Top Stories Around The Web Regarding Facebook:
2504 Steps To Closing Your Facebook Account: This is absolutely hilarious, and worth a few moments of your precious time.
Is Facebook Worth The Hype?: I seriously think it just might be. I dunno about the market evaluation of 10 Billion but if I had 4 billion I’d snatch it up faster than a Swedish Martini.
News Feed Optimization on Facebook is the New SEO: Umm, yeah I’m not so sure about this one but it’s an interesting read regardless.
Ten Ways To Use Your Facebook Professionally : Oh, I’m supposed to be a professional and use Facebook. I think it’s time I took down all those pictures…
RIP Theresa and Jeremy made you be at peace. My prayers go out to friends and family of this artist and blogger duo.
It’s been just eight days since rising art star Jeremy Blake was seen wandering into the ocean off New York’s Rockaway Beach — presumably to his death — a week after he discovered that his blogger-filmmaker girlfriend, Theresa Duncan, had taken her life in their East Village apartment.
But the apparent double suicide of this glamorous, intellectual couple has confounded and disturbed the art world in New York, London and Los Angeles, where they lived together for several years. Many were shocked by the turn of events while others noted that the couple had acted strangely in their final months together.
My Name is Kate: Pitching Bloggers: This delightful blog I stumbled on had some great insights on how to make an effective pitch to blogggers. It’s all about making them feel important and loved.
Marisa’s Dandelion Patch: My own internet marketing consultant: It’s folks like Marisa that give me hope in the blogosphere. There are real people who aren’t afraid of being themselves that don’t want to be famous and are geniune. Thanks Marisa for sharing some honest insights.
Bootstrapper: The 100 Daily Reads for Entrepreneurs: Not sure who passed me this link today but it sure was a nugget of goodness. I found a few really good reads and I expect you will too.
Seeqpod is a new music search service that plays music after you search for the tunes using their nifty search engine.
I quickly popped in a search of Sixpence None The Richer, and voila there pops a nice selection of tunes. You can play directly from within the very slick ajaxy interface. You can sign up and create playlists, and save your searches for later use.
I find this service comparable if not better than BlogMusik a service I use daily to keep me entertained while I work online.
Definetly check Seeqpod out.
The Facebook Lawsuit, will go away for one solid reason. HarvardConnection aka ConnectU was intended for use at Harvard and even if Mark Zuckerberg stole some of the core code he’s executed on a well laid ground plan to expand to other universities,work places, and communities. ConnectU haven’t done anything with their site in years and I don’t think they will be taken seriously by any judge.
That’s just my take.
Online Newspaper Growth is growing at a faster rate than average web surfers. I’ve been pondering this as I think this is largely due to some new innovations at Newspapers as well as cheaper technology finally coming to smaller newspapers. Over time I think we will see more and more growth amongst newspapers and turning to home grown blog networks to push a strong rise in Online Newspaper Traffic.
From Paid Content:
Newspapers’ online audiences are rising at twice the rate of the general internet audience, according to research by Nielsen//NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America. The research is being used to back up a recent industry ad campaign undertaken by the NAA called Newspaper: The Multi-Medium. The goal is to attract marketers to newspaper websites based on the apparent sophistication and earning power of those particular readers when compared to average web surfers. Among the findings of the report, which was based on existing and ongoing data collected in Nielsen’s @Plan survey:
– An average of more than 59 million people (37.6 percent of all active internet users) visited newspapers online each month during Q1, a 5.3 percent increase over the same period a year ago, according to Nielsen//NetRatings NetView custom analysis. During the same time period, the overall internet audience grew just 2.7 percent.
Other Perspectives: Matthew Ingram
I recently read a book I can not for the life of me remember what it was. But one of the key points in the book that I took away was a really awesome point. It was about regaining manhood. About how so many men are neutered. One of the ideas that the author left us the readers was that we should go out into a mall or a public place once a week and ask women for phone numbers. The conversation would be simple.
Hi, I couldn’t help but notice how ‘gorgeous’ or ‘amazing’ you are can I have your phone number?
One thing I’ve found in doing this experiment. Yes I actually did this. And you know what I walked away with a pretty high yes to no ratio based on the level of confidence and how engaging I was.
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