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I’ve said here many times that the most important factor for keeping your business relevant and successful is the ability to change with the times. You cannot allow yourself to become entrenched in a certain way of doing business as others around you begin doing things another way. You must have a business model that allows you to quickly shift gears when necessary and begin moving in a different direction. For instance, companies that foolishly dismiss social media as nothing more than a fad are likely to find themselves out of business in five years. Even well established brands known the world...

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According to Mashable, Google is working on a research project aimed at replacing the HTTP protocol that the web is built on and replacing it with something faster. The new protocol is allegedly called SPDY as in “SPeeDY”. Google supposedly even has a prototype web server and chrome client with built-in SPDY that they’ve been testing. ...

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  Affiliate marketing can be a very profitable business if you know what you’re doing. As with most things in life however, the money doesn’t come easy. One of the most time consuming aspects of affiliate marketing, PPC marketing, and Internet marketing in general is checking your stats. You have to log in to each affiliate and PPC program to see how many clicks you’re getting, how many conversions you have (or don’t have), which banners or text links are converting (and which are not), etc.   Even if you create a spreadsheet to aide in tracking, it’s still a massive time...

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Today was the first time I had heard about James Cameron’s new movie called “AVATAR” and judging from the trailer --- it looks absolutely amazing. I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this before. According to Cameron, he’s been working on this project for years but couldn’t finish it until the technology existed to make it come to life. Clearly, the technology now exists.   I can’t find a copy of the trailer to imbed yet, so you’ll have to click over to Apple to see it. I recommend watching it in 1080P if your machine can handle it.   Click Here To Watch...

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This from the FriendFeed blog: We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle... The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We've always been great admirers of Facebook, and our companies share a common vision. Now we have the opportunity to bring many of the innovations we've developed at FriendFeed to Facebook's 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook's passionate engineers to create even...

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