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Throwback Thursday: iWon Search Engine, Circa 2001

Bill Hartzer

Today’s Throwback Thursday search engine is iWon.com, circa 2001. Back in 2001, did you make iWon.com your default home page in your web browser? You could do different things, like check email, search, and reading news articles on the site to get up to 100 entries. So what are you waiting for? It’s FREE!

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10 Years Ago Today! My 1st Article About Blogging

Debbie Weil

22, 2001 , that I published my first article about business blogging. It was exactly 10 years ago today, Aug. A lot of water under the bridge since then, including 9/11, which happened only a few weeks later. The Corporate Bloggging Book was released exactly five years ago, in August 2006.

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10 Years Ago Today! My 1st Article About Blogging

Debbie Weil

22, 2001 , that I published my first article about business blogging. It was exactly 10 years ago today, Aug. A lot of water under the bridge since then, including 9/11, which happened only a few weeks later. The Corporate Bloggging Book was released exactly five years ago, in August 2006.

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AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001? Are you sure you want to write that article, Dave? Is this a good thing? Done right, I say absolutely.

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When I Was Hired Sight Unseen

Ari Herzog

To the corporate CEOs and decision makers who refuse to hire new employees without meeting them in person, such as the startup profiled in this article , I share a story of being hired in the spring of 2001 before the end of the dot-com bubble. I don’t remember how I found PeopleSoft.

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How a Cardboard Box Pays Tribute to 9/11

Ari Herzog

The internet archive at that link contains 3,000 hours of domestic and international news coverage from 20 channels over the seven days beginning on September 11, 2001. Visit the blog archive to read more articles on new and emerging media. It launched last month. It’s surreal. That didn’t seem proper at first.

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

Newsroom employment would peak in 2001 as newsstand sales of the top 100 magazines approached 30 million. Wikipedia posted its three millionth article. Meanwhile, US newsroom employment fell to a 25-year low and magazine newsstand sales dropped 63% from of their 2001 peaks. In January, 2000, few people had heard of Google.

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