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What Comes Before the Dot in Open TLD's?
As I mentioned in my post about that very odd ICANN decision to open up Top Level Domains (TLD's) to virtually any words, it seems like a rather odd move toward confusion and a blow to the concept of Intellectual Property rights.
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Date: 2008-06-30

Using the IHttpAsyncHandler in ASP.NET
I've known about the IHttpAsyncHandler interface for a long time, but never really had the time to play around with it.
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Date: 2008-06-30

What's the Best Strategy for Customer Acquisition?
I have asked this question before but in a different way. It was a post I wrote about two months ago, The Holy Grail of Social Media: Conversions or Conversations?
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Date: 2008-06-30

How to Ask Bloggers to Promote Your Business
A colleague I met at a recent networking event asked me something very interesting via email:
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Date: 2008-06-30

Once You Publish Content, Don't Move It!
I used to think that this was obvious because I have been doing SEO for too long. *lol* But I found that there are many clients that still do not know the single most important SEO strategy for content:
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Date: 2008-06-30

How to Manage Cost and Schedule Performance
To monitor and control the costs, schedule and technical performance of the project team.
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Date: 2008-06-30

Making Your Email Experience More Enjoyable
I recently searched through the mozilla thunderbird extensions website and found 4 extensions that I didn't know about that actually prove to be quite useful.
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Date: 2008-06-30

Information Security Certification Guide
Information Security Certifications are part of the credentialing landscape for an information security professional, and in many ways, those just generally interested in the subject.
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Date: 2008-06-27

Privacy Issues With ISP Based Behavioral Targeting
Last month Charter Communications, an internet service provider (ISP), announced that it will share it's customers web browsing data with NebuAd, to show ads based on customer's web browsing behavior.
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Date: 2008-06-27

B2C Lead Generation Marketing
Two weeks ago, Andy brought you the B2B Lead Generation handbook. Without further ado, we now bring you B2C.
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Date: 2008-06-27

Internet Ad Sales Reach Second Highest Quarter Ever
...and the PPC and banner ad crowd goes wild!
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Date: 2008-06-27

Panasonic Set To Launch Toughbook Mini Laptop
Panasonic is set to release a new Atom-based Toughbook mini laptop. The Toughbook CF-U1 is a hybrid of sorts, a combination of a handheld PDA and a laptop computer.
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Date: 2008-06-27

The Future of Internet Domain Names
Just when you thought Internet domains reached the end of their real estate, the ruling body over Internet domains decided to relax rules on major domain names like .com, .net, org, .uk and others.
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Date: 2008-06-27

Your Best Customers Should Come Before Your Best Prospects
In relation to my last post, Driving Sales to Existing Customers Takes a Marketing Dive, I'd like to point out a great post by Brian Carroll, Should Lead Generation Ignore Current Customers, along with recent research by the CMO Council, Marketers Are Flying Blind When It Comes To Leveraging Customer Data And Analytics.
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Date: 2008-06-27

Knowledge Management Can Improve Employee Retention
Employees come and employees go; such is business. It's better when they don't abandon you, though, and a new study shows that effective knowledge management might go a long ways towards keeping workers around.
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Date: 2008-06-27

How Anti-spam Filters Can Cause Loss of Business
Every email user across the globe can relate to it. That tiresome feeling of sifting through what often seems like endless amounts of emails at the beginning of each day, in a constant and ongoing fight against spam.
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Date: 2008-06-27

Reddit Releases Open Source Code
When a PR contact from Reddit contacted us about "exciting news", a mixture of workload and getting sent press releases not remotely related to open source led me to ignore the request to meet with Reddit.
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Date: 2008-06-27

Building a Behavioral Segmentation
For many years, marketing professionals have relied on a set of analysis techniques designed to help them understand the demographic and psychographic profiles of their customers and prospects.
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Date: 2008-06-26

Is a CRM System Worth the Cost?
Last year I visited the president - a very worried president - of a company whose lead sales rep left and took along $2M dollars worth of business. That is a hefty chunk of change for any business.
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Date: 2008-06-26

Is Bloated Code Jacking Up Your SEO?
There are a lot of little things that can junk up your code, but, for the most part, the search engines don't really care. It doesn't matter to them if your HTML validates or if you keep your code "clean" or not.
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Date: 2008-06-26

Clean Up SEO Problems Caused By Junk Code
There are a lot of little things that can junk up your code, but, for the most part, the search engines don't really care. It doesn't matter to them if your HTML validates or if you keep your code "clean" or not.
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Date: 2008-06-26

There Is No Quick Fix For Your SEO Problems
Companies that take their search engine visibility for granted or that ride the technical SEO loophole/manipulation train often get a hard smack back to reality when their online sales disappear.
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Date: 2008-06-25

Beware All Start-Ups: Don't Show Google Your Wares
If LimitNone LLC wins the lawsuit it just filed against Google, it could send a warning signal to other start-ups: don't show Google your wares, because it will steal your technology out from under you.
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Date: 2008-06-25

How to Increase the Google Crawl Rate for Your Website
Over at the Search Engine Journal, the resident writer Ann Smarty has written an extremely interesting post about how Webmasters can increase the Google Crawl rate for their websites.
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Date: 2008-06-25

Sys-Admin Services Lacking Social Software
Social Software technologies can improve collaboration and networking within and beyond the enterprise, but a general dearth of system and administrative services brings greater long-term risks as customers look to extend from workgroup installations to enterprise-wide deployments, according to research released today by CMS Watch, a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.
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Date: 2008-06-25

New SQL Injection Scanners from Microsoft and HP
Microsoft and HP have both released separate tools to help companies scan their web sites for SQL injection flaws that will lead to a compromise of your web site.
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Date: 2008-06-25

Video Influence on eCommerce
There were a few presentations from Internet Retailer about video that piqued my interest.
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Date: 2008-06-25

CPAN Touted As Perl High Point
It's easy to get lost in your own little programming world, focusing on one task after anther without regard for whatever else is going on. Here's a reminder, though, that the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, or CPAN, is a great resource.
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Date: 2008-06-25

StatCounter Releases Version 4 Upgrade
After a few rounds of beta testing, StatCounter is now ready to roll out version 4 of its web analytics product.
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Date: 2008-06-24

CMS Vendors Try Web 2.0 Approach to Social Software
Traditional Web CMS vendors are increasingly touting their "Web 2.0"-style interaction services, but enterprises looking to roll out comprehensive social computing services will likely need to bring other tools into the mix, according to research released today at the Gilbane Conference by CMS Watch.
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Date: 2008-06-24

The Debate Between In-House and Outsourced Search Marketing
Dave Pasternack of MediaPost's SearchInsider column wrote today about the debate between in-house and outsourced search marketing campaigns. He correctly termed this debate as ridiculous. but I don't think it was for the right reason.
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Date: 2008-06-24

Review: The E-Myth Revisited
The E-Myth Revisited Why Most Small Business Still Don't Work & What You Can Do about Yours
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Date: 2008-06-24

Keyword Selection Tips to Boost Your Customer Base
The keyword selection process is close to one of the most important parts when it comes to creating your PPC ad's, so you want to ensure that you get it right.
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Date: 2008-06-24

Microsoft Expanding All Over Europe
If you live in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway or Sweden and have always dreamed of working at Microsoft, then your dreams might just be about to come true.
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Date: 2008-06-24

Protecting Your Brand From Shadow Brands
If you build a clean trusted brand many people will emulate your brand and leech off it. Everything from wrapping spam in the Google brand right on through to registering a domain name that sounds just like your name and doing mass email spam with it.
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Date: 2008-06-23

Information on Search Engine Ranking Factors
The secrets to #1 ranking at Google will not be revealed here...
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Date: 2008-06-23

The Role of the Internet for European Consumers
Fleishman-Hillard (via) together with Harris Interactive released a Digital Influence Index Study.
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Date: 2008-06-20

Skype 4 Beta Makes Some Big Improvements
Skype, the internet phone service, has opened a public beta test of Skype 4, the next version of the software you use to make phone and video calls and do text messaging.
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Date: 2008-06-20

Pivotal 6.0 CRM Software Suite Wins Award
The winners of ISM's 2008 Top 15 CRM Software Awards have been announced, and they're being praised for achieving significant improvements in many areas. One of the top products is CDC Software's Pivotal 6.0 CRM software suite.
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Date: 2008-06-20

Compressing WebResource.axd to Reduce Your Website Size
A lot have been written about the compression of WebResource.axd over the years, but as far as I know, nobody has come up with a simple solution to it.
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Date: 2008-06-20

Use Your Open Source Skills to Help Reddit
Reddit has opened up its code base to the public at large in an effort to help take on other social networking systems.
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Date: 2008-06-20

Unix Group Fights Pro-OOXML Ruling
A UK High Court judge sees no problems with having Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) as an international standard, and the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) isn't at all happy about this. As a result, UKUUG is doing a bit of fundraising.
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Date: 2008-06-20

ClickTale Launches Form Analytics
ClickTale has just launched a new analytics product called Form Analytics. Form Analytics reveals how visitors interact with online forms and provides recommendations that can increase form completion rates and shopping cart conversions.
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Date: 2008-06-19

Checklist for Project Selection Interviewing
Preparation: Do some research ahead of time to understand the individual's personal aspirations and career development plans.
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Date: 2008-06-19

Be Very Careful When Doing an Investigation
It is heart rendering to find something illegal, horrifically illegal on a person's computer when doing an investigation.
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Date: 2008-06-19

A Runaway IT Project Failure
Bruce F Webster on his blog this morning at brucefwebster.com has a fascinating article called "anatomy of a runaway IT project". For those of us who are fascinated or studying IT Project Failure, this is well worth reading.
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Date: 2008-06-19

Be an Entrepreneur, Not a Wannabepreneur
Chances are, if you're reading this article, you are either involved in a startup already, or looking to be involved in one.
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Date: 2008-06-19

Reddit Needs Your Open Source Skills
Reddit has opened up its code base to the public at large in an effort to help take on other social networking systems.
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Date: 2008-06-19

Are RFPs Bad for Your Business?
I just got another RFP (request for proposal). You think I'd be happy. Another opportunity for business. Another opportunity to sharpen my writing skills.
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Date: 2008-06-18

Why Linux is the Developer's Choice OS
Presence of numerous distributions of Linux, each having its own unique set of characteristics but, basically compatible with each other gives users' a variety. This allows users to select the versions which best meet their requirements.
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Date: 2008-06-18

The Future of Comparison Shopping
A few years ago, comparison shopping engines (CSEs) like Shopping.com, Shopzilla, Nextag and PriceGrabber were hot commodities. Many of them had been acquired for upwards of $500 million, they had strong profits, and a growing customer base. This despite the fact that they had very poor user interfaces, questionable data accuracy, and complicated back-end systems for retailers.
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Date: 2008-06-18

Matt Cutts Interview on White Hat Link Building
Recently, Matt Cutts while attending the Search Marketing Expo Advanced, was interviewed by Eric Enge. He spoke about the topic of link building and what exactly is good link building.
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Date: 2008-06-18

The Race for Micro-Messaging World Domination
The folks over at Plurk must have some really good Karma. How else can you explain the incredible luck associated with rolling out your new micro-messaging (I can't bring myself to call it blogging) platform, at the same time your chief competitor (Twitter), has hit the application scaling wall and is experiencing severe service outages?
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Date: 2008-06-18

Advertisers Beware of Yahoo Search Marketing Phishing Email Scams
Recently, I received an email that turned out to be what Search Engine Roundtable has termed as Yahoo! Search Marketing Phishing Email Scam.
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Date: 2008-06-18

eBay's Developer Platform Project Echo
As popular as the place for online auctions once was, eBay has slowly but steadily fallen from favor, especially among tech bloggers and reporters in 2008. But today they've announced plans for something which they hope will reverse their failing fortunes: a developer platform.
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Date: 2008-06-17

Tracking ColdFusion Problems with SQL Server Trace
Running a SQL Trace in the SQL Server Profiler can be a great way to track down performance problems in your ColdFusion application.
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Date: 2008-06-17

Firefox 3 Worldwide Countdown
If you have been playing around with the beta Firefox, today you can download the whole new package, and this is a download that is worth your time.
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Date: 2008-06-17

Google Docs vs. Adobe Buzzword
While there are various online document editing and sharing problems, the front runner for a long time has been Google Docs, but it may have found its match in Adobe Buzzword.
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Date: 2008-06-17

Should You Use a Double Opt-In Process?
Over the last year or so, I've helped a few of my clients move their email lists to a new service. Usually, we've moved them to the more robust, feature-filled 1shoppingcart autoresponder and e-commerce program.
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Date: 2008-06-17

Interesting Qualities of a Community Manager
I mentioned in Part 1 that community managers require a broad range of experience and wear a lot of hats in the course of their jobs.
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Date: 2008-06-16

RIAA Demands ISP's to Spy on Their Users
ISP's are beginning to bow to RIAA demands and spying on their users. This is odd if you consider them a communications company... like the telephone companies are.
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Date: 2008-06-16

Welcome to The Dark Side of Search
That title might have inspired thoughs of Jedi Knights, those with ADD might have instantly warped their thought trains to Pink Floyd and "The Dark Side of The Moon".
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Date: 2008-06-16

The Real Secret Of Word of Mouth Marketing
If I told you that you could buy a new book on Word of Mouth Marketing starting tomorrow on Amazon for $45 and that it was a quarter the size of a regular book and in paperback, what would you tell me?
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Date: 2008-06-16

Should You Reveal Everything in a White Paper?
Should you convey your expertise in white papers by revealing literally EVERYTHING you know about a topic?
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Date: 2008-06-13

The Small Business Website Bible
I'm so excited I'm just about to burstMy latest e-book "The Small Business Website Bible" is officially launched!!
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Date: 2008-06-13

Simplifying Demand Generation
David Raab is an analyst specializing in marketing technology and analysis. Like me, he is a strong believer that marketers increasingly depend on technology for success, and he has made a business helping clients objectively select the right tools and deploy them effectively.
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Date: 2008-06-13

Getting XP on a New Computer
Very recently my old laptop started giving me a world of problems ranging from minor software to rather serious hardware issues. For a three year old laptop it just didn't make sense to fix it, so I decided to take the leap and buy a replacement.
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Date: 2008-06-12

Mac Security Configuration Guide
Apple has released the Security Configuration Guide for OS X V10.5 Leopard for both the client and the server. These are must read documents if you are on an enterprise, or even just a casual user, with an Apple Mac OS X computer.
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Date: 2008-06-12

Open Source Business Model Problems
I would like to join the the ongoing discussion about open source software business models driven by Matthew Aslett who in turn was answering Savio Rodrigues's post on how to fix the 'broken' open source business model.
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Date: 2008-06-12

How Will Social Media Help My Sales?
I was just reading TechMeme and saw that Jeremiah Owyang has a great post on the five questions that companies ask about social media.
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Date: 2008-06-12

Use Google Website Optimizer for Easy Testing
Google announced today a new way for website-owners to test their webpages easily with Google Website Optimizer.
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Date: 2008-06-12

Synchronize Your Content With MobileMe and Live Mesh
One of the many things Apple announced yesterday that I'm intrigued about is MobileMe.
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Date: 2008-06-11

Use Your Resources for the Greater Good
If you feel like taking on a real challenge, and have some spare CPU cycles to donate then this might just be the thing for you to do. The GPcode virus uses a 1024 RSA key to encrypt contents.
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Date: 2008-06-11

iPhone Finally Coming to Over 20 Countries
The long awaited iPhone is finally coming to Canada as well as over 20 other countries on July 11th.
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Date: 2008-06-11

Developing Your Site's Search Engine
I'm old enough to remember when fathers and sons thought nothing of overhauling their own car engines-back before cars became little IT shops that need specialized equipment to repair.
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Date: 2008-06-11

Customizing Your Search Engine for the Best Results
I'm old enough to remember when fathers and sons thought nothing of overhauling their own car engines-back before cars became little IT shops that need specialized equipment to repair.
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Date: 2008-06-11

Preparing Your Project Resources
To assign the best available resources to deliver a quality product to the customer, while enhancing the skills of employees.
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Date: 2008-06-11

Current Trend in Adopting OSS
When a Forrester Research representative emailed with the following survey highlights, I was more than a little surprised:
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Date: 2008-06-11

How To Monitor Customer Satisfaction
To monitor how well a customer's expectations for quality service delivery are being met.
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Date: 2008-06-10

Does Your Resume Pass The Prescreening Test?
Generally when someone is looking at your resume they are after two things, one finding the highest quality candidate that they can find for the money they have (not necessarily the cheapest, just the best one in budget range for the position), the second one is someone that will work well within the organization.
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Date: 2008-06-10

Canon's Online Game for UEFA EURO 2008
Canon the technology giant has launched a pan-European online interactive football game competition to promote its sponsorship of UEFA EURO 2008TM and re-launched online store.
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Date: 2008-06-10

Internet Business Do's and Don'ts
Jeff over at Coding Horror has just been taking a small pop at Yelp for requiring email account access to find friends
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Date: 2008-06-10

Social Media Relations and Politics
Why is a Portuguese South African writing about American politics, you may wonder. Truth is, when the whole Clinton versus Obama race got started, I had very little interest in either.
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Date: 2008-06-10

On a Linux System Everything is a File
A Linux system, just like any *NIX based system doesn't differentiate between a file and a directory, since a directory is just another file which contains names of other files. Applications, programs, documents, services, images and just about everything else on a Linux operating system is a file!
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Date: 2008-06-10

Setting Up a Virtual Office for Your Startup
The virtual office, an innovative add-on to the serviced office format, is typically used by upcoming entrepreneurs. It provides them with an address in a business centre located in a prestigious location and meeting room space whenever necessary.
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Date: 2008-06-09

Ideas for ForumPA 2009
Leo Sorge, editor-in-chief of some important italian IT magazines, after my open source round-table at ForumPA contacted me for an interview for 01net magazine, and I took the chance to talk about what is missing here.
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Date: 2008-06-09

Improving Your Web Marketing Results
Over the course of a day we tend to run into situations where some basic and occasionally not so basic tips and tricks need to be applied to a website. Here are three that come to mind at the moment and might just help you improve your web marketing results.
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Date: 2008-06-09

Be Reliable and Trustworthy in Information Security
Kees Lune comes up with an interesting blog article titled: Essential Truths in Information Security: Be Reliable and Trustworthy. He states,
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Date: 2008-06-09

Not Everyone Is A PageRank Sculptor
PageRank (PR) sculpting has popped onto the radar of most online marketers over the last few months and it has become a controversial topic.
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Date: 2008-06-09

VARs Vote Red Hat Product Top Server Operating System
VARs love Red Hat, according to the results of a Channel Insider poll. Or the least, VARs like Red Hat enough to deem Red Hat Enterprise Linux the top server operating system in the Channel Insider's 2008 Product of the Year awards.
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Date: 2008-06-09

Traits of Supply Chain Excellence
Some companies, regardless of their industry or size, do well. They are successful with low value merchandise or with fashionable merchandise or whatever product. Other firms struggle or so it seems. The difference, when you drill down, is often how well a firm executes supply chain management.
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Date: 2008-06-06

How to Hide Your Surfing Habits from ISP's
Earlier this month I talked about a program called antiphorm, which was designed to simulate a user casually surfing the internet.
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Date: 2008-06-06

The Battle Between Fixed Prices and Auctions
Very interesting post from Nick Carr re. eBay's auctions vs. fixed price selling. In a nutshell, Carr, and BusinessWeek, state:
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Date: 2008-06-06

Typepad's New Antispam Plugin
I have switched Spam Karma off temporarily, to test Typepad's new Antispam plugin.
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Date: 2008-06-06

PageRank Sculpting Is Not For Everyone
PageRank (PR) sculpting has popped onto the radar of most online marketers over the last few months and it has become a controversial topic.
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Date: 2008-06-06

CIOs In Path Of Recession
The Dow's down 272 points right now, and for CIOs, that's not good news. Whether you own any stock or not, there are signs the recession is squeezing budgets and, in the end, possibly cutting into job performance.
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Date: 2008-06-06

Is Renaming Your Business Worth Better Search Traffic?
Mike Blumenthal has a great article this week, going over some aspects surrounding how businesses may opt to rename themselves for purposes of local search engine optimization within Google Maps.
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Date: 2008-06-05

Some Difference Between Front-end and Back-end Developers
Jakob asked me a question this evening: What is the difference between front-end and back-end developers? Not long after I was on my way home and couldn't stop thinking about it.
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Date: 2008-06-05

One Place for Great Online Business Resources
As you know, there are a lot of factors that go into running a small web business successfully, and there are a ton of resources online waiting to be found.
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Date: 2008-06-05

Microsoft's IronRuby Integrates into Dot net and Silverlight
Microsoft introduced IronRuby at the RailsConf in Portland, with integration into dot net and silverlight, this is a good thing, as showing off integration like this is important to keep dot net as part of any Web 2.0 lexicon.
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Date: 2008-06-05

The Difference Between Front-end and Back-end Developers
Jakob asked me a question this evening: What is the difference between front-end and back-end developers? Not long after I was on my way home and couldn't stop thinking about it.
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Date: 2008-06-04

Effective Lessons From A Product Launch
A few days ago, my startup HubSpot, launched a new app called Press Release Grader. It's not our core product, but a free tool for marketers and PR folks to analyze a press release and provide suggestions.
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Date: 2008-06-04

Why a Top 10 Listing in Google is Not Important to SEO
So you're thinking, Catfish you must have had way too much to drink at your birthday show Saturday night if you think that top 10 listings in Google are not important.
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Date: 2008-06-03

Dot Me Domain Names Might Target Social MEdia Sites
In keeping with the focus on user generated content from social MEdia sites, it could be that this new domain name may actually get legs and walk away with a target audience currently using .name domains.
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Date: 2008-06-03

OpenLogic and SourceLabs Merger?
I haven't really followed SourceLabs for a little while now, and yet, strangely enough, they've been doing new and interesting things even without me watching ;-).
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Date: 2008-06-03

Facebook’s Developer Platform Will Go (mostly) Open Source
Facebook is going to be offering numerous additions to its developer platform in the coming weeks. First there were the rumors, then the generic confirmation: Facebook's developer platform will go (mostly) open source.
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Date: 2008-06-03

Customer Relationship Challenges With Big Business
My wife got a message from the Microsoft Firewall the other day, It was the kind of thing that only firewalls tend to ask about. Microsoft was blocking a program from accessing the Internet, and was asking my wife if that was OK or whether it should allow access.
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Date: 2008-06-03

Adding Digital Asset Optimization to Your Site
The search marketing industry is rich with acronyms: SEO, SEM, PPC, ROI, SERPs (even LMAO) as well as buzz phrases such as "search engine optimization" and "social media optimization". Do we really need another?
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Date: 2008-06-03

Search Advertising Optimization Tips
Sharing client success isn't something we often do through this blog, as we focus more on the news and DIY side of the search engine marketing industry - But this tale is worthy of sharing.
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Date: 2008-06-02

Gartner's Prediction for the Next Disruptive Technologies
Gartner, an IT industry analyst firm, has published a report on what its analysts see as the top ten disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012:
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Date: 2008-06-02

Does the Internet Actually Affect Purchase Decisions?
The latest Pew Internet and American Life featured report (PDF) says that while Americans do product research online, the information they find doesn't actually affect purchase decisions.
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Date: 2008-06-02

ISP Suggested As Certification Standard
By paying a few fees and sacrificing a handful of stamps, it's possible to get several degrees within a single month. Tell anybody about those degrees, though, and you'll hear laughter instead of congratulations. To some extent, the same problem can come up regarding IT certifications.
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Date: 2008-06-02