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Yahoo to Cut 1,000 Jobs, and Warns on Growth – New York Times The company, however, said it planned to invest aggressively in some areas, like advertising technology and selected portions of its Internet portal, as it tries to capture a larger share of online ad dollars. S (tags: article searchenginemarketing sem searchengineadvertising internetadvertising yahoo) Bill Would Bar [...]links for 2008-01-30
Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love – New York Times Some social scientists have rediscovered the appeal of adult supervision — provided the adults have doctorates and vast caches of psychometric data. Online matchmaking has become a boom industry as rival scientists test their algorithms for finding love (tags: article socialnetworking) Wisdom of the Web – [...]Google Maps Knows All
January 29, 2008 · Categories: Citizen Marketing/Branding, Consumer Generated Media, Maps, Miscellaneous, Video · View Comments
A little geek humor. This is a cute, clever and funny short by The Vacationeers about the dangers of Google Street View:
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New site has users wager on news stories – Yahoo! News Customers will bet for fun, not money, on the outcomes of real news stories. (tags: article onlinegambling news media) Startups rush to pave way for Web video – Yahoo! News A raft of startups are rushing to supply the tools to make better and more profitable video available. (tags: [...]links for 2008-01-28
Solar Wi-Fi service won’t see light of day St. Louis Park wants to discard all of the powered-by-the-sun wireless Internet equipment that has been installed in the past year. (tags: article wifi broadband technology internetaccess twincities Minnesota solarpower wireless) Occasional Superheroine: The Demographics Of The Mainstream Comic Book Reader Male, 20-25, video-game player, disposable income, "techie," single. (tags: demographics men [...]Chop It In Half – The Dysfunction Of Large Organizations
January 26, 2008 · Categories: Organizational Dynamics · View Comments
I know this isn’t about Internet marketing but how organizations function–or fail to–has long been an interest, and complaint, of mine.
I have believed for years that once an organization reaches 100 employees, you should chop it in half. This comes to mind because of an article in today’s New York Times about the cluelessness [...]
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PR 2.0 - The Evolution of Social Media Releases The conversation about Social Media Releases (SMRs) as well as the tools to create them continue – albeit slowly. Each time someone introduces something new, we place a new stake in the ground and reignite an important conversation. (tags: pressreleaseoptimization socialmedianewsrelease media onlinepr blogpost) PR 2.0 Online public relations blog. (tags: [...]links for 2008-01-25
WordPress Plugin: Socialize Me! With the Socialize Me! Plugin for WordPress you can connect with people on services like: StumbleUpon, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Pownce, Twitter, Bebo, MySpace and many, many more. (tags: blogging socialnetworking socialbookmarking wordpress) Digital Web Magazine – How To Build A Facebook Application Whether you’re looking to make things easier for your current users, or you [...]links for 2008-01-24
Political Base – Connecting the dots of Money, Media & Politics Connecting the Dots of Money, Media & Politics in America (tags: politics campaigncontributions money democracy elections onlinepolitics) dishola (tags: foodanddrink food community restaurants reviews) Wireless wonders thrill fans at this year’s Macworld Expo – Julio Ojeda-Zapata I ventured west of the Dakotas for the first time last week, arriving in [...]All Marketers Should Read Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway_1953 Originally uploaded by kinkazzo I was explaining my three words rule to some colleagues last month as we were trying to develop some key messages for an upcoming campaign. I said I wanted each message boiled down to both a three word phrase and a one sentence message. [...]-
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David Erickson is Director of e-Strategy at Tunheim Partners strategic communications company.
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