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It's becoming a far more common story: legitimate Facebook users attempting to log in to their accounts and being greeted by a notice that the accounts have been disabled. Tony Adam documents his frustrating experience with Facebook and asks why the read more »
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Great post by Donna Fontenot that covers both prevention of and recovery from hacker intrusion, for blogs and other non-blog sites alike. read more »
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A great post by Dave (theGypsy) exploring a new Microsoft search patent that aims to identify link spam using temporal tracking.

Very interesting! read more »
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he he... Maki worked the word 'Plurk' into the title.....

DoshDosh - You can keep on thinking of ways to leverage a new social channel like Plurk, but don’t forget: In the end, people market people. If these lifestreaming/microblogging sites hel read more »
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"When I was asked if I was “plurking yet”, I thought it had something to do with baby vomit. But no, it is once again another Web 2.0 name and once again another lifestreaming service that tries to imitate Twitter, while at the same time it tries to read more »
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Well hey... why not a little more of this Plurkin' action huh? Some musings from our fav social mom!

— Social Media Mom - I am totally hooked. Plurk is by far, more fun, more colorful and more interactive than Twitter and since Twitter has had so read more »
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Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and w read more »
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Muhammad Saleem via ReadWriteWeb - When I first heard about Plurk I was ready to hate it. But after using the site and comprehensively going over the feature set and its implementation I am thoroughly impressed. Ultimately, I think Plurk is an amazi read more »
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Paul does it once again equating certain industry figures to action heros ... who would each be? Michael Gray, Dan Thies, Hamlet Batista, Joost de Valk, Lee Odden, and more.

Very comical! read more »
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How to make people click your links on Twitter. read more »
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A list of blackhats who take no prisoner. read more »
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Social networking marketers have long been vying for an answer to all of their wrong password woes. With social networks popping up everywhere you look, so has the need for easy accessibility amongst multiple platforms. All this is about to change, read more »
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Guest post from Steven Bradley (aka VanGogh) delving deeper into the qualitative aspects of Social Media Marketing - great post and the threat of violence too!!

Snip - Focusing on your ROI efficiency and your rate of benefit is a better approach read more »
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Your avatar is the first thing that catches attention, make sure not to lose out on that. read more »
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Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. read more »
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Google appears to be testing new displays of paid search ads with URLs above ad copy rather than below in certain regions. See screenshots. read more »
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We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is only natural that you woul read more »
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Since the small list of general SEO ones I previously published was received well, I figured I would create a download of some of the ones I find to be great tools in my link development efforts. I can't give them all away, but anyone who spends a l read more »
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Marty Weintraub takes a look at FaceBook's strategy of taking on Google by marketing to Google’s very best foot solders and salespeople….search marketing professionals.

This could get interesting, stay tuned... read more »
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The online community has been in an uproar since the news that someone is in the process of obtaining a trademark for the term “SEO.” Jason Gambert of Modern Consulting Solutions has gained approval from the Trademark Office and is now moving toward read more »
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During this past week’s Diggnation podcast, Kevin Rose offered up some insight into the Digg algorithm which may or may not be the most eye-opening of revelations. It’s something that I figured out pretty quickly and that is that there is an element read more »
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This post analyzes some of the differences between the average Digg user and the typical user of a niche social media site, like Sphinn, as well as how this applies to marketers/bloggers. read more »
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Becoming an authority site is a lofty goal, but with the right amount of dedication and expertise, you can achieve it. Building authority means staying on top of news, networking and proving that you know your stuff better than anyone else in your n read more »
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Already you can tell this will be a different kind of post for me. Before I begin my curmudgeoned polemic, let me state for the record: Overall I LOVE the internet. I love how it empowers, entertains, enables, etc. I believe it is the most powerful read more »
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Compete's analysis of where affluent Americans go online includes some of Sphinn's favourite names. read more »
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