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Online Protests force Social Network Facebook to change
Protests force Facebook to change From the BBC News – UK Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked. More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology. When Facebook users shopped online, Beacon told…
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Store adds new dimension to online shopping
From Retuers NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Consumers looking to avoid crowded malls and the tedium of online shopping can now shop in a virtual 3-dimensional store. Specialty retailer Brookstone Inc. opened the virtual doors to its 3-dimensional store, which combines a Second Life-like visual experience with real merchandise customers can buy. “The 3-D brings…
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Ad dollars flood Web, but will they go far enough?
An article from yahoo news / Reuters Ad dollars flood Web, but will they go far enough? By Paul Thomasch Fri Oct 12, 12:42 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) – Companies will spend a record $31 billion this year to advertise everything from toothpaste to home loans on the Internet, supporting countless news sites, social…
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Myspace and skype team up for internet calls through popular social network
From Reuters / Yahoo news… Tue Oct 16, 6:25 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – News Corp’s (NWSa.N) MySpace social network site and eBay Inc’s (EBAY.O) Skype will offer MySpace members free Internet calling services, executives from the companies said, in a bid by both to expand their base of users and revenue. The two…
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Online Videos Could Become Conduits for Viruses
Hopefully there will be more attention to this from spyware and antivirus companies, along with Microsoft and google and others. It is a sad state of affairs when we have Virus writers exploiting people who just want to enjoy the internet. We need to stop all this malware BS and get more and more people…
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Social networks eye the myspace phenomenon – targeted ads and privacy issues move to forefront
Social networks seems to be all buzz this year, and for good reason. There have been many social network startups, and many social network software platforms (and even more) arriving for would be myspace clones. Boing Boing has added commenting to their posts, and digg has recently added profile pages to their already social posting…
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web 2.0 boot camp from the electronic frontier foundation – EFF
From the EFF a seminar I am hoping will be recorded, edited and available on the web, for I can not afford the travel to make it out to Cali right now. It’s a great price for those who can make it, and the topics are important, with experts offering advice worth more than the…
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Young ad stars show old pros new tricks
In an article found recently via reuters / yahoo news it is finally noted that newer marketing people may sometimes be years ahead of older more established marketing people and companies. This is why I think companies should use several marketing choices to cover many possibilities, and marketing companies should employ teams of people to…
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Nashville Delivery, Courier and Limo sites
New web sites created by Global Advanced Media – www.wedelivernashville.com and http://www.nashvillelimoco.com/