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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Videos that have a completely unplanned “wow&# element to them definitely travel far in social circles. It shows the power of mashup. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For example an article with “10 Reasons You Should Buy Travel Insurance&# is almost never going to go viral, it’s not surprising, shocking, interesting or in any way sticky. Many companies just see this as a new avenue to push existing traditional marketing messages, and this is why they almost always fail. Answers Yahoo!

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100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS " Accredited Degrees

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Hardcore Wikipedia fans can learn when there are any changes to the information with their recent changes feed. Travel itinerary. Use TripIt to organize your travel itinerary, then sign up for alerts which will send you RSS feeds any time something on your itinerary is updated or changed. Follow trends. hotlist feeds.

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100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS

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Hardcore Wikipedia fans can learn when there are any changes to the information with their recent changes feed. Travel itinerary. Use TripIt to organize your travel itinerary, then sign up for alerts which will send you RSS feeds any time something on your itinerary is updated or changed. Follow trends. hotlist feeds.

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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.”.