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Eric Clemons / TechCrunch:
Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet — Editor's note: The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In it, he argues that the Internet shatters all forms of advertising.
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Micro Persuasion, HipMojo.com, Beyond Search, The Noisy Channel, Newsome.Org, Smalltalk Tidbits …, ParisLemon, tinyComb, Adrants, Joe Duck and digg.com, Thanks:atul
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
For Your Sunday Bulls**t Reading: Search Ads Are “Misdirection” Advertising — TechCrunch has a guest article today about internet advertising that sounded interesting until I got to the part about search ads as “misdirection.” At that point, I realized the author apparently knows little …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Dan Rosensweig Steps up to Take His Licks as Guitar Hero Frontman — Former Yahoo COO and current Quadrangle Group partner Dan Rosensweig (pictured here) will take over as CEO and President of Activision Blizzard's powerful Guitar Hero franchise, according to sources close to the situation.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Salesforce.com lets you answer customer complaints on Twitter — Most people on popular microblogging site Twitter (which just turned three) have probably seen customer service-type queries from other users — questions about how to make a product work, or complaints that it's broken.
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TechCrunchIT, Between the Lines, The Social, ReadWriteWeb and Web Strategy, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
The Potential for Facebook Search Kicks Twitter's Butt … Rob Diana recently did a post suggesting Facebook, rather than Twitter, was the real goldmine for data. I, as I've inferred before on LouisGray.com, wholeheartedly agree with that notion, and in fact, Facebook is already showing …
TechCrunch:
Should An iPhone App Developer Charge Or Run Ads? (Galaxy Impact Case Study) — This is a guest post written by Bo Wang from iPhone app developer house Team iBokan, part of Bokan Technologies, about the lessons learned while conducting a pricing experiment on brick game Galaxy Impact, the company's first iPhone application.
Rachel Metz / Associated Press:
Social Web sites face transparency questions — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Yelp.com prides itself on being a site where people can write reviews about pretty much anything and connect with similarly critical peers. Yet as the site grows, some of the businesses scrutinized on Yelp are turning …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
The case for charging to read WSJ.Com — First of two parts … By Bill Grueskin — February 2005 was a tough month for those of us who worked at the Wall Street Journal Online, where I was in my fourth year as managing editor. A slew of media experts were telling the world …
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
I Worked With Vivek Kundra, Don't Blame Him For DC Bribery Scandal — Is “America's CIO” Vivek Kundra being unfairly tarnished by the FBI investigation into bribery and money laundering at his old offices, the DC municipal government's tech dept? — At least one staffer who worked with Vivek …
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InfoWorld:
Multicore chips pose next big challenge for industry — Adding more processing cores has emerged as the primary way of boosting performance of server and PC chips, but the benefits will be greatly diminished if the industry can't overcome certain hardware and programming challenges …
Josh / Redeye VC:
Nothing to Lose (or Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon) — I've been thinking a lot about the market/economy lately, and what the economic downturn means for startups. And I've come to the conclusion that while the economic crisis does present serious challenges to startups …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why Facebook has never listened and why it definitely won't start now — My former boss, Jim Fawcette, used to say that if you asked a group of Porsche owners what they wanted they'd tell you things like “smoother ride, more trunk space, more leg room, etc.” He'd then say “well, they just designed a Volvo.”
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Don Dodge on The Next …, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, All Facebook, JasonKolb.com, Venture Chronicles, Pat Phelan, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Telegraphik and Memex 1.1, Thanks:atul
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Elias Bizannes / Liako.Biz:
The Australian cancer that will kill the Internet — There is a cancer growing in our society. This problem may seem small, isolated and insignificant, but left unchecked, could grow to affect everyone in the world. Because when a small nation validates a disastrous idea …
