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“People looking for ideas are inundated with [advertising] messages,” said AMA CMO Nancy Costopulos. “They’re looking for alternatives and opinions for shopping.” read more »
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Sure, they can’t beat Google, but they can game the system in their favor. Thus far, domain squatters have benefitted from mistyped web addresses, and seems like large ISPs are waking up to “money making opportunity.” read more »
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While Second Life gets a lot of media attention, virtual worlds like IAC/InterActive-owned Zwinktopia and Ganz USA's Webkinz are attracting more users. Marketers are increasingly looking to establish footholds on these and other Web-based virtual wo read more »
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Why the new world of social networking and social media hasn't taken the most basic steps to stop spam and pre-empt this criticism I don't know. Perhaps like MySpace's page-load intensive but awful site design, YouTube doesn't stop spam because it s read more »
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Neil and Cam share their thoughts on the state of the social media optimization industry, spam and the right pricing for the SMO professionals. read more »
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Jim Boykin is fooled by a Google PPA ad. Hmmm.... Maybe maybe some of their recommendations contradict some of the recommended advertising techniques that Google tells SEO’s to do in their linking practices. read more »
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Aaron Wall sheds light on Avi Wilensky's recent legal issues regarding his use of broad match on Google 'partner' sites... read more »
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FTA: 'The people that share and share well are the people that are successful - and by successful, I mean drive traffic and visitors to the content that they touch, while contributing to the community.' read more »
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Is this friendship? Or is it playing a game called Friendship, using someone else's words, by someone else's rules? As I remember it, friendship was never that easy.... read more »
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One not-so-smart cafe owner in San Francisco has hung a sign saying: "No Yelpers!!" Why? Apparently the cafe owner wants to discourage any (more) customers from writing bad reviews of his businesses on the site. I'm pretty sure that's not the way to read more »
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At 19, Mark Zuckerberg came up with a new way for college kids to connect—and started an online revolution. Now 23, he's trying to build out his business without losing its cool.... read more »
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It looks like Google will be rolling out an increase in Gmail and shared storage today. If they go with pricing of $1 per year, and require Google Pay to do it: it’s absolutely genius.... read more »
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Company says normal policy procedure -- not external hack -- resulted in Custom Search Blog temporarily hosting nonsensical message.. read more »
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Clipmarks seems to have found the same answer as Delicious: get bought — most likely for a small sum — by someone who needs what you made.... read more »
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So does this now make Slashdot just another one of the countless “Digg clones”? read more »
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Lorelle VanFossen is passionate. An author, travel writer and nature photographer, she also has a popular blog. Her pet peeve is online plagiarism, which she encounters nearly every day. (also look for a guest appearance from a certain Wolf in here) read more »
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Thoughts from a former top Digger who made the switch to become a paid Netscape navigator - 1 year in. Does he feel like a sell-out or proud of what he helped create? read more »
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Peter Da Vanzo thinks so but makes an important distinction: 'the important thing with directories, like with any marketing strategy, is to measure return. And that will be different for every site.

Where do you weigh in? read more »
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A subjective look at 10 Yahoo! properties (News, Messenger, Answers, etc) that are among the leaders in their particular market segment, or are particularly innovative. read more »
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"If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers," said Jimbo Wales. "I could be wrong about this, but it seems like a likely outcome." read more »
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If you're looking to keep big companies out of your business, here's a handy run-down.... read more »
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Out with the Google in with the M$. Kevin Rose just made a pre-announcement that they signed a deal with Microsoft and they will be serving ads on Digg from now on (in a similar deal to Microsoft/Facebook)... read more »
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A review of these 9 "white-label" social networking platforms: Ning, KickApps, CrowdVine, GoingOn, CollectiveX, Me.com, PeopleAggregator, Haystack, and ONEsite. read more »
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Why should Google buy Yahoo? With the exception of search, Yahoo’s strengths map to Google’s weaknesses, almost precisely. read more »
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