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Shel Israel Critiques The Competition
via 1938 Media by info@1938media.com (1938 Media) on May 15, 2008
Shel Israel visits other web video shows.
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Fifty Habits of Highly Successful People
via Stepcase Lifehack by Craig Harper on May 12, 2008
So I thought that I might write a quick review of every self-help book ever written all right here in this one little article. Simple enough. I love the easy jobs. Surely it couldn’t be that hard, could it? I figured that maybe I could take the important lessons from every self-help book I’ve read and every life experience I’ve endured, condense all that into fifty key points and save...
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Broadband Internet Penetration In The Arab World
via StartUpArabia by Mohamed Marwen Meddah on May 14, 2008
According to recent studies by Arab Advisors Group, here are some numbers that give us an idea about the penetration rates of broadband internet access around the Arab world.By end of 2007, fixed line broadband penetration as a percent of total population ranged from 8% in Qatar to a mere 0.02% in Sudan.Qatar, UAE and Bahrain lead with 8%, 7.8% and 7% respectively. They are followed by Saudi...
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Brand magic
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on May 12, 2008
Torley points us to brand tags. It's a simple game where you pick one-word associations to go with major brands. The result pages are actually pretty inane, but the magical way each and every one of these brands compels you to think is fascinating. I saw the Harley logo and I immediately typed "macho". But it's just a motorcycle. A vehicle, no more macho than any other. Yet the word...
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DemoCamp Dubai 2 - Radisson SAS, Dubai Media City (May 27th)
via StartUpArabia by Mohamed Marwen Meddah on May 11, 2008
... there are still openings for a couple more; So, if you’re going to be in Dubai around that date, and you are working on an interesting new web application that you would like to present, then just send an email to: contact@spinbits.com or leave a comment on the blog post announcing the event.Startups and web applications presented at DemoCamp Dubai will also be reviewed here on StartUpArabia.
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Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 09, 2008
Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week.There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. The official reason is that Facebook wants to make sure that people only add “real” friends to their account, and the restriction is on the high end of the number of friends that any one...
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Inquisitor Joins the Yahoo! Search Team
via Yahoo! Search Blog by ysb_admin on May 09, 2008
Last year, Yahoo! Search launched Search Assist to help users find what they're looking for quickly and easily by providing query suggestions and related concepts in real-time. Today, Yahoo! Search is embracing the Mac community and offering similar search assistance features with the acquisition of Inquisitor software, a Safari browser plug-in. Inquisitor 3, a search technology that...
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Scoble Sellout Part Three? - Twitter Adverts
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by DrBaher Robert seems to go the route of monetizing his personal brand :)Here’s the third update to our January and April posts: Uber-blogger Robert Scoble, who in 2006 argued that having advertisements on blogs destroys trust, appears to be no longer content with… adding advertisements to his blog. Now he’s experimenting with Twittering adverts for perennial sponsor Seagate. He...
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End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on April 29, 2008
Speculation about Twitter’s new round of financing is leading everyone to speculate on Twitter’s actual penetration into the “mainstream,” or lack thereof.Hitwise says web visits have increased 8x in the last year, albeit from a minuscule base. Compete shows about 900,000 U.S. monthly website visitors. Comscore puts the worldwide number at 1.3 million unique monthly visitors in March.None...
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Google Relaunching Measure Map
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on April 30, 2008
Those of you who remember MeasureMap are long time readers of this blog. It was a blog-centered analytics service that first surfaced in August 2005. The service was created by San Francisco based Adaptive Path. The first details emerged in October 2005.It was Google Analytics but just for blogs. It told you stats based on posts and other key blog features. By November 2005 Google had copied some...
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