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Last weekend, Australian technology blogger and hacker Nik Cubrilovic posted that Facebook cookies were tracking users in an unconventional manner. Even after a user had signed out of Facebook, the social networking giant was continuing to track that user’s web activities. Facebook openly admitted it was collecting data from a network of approximately one million [...]

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On Wednesday, search engine startup Blekko received $30 million in funding from various investors including Yandex, Russia’s top search engine. Trailing only behind Google, Bing, and Yahoo, Blekko is the fourth largest search engine in the US. With its motto “slash the web,” Blekko strives to provide search results that lack the spam and content [...]

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As a social marketing tool, StumbleUpon Paid Discovery (a.k.a. StumbleUpon ads) is underrated. Paid Discovery helps people who are likely to be interested in your infographic – or your clever article or how-to guide, etc. – find your infographic at a fraction of the cost of traditional promotional methods. When we promote an infographic we [...]

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I have an associate that runs a very large and heretofore successful content site. He’s an experienced and competent entrepreneur and CEO. For several years, everything came together, according to plan, as his website and traffic grew exponentially. He was adding staff and negotiating a move to new offices. The future seemed bright, sunglasses and [...]

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The more experience you have, the easier it is to acquire clients. But that doesn't mean that you need 10 years of C-level experience.

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According to a recent report by the StatCounter web analytics firm, Google Chrome is on track to pass Mozilla Firefox’s number of users by December of this year. Unless Mozilla Firefox, which is the world’s second-most used browser in the world, can put an end to Chrome’s rapid growth rate, the Firefox browser era may [...]

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Yesterday afternoon, Enrique Munoz Torres, the Product Manager of the Google Analytics team, announced a new Premium version of Google Analytics. Initially, the product will only be available in the US, Canada, and the UK where Google indicated that it has already signed on Papa John’s, Travelocity, Gucci, and Transunion for the premium service. The [...]

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The Script Kiddies, which is the same group that recently hacked the NBC Twitter account, struck again Sunday evening. The hacker group, which hacked the @USAToday Twitter account late Sunday evening, used the account to send out spiteful messages daring Twitter to block them again. They also asked Twitter users to vote for what account [...]

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Script Kiddies Hack USA Today Twitter Account

This afternoon, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The hearing, which is appropriately titled “The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition,” will investigate whether Google has abused its monopolistic market dominance in the search and online marketing sector. During the hearing, the committee will question [...]

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Yelp Hopes to Serve Grilled Google: Antitrust Hearing Today

With the cost of the upcoming presidential campaign expected to far exceed $1 billion, yesterday afternoon Twitter decided it was time to throw its hat in the ring – for political advertisements. Although Twitter just began displaying ads last year, revenues have multiplied exponentially and political advertisements could play a major role in continued revenue [...]

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Political Advertisements Invade Twitter: A Vote for Revenue

SEJ takes a close look into Digg's closed beta, launched yesterday. Will this be the change that finally brings the social news site back to life?

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Digg Launches “Newsrooms” in Private Beta

Yesterday, CNN Money released data indicating that Bing and Microsoft Online Services are losing a staggering $1 billion per quarter. This number, which equates to over $11 million per day and $462,962 per hour, is especially concerning since it has occurred in spite of Bing’s steady growth. Since 2007, when Microsoft began tracking the profitability [...]

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Bing Search Engine Losing Approximately $462,962 per Hour!

On Wednesday afternoon, Google chairman Eric Schmidt defended Google and its business practices before the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee. During the hearing, Schmidt repeatedly told the committee that Google has done nothing wrong and indicated the company’s desire to fully cooperate with the Federal Trade Commission and authorities. The key antitrust issue being investigated is [...]

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Google’s Antitrust Message: Trust Us

Search marketing is an adventure, but never more so than when you decide to kickstart your own firm. Here are some obstacles you'll hit and some ways to get around them.

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Crushing Barriers to Launching an SEO Firm — Part 1: Opportunity

At Facebook’s f8 developer conference on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Open Graph. Described as a whole new class of apps, Open Graph will allow Facebook users to add activities to their news streams without being bothered by prompts asking for their consent. When Zuckerberg announced the new Open Graph, he said, “Today we’re [...]

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Open Graph: Facebook Becomes a More Social Network

At the recent Facebook f8 developer conference, Facebook unveiled two new features: Timeline and Open Graph. Timeline, which is replacing the current profile pages, will highlight important photos, events, and activities. Open Graph, which will usher in a new era of apps, will enable Facebook users to easily share experiences together in realtime. Although Facebook [...]

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Facebook’s Open Graph Provides Marketers with New Opportunities

Will Google's +1 Button Be the Facebook Killer?

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Does the Google +1 Button Signal the End of “Don’t Be Evil”?

Yahoo News Activity, which was announced Thursday at the Facebook f8 conference, enables Facebook users to effortlessly find news that is important to their friends. Yahoo News readers will now be able to automatically share what they read on Facebook as well as discover the news stories their friends are reading. When users see news [...]

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Yahoo News Activity Automatically Shares News with Friends

Recently, a study was conducted to determine if a Groupon offer correlates with lower Yelp ratings. The study, which was conducted by three computer scientists who attend Harvard University and Boston University, analyzed an extensive dataset to provide insight into the daily deal business. The researchers studied over 16,000 deals in 20 cities and collected [...]

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Does a Groupon Deal Impact Yelp Ratings?

Yesterday afternoon, Facebook announced the addition of Facebook Subscribe. This new feature will give users the ability to control what they see in their News Feed as well as receive and share information with people who are not their Facebook friends. In order to control the information that you would like to see in your [...]

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Facebook Subscribe: Is Facebook Copying the Competition?