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I'm in India this weekend with fellow TechCrunch/BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. After we’re done with the elephant rides in Jaipur, we’re going to be meeting local tech startups. Then we head back to New Delhi to meet more aspiring entrepreneurs. Sarah is writing a book on how startup culture has gone global and I’m researching how R&#38;D has globalized. It never ceases to amaze me how you can find brilliant entrepreneurs everywhere—whether in the middle of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan or Santiago Chile (where local entrepreneurs showed me life-sized holographic images projected through some hardware connected to their laptops, and software which can help monitor the operational efficiencies of department stores in California). The promise of these early ventures is always amazing and their enthusiasm infectious. Which brings me to Global Entrepreneurship Week. And Snoop Dogg.

You are probably asking yourself, what the heck does the controversial and highly successful rapper have to do with entrepreneurship? 













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<title>YouTube Is Falling Apart Again</title>
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The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is.  It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona.  Yeah, I had never heard of them either.  

The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he's made from plaster.  Halfway through, the actual video player crack in half, and all of the surrounding parts of the site shake and fall away, while an annoying voiceover is saying something about rebirth.  I don't know, maybe it makes more sense in Spanish. 













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<title>Marissa Mayer Chosen As A Glamour Magazine Woman Of The Year</title>
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Google's Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer was recently  profiled in a Vogue Magazine article that offered a in-depth glimpse into the exec's lifestyle, loves, career and fashion preferences. Now, Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazine's 2009 Women of the Year. Joining Mayer on the list are a variety of female powerhouses and icons including Maya Angelou, First Lady Michelle Obama, Susan Rice, Euna Lee and Laura Ling. 

Mayer has been frequently profiled in business and technology publications over the years, but it's also nice to see her achievements highlighted in magazines like Vogue and Glamour. The brainy Stanford-grad has been able to set an example for young women everywhere. As one of Google's early hires, she's now helping to lead product design for one of the world's most innovative companies. And she's only 34. What's not to love about a successful and geeky coder who also loves to wear Oscar de la Renta, Chanel and Armani?













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<description><![CDATA[If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. 

This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek, a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won't support third party apps. But it most certainly does run Twitter.

You can get it in black. Or, if you want to show a little flair, you can get in in cyan.

For some crazy reason I wanted one. A friend bought me one that I will truly love forever(ish). But the company also sent me one. And while I may or may not need one TwitterPeek, I almost certainly don't need two TwitterPeeks. 

This is where you come in.

We're giving one of these away to a TechCrunch reader. It's the cool one, cyan, with lifetime service that costs $200.  And it's all yours. Just retweet this post and make sure to include the short URL link - http://bit.ly/3U2Yhy - as well as the #crunch hashtag. Please only tweet the message once, anyone tweeting repeatedly will be disqualified. Tomorrow we'll sort through all of the tweets and pick one randomly for the win. You'll get the TweetPeek device in the mail, and we'll throw in a TechCrunch tshirt. Even the postage is on us. But please note that in this case only U.S. readers are eligible, because the device only works in the U.S.














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<description><![CDATA[Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web. This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, which is vital for Gowalla. The goal is to extend this mobile web support to BlackBerry and a few other location-aware devices in the next week or so, co-founder Josh Williams tells us.

As a small team, Gowalla, like its rival Foursquare, doesn't have a lot of resources to devote to building apps on all the mobile platforms, so this is a good solution for the time being. Eventually, the plan is to have native apps for all the big platforms, Williams says.













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textPlus, a text messaging app that's powered by GOGII, has just hit the App Store. textPlus lets any iPhone or iPod Touch send free text messages to any cell number by using in-app advertising to cover its costs. There is no limit on how many text messages you can send per month, it's just a matter of getting WiFi, 3G or an Edge connection. GOGII was one of the first companies that was funded by iFund, the partnership between venture capital firm KPCB and Apple, which was announced at the Apple SDK roadmap event.

With version 2.0 of textPlus, GOGII is announcing the availability of textPlus usernames, which can effectively serve as a stand-in for a phone number, which is great for iPod Touch users. Your friends can send standard text messages to you from any phone, simply by sending a text to the shortcode 60611 that leads off with your username followed the rest of their message (so a text to me would look like "DanielBru Hi are you coming to the movie tonight?").













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<description><![CDATA[Today is Droid day — an event that I, like many tech bloggers, have been looking forward to for quite some time. Unlike some people, I wasn't graced with a test Droid last week, so I was forced to go out and get one the old fashioned way: by getting to the store as early as possible, before the precious devices sold out. And while I was concerned about falling prey to a supply shortage, a part of me still hoped there would be many others like me, helping justify my early morning rise. These are my notes as I searched for the unexpectedly elusive Verizon Droid line.

5:30 AM.  I woke up this morning to the soothing chimes of my over-priced alarm clock, took a look at the ungodly hour, and immediately sank back into my pillow.  It wasn't until my second alarm (strategically positioned far out of arm's reach) kicked in that I remembered the task at hand: Droid day.













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<title>MSNBC Having A Bad Friday (NSFW)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think it's safe to assume their Twitter account has been hacked.

Update: Yep. Now suspended.













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<description><![CDATA[So much for the coming mobile nirvana of free mobile content - at least for iPhone users in Germany. Today Europe's biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung, intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel users buy its new iPhone app. The paper tabloid is to block anyone using an iPhone browser from accessing its website.

Now, readers will not only have to pay for the dedicated BILD iPhone app, but they also need to pony-up recurring fees for new articles. The same is planned for Axel Springer's quality paper Die Welt. Users of Nokia, Blackberry, HTC or other smartphone brands will not be blocked - but only for as long as it takes for Springer to develop an app for each device.













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<title>Chomp Eats Up Some Seed Funding. Next, Will Bite Into The Mobile Space.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's not yet clear what Chomp exactly is, but we do know that it's a rather hot property right now. It took the still stealth start up just 10 days to raise a nice seed round from Ron Conway and a few other big name angel investors, we hear.

So what do we know? Well, the company is definitely in the mobile space. In fact, it's a "BIG mobile play," founder Ben Keighran tells us. Keighran, who in 2006 started Bluepulse, a mobile messaging app, has most recently served as the lead advisor to Aardvark for their mobile strategy. There's apparently no website for the company yet, but they do have a Twitter account, which features one tweet: "Working on something sekret... :-)"













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<description><![CDATA[When news of the Litl Webbook broke out on Wednesday, I was pleased to learn that the company is located here in Boston, since there aren't nearly as many people in this area making actual hardware devices, as opposed to software and web companies.

I got a chance to sit down with CEO John Chuang for a thorough overview of the Webbook, so check out the video inside for some information about the design philosophy and user interface behind the $699 transforming internet computer.













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More good news for Indian entrepreneurs! Infosys co-founder and chairman N. R. Narayana Murthy's new VC firm, now called Catamaran Venture Fund, just added a whole lot more money to its coffers. A few weeks ago, we reported that Murthy was turning to “the dark side” after selling a large amount  of company shares in order to set up a venture capital firm. To set up the fund, Murthy reportedly sold 800,000 shares, or 0.13 percent of the company, its total value converting to $38.7 million, more or less.

It appears that Murthy's wife, Sudha Murthy, who reportedly put up the seed funding for Infosys Technologies at its founding 30 years ago, has sold 2 million shares worth of her Infosys stock, worth roughly $91 million dollars. And Sudha sold 22 percent of her personal holding to fund her husband's new VC fund. 













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Do you see something strange in this screenshot of Google's homepage today?  No, not Bert and Ernie (it's Sesame Street's 40th birthday).  It's that ad for the Verizon Droid right there under the search box (today is also Droid Day).  Although, the juxtaposition does make it seem like Bert and Ernie are trying to get you to buy a Droid.

Google's homepage is normally an ad-free zone.  No more than 28 words are allowed on it, and Google is always trying to find ways to make it even sparer.













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<title>App Store Hypocrisy Update: Mein Kampf Complete With Nazi Logo Approved</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This just keeps getting more and more ridiculous. Before I begin, let me start out by saying that all things being equal, I have no problem with the Apple putting Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf into the App Store, as they have today, as both The Next Web and Edible Apple spotted. It's a book, it's a rather big part of history, it's in book stores, etc. That said, all things are not equal in the App Store, not even close. And by Apple's own standards there is no way this should have been approved.

Let me remind everyone that Apple rejected a Someecards application last month partially due to the fact that one of the cards included was mocking Hitler (and more specifically, the film Inglourious Basterds). They flat out rejected it, didn't require a certain rating for the satire, just rejected it. So when you see Mein Kampf in the store, complete with a swastika as its icon, you'll forgive me if I'm a bit dumbfounded.













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<title>Android Developer Challenge 2 Finalists Posted, Final Judging Begins</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Early this morning, 200 Android developers woke up to one hell of an e-mail: they'd made it into the final round of the second Android Developer Challenge, and were thus one giant step closer to as much as $250,000. 

Android Developer Challenge 2 officially began way back in May, though the actual voting didn't begin until some time in September. The votes were split amongst Android users and Googlers (with the latter getting a 55% say), with all voting taking place in a special, custom-made application. To be eligible, applications had to be completely fresh to the Android Market (read: no updates allowed) as of August 1st, couldn't have been a part of the first Challenge, and had to play friendly with Android v1.5.














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Zillow, a popular real-estate listings site, recently tweaked the pricing model in its marketplace for mortgages, angering many of the lenders who pay Zillow for customer leads. A few weeks ago, the site announced that it will be introducing a new pricing model for these leads to lenders.

Zillow's mortgage marketplace, which launched in 2008, lets borrowers submit loan requests for mortgages and then review quotes provided by lenders. Basically, lenders will be able to submit any number of loan quotes for free, but will be required to pay Zillow a "market-priced fee" when any borrowers contact them regarding their quotes. When a contact is made, the lender will be charged a market-priced fee. 













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<description><![CDATA[Brizzly is on a roll right now. Just yesterday, it became the first web-based Twitter client to implement Lists, and last week it rolled out Facebook support. Today brings good news for its parent company: More funding.

At the end of this month, Thing Labs will close a $600,000 round which is basically an extension of its Series A from back in June of last year, co-founder Jason Shellen tells us. This will bring its total funding to $2.2 million. But this round is more notable for who is involved: angel investor Ron Conway, Steve Olechowski (the former COO of Feedburner, now at Google), and Greg Yaitanes, who was an early Twitter investor, but is better known as a director of Fox's hit show House. He's also directed episodes of Lost, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, and many other popular TV shows.













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<title>Seesmic Web One-Ups Brizzly With Lists AND Geolocation Support (Kind Of)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Seesmic rolled out support for the new Twitter Lists for its Desktop client. Today, that same functionality comes to its web-based client. And with it comes a bonus: Geolocation support.

Now, to be clear, most users still won't be able to use this geolocation support just yet, as Twitter has yet to enable it for most users. But if you do happen to have it, Seesmic supports it. As you can see in the screenshot, it looks pretty nice. If you see a little location marker on a tweet, you can hover over it to bring up a Google Map overlay showing where that tweet was sent from.













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<title>TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch &#x2013; A Realtime Holiday</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

It is time for the second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch! Yes folks it's our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Holiday party, in one handy package. This year we're taking a different tack - basing it around one of the the hottest themes right now, namely the rise of realtime streams. We've seen the emergence of Twitter, Facebook, Friendfieed and Google Wave but it's clear that this is only just the beginning of the world going realtime. TechCrunch is running the Realtime Crunchup of course, but this event in London will also feature some of the hottest realtime startups in the world today.













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<title>Andreessen On Skype: &#x201C;This Is One Of The Most Important Companies On the Internet.&#x201D;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

Earlier this morning, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis settled their lawsuits with eBay and a syndicate of investors in return for a 14 percent stake in the company they founded.  The lawsuits were complicating the spin-off of Skype from eBay because the Skype founders still controlled the service's underlying peer-to-peer technology.  

In an interview with me this morning, Marc Andreessen, one of the investors through his new fund Andreessen Horowitz, told me, "The deal was never held up.  The money was in escrow and was going to close" even if the lawsuits weren't settled.  The transaction is on track to close later this quarter, and Josh Silvertman will continue to be CEO.













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<title>Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10%</title>
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<description><![CDATA[eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. 

Index Ventures, a historical investor in Skype, is not going to be part of that buying party after all, and its partner Mike Volpi is definitely out of the picture (no surprises there). Marc Andreessen, partner of Andreessen Horowitz, tells us: "Everything is settled—all lawsuits, all IP.  The Joltid IP is now owned by Skype.  The company is free and clear to execute to its full potential."

The original Skype founders, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, are now back in the game. The Scandinavian businessmen are getting 14 percent of Skype back for rights to the Global Index P2P technology their company Joltid controls (which is key to the Skype software) - and not 10% like previously reported by other media. In addition, Friis and Zennström gain representation on the board of the new entity. The two men are also putting in a 'significant amount of capital' of their own in exchange for the stake in the new company, presumably through their Atomico Ventures fund.













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<title>Fever Pitch: It&#x2019;s Droid Day, Enjoy The Moment.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you are a tech lover, there is nothing quite like the launch day of a much hyped new gadget. Expectations run high. And since those expectations are rarely satisfied once you have the special little device in hand, it's a moment to savor. In the hours before you own it, that device is perfect in every way. It will make you happier, a better person. There are no bugs, there are only features. It is whatever you want it to be.

Launch day of a new cool gadget is the closest thing to being a kid again on Christmas day (or whatever your winter solstice holiday of choice). You've anticipated the day. You've called in sick to work. And you are standing out in the freezing cold at 7 in the morning, hoping your place in line assures you a device before the carefully-planned sell out occurs. You've worked yourself into...a Fever Pitch.

I've always been let down with the real world gadget after that high of anticipation. But that's ok. It's part of the cycle of tech.

Today is Droid day. In just a few hours Verizon stores will open and the first customers will get their hands on their very own Droid. 

And I promise you, if you are one of the people waiting in line, you will have a much lower than average amount of letdown. That's because, in my humble opinion, the Droid is the coolest mobile phone to exist to date. It is as close as we've come to the Platonic ideal of a smartphone. It's very existence ensures that the next iPhone will be even better than it otherwise would have been. Competition is good.

Yes, this is an unabashed love letter to the Droid. If you want the dispassionate reviews, we've got em. And then some. That isn't what this post is about.













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<description><![CDATA[With Twitter rolling out its own retweet functionality soon, people will be pointing their followers to more users they may not be engaging with yet, which will spark users to follow more people and hence increase the amount of conversations on Twitter. At least, that's what I think.

But Twitter has never been an ideal two-way conversation tool. It's hard to keep track of back-and-forth communication between users, particularly when you're not actually part of the discussion but still interested to know what's being said tweeted. A new tool called Bettween aims to make it easier to visualize conversations between two specific users as well as share them with others.













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<title>Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: &#x201C;I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues&#x201D;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said earlier this week that he intends to make sure his company's games don't include scammy offers in the future. Our full background on this story is here.

But what he didn't say in that blog post is that Zynga has been scamming users from the beginning quite intentionally as part of their revenue model. Rather, he pointed much of the blame at middlemen offer companies: "We need to be more aggressive and have revised our service level agreements with these providers requiring them to filter and police offers prior to posting on their networks."

Last spring, though, he gave a much clearer explanation to an audience at a Startup@Berkeley mixer, admitting that scamming users was part of Zynga's business model from the start. And it was all caught on video. I think everyone sort of knew that this was exactly Zynga's gameplan. But to hear it said so directly is just shocking.

The full 30ish minute video is here. We've taken the relevant section of the video, roughly starting at around the 10:40 mark, and embed it below. From the video:

I knew that i wanted to control my destiny, so I knew I needed revenues, right, fucking, now. Like I needed revenues now. So I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book  to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I dont know, I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it. *laughs* We did anything possible just to just get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business...So control your destiny. So that was a big lesson, controlling your business. So by the time we raised money we were profitable.













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<title>ScamVille: New Offerpal CEO Admits Mistakes, Makes Bold Promises</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Offerpal Media changed CEOs. Cofounder Anu Shukla, who just last week denied that her company engaged in any questionable advertising on social gaming applications, was replaced by veteran startup executive George Garrick. For all the background, see our Scamville post and the related updates at the end.

Garrick, who has been the CEO of Offerpal for less than 48 hours, is already taking a polar opposite approach to his predecessor. He left a lengthy comment, reprinted below, on a post earlier today about Facebook's policy and enforcement changes around application offers.

The full comment is below. But he doesn't beat around the bush. 

Garrick admits that Offerpal made mistakes - "I have quickly concluded that regrettably, Offerpal has been guilty of distributing offers of questionable integrity from some of our many advertisers." And he says that recent communications with partners stating that Offerpal was in compliance with Facebook rules were innacurate - "...we’ve also made some erroneous communications to partners and developers about the state of our compliance. In particular, we recently sent a letter to our Facebook developers which assured them that we were completely in compliance with Facebook standards, when in fact we were not."

Garrick also makes a series of promises in the comment, including "any offers we distribute meet stringent standards of integrity and quality, as specified by our partners, credible industry experts, and good old common sense" and "we will do everything we can within reason to lead the industry and set the example in these efforts."













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<title>In Defense of Steve Ballmer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's CEO has taken a lot of knocks, but are the critics being fair?

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<description><![CDATA[Spinning media just wasn't up to the job, so UCSD is banking on flash memory to build its dream machine.

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<title>Digging Into N.Y.&#x27;s Antitrust Suit Against Intel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why is New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo suing Intel?

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<title>Analyst: Sony-Ericsson&#x27;s Android Bid Is Late</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The company's Android-powered X10 brings the OS in a new multimedia direction, but it's not clear when it will arrive in the U.S.

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<title>Microsoft Sites Up Big in Time Spent Online</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Software titan may run a weak third in Web searches, but its sites are high on users' agendas.

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<title>Coupon Site Targets Black Friday, Cyber Monday</title>
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<description><![CDATA[RetailMeNot said it's ready to deliver the best "Black Friday" deals to consumers this holiday season.

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<title>Smartphone Shipments Up, Profits Down</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two studies say smartphone shipments surging, while a third says result will be lower average selling price.

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<title>Facebook, MySpace Talk Tough on App Scams</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Social networking leaders tighten policies about deceptive ads in third-party apps.

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<title>Droid First Step in iPhone Fade Away?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Showdown between Droid and iPhone could spur a 'Mac vs. PC'-like battle in the mobile world, according to one industry watcher.

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<title>Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Red Hat execs explain why Linux vendor's Linux virtualization management solution runs only on Microsoft's rival OS.

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<title>Laptop Heist Exposes Doctors&#x27; Personal Data</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/3JsbcG95aFo/3847371</link>
<description><![CDATA[Another stolen laptop puts thousands of people's personal data at risk but this time it's the caregivers -- not the patients -- who are at risk.

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<title>Lawmakers Float Bill to Boost Rural Broadband</title>
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<description><![CDATA[House panel set to consider legislation to shift federal funding to broadband service.

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<title>Net Censorship Debate Could Rear Head at WTO</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Study probes impact of a censorship case at the WTO, which could have major implications for Internet companies like Google and countries like China.

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<title>eBay, Skype Founders Settle Fight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The ownership brawl over the VoIP player's peer-to-peer technology finally draws to an end -- who's left standing?

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<title>Best Buy to Install Google Mobile Applications</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Retail giant will help customers with compatible phones install the applications on their phones.

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<title>Ericsson Plans to Close Nortel Deal &#x22;Very Soon&#x22;</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/0ncJLrzTglk/3847251</link>
<description><![CDATA[Deal will give Ericsson more than 50 percent of the market for wireless networking equipment.

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<title>Ballmer: Yahoo Bing Deal Will Be Global</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/h7kaVf-dJ9Q/3847246</link>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's fledgling deal with Yahoo may be broader than first assumed.

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<title>nVidia&#x27;s CEO Admits Supply Chain Problems</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After reporting solid numbers for the quarter, nVidia's CEO addresses a number of key issues facing the graphics chip supplier.

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<title>Analyst: iPhone Gearing Up for Enterprise Growth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A report out this week details why the iPhone is poised to make big gains in the enterprise.

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<title>Cisco Sends Stocks Soaring</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Investors saw signs of hope for a change.

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<title>test</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2008/10/test.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[test]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/08/steps-you-can-take-to-improve-your.html">
<title>Steps you can take to improve your website</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/08/steps-you-can-take-to-improve-your.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Google states clearly how to create a good website. 

Create a useful, information-rich site.....Another useful test is 
to ask (about strategy for your site), "Does this help my users?

Writing
The content should be unique, not articles taken from sites that
offer free content...to everyone else. Also, it should be written
with the user in mind, as if search engines did not exist.

Links
The ]]></description>
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<title>How to start blogging</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/08/how-to-start-blogging.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob

Is there a simple tutorial or method you could point me at that would allow me to learn the process and get one up for Natural Scratch rather quickly?  I could begin working on it later today.

Certainly I have plenty to write about so that's not a problem.

Thanks,
Ted
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Blogging : The Tutorial! Seven steps....

1) Go to:

http://www.naturalscratch.com/blog.html

2) Click on Sign In]]></description>
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<title>Youtube</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/07/youtube.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob,
  
 Next week my neighbor is going to be filming a 
little video on ThePetCheckup 
for YouTube (and also my website and anyone else who 
wants to have it on their site).  It will be me and 
Dr. Wiegert at the vet clinic....I have someone who 
can edit it and put it in the sites and am writing a 
little script this weekend.  I think it will end up 
being 3 minutes total.
  
 Since I have ]]></description>
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<title>Why is my site ranked lower on Yahoo than Google?</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/07/why-is-my-site-ranked-lower-on-yahoo.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jaison wrote:
 I see this morning it has risen to #4. In Yahoo it is #7. What is
the reason for the difference?

Jaison,
They each have their own way of evaluating links and content...
sites seem to rise fastest on MSN and then Google then Yahoo. 
Except if you get a lot of links for a keyword phrase...yahoo 
might move faster and higher than on Google.

Google tends to do a better job of ]]></description>
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<title>MedBanner.com: Search Engine Marketing: Strategy</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/07/search-engine-marketing-medbannercom.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have been to your site.  Most of the on site optimization is 
already done. The titles to each page and the html page names 
repeat the keyword are fine.  Although there are not any meta 
descriptions, Google has already indexed the content of each page 
correctly ( query Google site:www.yoururl.com). You could add 
some alt tags to the graphics, but this tweaking would not have 
a big impact.
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<title>Search Engine Marketing: Strategy</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/06/search-engine-marketing-strategy.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have been to your site.  Most of the on site optimization is 
already done. The titles to each page and the html page names 
repeat the keyword are fine.  Although there are not any meta 
descriptions, Google has already indexed the content of each page 
correctly ( query Google site:www.yoururl.com). You could add 
some alt tags to the graphics, but this tweaking would not have 
a big impact.
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<title>Click Fraud</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/05/click-fraud.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Most people think of click fraud as an internet crime  in
pay per click  advertising caused buy a person, automated
script, or computer program imitates a legitimate user
by clicking on an ad, for the purpose of generating an
expense to the advertiser without having actual interest
in the target of the ad's link.  However, there are several
different types of pay per click fraud:
competitors ]]></description>
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<title>Selecting Keywords</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/05/selecting-keywords_23.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Keywords are those words or phrases that you think
people might use to search for your product or service.
Both Google and Yahoo give you ample tools to
help you determine which phrases might be best for you.
There are several issues to deal with when selecting
keywords.
RelevanceEnough trafficToo much trafficRelevance means that these words must be in line with
the content of your site. Many ]]></description>
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<title>Keyword bidding</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/05/keyword-bidding.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob,
Our strategy has been to maintain the number one position for
our keyword phrase. We do not want to be considered #2.
What is the advantage to being in any other position?
Brian
---
Brian,

If your objective is to maximize traffic then you are
right, the top position is the only place to be. The
number one position generates the highest percentage
clicks.  Each subsequent position (2,3 and ]]></description>
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<title>Duplicate Content</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/05/duplicate-content_03.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob,
I had asked google adsense if it was OK to put up sites which substantially mirrored partial content from our main site.  There are currently quite a few of them, using the .info domain, etc.  It was OK with adsense, but maybe now it is NOT ok with google search. 

Mike,
Duplicate content is duplicate content. A search engine wants only
to display unique content and the original source of ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/04/placement-of-google-analytics-code.html">
<title>Placement of Google Analytics Code</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/04/placement-of-google-analytics-code.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Google Analytics code is in the wrong place.
The currentl placement is at the top of their site
just under their meta tags.

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It should be at the last element on their page... 
right above the body  html tag

like this..

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The code will work in either case...but if Google Analytics 
ever goes down....all of your page will still load....just 
a ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/moving-content-and-changing-to-text.html">
<title>Moving content and changing to text urls</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/moving-content-and-changing-to-text.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob,
We are using Drupal for our content management and 
wonder about changing the urls for our site. The old 
urls were with ID numbers and a short query string 

http://www.oursite.com/?q=node/456 

and the new will be 

http://www.oursite.com/a_keyword_variable

Should we have any concerns about this move?
-------------------

Well, switching to text urls is good for two reasons. 
   1. Search]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/advertisers-conflict-with-publishers.html">
<title>Advertisers conflict with Publishers Click Report</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/advertisers-conflict-with-publishers.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[We have a client using Google Analytics to confirm the clicks
we say are going to his site. Analytics has typically been a
problem, but we need an explanation for the difference.  
What could be causing this?  
-----------------
M,
There will always be differences in traffic count. However,
this  discrepancy is way to large to explain as acceptable.
Generally over 10% is considered unacceptable ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/supplemental-results.html">
<title>Supplemental Results</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/supplemental-results.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi Robert,

Thanks! Yeah, I tend to agree its a good site even if it has seen better days. At this point the problem is keeping people interested in maintaining it. I've been involved for a long time and am one of the advocates for keeping it going in some form - I'll pass along your message to the powers that be (I'm a powers that be lite - webmaster and former chair of the board). Seems like ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/blog-directory.html">
<title>Blog Directories</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/blog-directory.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[127 Blog directories to submit your blog to ranked by PageRank.

Obviously, all of these directories can help drive traffic
to your blog. Theoretically the higher PageRank will help your
blog more, but in practice some directories will drive real traffic
whether they have good PR or not. Sometimes larger directories
may bury your content and result in no benefit.

There are undoubtedly better ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/more-rss-directories.html">
<title>More RSS Directories</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/more-rss-directories.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A few directories approve immediately and some within a day or
two, all of these I have listed as quick approval. Everything
else is slow...from a week to much longer.

These directories are for RSS feeds rather than just
a blog directory.

Most allow multiple feeds from one URL...a few do not.

I have ranked these directories by Alexa.com, admittedly not the most accurate measure of traffic. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/rss-directories.html">
<title>RSS Directories</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/rss-directories.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[www.syndic8.com : Sundic8 has created a sort of Dmoz/Wiki come approve all these feeds that
the public has submitted situation.  This is the most sophisticated directory I have found. It tests all RSS feeds for syntax and for providing fresh content.

I don't understand the structure which four different directories within it of:

Syndic8, DMOZ, NIF, NIF_DOMZ and TX

At any rate there is a lot of]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/content-ads-vs-search-advertising.html">
<title>Content  Ads vs. Search Advertising</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/content-ads-vs-search-advertising.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Content vs. Search AdvertisingBoth Google and Yahoo (and soon MSN)display advertising on search results pages and content affiliate sites. These are sites that have Google and Overture code which delivers relevant ads to the sitesâ viewers. The ads are determined by the same criteria and analysis of the content used for displaying the site in their free results. When these ads are clicked on, ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/conversion-tracking.html">
<title>Conversion Tracking</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/conversion-tracking.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Conversion Tracking        A conversion occurs when a click on your ad leads directly to user behavior you deem valuable, such as a purchase, signup, page view, or lead.  They have tools that allow you to measure the cost of each conversion and tell you the effectiveness of your adword campaign.     Conversion code tracking differentiates advertising that generates traffic from advertising that ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/pay-per-click-management.html">
<title>Pay Per Click Management</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/pay-per-click-management.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pay Per Click Management     Pay per click advertising refers to small text ads at the top and sides of search engine results pages. Advertisers aggressively bid for search terms that people employ to find products and services. As one queries a term, an ad appears. Clients are only charged when the ad is clicked upon and transports the viewer to the site.      Pay per click management is the ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/this-is-test.html">
<title>PPC marketing and making keywords relevant</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/this-is-test.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob we need to market ourselves to advertising agencies about
our services, what steps can we take?
Debbie
In school marketing

Debbie,
It seems that the agencies are using Google more now than ever
to research advertising possibilities.  Most of the contacts we get
are from small advertisers, but we also are being contacted by
the largest agencies in New York ...all from the internet.

I think ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/seo-ppc-rss.html">
<title>SEO PPC RSS</title>
<link>http://www.medbanner.com/2007/03/seo-ppc-rss.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Moving beyond three letters.

These three are intertwined.  Pay per click has the advantage of
immediately reaching the broadest market and to track its
effectiveness in measuring sales (or conversions).  Once you
find out what is driving your revenue you are able to better
focus your SEO campaign on those terms.

The hardest part of SEO is making a site important in Googles
eyes, PageRank.  With]]></description>
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