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Online Ad Revenue Tops $10 Billion
Internet advertising revenues reached $10.9 billion in the first half of 2009, a 5 percent decline from the same time in 2008,…
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Watch: Newark Mayor Beefs with Conan O’Brien Via YouTube
Conan O'Brien, the host of NBC's The Tonight Show has been engaging in something of a feud with the mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Conan made a joke about Newark, and Mayor Cory Booker retaliated via YouTube.
An Equation for Getting More Traffic from Twitter
Back in June, Hubspot shared data, which indicated that about one and a half percent of all tweets were retweets. I'd be surprised if that number hasn't increased in the last few months. More people are adopting Twitter and becoming familiar with the Twitter culture. More tools have come out, which cater to the easy re-tweet. More sites have adopted retweet buttons, such as the…
Sick “Should Obama Be Killed?” Poll Created by Minor
Update: The poll was found to have been created by a minor, and determined to be a prank. Apparently there will be no charges filed. Original Article: Someone created a poll on Facebook asking "Should Obama be killed?" using a third-party application. The poll was taken down, but not before 751 people voted on it. The options were:
Content Scrapers Not a Big Deal?
If you write for the web, whether that be on a blog or any other content site, there is a good chance your content has been scraped at some point, if not on a continuous basis. The good news is that it's probably not that big of a deal. At least that is what Google's Matt Cutts imples. Answering user questions as he so often…
Cutts Reports Conflict Of Interest In Privacy/Advertising Study
Often, the source of a statement means everything. It might, for example, be more newsworthy if Gordon Brown labeled Americans "silly" than if (or when) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called us all evil pigs. And Matt Cutts would just like everyone to know that one source of a study on advertising isn't exactly Google's best friend.
