If you’re familiar with Second Life, then you have no doubt experienced the virtual advertising billboards that companies are utilizing to market to Second Life citizens. While the presence of these billboards may lead to increased conversions, the issue with this method of advertising is the relevance to any of the viewers of the ad.
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In the latest effort to pimp out my myspace page, I’ve added a cool new gizmo called CozmoTv.  The CozmoTv hub www.comzotv.com is basically where users are able to create their own portable widgets, add channels to these widgets, and embed the resulting code into their portable social network pages (right now it looks like […]

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A long time ago, Luke Skywalker took down the mighty Empire. Today, that mighty empire in the search world is known as Google, and once again, the little guy aims to take the empire down. Today, it’s gonna take more than a couple of rebels to bring down the mighty Google, as the number of […]

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I originally saw this video on the Ning Developer Blog. It’s interesting to note that the original youtube video  had over 2million views on youtube and was added a little over 2 months ago. While I don’t know if the project organizers are intending to bring about increased awareness of their project, it’s interesting to note […]

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A post I read on Graywolf’s SEO Blog today seemed to suggest that there is an Auto-bury feature built within Digg. This brings to the table a couple of important points.
1. If this is true then one would think that the concept of the Digg community deciding what is news goes completely out the window, […]

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It’s interesting to see how companies fully utilize social media channels to effectively market their offerings.  It’s even more compelling when the benefactors aren’t even involved in the process.  Two such benefactors are Sanjaya of American Idol, and an idie band.
In the case of Sanjaya, www.votefortheworst.com  tries to get as many voters to vote for […]

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