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<description><![CDATA[It's not easy to launch a successful WebEx competitor. Most businesses have long since established their "system" for dealing with web meetings, using old standbys like WebEx or GoToMeeting.  And those businesses that are willing to venture into the unknown have had plenty of cheaper alternatives to choose from, like DimDim, for quite a while.  But that isn't keeping CallWave from launching one of its own, dubbed Fuze Meeting.  And while it's not going to be an easy space to compete in, Fuze Meeting doesn't disappoint.

As far as startups go, the history of the company is pretty unique.  CallWave was founded in 1998 and went public in 2004, trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol CALL.  After reaching a peak soon thereafter of over $15 per share, the stock dropped steadily, dipping as low as 50 cents early this year.  Deciding to cut its losses, the company delisted itself from NASDAQ on Monday after buying back shares from public shareholders at a 44% premium over the current market value and paying out a total of $10 million.  CMO Patrick Moran says that the company did this on its own accord, and that its hand wasn't pushed by any banks or VCs.  CallWave will soon change its name to Fuze Box to reflect its new position as a startup.
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<title>Outsource Your Beta Testing To Prefinery (Invites)</title>
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The beta testing stage can be the cornerstone to the successful development of a new site. And many startups have to conduct and implement beta testing of sites, surveys and analytics internally, which can be an daunting task when you are launching a site. Prefinery lets startups outsource the whole beta invite process, from start to finish. Prefinery is offering 100 TechCrunch readers with beta invites to test the site. You can sign up here. Use the invitation code "TECHCRUNCH" when signing up for the service.

Prefinery's ambition is to create a valuable first experience for beta testers and to help startups in collecting and organizing information that will result in a better product. Prefinery will do anything and everything when it comes to the beta testing process. The service will create a splash page for your product, generate an HTML sign-up form with fields and survey questions, create an automatic welcome e-mail/message, take signups into a queue, approve users, and trigger invite e-mail. The service will also generate invite codes and assign quantities.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Okay, it's not exactly the Camp David Summit that took place in 2000 between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but sometimes the littlest gestures can go a long way.

A couple of days ago, upon hearing that Microsoft had officially joined Twitter, the official Linux account sent out a tweet welcoming them. "Welcome to Twitter, @Microsoft!," they said. The tweet sat unanswered for over a day, and it seemed like Microsoft may never answer. But about a few hours ago, they did. "@Linux thanks, nice to be here," they replied.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[I don't recall how the YouTube user Pruane2Forever, aka "Sexman", came on my radar, but I definitely remember a few of his videos from a couple years ago. (Here's a old favorite — Not Safe For Work.) Basically, it's this kid who does movie and new media reviews that are (or at least used to be) unintentionally hilarious. These days, he apparently has quite the following on YouTube, as he has over 150 videos that range in popularity from tens of thousands of views to over a million.

One of his most popular ones was a video from 4 months ago in which he calls out rapper 50 Cent. Sexman wonders how 50 still has "street cred" after doing endorsements for Vitamin Water, makeup and dildos (I'm not kidding). "What else is he gonna do? 50 Cent diapers for your little gangsta?," Sexman wonders at one point. He concludes that 50 Cent is "just a media whore!"

Well, 50 Cent has responded. Yesterday, the rapper posted a video alongside Sexman, who apparently flew from Canada to New York to meet up at the rapper's request.]]></description>
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<title>TechCrunch50: You Want Advertising? We&#x2019;ll Give You Advertising</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite our best intentions, it looks like the DEMO v. TechCrunch50 war will continue, even with DEMO under new management.

In 2007 we launched the first TechCrunch50 event - a place where companies can launch to rabid fans and tech press. These launching companies are the stars of the show, and they don't pay a cent to attend. We thought DEMO's longstanding policy of forcing launching companies to pay a $20,000 fee was ridiculous, and led the conference organizers to make decisions based not on the merits of the startups but simply on who was willing and able to pay. Not only do we let startups launch for free, we give the top one a $50,000 prize.

Our conference has grown rapidly - nearly 2,000 people attended TechCrunch50 last year while DEMO languished in San Diego with a paltry few hundred. To be fair, our events were on the exact same dates, so they were hit doubly hard. This year we moved our dates to give them some breathing room. We thought we were done battling DEMO.

But today DEMO announced that they're giving away a "massive" prize - $2 million in advertising credits - to the top two startups at the event. The press is eating it up, saying that TechCrunch50 looks paltry in comparison.

Of course, there's a catch. The "advertising" is remnant stuff on IDG properties (IDG owns DEMO) and will certainly be priced at rate card. They'll also charge for creative and other expenses. Meaning there is very little actual value. I'm guessing that the amount of advertising actually delivered would be in the tens of thousands of dollars of value, at best. And, of course, every startup launching still needs to pay to launch.

But whatever. You want adverting? We'll give you advertising.]]></description>
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When we reported on Kiva.org's decision to open up its micro-lending platform to U.S. entrepreneurs, Kiva CEO Premal Shah told us he was concerned about backlash in the community. Shah acknowledged that the decision to open lending to U.S. recipients may draw criticism because it goes against the idea on which Kiva was founded—lending to help development in third world countries where credit options are limited.

It looks like Shah's prediction was correct. There is now a lending team on Kiva's community platform titled "Unhappy Kiva Lenders." The members, which total 375 lenders from around the world, are angry that Kiva is extending loans to U.S. entrepreneurs.  The team's page states that "including borrowers from the USA  has undermined the very core of what made [Kiva] so unique and special; small, impactful contributions to entrepreneurs in impoverished situations in developing countries."]]></description>
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<title>Want The Obama &#x201C;Hope&#x201D; Artwork On Your iPhone? Nope, Says Apple.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Start Mobile has managed to get 18 separate iPhone applications approved by Apple. So you'll imagine their surprise when one of them was recently rejected. But you may be even more surprised to find out why.

Apparently, Apple doesn't like the way one piece of art in the app depicts President Obama. Is it out of line or tasteless? Well, you can determine for yourself, because you've undoubtedly seen the art in question before: It's Shepard Fairey's famous "HOPE" image of Obama that was everywhere during his Presidential campaign.

So why on Earth would this be rejected? Well, here's the wording in the rejection:
It contains content that ridicules public figures and is in violation of Section 3.3.12 from the iPhone SDK Agreement which states: "Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple's reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users."
"Ridicules public figures"? This image is hanging in the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian — yet, Apple apparently finds it inappropriate.]]></description>
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One of the most effective ways to amplify your message on Twitter is to get your followers to retweet it to their followers.  Retweeting is also becoming a popular way to pass links around Twitter.  They are becoming the new currency of the Web because of the power of passed links.   One service in particular, Tweetmeme, is cornering the market on retweets by making it easy for blogs and other sites to add a retweet button to every page.  You can see one at the bottom of this post.  Just click on it, and it will take you to your Twitter account and populate a message with a "RT," the headline, and a short link.  Go ahead, do it now.  Do it again.  Okay, thanks.

Lots of sites use Tweetmeme's retweet button, and it drives a lot of its overall traffic.  Nick Halstead, the CEO of Fav.or.it (Tweetmeme's parent company) says that the buttons are so widespread right now that they are generating 196 million impressions a week month. In other words, that is how many pages load with the buttons every month week, and some portion of those result in actual retweets.  Halstead is making some improvements to the retweet buttons.  Before each retweet generated by the button would include a promotional "via @tweetmeme."  That has now removed to make more room for the actual headline and link.  Next week he is going to introduce an image button which can be included in RSS feeds and emails to spread the retweet love even further.  And sites will be able to embed a retweet counter to show how many overall retweets they get every week.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Before I go defile myself with burgers and beer I wanted to jailbreak my iPhone 3GS for you all. The process was amazingly simple. Using a Windows netbook - it doesn't work under Windows 7 - I simply installed iTunes and ran purplera1n. It took a second to reboot then it rolled through recovery mode, rebooted, and an app called Freeze appeared. Freeze then installed Cydia and all was right with the world.]]></description>
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<title>Singing A New Tune: The Imeem Music Store.</title>
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Does embattled music streaming site imeem think it can take on iTunes?  For the most part, nearly every streaming song on the site has a download button which links to both iTunes and the Amazon MP3 store.  But it is quietly testing its own music download store which bypasses iTunes and Amazon and sells MP3s directly.  For instance, this is the case with some Sub Pop artists, such as Iron and Wine and The Shins.  When you hit the download button on songs for those artists, a window pops up showing the album where that song came from with with the option to download the entire album or any individual song for $0.99.  You can then pay imeem directly by credit card or Paypal and download the song to your computer.

(Screenshots after the jump).]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Talk about a serious outage. Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net has been down and out for several hours, a number of tipsters inform us. That has big implications: since the service is used by tens of thousands of e-commerce vendors to accept credit card and electronic checks payments on their websites (example), it likely means millions are being lost during its downtime. PayPal and Google Checkout are still up and running.

It's unclear when the downtime started exactly, but the consensus is somewhere between 5 and 7 hours at this point (11 AM Eastern), with e-commerce vendors desperately looking for ways to contact the company or get any first-hand information about what's going on and when the problems will be resolved. Twitter, meanwhile, is buzzing with the news as the United States wakes up (hashtag #authorizenet).

(see updates after the jump)]]></description>
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<title>Coming Soon: Even More TechCrunch in London</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a nice two weeks in San Francisco, but in about 10 hours I’m headed to SFO’s international terminal again. This time, I’m going to London. I’m traveling as part of a group of bloggers, authors and videographers called “The Traveling Geeks,” whose mission is simply to go to various cities around the world [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[At the end of last May, Yahoo released an experimental version of Placemaker, a “geo-enrichment” platform. What it does is help developers make applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content (think RSS feeds, web pages, news, status updates etc.) and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup. In layman's terms: it can detect places by scanning content and is capable of putting the aggregate data on a map.

While Placemaker does not serve as a geocoder and thus does not perform address recognition on street-level, it is perfectly capable of geo-extracting and indexing documents or atomic units of text, giving third-party developers the means to mark-up and index Web content geographically in a globally-aware, locally-relevant, and language-neutral manner (and Geo Microformats-compatible, too). But the process of parsing the data could sure have been made a lot easier, and if you weren't a developer there wasn't really any use for the tool at all.]]></description>
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<title>Brace Yourselves! &#x201C;Asteroids&#x201D; Headed For The Big Screen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[According to The Hollywood Reporter, movie studio Universal has won a bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids". Initially released as an arcade game back in 1979, Asteroids featured a triangular space ship that needed to be navigated through an asteroid field.

The object was to shoot and destroy masses of rock and the occasional flying saucer while avoiding smashing into both, so we suspect it will not turn out to be romantic comedy.

Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the producer of both Transformers movies as well as the 2005 adaptation of the Doom game.]]></description>
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<title>In India, Google Searches For Users With Print Ads</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Different markets have different needs for marketing products or services. We all know that much. But that doesn't take away the weirdness of a company like Google advertising its core product (online search) by using ink that was printed on paper. 

Guilty of this hideous crime (I kid, I kid) is Google India, who apparently ordered some targeted quarter-page advertisements to appear in a variety of city supplements of The Times Of India, the leading English-language daily newspaper in the country.]]></description>
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<title>First iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Hits The Web</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ George Hotz, the 20-year old hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone, has released a jailbreaking application for the iPhone 3GS codenamed "purplera1n." It's currently Windows-only (Windows 7 not supported), and requires the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with the 3.0 firmware. 

Hotz mentions in a blog post that the jailbreak for Mac is "coming soon." The iPhone Dev Team did release a unlock for 3.0 which did not work on the iPhone 3GS, but Hotz's version does (although it doesn't free you from your current carrier).]]></description>
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<title>My Interview With Antitrust Expert Gary Reback: Google&#x2019;s Looming Antitrust Issues</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday I spoke with antitrust attorney Gary Reback, the man who spearheaded the push to break up Microsoft in the nineties. The event was hosted by HBSTech at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.

If anyone in the world can make antitrust law interesting, it's Reback.

Much of the hour plus conversation focused on the history of antitrust law and Reback's experience in big antitrust cases from his new book, Free the Market!: Why Only Government Can Keep the Marketplace Competitive (buy it here). But we also spoke about current events and his concerns that lax antitrust enforcement has led to less competition today in tech than is optimal.

We spent a lot of time on Google. His chief concern is Google Books (jump to the 30 minute mark), and he argues that a DOJ investigation is appropriate. I'm more concerned with competition in search and search marketing, and we spoke about this as well.

The video is below (plus a way to get his new book for free):]]></description>
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<title>Does Anybody Still Use Second Life?  And If So, How Much Is It Worth Today?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

Analyst firm Next Up Research has published an extensive report on Linden Lab, the San Francisco company behind virtual world Second Life. The research is based on aggregate data and is available on SharesPost, a site set up to trade shares of privately held companies (if you register, you can download the report for free from that page, or you can find other valuation reports on companies like Facebook and LinkedIn).  The report goes rather deep into the valuation of the Linden Lab, which it pegs at somewhere between $658 million and 700 million.

More on that later.

Now that Linden Lab has been around for nearly 10 years, and with its product Second Life celebrating its sixth birthday since launching publicly in June 2003, we thought it would be a good idea to take a close look at the report and see how the company's doing according to the analysts.  First of all, you may be wondering if anyone is still using Second Life at all. The answer is yes, and users are very active on there]]></description>
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<title>As The DOJ Pounces, Google Makes Book Search Even Better</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

Google received some unfortunate news today, with the U.S. Department of Justice formally announcing the investigation of the $125 million settlement Google made with the Author’s Guild to pay authors a nominal fee for copyrighted works it has scanned and made available on the Web.  The settlement has drawn its fair share of critics, including Jeff Bezos.  But Google keeps on plugging away, making its book search better and better.]]></description>
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<title>Google Voice Now Lets You Change Your Number. It&#x2019;ll Cost You $10.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When I first signed up for GrandCentral a few years ago, I lived in a different city. As such, I had a different area code. And that was fine until I moved and Google, which bought GrandCentral in 2007 and subsequently put it on lockdown, prohibited me from changing it. I didn't think much of it until my GrandCentral account magically transformed into a Google Voice account a few months ago, taking a good service and making it excellent. Unfortunately, I was still stuck with my old number. But now, there's an option to change it.

The "Change your number" functionality, as spotted today by Boy Genius Report, is great news for users like me. Unfortunately, it will cost you to change it. There's a one-time $10 fee, which in my mind is well worth it. Best of all, Google Voice will activate your new number right away and still keep your old one active and forwarding to the new one for three months.]]></description>
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<title>Fitnio: Finally, An iPhone Exercise App That Gives You Control Of Your Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since the debut of the App Store last summer, my iPhone has become an indispensable part of my workout routine.  The phone makes it easy to track your workout progress both in the gym and outdoors, where applications like RunKeeper allow you to use the phone's integrated GPS to plot your bike or running course on a map.   But there's been one annoyance that's aggravated me (and many others) to no end: the limited control you have over your music once you've launched one of these fitness apps.  Fortunately the iPhone 3.0 software update finally fixes this, and a RunKeeper-like application called Fitnio(iTunes Link) has managed to beat some of its more well-known competitors to the punch.

Until the release of the iPhone 3.0 software update, developers were unable to access the phone's music library.  In order to play music as you ran, you'd have to first open up the phone's iPod application, pick a playlist, then switch over to the excercise app.  Once there, you could use your headphone's multifunction button to execute some basic commands (next song, pause, and previous song), but if you wanted to switch playlists you were out of luck.  
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<title>Dice Reports Murky Waters For Tech Jobs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

After months of dismal unemployment numbers, this morning's continued growth in the unemployment rate from 9.4% in May to 9.5% for the month of June reinforces the fact that the U.S. is still very much in the midst of recession. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Labor reported today that employers cut 467,000 jobs in June, compared to 322,000 jobs in May. Unfortunately, the tech industry is still feeling the heat of the recession, with the rate of available jobs not improving much from the past few months, according to technology jobs site Dice.com. 

Tom Silver, senior vice president of Dice.com, told us this morning that Dice.com is reporting a 44% year-over-year drop in job listings for the month of June. May's year-over-year decline hovered around 45%. And Silver also points to a rise in the Department of Labor's unemployment rate for the "Computer and Mathematics sector," (the area best associated with the tech sector). June's unemployment rate for the tech sector almost tripled year-over year, from 1.9% in June of 2008, to 5.4% in June of 2009. While Silver says that the tech job market is certainly better than during the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009, the number of job opportunities have remained stagnant over the course of the past few months. ]]></description>
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<title>The Infamous 2009 LimeWire Pizza Fiasco</title>
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<description><![CDATA[July 1, 2009 - the day the music wars started in earnest. Last night the guys from Dovecote Records, a small music label based in New York, were hanging out at their local bar. Employees from file sharing startup LimeWire showed up to have a party. There was confusion over the ownership of some pizza, and a riot almost ensued.

From the Dovecote Blog:

Woman: “Who the FUCK are you?  And why are you eating our pizza?”

  Kosuke and Paul look confused.

Kosuke: Are you joking?  Is this a joke?

Woman:  No this is definitely NOT a joke.  I want to know who you are and why you’re eating our pizza.]]></description>
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<title>Twitter Makes Hashtags More #Useful</title>
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<description><![CDATA[


You may have noticed that Twitter has started hyperlinking hashtags. Those are words preceded by a "#" which denote what the Tweet is about and makes it easier to search for Tweets about specific topics and events.  For instance, try searching for #realtimecrunchup.  Now that they are hyperlinked, when you click on a hashtag, you are led to the search result page for the specific hashtag. Others have been implementing this; FriendFeed (big surprise) has been doing this for awhile. Some of the Twitter clients, including the desktop versions of Tweetie and Seesmic Desktop also provide hyperlinks to hashtags. 

For Twitter, search is a navigation tool, and this functionality is yet one more way to allow people to easily discover new Tweets outside their group of followers. This trend started when they added the search box to everyone's home page last April.]]></description>
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<title>One More Thing: The New Facebook iPhone App Will Allow Video Uploads</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we wrote about what Facebook was planning for the next major release of its iPhone app, version 3.0. The big update will contain 15 new features, probably none bigger than the addition of event management to the app, finally. But there was one thing Facebook developer Joe Hewitt didn't mention yesterday, and it's a big one: Video uploads from the iPhone 3GS.

Hewitt just started working on the feature yesterday, thinking it would be something that would come in the next release, after this one. But he was surprised at how quickly he was able to get it up and running and so he tweeted out today, "3GS video uploading for the Facebook iPhone app is a go -- didn't plan to include it in the 3.0 update, but it was really easy to code."
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<title>Blair Levin Calls for Citizen Participation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Obama's broadband policy chief asked knowledgeable people to participate at the FCC works out its national broadband plan.

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<title>Bing Brings Twitter Into the Mix</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft dabbles in real-time search, announcing that Bing will search some of Twitter.

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<title>CSC Teams With Microsoft on Cloud Services</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Service expands CSC's connections to Microsoft's cloud services suite for current and new CSC customers.

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<title>FCC Gets to Work on Mapping Out Broadband Plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Commission's point person for broadband roadmap outlines his game plan at first meeting under new Chairman Genachowski.

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<title>Free, Must-Have Tools for Social Networking</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/uhikFO43h5U/3828186</link>
<description><![CDATA[Busy Web users can use these free services to communicate more efficiently.

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<title>Linux Vendors Head to the Cloud in Search of Cash</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New commercial initiatives for cloud services will see both Red Hat and Ubuntu ramping up their competition.

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<title>China Paper Says Green Dam Only &#x27;Matter of Time&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[China's mandatory Web filter plans hasn't been scrapped, sources tell a Chinese newspaper.

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<title>Ad Groups Move to Regulate Web Tracking</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Moves come ahead of potential legislation designed to clamp down on the collection of behavioral data for advertising.

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<title>Apple MacBook Sales Yo-Yo With the Economy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether they are up or down, MacBook sales have one thing in common: they go in a big way.

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<title>Microsoft: One Year After Bill Gates&#x27; Exit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Changes inside Microsoft have been subtle since Gates left day-to-day operations to Ballmer and other execs.

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<title>Enterprise Software Focuses on Ease of Use</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/PFM4ODDpfkc/3828066</link>
<description><![CDATA[Enterprise-class software, not something you can install in 15 minutes, gets a user-friendly polish.

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<title>Facebook Aims to Simplify Privacy Settings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the policy sharks circling, Facebook plans to offer new tools to give users clearer control over their privacy settings.

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<title>Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The search leader digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends.

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<title>iPhone 3GS: Overheating Fears, OS Update Nears</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As buzz grows around reports of unexpectedly high temperatures and shortages in the store, the Apple smartphone inches closer to a software update.

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<title>PostgreSQL 8.4 Revs Up Database Admin, Security</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/4e9ms9yaZqQ/3828046</link>
<description><![CDATA[New open source database release adds 293 enhancements.

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<title>Broadband Stimulus Opens With Rural Emphasis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rural Utilities Service offers up almost its whole budget in first application window; Net neutrality groups shout victory.

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<title>Intel, STEC Lead Tech Stocks Higher</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Optimism ahead of second-quarter earnings reports boosted stocks on Wednesday.

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<title>Juniper Rolls VoIP Into Routers to Cut Latency</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/1ZSGaEEs4wA/3827986</link>
<description><![CDATA[Convergence goes a level deeper in a bid to improve voice latency and security.

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<title>Cisco: Billions Ahead in Smart Connected Buildings</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/FLYiP1iHSeA/3827966</link>
<description><![CDATA[New effort aims to manage and optimize commercial buildings' energy usage while raking in the dough.

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<title>F-Secure: Adobe Still Unpatched as Attacks Rise</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/xsqtVT1sy2I/3827946</link>
<description><![CDATA[Vulnerabilities and problems remain, despite progress in some areas.

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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.
]]></description>
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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.
]]></description>
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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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<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.

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

like this..

-----------------------

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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<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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