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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

Bare Feet Studios

Bloggers who had earned a decent or better Page Rank saw their status tank to zero once Google realized they were being being paid for certain posts by advertisers. To its credit, Google also penalized its own Japan division who used the pay per post tactic in an attempt to compete against Yahoo.

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10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News

Adam Sherk

Something like New York’s Approval Matrix that we designed back in 2005 with Adam Moss is popular in print but will really come to life in this format. Cheer iPad; Others Have Doubts “Has the iPhone changed the traditional print media business? but what it will use within the iPhone operating system is unclear.

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Apple is Creating a “Social Network” the Right Way

Stay N' Alive

Google’s strength was search. They’ll let you take those friends into your contact lists on your iPhone. They’ll build it into the camera app on the iPhone and iPod devices. I think perhaps that’s where Google went wrong – where’s my news feed in Picasa? My Mom uses iTunes.

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Facebook will surge ahead in India

The Marketing Blog

If you trackback to 2005-2006, you hadn’t even heard about Facebook. The story which quotes data from Vizisense.com , predicts that inside 7 months Facebook should be able to overtake Orkut. There was a time, when Orkut was a dominating force in India. Feel free to link to any of the posts in this blog.

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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. 60,000 developers in 2005 creating apps using the APIs and forming an ecosystem of development.

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A Little Bit About Tungle.me | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

I also worked several years as a VC, before seeing the light and getting back into a startup called Nimcat Networks, which we sold to Avaya in 2005. worked in sync with all leading calendar applications including Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Entourage for Mac, and Lotus Notes. I think that our iPhone app is pretty cool.

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Independent Hawaii Musician Kenneth Makuakane Thrives on Social Media

Bare Feet Studios

I do my Google Alerts to find out who is talking about me in other places. Just like when my music was used on your Beachwallks.tv , my fans use their own Google alerts and find me there and that helps build my connection to them, and your fans come to my web site too. Kenneth: Well, I learned I had to build a fan base. One by one.