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• Yahoo Adds Shortcuts to Travel Section in SERPs

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:21 pm

  Tags: Technology, International, Yahoo, Social Networking, Marketing, Seo

  Yahoo just launched a really cool new feature that shows you travel related content on travel.yahoo.com for the city or location that you searched. Take a look at the new format: Yahoo’s new format features several important things that people look for when they type-in a geo-related search: Visitor guide, Hotels, Restaurant guide, Maps,

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• Going.com Raises $5 Million To Market It's Event Site

  Published: July 26, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Technology, Investing, Social Networking, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains

  Going.com is really getting things going in the fundraising strategy, raising $5 million to help its self grow quicker than it’s competition. Going.com has grow to a half million users, most of which are in the hot demographic of 20-somethings from San Francisco, New York City, Chicago and Boston. General Catalyst and Highland Capital have

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• 50+ Tools For The WordPress Admin

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: Technology, Blogging, Gadgets, Copywriting, Social Networking, Marketing, Mobile, Domains

  Mashable has a great list of over 50 tools for Wordpress Admin management. Here’s the full list, and there are more details over at Mashable. 404 Notifier - Gives you a log of all your 404 errors so you can see why your readers are ending up on broken pages. Admin Dropdown Menus - Make your crowded admin panel menus neat and orderly by

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• Jangl Signs Justin.tv - Reaching 20 Million People

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:09 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Technology, Social Networking, Mobile, Marketing

  the default VoIP option for social networks and they are branding their technology as just that. Anonymous VoIP service is one of the factors driving their brand and tapping into the social networks will allow them to grab a hold on this lucrative market. One of Jangl’s competitors, Jaxtr has grown to 500,000 users, and is expanding

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• Google Opts Adsense Publishers into Pay Per Action Ads

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:25 am

  Tags: Technology, Social Networking, Google, Mobile

  Google is reportedly opting publishers into CPA Pay Per Action ads for adsense on a large scale. DigitalPoint members have been reporting this all day today One publisher said that Google emailed him saying he “has been selected to” be automatically entered into his ads showing Pay Per Action ads. Within five days, Google will

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• Baidu 2nd-Quarter Profit, Sales More Than Double; Shares Soar Aftermarket

  Published: July 25, 2007, 8:06 pm

  Tags: Investing, China, Technology, Social Networking, Domains

  WOW! Chinese search engine operator Baidu.com Inc. said Wednesday its second-quarter profit and revenue more than doubled, easily surpassing Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s American Depositary shares soared nearly 20 percent in after-hours electronic trading as a result. Baidu earned 141.9 million yuan ($18.6 million), up

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• And don’t wear white after Labor Day

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Pop Culture, World Religions, First Person, Sex

  The intersection of religion and dress is most fascinating to me. I grew up with a mother who was far and away the most fashionable pastor’s wife I knew. And then I also had acquaintances and neighbors involved in the Christian modesty movement, which required women to wear large pieces of fabric that covered them extensively. As I prepare

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• The ‘usual’ death-penalty ghosts

  Published: July 24, 2007, 8:37 am

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Journalism, Catholicism

  Have you been following the case of convicted cop-killer Troy Davis on death row in Georgia? The Georgia clemency board recently granted him a stay of execution, so the story has moved off page one of the major newspapers and back into the inside pages for a while. Still it is worth following, for several reasons (including what is, for me, a

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• Hillary and her female issues

  Published: July 23, 2007, 11:36 am

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Evangelicals, Mainline

  The big political news in the Democratic Party is that Hillary continues to hang on to the loyalty of a majority of the party’s voters. However, there are old dark clouds on the horizon when it comes to the public at large. The best-known candidate in the world continues to have very high negative ratings. That led to this interesting

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• The PR Theater of Operations Will Flee Email for Social Networks

  Published: July 24, 2007, 3:26 pm

  Tags: Social Networking

  shift has taken place. Social networking is booming in 2007 and it's a far more mainstream activity than blogging or podcasting ever was. It's appeal is far greater because social networking fosters connections. Statistics bring this to light. However, the greatest evidence is anecdotal. (Note: MySpace, a major social network, is an Edelman

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• Wither Blogging? Not Yet, But Perhaps Soon

  Published: July 18, 2007, 9:52 pm

  Tags: Community, Mobile, Moblogging, Social Networking, Weblogs, Widgets, Sos

  Last but not least we have social networking. These sites and services make it easier for us to tune into "signals" - e.g. people and topics we care about - and tune out noise. So what does this mean all for blogging? I imagine over time some erosion. We will unsubscribe from low quality blogs written by strangers that we truly don't

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• Crowdsourcing a New System for Measuring Influence (Beta)

  Published: July 17, 2007, 10:39 pm

  Tags: Community, Journalism, Marketing, Social Networking, Web 2 0, Edelman, Influence, Measurement

  When I started blogging a few years ago I quickly got to know Steve Gillmor. I love Steve. He consistently says things are dead - Office, TV and links, just to name a few. Sometimes Steve is right, other times he is way off. But he missed a big one. The practice of measuring online influence by links is truly dead. Link authority, as it was

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• “God is not here to validate your status quo”

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:35 am

  Tags: Social Justice, Counterculture, Philosophy, Christianity, Social Action, Religion

  Dan Wanders, pastor of Aldersgate United Methodist Church, Juneau, Alaska: The religion that Karl Marx knew was indeed embodied in institutions that maintained oppression of the people, and it is cause for anguish to see how forms of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are oppressive. It is painful to see how much religion is little more than an

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• 5 Tactics For Driving Traffic From StumbleUpon

  Published: July 24, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Let S Get Social

  StumbleUpon is a hot social discovery site that continues to rapidly increase in popularity. With the increase in popularity comes an increase in the potential traffic that it can drive to your sites. StumbleUpon has always been great at driving traffic and links, but lately I've started to notice that it is one of the leading social sites,

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• The Algebra Project on PBS Tonight

  Published: July 13, 2007, 4:29 pm

  Tags: Education, Academia, Public Policy, Mathematics, Algebra, Television, Social Justice

  Bob Moses, at a Math and Social Justice conference in Brooklyn, NY this past

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