21. A Scary Fairytale: Newsday’s Pay Wall Affair  permalink

A Scary Fairytale: Newsday’s Pay Wall Affair
Bruce Clay Blog

To the tune of the Fresh Prince theme song: Now this is a story all about how Newsday's life got flipped, turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, And I promise to stop singing Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. …Although, the prince may fit right ...

22. Harvard Law School Library Releases Internment Camp Papers Archive  permalink

Admin / ResearchBuzz

The Harvard Law School Library announced earlier this week the release of the Maurice Ettinghausen collection of Ruhleben civilian internment camp papers, 1914-1937. An overview of the collection is available at . The papers were produced when the German ...

23. SPONSOR MESSAGE: Start Ranking Higher in Search Results with the Free Yield SEO Analyzer  permalink

SPONSOR MESSAGE: Start Ranking Higher in Search Results with the Free Yield SEO Analyzer
Search Engine Land / Search Engine Land

Instantly see how well your website’s pages are optimized. The free Yield SEO Analyzer is a great place to start. It thoroughly evaluates your pages and provides easy-to-understand advice about what you can do to rank higher in search results pages. It’s a great first step toward a better optimized website. Get started [...] ....

24. NRC Launches User-Friendly Web Tool for Searching Agency Documents  permalink

ResourceShelf / ResourceShelf

NRC Launches User-Friendly Web Tool for Searching Agency Documents The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has added a search interface to its online Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) to improve the public’s ability to find and obtain NRC documents. “This is another example of the efforts the agency has underway to be as ...

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25. Dallas Cowboys Beat Colts, Saints for Most Searched NFL Team on Bing  permalink

Dallas Cowboys Beat Colts, Saints for Most Searched NFL Team on Bing
Search Engine Watch Blog

Team Manning and Team Brees, eat your hearts out. It's Team Romo that won the search bowl - at least on Bing. That's right, the Dallas Cowboys were the most searched NFL team on Bing this season. They beat out both teams that will play in the Superbowl this coming Sunday - the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. If you're wondering ...

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Dallas Cowboys Beat Colts, Saints for Most Searched NFL Team on Bing CBS sells out Super Bowl commercials   —  The Focus on the Family ad casts a cloud over the Superbowl. It used to be that sports events were a refuge from all the political anger and hatred. But now CBS is allowing the Superbowl to be polluted. To borrow from Ronald Reagan, "CBS, tear down this ad!"

26. Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action  permalink

Www.techcrunch.com

As we noted earlier, Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We’ve just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ...

27. Industry Calls for Standardized Email Metrics  permalink

Industry Calls for Standardized Email Metrics
MarketingVOX

The Email Experience Council is pushing to standardize metrics it has developed after a two-year research endeavor that included surveying dozens of email broadcast vendors. The bottom-line reason...

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A Call to Action for Standard Email Metrics   —  Today it is impossible to compare and benchmark response and deliverability rates across the industry because marketers get reports with different terms based on different calculations. Marketers are restricted in comparing reports and synchronizing data when looking to evaluate or change email broadcast vendors.

28. NLM "Bookshelf" Web Site Adds National Academies Reports  permalink

Www.nlm.nih.gov

More than 70 reports by the National Academies are available online at the National Library of Medicine's Bookshelf ( ). The Academies collection will continue to grow, both as new reports are published and as NLM processes older reports dating back to 1995.

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29. Free inspiration and insight  permalink

Free inspiration and insight
Seth Godin / Seth

The Lemonade movie is so professional, engaging and inspiring that you've probably already seen it. If not, here it is. Todd Sattersten has written a free ebook about pricing that's well worth the time it takes to review. It will change the way you think about pricing. And if you can, take a look at this poetry video from Gabrielle Bouliane. She ...

30. What I Want in a Windows 7 Tablet  permalink

DaveN / Dave Naylor a leading UK SEO

When I think of the uses for a Tablet I keep coming back to the same thing over and over again.. Email – Communication – Browsing Email that’s a no brainer, I need access to my Webmail and Office mail so something like the push email features that make Blackberry very strong. Communication another no brainer, Bluetooth and [...] ...

31. Can You Say Five Conventions In Five Days?  permalink

Www.searchmarketingstandard.com

Affiliate Summit West, Mike Filsaime’s Affiliate Appreciation Conference, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Domainer’s Conference, National Association of Television Producers and Executives (NATPE), and ASTDM. The last conference (ASTDM)? I never did find out what it stands for. But it was definitely the best, at least for me.

32. Want a ticket to the NBA All-Star Game? You can get some with a phone  permalink

Stadiumblog.dallasnews.com

The NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 14 at Cowboys Stadium is a sellout, with more than 85,000 fans expected for the biggest crowd ever to see a basketball game.

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33. AdSafe: UGC Can Be Hazardous to Brands  permalink

AdSafe: UGC Can Be Hazardous to Brands
MarketingVOX

AdSafe is taking aim at one of the hottest trends in online marketing with its newly released quarterly safety review: it finds that a large portion of user generated content is a significant concern...

34. Step One: Get Your Foot in the Door  permalink

Step One: Get Your Foot in the Door
Alyssa Gregory / SitePoint

The foot-in-the-door technique can be an effective way to sell your services. How do you get your foot in the door? Related posts: Scarcity Marketing: Use the Fear of Shortage to Sell More Three Insider Tips for Approaching Corporate Clients Using Special Promotions to Generate Business

35. What Have You Been Putting Off and What’s Holding You Back?  permalink

Www.problogger.net

“what’s one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog? (and what’s stopping you from doing it now?)” The answers were quite varied – everything from redesigns, to writing E-Books, to posting more regularly to SEO optimization, to monetization.

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Problogger 18 hours ago feed Question: what's one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog?   —  Problogger 18 hours ago feed Question: what's one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog? (and what's stopping you from doing it now?)

36. How to Deal with Brand Identity Theft  permalink

How to Deal with Brand Identity Theft
Www.10e20.com

How much do you trust your fans?  Do you trust them enough to manage your Facebook fan page?  Do you trust them to converse with other fans that might have customer service-related questions or complaints?  A job like this should not be left in the hand of a customer.

37. Social network impact for retailers  permalink

Social network impact for retailers
Weblogs.hitwise.com

Social networking has become the most popular activity online and visits to the category represented 13% of all US Internet visits in December. As the social networking audience continues to grow, the category has become a major source of traffic for retailers, surpassing categories such as Rewards and Directories, comprised of comparison ...

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38. When is “Sold Out” Not Sold Out?  permalink

Chris / Search Marketing Expo News

When you have two hotels! Just an alert for those of you attending SMX West in Santa Clara March 2-4 and those planning to come that we’ve sold out the Santa Clara Hyatt. Thankfully, just across the street from the Santa Clara Convention Center sits the Santa Clara Hilton, and we’ve got a block of rooms [...]

39. New Book Title: 'Blurry Lines'  permalink

Redcouch.typepad.com

When I interviewed Mark Finnern, who runs SAP's mentor program, he told me that the companies community networks were blurring the lines between the company and it's customers. The same perception came up again when I interviewed Intuit's Scott Gulbransen who talked about an ongoing collaborative process in communities that let the ...

40. TLE Notebook: Intuit's Scott Gulbransen  permalink

TLE Notebook: Intuit's Scott Gulbransen
Redcouch.typepad.com

Intuit is one of at least five companies that I plan to profile in depth for my new--still nameless--book. The others are essentially big business-to-big business players.