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Doc Searls Weblog:
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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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
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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TechCrunch, Doc Searls Weblog, Conversion Rater, blog.memeorandum.com, Business Filter and John Furrier
blog.memeorandum.com:Notes on Techmeme's new sponsorship model
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PR Newswire:
VideoEgg Launches the Eggnetwork Helping Marketers Reach Millions within Leading Social Networks — Network Enables Advertisers to Tap Into User-Generated Video — SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ — VideoEgg, Inc., an online video-enabling platform …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
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) …
biz.yahoo.com:
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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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Suit filed against AOL; seeks to block search history storage — A class action lawsuit was filed in California today against AOL for last month's disclosure of thousands of users' search results. The suit seeks no less than $1000 in damages per user effected and $4000 more per user in California.
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The 360
Michel Marriott / New York Times:
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.
Juan Carlos Perez / PC Advisor:
Refined searches in time for Christmas — Google plans to extend the product search capabilities on its main Google.com search engine in the fourth quarter, in time for the holiday shopping season. — A Google official shared the news with attendees of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance …
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iab.net:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES CONTINUE TO ACCELERATE AT AN UNPRECEDENTED RATE WITH A 36% INCREASE FOR FIRST HALF OF '06 — First Six Months of '06 hit $7.9 Billion and Q2 Exceeds $4 Billion — Today, during the MIXX Conference and Expo, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) …
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Veeker Buys ThumbJive, & Other Mobile Deals — Recently we've been noticing more friends using video messaging via cell phones — a three-second video message sent to party-goers trying to find a beach bonfire, or a midmorning clip snapped in a cubicle to say "I'm bored."
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Reiter's Camera Phone Report
electricsistahood.com:
Do the Math: Will Sony Go Broke? — For video game players, the competition among the three game console manufacturers must seem like a Dead or Alive tournament. There's always a winner and a loser, but someone else is always lined up for another bout with the winner.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
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
Andy Hagans / Link Building Blog:
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.
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Howard Stern's Ad Rates on Sirius Slump to Low of $5,000 — Audience Measurement Issues Cited as Barrier to Buyers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Eight months into his reign at Sirius Satellite Radio, the King of All Media's advertising rates are a fraction of what they were on terrestrial radio.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
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.
