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Job Opening!

We’re Hiring!  Are you the one we want? About Us: Visible Shops is an Internet Marketing Company located in midtown Manhattan, right next to Grand Central. Our firm serves as the Internet marketing department for small businesses (our client base.) We’ve been around for six years and love being great at what we do We’re [...]

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Barak Obama Wants You to Vote… and Blog

Some polls show that Barak Obama is doing better than John McCain when it comes to younger voters for the 2008 presidential election. According to Newsweek: Overall, voters see Obama as the preferred agent of “change” by a margin of 51 percent to 27 percent. Younger voters, in particular, are more likely to see Obama [...]

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Firefox 3.0 Got the "Colbert Bump"

Back in June, Firefox 3.0 got some free publicity on its release date because Jonathan Zittrain mentioned it during his interview on the show, The Colbert Report. Zittrain is a professor and a researcher of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, which investigates Internet policies. His new book, The Future [...]

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Stop Poking Me: Spamming on Networking Sites

Sometimes, so-called “controversies” are overblown by the media. The topic of online privacy on social networks, however, is not one of those cases. Here’s a personal vignette to share: just this week, I found a friend request from someone I have already friended. It was a curious thing, and then I scrolled down to see [...]

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How Google's Ad Planner May Affect User Privacy

Hey, remember when a report from comScore caused a dip in Google’s stocks? Well, irony is a cruel maiden. This shouldn’t come as a shock: Google stepping into the web analytics industry is like a fat man flopping into a kiddie pool. OK, all jokes aside, Google’s recent announcement of Ad Planner is an interesting [...]

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Primer on Social Media Marketing (Part 2)

This is Part 2 of our Primer on Social Media Marketing – How to Get Started. With the first step in our primer, we have established what Social Media is, and all the forms it may take on the Internet. Now, we’ll take you through some pointers on how social media marketing is implemented. As [...]

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Primer on Social Media Marketing (Part 1)

Part 1 of our Two-Part Primer on Social Media Marketing Facebook. Flickr. YouTube. Wikipedia. MySpace. Last.fm. Yahoo! Groups. Second Life. Twitter. Message boards. Wikis. Forums. Blogs! So much Internet usage nowadays revolves around these various applications, technologies, and formats. What do they have in common? They’re all a part of the Social Media phenomenon, which [...]

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Good Things, Small Packages: Microblogging at Pownce

Many web applications nowadays are all about truncating activities and taking up less time. Blogs are as common as grass nowadays, but some smart developers created a condensed version of the common medium: microblogging!

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Upgrading Life with Lifehacker

For our Site of the Day, Visible Shops would like to present: Lifehacker. Lifehacker stands at the epicenter of a huge blogospheric earthquake: the new DIY (Do It Yourself) movement on the web. From blogs that demonstrate or teach you how to minimize rubbish in your life (Unclutterer) or work with computers (DIY PC), people [...]

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