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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A member of my religious community disappeared. Sure, for every change there’s some backlash, but let’s consider the chronology: Facebook launches in 2004 to a very select number of schools, and due to demand, increases its presence on other college campuses. He had a large family who cared deeply about him. Like this post?

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Did You Know You Can Hide Facebook Game Updates?

Myrland Marketing

by Nancy Myrland on September 8, 2010 It is interesting how far Facebook has come since Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz , Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin launched Facebook from their Harvard dorm room in February, 2004. The average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events. are shared each month.

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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

Don’t forget back in 2004, David Storey paid $26,500 in Entropia , then Jon Jacobs invested $100,000 in a virtual space station in Entropia in November 2005, and of course Anshe Chung became a millionaire via Second Life in 2006. Apparently both David and Jon have made their money back and more. I hope they decide to open their eyes.

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3 Reasons Email is the Coolest Vampire Today

Convince & Convert

A few of my favorite reports of email’s death that were greatly exaggerated: July 2004. Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. March 2009. October 2009. Well, it’s certainly weathered the wooden stakes of pundits and the introduction of IM, RSS, Skype, MySpace, Facebook & Twitter quite well.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

ProBlogger

I’ll talk about evolving your engagement with your readers, how to build community on your blog, how to find new readers for your blog, and then, how to monetize your blog. . Chris Garrett, who wrote the ProBlogger book with me, came up with this in 2009. The second pillar is community. The first one is content.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, you can validate that by cross checking my user ID, 102991, which should indicate that I’ve been around for a real long time (since February 2004, to be more precise). The lack of communication was disconcerting, but worse, it’s really Facebook’s fault. And now there are Community Pages!

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