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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

The constant parade of new verbs and nouns has been interesting: texting, “going viral,” mashups, memes, flashmobs, friending, unfriending, likes, retweets, crowdfunding, “add me,” rickrolling, circles, FollowFriday, hash tags, Pandora, Instagrams. Foursquare? For writers and readers, Goodreads is a blessing.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup and a Little Something Personal

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup and a little something personal on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. How an online retailer can evaluate the ROI of a link building campaign – if your client ever wonders how effective their link building is, here is a way to measure.

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How to Steal the Next Billion Dollar Website Idea: A Case Study

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” Wikipedia best describes Zalando as being ‘inspired by US online retailer Zappos.com’ and as you’ve probably guessed, is a creation of Rocket Internet. In his bestselling book, Steal Like an Artist , author Austin Kelon says, “Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.”.