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Frugality Is Bad For You
What you need to know as a marketer and businessperson is that people generally aren’t rational creatures, and because of that it’s…
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Google/Twitter Concept Inspires Imaginations
There's been an unbelievable amount of buzz circulating around an acquisition that everyone likes to fantasize about, but may or may not ever actually occur. I'm talking of course about Google buying Twitter.
Credit Crunch Driving Small Town Industrial Espionage?
It’s a bit of a vicious cycle: Greedy, bad actors taking advantage of the good times until good times end in bad times and a different set of greedy, bad actors start taking advantage of the bad times—and there goes a little more faith in humanity. When the press and the security industry weren’t obsessed with the non-event of the Conficker.C worm, warnings went out…
AP Launches News Content Protection Initiative
The Associated Press has announced its plan to launch an initiative to protect news content from "misappropriation" online. "We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories," says AP Chairman Dean Singleton.
Google Car Harassed By British Villagers/Cops
Google Street View cars are hitting roadblocks in England, quite literally. If it’s not the cops in one town, it’s human shields in another. I’ve never been England, and all I know about British roads is from movies, and from what I gather they are often clogged with sheep. In one village, called Broughton, people shooed off the sheep to block the road personally. They…
No More PPC for Amazon Associates
Amazon is ending the payment of referral fees to associates in North America using pay-per-click (PPC) to get traffic. This is effective beginning May 1st. The change is not temporary. Amazon will not reinstate payment of referral fees to paid search associates. They say the decision to make the change is based on their review of how they invest their advertising resources.
