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Yah really, no joke, I am giving you a chance to get a free link to your site, but this will end the December 31, 2008.
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Redirect Case Study: Transferring Google PageRank

Barry Schwartz reports that an old WebmasterWorld thread has been revived with data on how long it took Google to reassign the PageRank of the URLs he had redirected. According to Barry, the author had set up a new URL structure and had redirected the old URLs to the new ones using a 301 redirect. I…
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Pilgrim Offer: Save 15% Off BlogWell Conference

Want unprecedented insight on social media from Walmart, The Home Depot, Allstate, H&R Block, Mayo Clinic, Sharpie, Procter and Gamble, and the U.S. Coast Guard? How about advice on measuring ROI, managing teams, legal issues, B-to-B, working with agencies and creating great content? If you ans…
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Why I’ve Never Been More Embarrassed for Yahoo

I generally like Yahoo and its products–in particular Flickr and Delicious. And, when Yahoo first revamped its Yahoo Search Marketing product, I was blown away by how cool it was. How things have changed in just a couple of years. I’m afraid to say that I am actually embarrassed for Yaho…
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The Twitter CNN Breaking News Bot: A lesson in “Good” Trademark Infringement?

With over 70,000 followers, the CNN breaking news bot (@cnnbrk) is the third most popular “user” on Twitter. The bot posts stories sent through CNN’s breaking news email alerts, but, contrary to what the average Twitter user might believe, the account isn’t owned or operate…
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Willing to be lucky

I just heard Kurt Andersen quote E.B. White with this glorious phrase.How willing is your organization to be lucky? What about you in your career and your marketing efforts? Or in the people you meet or the places you go or the movies you see or the books you read?My closest friends each were found …
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Does Facial Recognition Change Your Mind About iPhoto? [IPhoto]

Our brothers in gadgetry are live-blogging the Macworld 2009 keynote, and report that iPhoto in iLife ‘09 will have facial recognition that automatically groups photos by who’s in them. Yesterday Mac users here said they prefer the all-new Picasa for Mac over iPhoto. But do the new iPhoto features&m…
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Does Facial Recognition Change Your Mind About iPhoto? [IPhoto]

Get Money for Your Old Tech Gear from HP [Recycling]

Hewlett-Packard launches a new buyback program that will give you money in exchange for your old, working gadgets and gear—any brand of PC, monitor, printer, digital camera, or smartphone that still has some value. HP’s Buyback program offers a quote web site where you enter what you’ve got an…
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Bulk Edit Tags on Delicious [Delicious]

It’s tucked away, but bookmarking site Del.icio.us now offers bulk tag editing (in, of course, beta) for group tagging/un-tagging and sharing/un-sharing. Helpful stuff, especially for pesky tag typos. Thanks Gergo! Read More……
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Mr. Uptime (Finally) Updates for Firefox 3 [Featured Firefox Extension]

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Mr. Uptime, friend to anyone who’s ever waited for the Digg/Slashdot/Lifehacker Effect to abate before reaching a cool new web site, has recently updated to be Firefox 3 compatible. Not much seems entirely new with Mr. Uptime, available both at its Mozilla home and offic…
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Mr. Uptime (Finally) Updates for Firefox 3 [Featured Firefox Extension]

CrazyLittleFingers Rewards Your Toddler’s Curiosity [Featured Windows Download]

CrazyLittleFingers is a keyboard locking application. Unlike some of the previous keyboard lockers we’ve covered, CrazyLittleFingers corresponds the keystroke to a picture and sound related to the key. Press L and you see a picture of a lion. Press R and you see a movie of a rooster. Keys that have…
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Exhaustive List of Free Microsoft Downloads [Windows]

Tech evangelist and Microsoft consultant Blake Handler hosts an impressively completist list of free Windows programs offered by Microsoft, dug from the trenches of Del.icio.us tags. It’s a handy bookmark for Control+F hunting. [via] Read More……
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iTunes May Drop Most Copy Protection, Vary Prices [ITunes Music Store]

The good news: CNET has sources saying the three largest music labels will allow Apple to offer music downloads free of copy-protection. And the bad news might not be that bad. In exchange for the DRM-free tracks, Apple will reportedly allow labels to push three tiers of pricing. Older songs from th…
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Install-It Creates Auto-Starting Installer CDs for Any Applications [Featured Windows Download]

Windows only: Free app Install-It puts a small auto-starting application on any removable drive that makes installing applications a double-click affair. After downloading the Install-It package, you’ll want to extract its files to somewhere you can reach, like your desktop, and open up the Install….
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Why Your Self-Handicapping Excuses Don’t Work (And How to Fix Them) [Performance]

The New York Times takes a revealing look at self-handicapping excuses—like “I barely slept the night before the test”—and why we create them, as well as the extremely unlikely chance that anyone else buys them. The short version of the research and studies cited is that we all do it, in…
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The Essential Guide to Growing Your Blog on Minimal Time

This is a guest post from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, author of the new best-selling book, The Power of Less. If you’re like most bloggers, you probably want to grow your readership as quickly as possible, but don’t have much time. Unfortunately, blogging usually takes a lot of time ̵…
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Puppy’s Picks - January 5th, 2009

by Jennifer Laycock I scan hundreds of feeds and read dozens of articles each day so you don’t have to. From a great year end compliation of posts to simple reminders of the need to focus on the basics, find out which articles I dubbed as must-read for the small business crowd today. Beth Ha…
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7 Simple Time Management Rules For the Super Busy

Most people are busy these days — from the start of their day to the end, there are endless tasks to be done, projects to be moved along, meetings to attend, errands to run, chores and cooking to be done, email and phone calls to handle, paperwork and other routine things to be done.It can be overw…
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Marketing News Roundup, January 5

It’s official: the first roundup of marketing news of the 2009—and it’s heavy on the Google. Have ideas for new Google Mobile products? Now you can suggest and vote for new Google mobile product features at Product Ideas for Google Mobile. Google shuttered its Second-Life–w…
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Facebook Sets Record Traffic on Christmas Eve

Just a few weeks ago we reported that Facebook was growing by 600,000 users a day. If that wasn’t enough, CNET reports that Facebook set record traffic numbers on Christmas Eve. During the month of November, Facebook was averaging 1.42% of all U.S. Internet traffic. On December 24, they hit a …
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Facebook Sues Power.com

It wasn’t long ago that we reported on Power.com’s expansion into the North American market. The social networking aggregator that allows users the ability to navigate and participate in multiple social networks at once, now finds itself in hot water with social networking giant Facebook…
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Marissa Mayer on The Future Of Google, and Herself?

In a recent interview with TechRadar. Google’s Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, Marissa Mayer hints at the future of search. Mayer continues what seems to be a repetitive message in the search industry, “We think it’s really important to move beyond just key…
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What You Can Learn from Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ Health Transparency

Without an official statement from your company, your stakeholders will often fill the void with rumor and speculation. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve recited the above statement at conferences, on client calls, and in blog posts. For many businesses, it’s the one trut…
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Google & Baidu Targeted in China’s Crackdown on Pornography

China has launched a major crackdown on pornography today, and is asking Google and Baidu to do their part. Pornography is banned in China, but government officials are still struggling to block pornographic websites that are based abroad. Despite pornography being blocked, both Google and Baidu are…
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How To Build Links To Your Website - Entrepreneur University

Today’s Entrepreneur University comes thanks to Michael Fleischner. Michael is an Internet Marketing Expert with more than 12 years of marketing experience. He has appeared on The TODAY Show, Bloomberg Radio, and other Major media. You can learn more about Michaels SEO experience by reading th…
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Bryan Roy Interview

Title: Founder, Red Cup Media, www.redcupmedia.com Industry: Internet Type of company: Online media network Year founded: 2008 Location: Tucson, Arizona’s great portal to the Internet Number of employees: 6, all college students 1. What is the startup story behind your newest business ventur…
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Quit Working So Hard

Have you ever made the mistake of sitting at your desk for hours at a time? I know I have. In fact, if I stop watching myself it becomes a routine where I’ll sit there from morning all the way through lunch without stopping. You might be … Read More……
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Podcast: How Leslie Makes Money Online By Giving Away Freebies

Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the download link and choose save as or save link. Download the MP3 [ 35 Minutes - 16 MB ] This is the third in a series of case-study podcast interviews with successful Blog Mastermind students, where we look at what they do right in order…
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Best Practices for Content Optimization

Posted by randfishIs it possible that in all the years we’ve been writing at SEOmoz, there’s never been a solid walkthrough on the basics of content optimization? Let’s fix that up. First off, by content, I don’t mean keyword usage or keyword optimization. I’m talking about how the presentation and …
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How Amazon Turned a Mobile Phone into a Cash Register

While there were numerous reports of Amazon being one of the few retailers who were positive this holiday season. One of the things that was didn’t receive a tremendous amount of press was the release of Amazon’s iPhone application. This program harnessed the power of the mobile platform…
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Seven Deadly Sins For People Trying to Make Money Online

Last week on the History channel every day they have covered one of the seven deadly sins. Lots of people think they came from the bible but they didn’t. Basically some smart dude sat down and made 8 (originally) things that hurts human kind and over time those became known as the 7 deadly …
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While You Were Out On Holiday

The blog traffic died about 50% in the last 10 days… Checking with others they are seeing the same. Glad to see lots of people were offline. First of all welcome back, hope you had a great holiday vacation! Here is a quick recap on the 10 days at ShoeMoney.com Raising 10k for Charity: …
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2009 Shoestradamus predictions

Photoshop ninjary by BigDave. After successfull predicting the subprime crisis and market crash along with obama being elected as president I have been getting droves of request for my 2009 predictions. Here they are: 1) Google will find another decent revenue stream besides Google Adsense. They…
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Dont Call it A Comeback

After many months off the ShoeMoney show will begin its 3rd season the week following Affiliate Summit on webmasterradio.fm. We should have a pretty awesome lineup this season! This Post Is From ShoeMoney’s Internet Marketing Blog Dont Call it A Comeback Read More……
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What Is A Super Affiliate? Again

Last Tuesday I originally posted this but that night got a little crazy with the db and lost it =( I am often referred to as a “Super Affiliate” and its always kind of made me feel weird. As I have said many times on this blog I never have considered myself a “super affiliate”. In September I took a…
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Tool Thousand and Eight

Just sent out the January edition of the ShoeMoney newsletter this morning. Thanks to @kenarmstrong1 for the suggestion on the title! In the newsletter I go into detail about all the new tools I picked up in 2008, how I use them, and the impact they have made on my day to day work. If you ar…
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Teaching people a lesson

David writes in to point out that banks are losing a fortune on foreclosures because many frustrated homeowners are trashing the houses before they leave. This dramatically diminishes the value of the home and leaves scars all around. Why not, he wonders, offer the homeowners $1000 in cash if the…
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Flickr Gallery Plus Tweaks Flickr for Better Galleries [Featured Download]

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Flickr Gallery Plus Firefox extension or Greasemonkey script make browsing galleries faster and easier in Flickr. Once installed and set up, Flickr Gallery Plus automatically grabs larger versions of each image in a set so you can view each picture waiting for a…
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Picasa for Mac Beta Released, First Look [Featured Mac Download]

Google has officially released their popular photo management application Picasa for Macs, after years of offering Picasa as a free Windows download. It’s an exciting announcement for anyone who’s looking for a good photo management app on OS X that isn’t iPhoto or for anyone who’s used and fallen i…
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Flickr Gallery Plus Tweaks Flickr for Better Galleries [Featured Download]

Ask MetaFilter Roundup [Hive Mind]

Are there any free services where I can store my passwords online? Is this a good idea?Any suggestions for a cheaper alternative to my current internet provider?Is there a program that will display my keystrokes on the screen as I type?How can I achieve Gmail zen across my desktop and iPhone?Is it p…
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Picasa for Mac Beta Released, First Look [Featured Mac Download]

Craigsphone Brings a Better Craigslist to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]

iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application Craigsphone puts the popular online classifieds site Craigslist on your iPhone, complete with click-to-call, history, and mobile posting. At first blush it may not seem like a Craigslist-focused app could offer much beyond what Craigslist on mobile Safari doe…
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Ask MetaFilter Roundup [Hive Mind]

Tabhunter Adds Faster Tab Switching to Firefox [Featured Firefox Extension]

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Tabhunter Firefox extension adds quick keyboard-based tab switching to Firefox—sort of like Launchy for Firefox tabs. Just invoke Tabhunter, start typing, and Tabhunter searches for a match through all your tabs. Tabhunter searches only the titles of your …
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Craigsphone Brings a Better Craigslist to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]

Coke Can Clean Your Toilet in a Pinch [Clever Uses]

When your toilet’s got rings and lime scale stains and you’ve got no cleaning gear on hand, grab a can of Coke out of the fridge. According to wikiHow, you can pour Coke into a dirty toilet and the carbonic, citric, and phosphoric acids in it will break down stains, especially if you can leave it ov…
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Disable Startup Stops Unwanted Apps from Creating Startup Entries [Featured Windows Download]

Windows only: Free application Disable Startup keeps just any old app from adding itself to your list of startup applications, keeping your boot time snappy and RAM happy. At its core, Disable Startup is a startup manager similar to the built-in Windows System Configuration Utility. It does the tric…
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Download and Print the 2009 Compact Calendar [Printables]

So you’re back at work after the holidays and planning out your big projects of the year—time to print out Dave Seah’s excellent compact calendar for 2009. This good-looking and useful spreadsheet template lays out the year in a continuous block of time with U.S. holidays marked (international…
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"Downloading Is Wrong" Trojan Blocks Access to BitTorrent Sites [BitTorrent]

BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak reports on a new piece of malware with a strange bent: If it infects your computer, this trojan will prevent you from accessing popular BitTorrent sites The Pirate Bay and Mininova. It does so by modifying the hosts file on your computer. We’ve shown you how to use the…
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Changing of the Guard [Announcements]

It’s a new year and we’ve got some new changes happening around here: Mr. Adam Pash will take over as lead editor of Lifehacker on January 16th. After a wild and woolly four years at the helm, I’m stepping down from the site lead position to work on Some New Stuff on a day-to-day basis in 2009. To b…
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Craigsphone Brings a Better Craigslist to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]

Tabhunter Adds Faster Tab Switching to Firefox [Featured Firefox Extension]

Coke Can Clean Your Toilet in a Pinch [Clever Uses]

Disable Startup Stops Unwanted Apps from Creating Startup Entries [Featured Windows Download]

Download and Print the 2009 Compact Calendar [Printables]

"Downloading Is Wrong" Trojan Blocks Access to BitTorrent Sites [BitTorrent]

Changing of the Guard [Announcements]

Introducing Picasa for Mac (at Macworld!)

Sometimes I find it hard to describe Picasa without sounding like a late-night infomercial for a multi-bladed thingamabob: “It’s a photo organizer! A photo editor! A web-savvy photo sharing and management system in just one tiny package!”We try hard to avoid hyperbole around here, but it’s true t…
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Start the year with learning: Two upcoming webinars

Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed the holidays. To start 2009 off right, we’d like to offer you two webinars: Shaping the Heart of Your Marketing Strategy: Valentine’s Day 2009 from the AdWords Retail team and Travel Shopping in Today’s Economy from the AdWords Travel team. You can read more about e…
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Blog Money: The Income Outlook for 2009

Long gone are the debates from 2004-2006 about whether making money from a blog is ok. Now, instead of “should” it’s more a question of “how.” Ironically, the original blog monetization strategy of choice — advertisements — is the one that continues to be the most frustrating for most …
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Driving Through a Snow Storm for Sushi

Marinepolis Sushi Land is an eleven store sushi chain with locations in Washington and Oregon State. Whenever I’m down in the Seattle area, I make a point to hit up Sushi Land for lunch or dinner. If you go there for lunch, expect to wait because the place is always packed. Dinner time is gene…
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Guilty By Association

Many years ago, I used to run my sites out of an office building in an industrial part of Richmond. There were two other tenants in the building. One was an auto repair shop. The other was a drug dealer who used his unit to make illegal substances. He was eventually busted after a month long police …
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Two Tips on Landing Interviews for Your Blog

Last week on Twitter I had a discussion with a number of followers about landing interviews with other bloggers as a way to generate interesting content for your blog. One of the responses I had via a direct message from a follower was: “I’m too shy to approach big bloggers for an interv…
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Take Accurate Photos with the White Balance Lens Cap [Stuff We Like]

The White Balance Lens Cap is a replacement for your standard plastic lens cap with the added benefit of helping you easily set a custom white balance. The center of the cap has a white plastic dome like you find on light meters. Before you start photographing, you set a custom white balance from w…
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VortexBox Turns Your Old Computer into a Music Server [Media Server]

VortexBox is an open-source CD ripping and media server solution. Based on Fedora 10, VortexBox is capable of streaming in multiple formats allowing you to hear your music on your other computers, iTunes, media centers, slim devices like squeezeboxes and other media devices. Installation is straight…
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MyOpenBar Finds You Free Drinks [Free]

MyOpenBar is a web site that catalogs where you can drink for free in major cities across the United States. Drink on the alcohol companies dime! Alcohol companies and bars list promotions on MyOpenBar to attract patrons and increase exposure for their products. You just have to scan over the listin…
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WindowsPager Manages Multiple Virtual Desktops [Windows Featured Download]

Windows only: WindowsPager is a free and light-weight application for managing virtual desktops. The application is just over 300k and uses around 5MB of system memory. Windows Pager requires no installation or administrative rights to run. After running the executable a small bank of four screens&…
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WindowsPager Manages Multiple Virtual Desktops [Windows Featured Download]

Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]

What are some good high-end headphones for a cheapskate?Any tips for dual booting Windows 7 and Windows Vista?I have a Windows 98 CD and a Windows XP Upgrade Disc, can I use them to install XP on a new machine?How can I throttle bandwidth by individual computer on my network? Read More……
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Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]

Productivity Meter Tracks Your Computer Usage [Featured Windows Download]

Windows only: Productivity Meter is a time tracking tool from Fruitful Time, makers of the task manager we reviewed earlier this year. Once installed the software sits in the background and keeps tabs on your activity. Productivity Meter tracks the active versus idle time, how your active time is s…
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Productivity Meter Tracks Your Computer Usage [Featured Windows Download]

Kallow Helps Your Non-Geek Relatives Select Electronics [Shopping]

Kallow is a web-based consumer suggestion service. Think of Kallow as a simplified Consumer Reports. They take enormous tasks like shopping for a new HDTV and reduce it down to the best value. From the about section on their site: We love technology, we love reading about it, we love playing with n…
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Kallow Helps Your Non-Geek Relatives Select Electronics [Shopping]

Make Magazine Debuts Their Own TV Show [Television]

If you’re a fan of Make magazine and their DIY-ethos, you won’t want to miss the premiere of Make Television. Available both online in HD and on a large number of public stations across America. Check out if and when the show is being broadcast locally by looking at the Make.tv’s broadcast listings…
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Make Magazine Debuts Their Own TV Show [Television]

JPG Magazine Archives Available for Free [Photography]

JPG Magazine, suffering in the current economic state, is boarding up the doors January 5th. Until then, they have all their back issues available for free. The quality of the publication is enormous and the pages are filled with beautiful photographs and interesting tips and tricks. If you’re at a…
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YackTrack Keeps an Eye on Comments [Tracking]

YackTrack is a comment tracking service. If you’ve ever wondered who is talking about a blog post or news article you can enter the URL and see who is talking about it and where. YackTrack currently tracks comments on Blogger/Blogspot, Digg, Disqus, FriendFeed, Google Blog Search, Google Reader, In…
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What I wish I had known when I first started in Internet Marketing…

What I wish I had known when I first started in Internet Marketing… At the core of making money online is 2 things: traffic & conversions. Without traffic to your sites you’ll never make money. And all the traffic in the world will do no good if it never converts. Learn all you can…
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The Power of SocialMarker.com

What is SocialMarker.com? Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That’s where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time a…
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