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Amazon Get Serious About Book Publishing

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Back in April 2011, the company announced that for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle books. However, Jeff Bezos and his team believe that the book publishing industry can still make money, but not by running business as usual. Getting Serious About Book Publishing. Laurence J. So Far, So Good.

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Startups To Watch in 2011

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With Instagr.am , you can take pictures, apply filters, and publish them all over the net. However, it can be a pain to post those cute baby pictures on a host of social networks and check each site for comments. Instagr.am is quickly going viral as it attracts about 100,000 new users each week.

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Millions Of WordPress.com Blogs On Pause Due To Back-End Outage

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Most of the 18 million WordPress.com publishers trying to access their back-end are currently receiving this error message: “We’re experiencing some problems on WordPress.com and we are in read-only mode at the moment. WordPress.com provided TechCrunch.com the following update on March 22, 2011: .

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Two Examples of What NOT to Do When Asking Influential Bloggers For a Link

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In October 2011 a post has been published about an awkward email in which the owner of a famous blog was asked to insert a link to an existing post on his blog using the precise keywords (already in place in text) as the anchor text. First example.

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A Review of Google Social Media Tools

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While Orkut may not make big headline news, as of January 2011 it had 33 million active users around the world and as of September 2013 Alexa ranks it as the 1,802th popular site in the world. When Larry Page returned to his post as CEO, replacing Eric Schmidt, he retired a slew of unsuccessful products including Google Buzz back in 2011.

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