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TopBrasil-helphaiti
old @TopBrasil-txatatxa (#HELPHAITI) - Nome alterado para a tag ser vista pelo mundo todo.

Followers
97,968

Following
8

  by rafadefine
  Brasil, São Paulo - SP
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Team

Followers
75,682

Following
216

  by twitter
  San Francisco, CA
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all

Followers
13,573

Following
88

  by NBCOlympics
  Vancouver
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Mashable

Followers
7,773

Following
22

  by mashable
  Scotland / SF
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most influential in tech
People who make stuff happen in and to the technology industry.

Followers
6,061

Following
245

  by Scobleizer
  Half Moon Bay, California, USA
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social media

Followers
5,352

Following
94

  by mashable
  Scotland / SF
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Tech News Brands
The most complete list of tech news sources (from the BBC tech pages to TechCrunch).

Followers
4,966

Following
494

  by Scobleizer
  Half Moon Bay, California, USA
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qccast

Followers
3,847

Following
12

  by jephjacques
  thousands of tiny birds
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Design Links
Pretty much all the #design links you will ever need! Turn off your RSS!

Followers
3,598

Following
96

  by imrogb
  Leipzig, Germany
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marketing

Followers
3,047

Following
51

  by mashable
  Scotland / SF
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Foursquare Privacy - Let local businesses see that I've checked-in at their venue

Let local businesses see that I've checked-in at their venue

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Check your foursquare.com settings. Do you want local businesses to track your check ins at their establishment? Foursquare says: "We allow verified venue owners to see statistics about checkins at their venue. These stats include recent visitors, most frequent visitors and most popular checkin times. You can always opt out if you'd rather not share this data with the venues you visit."

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How the Chinese Internet Needs to Up Its Game - Baidu Keyword Cost Up Tenfold

But I underestimated one big thing: The impact that the lack of Google would have on China’s Web businesses. By essentially handing Baidu a short-term monopoly on keywords, user acquisition costs have gone through the roof, infuriating many of the people who were originally sympathetic to Google’s case just a few months ago. “They should have just not come into the market to begin with if this is how they were going to act”: if I heard that statement once in the last two weeks I spent in China, I heard it a dozen times.

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Business Catalyst Templates - Buy Templates for Adobe Business Catalyst Website Design

Business Catalyst Templates

Need a Business Catalyst website but aren't ready to pay for a custom design? Consider purchasing a Business Catalyst Template - a professionally designed pre-made website that we can customize and tweak to make it unique and match your business or organization's brand.

Business Catalyst Template Websites start at $1499 for a 10 page website fully integrated into Business catalyst including unlimited page creation and blog posts, email newsletter, dynamic menus and more.

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Good source of cheap website templates for Adobe Business Catalyst from Online Business Guys http://onlinebusinessguys.com/business-catalyst-templates/index

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Facebook Firehose Comes to Bing - Bing Social Media Marketing & Real Time Search Results

Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Bing search engine announced today the launch of a new social portal that will produce real-time results from both Facebook and Twitter. The site, which will be live later today, will be found at bing.com/social and will be "the first search experience integrating the full Facebook firehose," according to Microsoft.

Bing has featured a Twitter portal for social search, and by adding Facebook results the search engine is stepping up its real-time search game to include results from both services. The Facebook results include both information from public pages, as well as popular shared links from users with appropriate privacy settings for public sharing. Bing also helps you quickly scan the social links by including an excerpt from the link in context within the results.

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Bing Social Search - Experimenting

brentpurves How long will it take for this Twitter post to show up in the new Bing Social Search Results? #bing http://ow.ly/1XoQP 2 minutes ago via HootSuite

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Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Bing search engine announced today the launch of a new social portal that will produce real-time results from both Facebook and Twitter. The site, which will be live later today, will be found at bing.com/social and will be "the first search experience integrating the full Facebook firehose," according to Microsoft.

Bing has featured a Twitter portal for social search, and by adding Facebook results the search engine is stepping up its real-time search game to include results from both services. The Facebook results include both information from public pages, as well as popular shared links from users with appropriate privacy settings for public sharing. Bing also helps you quickly scan the social links by including an excerpt from the link in context within the results.

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Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed

In an effort to remove the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links.

In a blog post aptly titled Links and Twitters: Length Shouldn’t Matter, Twitter’s Sean Garrett announced that the company is taking a new approach to URLs. Not only will all links on Twitter.com and Twitter apps be “wrapped” in t.co links, but how they are counted against the 140 character limit. These change will occur throughout the summer.

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20 Interesting Things: Foursquare Marketing Case Studies

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Geo-location based services seems to be growing at an exponential rate. Much like the early days of micro-blogging, there is a crowded playing field as various platforms compete for user attention. Foursquare is not the biggest of these services, but they seem to be in the early stages of separating from the pack with some of the smart marketing partnerships they have made. This deck serves as a quick introduction to Foursquare and explores some of the marketing efforts that brands are already pioneering in this space.

20 Interesting Things: Foursquare

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White Label Internet Marketing and Social Media Marketing For Ad Agencies & Web Developers Jun 3, 2010 1:29pm by Stir Solutions Are you an ad agency or web developer looking for an Internet marketing agency that offers whitelabel services to outsource your internet marketing, social media marketing or search engine marketing? Got a client looking for Facebook or Twitter or Google PPC advertising and need a reliable professional internet marketing firm who can work under your brand? Contact StirSolutions.com today at http://stirsolutions.com/contact and see our services here http://stirsolutions.com/services Amplify’d from www.stirsolutions.com For Ad Agencies We are pleased to white-label our services to work directly with your team and your clients. We are a confidential, professional and trustworthy team that you can bring into your meetings or keep behind the scenes. Read more at www.stirsolutions.com

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Stir Solutions offers white labelled internet marketing, social media and web development solutions and consulting.

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Social Media Launch Pad - Do you use Social Media to beta launch or test products or services?

Going beta isn’t just for the tech industry anymore. In tech, it’s common for an incomplete version to be rolled out months—sometimes years—before the official release. The idea behind going beta is that consumer feedback can improve a product and avoid potential missteps. But in the past two years or so, various marketers outside the segment, including Ford, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo and Kellogg, have adopted the practice by, in effect, releasing beta versions of their products or at least their marketing campaigns in an effort to solicit customer feedback and build buzz.

Recently, social media has become the launch pad for several products, including:

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Social Media Ad Spending Lags - Social Media Advertising - Facebook, Twitter, iPhone

Social media use is exploding, but ad spending in the sector continues to be a blip on the radar for most brands.

  Razorfish, one of the largest digital ad spenders, compiled data on its 2009 digital ad spending. It found that social media display advertising made up just 3 percent of its clients' budgets. Non-display in social media accounted for another 1 percent. The figures pale in comparison to the time spent online. According to comScore, U.S. Internet users spent 11 percent of their time online in 2011 on social media sites.

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Retailers Boost Use of Online Videos - Video Internet Marketing

Retailers are responding to the growing appetite for online videos by adding them to their Web sites to both differentiate themselves from competitors as well as to keep up with what consumers expect from their online shopping experience.
 
The top 50 U.S. online retailers that offer videos jumped 378 percent in 2009 over the year before, according to a Forrester Research study, "Online Retailers' Adoption of Online Video Content Is Ahead of Consumers' Preferences," published in November 2009. Last year, more than two-thirds of the biggest online retailers hosted videos.

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testing posterous.

testing posterous.

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Shoutlet - social media communication platform for social media marketers

Create, distribute, track, and engage with video, polls, text messaging, podcasts, RSS, e-mail, and more all through one multi-user application designed specifically for marketers.

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Exploring Shoutlet. Have you tried it?

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PostRank™ Analytics - Real Time Social Monitoring

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Constant Contact Acquires NutshellMail to Move into Social Media Marketing

E-mail marketing giant Constant Contact has acquired NutshellMail, a service that lets businesses track and post updates to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn via e-mail.

via mashable.com

It's a mashed up world where pretty much everything will be social media enabled -- so much so that we'll soon stop calling it social media because most sites and tools online will come socialmediafied by default.

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Combine Social Media and E-Mail Marketing - Grow Your Audience

Social media and e-mail marketing work differently.
Social media gives public conversations a forum. Anyone with an opinion, content or a link to share can join the conversation. It's fast, fluid, timely and interactive. It's also fleeting. That's where social media and e-mail communications differ. Your posts on social media websites flow downstream with all the other messages. If you tweet in the morning and your customer logs on in the afternoon, that follower may miss out on what you had to say.

On the other hand, e-mail offers a more intimate level of contact with your customers. When someone opens your e-mail newsletter, you have a quiet moment of her time.

via entrepreneur.com

These are five great, basic tips to be where your customers are, use your email lists to build your social media presence, repurpose your content, and use social media to invite people to your website or blog or to sign up for your email newsletter.

Cross pollinate and milk your content for all it's worth in all of your channels. If you write something ask yourself where else you can use that same content in the same or slightly revised format or context or medium.

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Apple iPad Launches Internationally (But Lacks Snacks Inside)

Although it came early to an address or two yesterday, Apple’s “magical” tablet is officially available today in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

via mashable.com

Soon maybe the backs of cereal boxes will be touch screens something like the ipad screen adn then kids can play games via wifi against each other on their own boxes of cereal at the kitchen table, and on the bus on the way to school. An ipad with sugar snacks inside. Now you're talking.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Google Local Listings

In my “teenage internet marketing years” when I was first playing around with local listings, I experimented with many things that might not exactly be 100% down the whitehat trail of happiness. Now, I am much older, much wiser, much worse looking, and I have been able to determine a few practices that might be tempting for some, but to me they are 7 deadly sins that will ultimately lead down a path of destruction for your local listing.

via searchenginejournal.com

1. Stuffing Your Business Title With Keywords
2. Putting Location Keywords in your Categories
3. Using a P.O. Box For Your Business Address
4. Using a call tracking number
5. Faking Reviews
6. Hiding Your Address
7. Stuffing your description with duplicate information

Need help with getting your business listed in Google Local listings? Contact Vancouver marketing consultant Brent Purves at http://www.brentpurves.com or email brent[at]stirgroup.com today

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Twitter Blog: Twitter for iPhone

Comprehensive analysis of the Twitter user experience in the iTunes App Store showed very plainly that people were looking for an app from Twitter—we didn't have one so they generally got confused and gave up. Obviously, we saw room for improvement. Starting today, Twitter for iPhone and iPod touch is available for free on the iTunes App Store.

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Make content 'good enough to steal,' Maggie Fox tells Mesh | Marketer News

The objective should be to create "social objects—things worth spreading, things worth sharing," said Fox. Sometimes that content has to be created by the brand, but other times consumers are creating it for you. Videos, blog posts... it should all be viewed as content to build your brand, she said. 

"It just has to be good. It just has to better… People don't get tired of good."

But just as important as creating good content and taking advantage of earned content created by consumers, is sharing the content quickly and effectively.

via marketingmag.ca

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Google Wave: Now open to the public | Deep Tech - CNET News

Google Wave, a Web-based tool to let people chat and collaborate in real time, is now open to the public.

The Google service brought a social dimension when it arrived with much fanfare a half year ago, but in that domain, it was overshadowed by Google Buzz. Buzz, built directly into the widely used Gmail, had a much better built-in user base from the start.

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Official Google Enterprise Blog: Putting email in context with Gmail contextual gadgets

Contextual gadgets in Gmail – like YouTube, Google Docs and Picasa previews – intelligently display relevant information from other systems as you read your email, so you can be more efficient without leaving your inbox.

Starting today, third party developers can build Gmail contextual gadgets and distribute them in the Google Apps Marketplace. These gadgets can display information from social networks, business services, web applications and other systems, and users can interact with that data right within Gmail.

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PolicyTool for Social Media

PolicyTool is a policy generator that simplifies the process of creating guidelines that respect the rights of your employees while protecting your brand online.*

It's easy. The streamlined process simply requires you to answer a brief questionnaire and provides you with a complete Social Media Policy customized to your company.

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Nice simply social media policy tool builder. You can try it and just put junk into the fields to see what the end product looks like.

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Social Media For Business - Foursquare and Gowalla universal check-in macro geo-location social shopping

While Gowalla and Foursquare checking in and gathering badges and become a place-mayor is still a novelty, many businesses can take advantage of check-in incentives as an additional way to lure the tech-savvy to their establishment. What happens, however, when nearly every store in a shopping mall offers something free if you're their Foursquare mayor or offers virtual Gowalla goodies redeemable for real stuff? Will people take the time to open those different social apps to explore what check-in incentives exist at each store they like? Will a geo-location macro hybrid app that runs on most mobile devices that lists all participating stores in the the whole shopping mall (or nationwide) make it easier for people if, say, when an opted-in app-user came within a short distance of the shopping area the app pushed a text message announcing available deals for stores of interest? What apps have you seen to date that are trying to accomplish this? Perhaps both Foursquare and/or Gowalla will add functionality of this nature and make it much easier not only for customers to use to find businesses offering incentives, but also for small businesses to buy into geo-location incentive marketing campaigns.

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Tools For Businesses On Foursquare - Social Media Marketing for Business

Should your business join Foursquare?

The answer depends on what type of business you are and the demographic of your customer. Local consumer oriented busineses that depend on foot traffic will get the most out of Foursquare, especially if your customers are gadget-friendly, smart phone owners. However, your business has to be something that people want to tell others about. It might be pretty hard to get someone to check in to a dry cleaner store, but if you offer check in incentives (like dry cleaning coupons), Foursquare just might work for you.

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Need assistance with using Foursquare, Gowalla and other geo-location mobile apps for your business or non profit marketing campaign? Contact social media marketing consultant Brent Purves in Vancouver Canada at brent[at]stirgroup.com today http://www.BrentPurves.com and http://www.StirGroup.com

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Facebook SEO: 5 Ways To Improve Your Facebook SEO - Facebook Page Custom FBML Landing Page Design

With reports that Facebook sees more traffic than Google, it makes sense that many SMB owners are getting serious about setting up shop on the hip social networking site. Facebook pages are often being used in lieu of a real Web site (which I’d caution against) or as a business’ second home on the Web. With all the opportunities that Facebook provides for small business owners, it’s important that you take the proper steps to increase your SEO efforts on the site. 

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Need assistance optimizing your facebook page for search engines? Need a company to design and program a custom FBML Facebook landing page for your facebook PPC advertising campaign or just to improve your Facebook page's professional appeal? Contact Brent Purves at brent[at]stirgroup.com today http://www.BrentPurves.com in Vancouver Canada for a free Facebook marketing consultation.

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New AdWords ID Data in Google Analytics API - Got any great ideas for mashups between adwords and analytics APIs?

Google Analytics helps marketers measure the performance of their ad campaigns. By linking Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, advertisers get a detailed picture of the performance of their ad creatives and keywords. Manually optimizing campaigns works well for the top 100 or 1000 keywords, but can be a challenge for the 1000+ keywords in the long tail.

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Got any great ideas for mashups between adwords and analytics APIs?

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Credit Card Scanner Square Comes to iPhone - (not avail in CDN iTunes Store yet)

Square is a mobile credit card transaction application founded by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. The app became available for the iPad about one month ago, and now it’s also available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices.

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3D Television Coming Whether You Want it Or Not

the first three-dimensional televisions are appearing in stores. Some of them come with a free Blu-ray disc of “Monsters v Aliens”, which serves as a reminder that the path of human progress is not always predictable. Yet TV programme-makers and media firms reckon that the technology will prove epochal nonetheless.

via economist.com

I'd guess that 3d tv & movies will soon become as commonplace as color in television or wifi in coffee shops or street-corner hot dog stands with their own Twitter accounts. Mix all of these things together and you might just have something...

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Yahoo's New Ad Disses Google. (It isn't working for me -- all my junk in one place in a big pile? Sometimes (very often) I just want search and nothing to distract me from search

Yahoo launched a new $75-$85 million ad campaign (a subset of the $100 million campaign CEO Carol Bartz launched last year) that positions Yahoo as the single destination for all your online needs. Its slogan: “Your favorite stuff all in one place. Make Yahoo your home page.” Its first target: Google.

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Bing Adds Facebook, Twitter Sharing To Shopping

There are a number of “social shopping” sites and, of course, numerous product or shopping-related blogs. Among the most visible in the first category are Kaboodle, ThisNext/Stylehive and Polyvore. They offer tools and features that allow people to share, compare and vote on products. The mainstream shopping comparison engines such as Shopping.com or PriceGrabber don’t fully enter into this realm, although Shopping.com is giving away an iPad if you become a “fan” on Facebook:

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Microsoft Announces Social Aggregator - (Facebook, Twitter, Bing etc)

Lili Cheng, General Manager of Microsoft's Fuse Labs, announced the debut of Spindex, the company's stab at a dynamic social media aggregation tool.

Aimed at bringing together the varied strands of a personal web at each point of a user's online experience, Spindex is currently only available in a tech preview.

via readwriteweb.com

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All Google Services To Be Available on Google Apps Later This Year

At Google Atmosphere last month, Google Apps President David Girouard said that the company gets lots of requests to open more apps from the Google portfolio.

Google responded to those requests today and later this Fall will make available all Google services for Google Apps customers. No date was set. The apps include Blogger, Google Reader, Google News and others.

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Save the date, June 17 – Launch Party Vancouver 9 « Bootup Entrepreneurial Society

Are you ready for the next Launch Party!?
We had hoped to do LPV9 in January but with the Olympics, we had a hard time locking down a venue that was central and could accommodate all of us without breaking the bank. BUT we are excited to announce that we FINALLY found one!  The Roundhouse in Yaletown has approved our application to hold the next Launch Party there on Thursday, June 17th, 2010. It will be a great way to kick off the summer season and celebrate the best new startups of 2010.

Superheroes Wanted!
We are looking for the best Internet startups around to apply to show-off their wares at LPV9.  If accepted, there is no cost at all for you to demo and participate in the event.

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Coordinate for Efficiency and Accuracy with HootSuite Assignments - Social Media Tools

Many customer service groups, support desks, and collaborative teams depend on social networks as a primary way to manage requests. With HootSuite’s new assignment feature, these teams can ensure all messages are handled quickly and efficiently by the correct personnel. When implemented, these tools will help teams assist customers and clients more quickly, more accurately, and with less redundancy.

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Broadcast TV And Web Media Sites Winning In Online Video, Twitter Users Most Engaged

In a joint report put out today by Brightcove and Tubemogul (embedded below), the non-YouTube sites seeing the most success with online video are those of the broadcast TV networks and Web-only media brands, followed by magazine sites and music labels. Newspaper sites are lagging when it comes to both total video views and growth.

In terms of how people are finding these videos, a little more than half (51.75 percent) are navigating directly from the publisher’s main site. Following that, Google search is the next biggest source of video-viewing traffic (38.92 percent), followed by Yahoo (5.58 percent), Bing (2.29 percent) and Facebook barely registers (with only 0.40 percent). Twitter is even smaller, but people who find videos are more engaged than any of these other sources of traffic, on average watching videos longer across different media categories.

via techcrunch.com

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New Reason to Submit Businesses to Google Maps: Google Navigator and Personal Information Management Integration?

If you have a business where you want customers to visit in person, and you haven’t added and/or verified that business in Google Maps, you may want to consider doing so. You can do this regardless of whether you have a web site or not.

The Google Navigator system that Google has developed for mobile phones allows people to navigate to destinations in their cars

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8 Things I Wish I Knew When Starting My First Business

If you are afraid of something that you aren’t too familiar with, suck it up and deal with it. The worse that can happen is that you’ll stumble along the way.

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With Bumptop, Google Gains Multi-Touch Ammo - PCWorld

Google just landed some impressive 3D desktop software in its purchase of Bump Technologies, but a looming patent battle with Apple suggests that Google also had BumpTop's multi-touch technology on the brain when it gobbled up the company.

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Consumer Reports: Half of Social Network Users are "Oversharing," on Facebook, Twitter, Endangering Privacy

Those who "overshare" online - posting personal information like full names, children's names, home addresses and details about when they're away from home - are "especially vulnerable," notes the report.

To counteract these dangers, Consumer Reports made the following seven suggestions of things you should stop doing on Facebook:

1. Using a weak password
2. Listing a full birth date
3. Overlooking privacy controls
4. Posting a child's name in a caption
5. Mentioning being away from home
6. Letting yourself be found by a search engine
7. Permitting youngsters to use Facebook unsupervised

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Posting from Email to Posterous to Twitter all from inside Gmail

I'm writing this email in Gmail to my special Posterous email address. It automatically posts to Posterous, along with whatever attachments I've included in my email, and then Posterous automatically posts the email Subject and first 140 characters to Twitter.

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Vancouver Tech Jobs of the Week

Here are five job opportunities that caught our eye on the Techvibes Job Board this week. Check out the full job descriptions and be sure to apply if you're interested.

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Rogers Social View – What’s In A Name | AndroidGuys

Most recent Canadian Mobile news has rumoured a new service called Social View from Rogers Wireless. Up until now, no one could figure out what it was, although we all could safely assume it had something to do with amalgamation of social networking services. Here is the official description:

a built-in feature of these exclusive smartphones that brings together, in real-time, your contacts’ updates from popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. It also includes a display of recent traditional communications such as texts, calls and instant messages from your contacts. Right in the contact list!

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LinkedIn Quick Tip: How to Use "Company Follow" - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

LinkedIn announced today a new feature, similar to Facebook's fan pages, that lets you "follow" companies on the professional networking site and keep track of their key developments, potential business opportunities and job leads. This tool is especially helpful for job seekers who want to keep tabs on businesses to which they've applied, and for businesses looking to monitor their competitors' announcements.

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What Social Media Will Look Like in 2012 - Advertising Age - DigitalNext

Here are the top 11 predictions for what social media will look like in 2012 (based on a full presentation which is available on my blog). Some of these items exist today in their early stages, but this list is about what I believe will become the norm in 2012. Ultimately, share of voice, point of view and community influence will be more important than brand ownership -- and marketers will need to get over it if they want to stay relevant in 2012.

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WSJ: Google TV to be announced in May – SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs

Google is trying to bring the Web to your living room.

The search engine giant plans next month to unveil a new software package to help developers better display the internet on TV sets, according to the Wall Street Journal, which quotes unnamed sources familiar with the announcement.

Google TV, an android-based software platform, has drawn interest from TV makers, the Journal says.

Google is expected to break the news at the Google's I/O conference, which will be held May 19 and 20 in San Francisco, California, the newspaper reports.

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Posterous Starts Automatically Inserting Affiliate Links Into Sites, Forgets To Tell Users

We’ve been tracking super-simple publishing service Posterous

for quite a while now, and for the most part they’ve turned us into big fans. Unfortunately, they’ve just committed a fairly serious blunder. In a post earlier today, one Posterous user stumbled

across the fact that his site was automatically converting all of his links to affiliate links using VigLink

. There isn’t anything sinister about VigLink — the service helps publishers generate revenue without having to manually insert affiliate links themselves, and has received funding from Google Ventures, First Round Capital, and some prominent angel investors. But Posterous neglected to inform its users that it was starting to monetize all of their links, which is a breach of user trust.

Co-founder Sachin Agarwal agrees — in a phone interview he conceded that Posterous should definitely have informed users about the change (they’re currently drafting a statement about the incident). Agarwal says that Posterous has actually been testing the VigLink integration for months, which means the links have gone unnoticed for quite a while. But he says it’s just an experiment, and that Posterous hasn’t decided if it’s going to be keeping them in the long-term (though he agrees they should have informed users regardless).

Agarwal also says that if Posterous does wind up permanently integrating VigLink, users won’t have to take part in the program. And there’s an upside: once they’ve built the infrastructure to support it, Posterous has plans to allow its users to generate revenue from links on their own blogs, which could actually drive more people to start using the publishing platform.

It’s worth pointing out that while VigLink will convert any normal links to affiliate links whenever possible, it will ignore any links that are already connected to affiliate programs (in other words, it doesn’t overwrite existing affiliate links).

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Posterous

Website:	posterous.com
Location:	San Francisco, California, United States
Founded:	May, 2008
Funding:	$5.14M

Posterous is a Y Combinator startup that was founded in mid 2008. It’s a simple web publishing platform via email. Text and files can be uploaded to the site via email.

Users are not required to create an account… Learn More

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Advice From Founders Who Bootstrapped Their Way to Success

In my last post, I discussed why the odds of a rookie entrepreneur getting seed financing from a VC are very slim. The reality is that less than 5% of venture money goes to seed-stage startups; VCs typically invest when a company has a working product, a tested business model, and a strong management team. It’s the entrepreneurs who take the risk; not the VCs. They beg and borrow money from friends and family, max out their credit cards, and sometimes make do by living at home with their parents. Yet, very often, it’s the VCs who get the glory.

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Next2News wins TheNextWeb Startup Rally | VentureBeat

Over 20 startups presented at TheNextWeb startup rally in Amsterdam this week, and the overall winner was Next2News, a Dutch startup launched this month that allows advertisers to target specific articles on which they want to display their ads.

Next2News is designed to allow anyone to run their own online ad campaign and currently has partnerships which several national Dutch publications. The newspaper adds a “your ad here” button to each article, and this effectively gives the publication its own self-service network.

via venturebeat.com

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Will city life end privacy? | Center for Investigative Reporting [Online Reputation Management]

It’s already the case that major areas of our lives are intruded upon by surveillance technology, frequently, we’re told, for improved public safety and convenience. But Governing magazine this month examines what a fully wired city might look like. “City 2.0” or the “sentient city” could virtually sense every move you make and the environment around you. Many of the technologies sound perfectly innocuous, but others don’t so much.

via centerforinvestigativereporting.org

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HootSuite for iPhone Update with Translation, Facebook & Geo-location Social Media

This release adds the ability to translate Twitter and Facebook messages on the fly — in 50+ languages! Additionally, users can update Facebook accounts, compose Twitter messages in landscape view, share geo-location info, “reply-to-all” with one click, and “Bump™” iPhones to follow one another.

via blog.hootsuite.com

This great hootsuite toolset keeps getting better.

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More relevant traffic estimates now in the updated Keyword Tool - Inside AdWords - Free Google Keyword Search Tool

In late September, we launched a beta version of the updated Keyword Tool. This tool is a new, streamlined way for you to identify additional keywords and add them to your account. Previously, we offered two distinct tools to expand your keyword list. The Keyword Tool generated keywords based on the content of the URL, words or phrases you entered into the tool. The Search-based Keyword Tool gave you insight into keywords that you may have been missing out on by identifying actual Google searches that were relevant to your site’s landing pages. Now, with the updated Keyword Tool, you can search by words or phrases, websites, and even categories (where available) to receive the results of both the Keyword Tool and the Search-based Keyword Tool in one central location.

via adwords.blogspot.com

This is a great free tool for helping you find popular keyword search phrases. Don't just guess what you think people might be searching for related to your business or services, make sure you take the time to do detailed keyword research. Starting with this free Google keyword tool is a good first step.

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Why Is a Russian Billionaire Gobbling Up the Internet? - Business - The Atlantic

In just five years, a Russian venture capital firm has amassed quite a portfolio of the Internet's hottest companies.

Digital Sky Technologies said this week it is taking the ICQ instant messaging service off of AOL's hands for $187.5 million, but it isn't the first time the small, four-partner firm has made social media headlines. Last May, DST bought a $300 million stake in Facebook. The company was also the key investor when social game maker Zynga raised $180 million in December and social coupon site Groupon raised $135 million this month.

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Portal Ads Remain Effective - Online Media Purchasing

Even though portals tend to be less central than they used to be, they are still highly valuable to online advertisers. For example, brand marketers looking for robust reach continue to spend significantly on portal sites.

via adweek.com

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AdMob opens the gates to other mobile ad networks | VentureBeat - Apple iAd for iPhone and iPad

Mobile ad network AdMob, a San Mateo, Calif. startup that Google hopes to acquire as soon as the FTC approves the deal, has removed two major restrictions in hopes of broadening its customer base.

First, it has enabled support ahead of time for Apple’s iAd system that will serve ads to iPhones and iPads. They did this by complying with confidential rules and restrictions Apple has provided. AdMob customers will be able to use both AdMob’s network and iAd.

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Facebook: Into the Open Graph - The Day the Internet Went Social - Social Internet Marketing

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't shy away from grand promises. At the release of Facebook's ill-fated Beacon content-sharing platform in November 2007, he called it a once-in-a-century shift in media. Last week, he made another grand pronouncement, this time when introducing Open Graph, Facebook's audacious plan to serve as the de facto social operating system for the Internet. The new system, he said, is "the most transformative thing we've ever done for the Web.

via brandweek.com

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PressDoc · Dynamic & Interactive Social Media Releases

Write, edit and publish your own social media release online and share it with journalist, bloggers and your clients.

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Facebook Privacy Changes: 5 Can't-Miss Facts

Keeping track of Facebook's ongoing updates, upgrades and changes—and how they affect your privacy—can be confusing and frustrating. We've sorted through the new wrinkles for you. Here's a list of five essential privacy settings you should review now and tweak accordingly to ensure your information remains safe.

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AOL Preps Ad Management Tool Ad Desk - Campaign Management Platform for Midsize Agencies and Advertisers

AOL has unveiled Advertising.com Ad Desk, a new campaign management platform aimed at midsize agencies and advertisers.

Ad Desk will allow display advertisers to take a more active role in their online ad campaigns. They’ll be able to access information (such as demographics and audience size) on AOL’s various properties, and make decisions on how and when campaigns should run -- without having to go through AOL’s sales force.

via adweek.com

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Location-Based Ads a Goldmine, Says Survey - 50% of Users Take Action - Mobile location-based advertising

Although the privacy issues surrounding Facebook's new, opt-out only data sharing policies are making people uncomfortable, one area where folks are apparently happy to have their private data shared is on their mobile phones. And by private data, we mean exact GPS coordinates. Coordinates that are shared with software developers, ad networks and location-based service providers in return for free location-based mobile applications and geo-targeted ads.

In fact, one in four U.S. adults use mobile location-based services

via readwriteweb.com

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Google Attempts to Explain Its Spy Cars. Again. - Online Privacy & Online Identity Protection

TeleAtlas and Bing (as well as something called the Fraunhofer Institute, Skyhook* and NavTeq) harvest similar information. For those concerned with excessive gathering of invasive personal information, or aggregated information that can, with massaging, become invasive, I'm not sure the fact that others are doing it will be terribly comforting.

The major fear seems to be using technical data to link geographical data with personal locations.

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