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News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages

Adam Sherk

The Economist The Economist has multiple customized tabs for subscription, featured articles and a news quiz: Fox News Fox News offers a more visual and interactive experience through its “Fun Stuff” tab: Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune uses a welcome tab to highlight sections and features from its main site: Yahoo!

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Review of the Online Group Buying Industry

Idaconcpts

LivingSocial first gained notoriety for their Visual Bookshelf application on Facebook, which was the first and largest application allowing users to catalog and share their favorite books with friends. Later on they released the PickYourFive (e.g. It wasn’t until 2009 that LivingSocial started the daily-deal business.

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

Startups often focus on quality of product and a strong user base before monetization. While Myspace was still in startup mode when acquired, its high acquisition price and obligation to a public company created immense pressure to hit quarterly targets. Facebook has never been boring. However, they were more ad than content.

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Cab Drivers as Word-of-Mouth Marketers?

The Marketing Blog

Yahoo lead me here – good for you i guess! That’s also applicable to Auto-Drivers. The focus of the blog has shifted from that of a startup-centric one when it originally started in 2007. I guess, it's an entrepreneur/ blogger fav topic to blog when starts a startup. Thanks a bunch for the info.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

startups, and more with FriendFeed. I have my Google reader shared URL, set up as a Yahoo Alert. Its an interesting Reply Runescape Powerleveling April 26, 2008 at 10:13 pm interesting phenomenon Reply Scott Fillmer May 1, 2008 at 2:43 pm Just found your application, can’t wait to get in and see how it works.

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Social Media Consumption: You Want Signal or Discovery? " I'm Not Actually a Geek

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Pingback by My thoughts on social networking applications. “Organize the world’s energy&# My thoughts on social networking applications. Hutch Carpenter broke it down even further classifying 2 types of social media consumers, Signalist or Discoverer’s. — June 12, 2008 @ 9:36 pm. [.] How do you like it?

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Her varied background includes corporate roles (B2B and B2C), agencies, non-profits and startups. Emily is Chief Technology Officer at Bookigee, an early-stage startup that builds online analytics and marketing applications for the Book Publishing Industry, in Miami. She was recently named CEO of Yahoo!, Lisa Cramer.

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