.

Anyways, here is the run down (out of 6,767 sites):

Rank read more »
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