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Notes on Techmeme's new sponsorship model — There's a new area on the right side of Techmeme labelled "Techmeme Sponsor Posts". It shows the latest blog posts from three companies who have chosen to sponsor Techmeme for the next 30 days. — This is the first sponsored material of any kind on Techmeme.
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New Web Order, Silicon Valley Watcher, B2Day, Scripting News, Mark Evans, Open Culture, PaulStamatiou.com, John Tokash's Blog, Incremental Blogger, Things That, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Mathew Ingram, Digital Inspiration, ALLIED, i-boy, Message, UMBC eBiquity, efuddle.com, Center for Citizen Media and Newsome.Org
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A new kind of advertising — Gabe Rivera has created a new kind of advertising for TechMeme, which he explains here and here. — Simply put: He takes feeds of the latest posts from sponsors' blogs and puts that in an ad box on Techmeme. That's their ad.
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TechMeme Invents New Kind of Advertisment — TechMeme (formerly tech.memeorandum) is a site that bloggers and others check frequently for news. It is an entirely automated web service that looks at what bloggers are talking about, and linking to, and decides what is news based on that analysis.
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Toward a new relation ship — Techmeme has a new advertising system that's simple and straightforward and bringing in customers. That is, advertisers. Because advertisers are the customers of Gabe's new system. Readers are the consumers. Unless they pay Gabe for something, and I don't think they do yet.
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The Social Customer Manifesto
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Young Internet Producers, Bankrolled, Are Seeking Act II — Silicon Valley is awash in serial entrepreneurs, those who start a company, run it for a while, and then after success, failure or something in between, move on and start again. — Jay Adelson, 36, and Kevin Rose, 29 …
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AOL Members Sue AOL LLC for Privacy Violations, Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt & Pucillo Announces — Three AOL members have sued AOL LLC, the Internet division of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - News), saying the company violated their privacy by posting their search queries online …
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Suit filed against AOL; seeks to block search history storage
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The 360
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For One Publisher, the Life of Every Comic Book Starts on the Web — Scott Rosenberg, left, and Dylan Squires intend to make the Web the first outlet for Platinum Studios' comic books. Print versions may come later. — For generations of Americans, comic books were the first real page-turners.
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VR Gear Makes RC Airplane the Coolest Toy Ever — A Canadian RC airplane enthusiast shows us some sweet unanticipated convergence between a model RC airplane and virtual reality gear. It works like this. The airplane is a conventional one, controlled by a wireless remote control.
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TGS 2006: Pricey PS3 Games? — Expensive games could accompany a shift in business plans over at Sony. — Following up on Ken Kutaragi's pre-TGS keynote address, Japanese site Impress Watch has posted the latest in its "Random Tracking" editorial series.
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BuzzLogic calculates social media influence — BuzzLogic hopes to solve one of the riddles of the Web-who is influential within the millions of conversations taking place in social Web, especially blogs. I have been following the progress of BuzzLogic for a few years.
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blackrimglasses.com
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At Hewlett-Packard, a Chief Wounded by Divided Attention — Mark V. Hurd sat at the head of the table in the Hewlett-Packard boardroom, the room that had been the source of leaks and the starting point of a misguided and ultimately embarrassing attempt to plug them.
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The Financial Case for SF WiFi — While Mountain View residents have been living under Google's city-wide wireless for more than a month now, San Francisco is the next (if it happens) city that will go wireless via Google. In partnership with Earthlink, the duo plan to unwire SF with a free slow service and a faster fee-based plan.
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VideoEgg Lays on Ad Network — Startup VideoEgg is launching a video advertising network today. The release reflects a change in strategy for the young company, which started out as a toolmaker but has transitioned to a media delivery network. — VideoEgg isn't a CDN itself (it uses Akamai) …
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Secrets to Beating the Sandbox 2.0 REVEALED: The Ultimate Guide — By Andy "Organic-Is-My-Middle-Name" Hagans — The sandbox is no longer the pink elephant in the room. As webmasters, together we've cried about it, argued about it, and fretted over it.
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Search Engine Journal, Shoemoney, Search Engine Roundtable, WebMetricsGuru and Pronet Advertising
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Google complies with court, posts ruling on Belgian sites — LONDON (MarketWatch) — Google Inc. (GOOG) Saturday posted a court ruling on its Belgian Web site home page, complying with an order to publish a judgment stopping it displaying content from newspapers without asking for permission.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley