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Is Feedster Dead?

Some pundits are saying Feedster is dead. But they have just launched an updated, redesigned website with many new features and widgets. It may be a case of too little, too late.

Statistics for 2007

Some interesting statistics on advertising and related topics:

Advertising:

Citizen Journalism Kills Senate Immigration Bill

Those days when Senators could hide in a dark room and come out with laws that had never been debated in the light of day are over. The immigration bill is dead. Although some liberals – and even a few Republicans – complain that talk radio was the reason this bill failed, I believe that is only part of the reason.

Creativity at Work Quotes

We’re big believers in the power of creativity, and so is the website, Creativity At Work. It gives us quotes like the one below from Warren Bennis, as well as articles and other resources.

Entrepreneur Magazine: Free Marketing Tools

Free Marketing Tools
Looking for ideas? Check out these three great marketing resources–which also happen to be free.

Entrepreneur Magazine: Free Marketing Tools

MyRagan

By now you may have heard about www.myragan.com—the free professional networking site for the PR and communications industry. Every week, they give away resources to the 6,500 members who have already signed up.

This week’s free gifts include:

Giveaway of the Day

This site uses daily free software giveaway to boost traffic and offers high profile promotion to sites that cross-promote it. Check it out to get freebies, or subscribe to the site’s RSS feed.

Marchex Aims To Lead Local Search, Launches 100,000 Sites – 06/27/2007

MediaPost Publications – Marchex Aims To Lead Local Search, Launches 100,000 Sites – 06/27/2007
SEARCH AND MEDIA COMPANY MARCHEX adds more than a billion Web pages to its content network today as it officially launches more than 100,000 vertical and local Web sites–taking aim at the top spot of the lucrative, but highly fragmented local search market.

10 Sales and Marketing Tips I Learned from Strippers

A great post from WiseCamel:

WiseCamel.com » Blog Archive » 10 Sales and Marketing Tips I learned from Strippers

Getting To Know Web 2.0

Everyone throws around the term Web 2.0. They know about MySpace.com and Wikipedia.com because of the publicity surrounding them, but I’m convinced most of them don’t have a clear grasp on the range of technologies covered by this term. Here is an article I wrote on the subject: