Submitted by Courane01
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Most business owners are interested in the marketing benefits of using social media but become quickly confused because they are trying to build friends, create fan pages, set up Twitter accounts, set up LinkedIn profiles, etc. Are you beginning to see the mistake here?The business owner (interested in marketing) has begun (Read More)
: This is a great article Charles. I really love the point about network with prospects rather than networking to get prospects. After all if you put out entertaining, enlightening, or educational content prospects will find their way back to our site where we can network till our heart's content.
ad:tech blog
Uh Oh. Seems Tuesday night at ad:tech San Francisco is getting crowded party-wise. Luckily a couple early events are right in the Moscone (West) center and the others aren’t too far away. Adding to the Affiliate Summit Beer Garden, ad:tech SFAMA Mixer, Digital Social Media Networking and Oldtimers Foundation parties is the (Read More)
Mashable!
Back in October Facebook has announced the 25 winners of fbFund, each of which has received $25,000 to develop their application further. That was only one round of fbFund; now, 5 winners have been chosen, with each receiving additional 225.000 dollars. fbFund is a 10 million dollar seed fund which is a little different tha (Read More)
Submitted by Matthew Sboc
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Updated with your recommendations on November 19th, 2008! Updates are listed in the approved comments. Need SEO, SEM, or Social Media help? Hire. (Read More)
TwitLinks
Twitter search is coming in 10 days. It would appear that Twitter will start rolling out search as an integrated feature into the homepage of Twitter for about 1% of their users. Twitter is smart to do this as it give them a relevant path to monetization and a way to enhance the service and make it easier for users to find (Read More)
: @michaelfidler I guess too many years in Enterprise software!... if I wasnt having so much fun in Enterprise Mashups right now, I may consider it :-)
Mashable!
Last night I happened across a stealth startup that’s growing quickly entitled Mr. Tweet. The site bills itself as your “personal assistant for Twitter,” but it functions as a very interesting version of Facebook’s friend finder.The site asks you for your Twitter username, and then processes your connections and the conten (Read More)
: "As an extra bonus, you also get what my nerd-biased brain can only best describe as a sort of character sheet (yes, as in something you’d find from an RPG) describing the key characteristics and generalized attributes of the potential targets of follow." >> I've got my Mr. Tweet report too. It is really a fascinating read.
Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
Young. Female. Entrepreneur.Darlings, throw your effen hands up. I’m proud of you. Not only are you a Silicon Valley Anomaly, you’re probably really hot too. And under 40.FotkiShabooya sha sha shabooya ROLL CALL! Who here is a young female entrepreneur? My fearless darlings, wear your company logo on your chest. Comment on (Read More)
TechCrunch
Erick recently wrote:We all know how tagging makes the Web a richer place (by tapping into people’s desire to categorize things and share those categories, ad-hoc though they may be, with everyone else). Tagging brings a bottoms-up order to the Web by making information more searchable and thus easier to find. Now it is tim (Read More)
: "Enter Tweetag, a brand new way to search Twitter, or ‘browse the Twittosphere’ as they put it. The app, like most Twitter-related applications, is fairly simple: you enter a tag, and Tweetag will show public Twitter messages that contain that particular keyword, but more interestingly also a list of other tags that are related to it."
Submitted by Malouie
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Some plants that were thought to be invasive species in the Galapagos Islands predate humans by thousands of years. (Read More)
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