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The True Story Of The Ugly Christmas Sweater Guy

Jason Yormark

The year was 2007, and it was a cool, brisk Autumn day like many others. We just wanted to create a funny poster to hang up for our team at work. You see, Ugly Christmas Sweaters were not as big in 2007 as they’ve become today. After all this time, I thought it be fitting for there to be a place that tells that story.

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The Map of Online Communities

Firebelly

In 2007, the web-comic xkcd published their version of an " online communities map ," which use statistics (and admittedly some guesswork) to map out social networks and communication sites in the form of countries on a world map. Check out the full-sized version at xkcd, where you can also order it in poster form for $15.

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6 Things The Army Taught Me About PR

Waxing UnLyrical

In the Spring of 2007, I returned to my full time job after an 18-month deployment that included a year in Iraq and realized that the world of public relations had changed. Posterous, Amplify and Quora had yet to be founded. Guest post by Frank Strong. Twitter, which was founded in 2006, didn’t exist when I left.

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New Twitter User Revamp: Plus 2 Bonus Pieces of News!

Devumi

This has been reported to death, but when you grow up with the Queen on your money, as posters in your school, and as the most celebrated of visitors to your country, you can’t help but make a comment on this new Twitter user. — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 29, 2007. A famous new Twitter user: The Queen’s first tweet.

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Digg vs. Reddit: Reddit's Staff is Better » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply tgpo September 25, 2007 at 10:22 pm I agree. Reply jad@JAD.COM September 25, 2007 at 10:27 pm >>I am enjoying Stumble lately, though. Reply Tamar Weinberg September 25, 2007 at 11:24 pm haha, thanks Ravi. Reply Slipgrid September 26, 2007 at 12:13 am Reddit is much better. I am enjoying Stumble lately, though.

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248: 6 Places to Find Writers to Hire for Your Blog

ProBlogger

Six places you can find writers for your blog: Guest Posters: If you have published guest posts in the past, take a look at them. If one of the guest posters stands out, contact them. That would be the first place that I will look for and I can think of people that I’ve hired that started as guest posters.

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Xtees.com - A Unique t-shirt selling hub

The Marketing Blog

Yellow, Red You can checkit out at [link] Reply Sam June 18, 2008 at 8:16 am Think, both the above posters have just blindly posted without indepth knowledge on XTees.Com … First of all as the CEO of XTees.Com, I would rubbish any comparision of XTees with Myntra (or) any other customisation sites. However, I still review some Web 2.0

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