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The energy levels are high, partly due to the energy of the Moniker guys. These guys are UP BEAT and doing a good job. The room has plenty of empty seats in the front 10 rows, but the back is full of “lurkers”. read more »
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According to the WSJ and Bloomberg, Yahoo thinks it’s going to reject Microsoft’s Takeover offer. read more »
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Jake explains how we should all be leveraging our offline advertising to go to specific targeted online ads. read more »
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SezWho has teamed up with BlogCatalog, a social network of sorts for bloggers, to distribute its comment reputation system to BlogCatalog members. read more »
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Yahoo reported their Q4 earnings and revenue today. While their revenues are up and their net income per diluted share slightly beat expectations, as reported by Business Week their shares have fallen 10% in after hours trading. read more »
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Jason Calacanis has announced an expansion to the Mahalo social platfrom that allows users to access most major social networking sites within Mahalo itself. read more »
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The SEMPO Institute Fundamentals SEM course is designed for people who are new to the search industry and those who have been in traditional marketing and are now opening up to search marketing as a new career. read more »
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Google started promoting their Experimental Search product more actively last week. This week, they’re making the formal announcement of new views in Experimental Search—with a familiar-sounding rationale. read more »
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Now we have Tweetmeme, which will track what’s hot on micro-blogging platform Twitter. The business of tracking the online conversation just a got shot in the arm with the tech equivalent of crack cocaine. read more »
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An open letter to Twitter explaining why they need to be transparent and other topics to make Twitter a better community. read more »
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We all had to ask as comScore and Nielsen reported their numbers for December, with Google losing search market share. read more »
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In what first was seen by the search and branding community as the perfect mix of Yahoo’s social properties and advertising, Yahoo has now discontinued its Yahoo Brand Universe initiative, exactly one year after its birth. read more »
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More and more recruiters are turning to Google as part of their due diligence efforts for hiring decisions. The article quotes a couple of incidents where potential employers backed away from offering a job, once they Googled the candidate read more »
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From the page: With pretty much everyone from Valleywag to TechCrunch talking about Digg’s $300m price tag (which may or may not be true but recent site changes to increase pageviews make me a believer) I started wondering why this huge, popular web read more »
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Google is planning to impose a sandbox delay on the monetization of new domains. Domains less than 5 day sold will not be able to monetize with AdSense. Jay suggests that this will “kill” the practice of Domain Tasting, something many in the Interne read more »
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Search queries on Google and other search engines for informational terms dealing with “tech support”, “how to…” and “trouble shooting” have been constant and traffic driving queries for years and are ripe for the picking for those who can fully opt read more »
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Shhh did you hear that? Nah me neither, it's just the sound of Yahoo doing nothing. Anyone else notice how Yahoo has been eerily quiet as of late? Seriously, earth to Yahoo, where are you? read more »
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The rumor that started over the weekend about Yahoo’s impending plan to layoff hundreds of Yahoo staff worldwide seems to be getting stronger than bleaker.

How would the layoff of hundreds of people effect you? read more »
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Myspace continues to be the stop social network site. You’d think Facebook would over pass Myspace by now, but that is still not the case. Myspace increased its traffic by 9% since last year. read more »
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Darren polled ProBlogger readers about their favorite place to blog.

Where is your favorite place to blog?

Mine is anyplace I can get away and be in a quiet location. read more »
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Randall explains why blocking the robots is not enough. read more »
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Performancing is looking for some help.
If you are interested or know of someone that is, skip on over and give them a shout. read more »
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John Andrews is at it again...

You must read this to see what he is doing read more »
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Now there is plenty of room for bloggers to blog in their own voice/style - but quite a bit of the advice in this post left me wondering what type of blog a blogger would build if they took all of the advice in it. read more »
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When the commercial interests and / or 'huge money' discover the potential of these networks, will they instantly become corrupt?

Does it all come down to the integrity of its community? read more »
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