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blog.memeorandum.com:
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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Somewhat Frank, New Web Order, Publishing 2.0, Scobleizer, Wink Blog, Scripting News, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechBlog, Tech Beat, Enterprise Web 2.0, Open Culture, ben barren, Mark Evans, PaulStamatiou.com, John Tokash's Blog, Mathew Ingram, Incremental Blogger, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Things That, Digital Inspiration, i-boy, efuddle.com, ALLIED, Message, UMBC eBiquity, Center for Citizen Media, Web Strategy and Newsome.Org
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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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Doc Searls Weblog, Conversion Rater, blog.memeorandum.com, Business Filter and John Furrier
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
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) …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
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 …
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.
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
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The 360
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
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.
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.
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Search Engine Journal, Supr.c.ilio.us, Shoemoney, Search Engine Roundtable, WebMetricsGuru and Pronet Advertising
Pew Internet:
The Future of the Internet II — A survey of internet leaders, activists, and analysts shows that a majority agree with predictions that by 2020: — A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a "flattening" world. — Humans will remain in charge of technology …
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Unit Structures, The 463, Read/WriteWeb, Sadagopan's weblog …, UMBC eBiquity, E-Media Tidbits and The Pomo Blog
Mike / The Raw Feed:
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.
