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8 Advantages and Disadvantages of being a YouTube Partner

We’ve written an updated post about the advantages and disadvantages of being a YouTube partner. Check it out here. There is one prevailing reason why you may want to become a YouTube Partner: to make more money. The below list of eight advantages and disadvantages should help you determine whether being a YouTube Partner will [...]

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Don't Underestimate the Power of Offline Marketing

A few weeks ago we published a post on Staples’ “Gift It For Free” Sweepstakes, a contest that promises 10,000 winners. We discovered the campaign while standing in front of our building in Manhattan as a school bus drove by with only the sweepstakes’ Web address – www.GiftItForFree.com – scrawled across the windows. Such enigmatic [...]

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Did Mac Users Decide Election ’08?

Ever wondered what computer operating system certain political parties prefer? Probably not. But Market Share by Net Applications has gone out and retrieved that data so you can enjoy a more serene slumber. Back in January, the Internet usage trend analysis company (try saying that three times fast!) compiled a map of the United States [...]

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Visit Us at the 2008 NY XPO

Attending the NY XPO – the “largest and best business show” in the northeast – on Wednesday, Nov. 19? If so, stop by the Visible Shops booth – #1454 – and say hello! We’re happy to discuss your Internet marketing needs – among a bevy of other interesting insights and observations. (We’re kinda quirky like [...]

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Can’t Run With the Big Blogs? That’s OK – There’s Still Room on the Porch

Directing traffic to your blog is like trying to unload tix to an Avril Lavigne concert when the New Kids are performing next door. It’s a formidable task – but it can be done. Considering, though, that 175,000 new blogs a day are added to the estimated 213 million (and counting) existing English-language blogs already [...]

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BlahGirls.com: ‘South Park’ Meets Perez Hilton

Reviews are in for entertainer-turned-Silicon Valley figurehead Ashton Kutcher’s latest pet project, BlahGirls.com, the new social-networking site targeting teen girls. David Hauslaib’s Jossip said, “Further proving the theory that most people successful in traditional media are like monkeys faced with calculus when it comes to the Internet, Ashton Kutcher, actor and reality show producer, and [...]

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Gemini Division Wants You to Buy Microsoft

It seems NBC just can’t get enough of video streaming, and this past Monday, it launched a web-only TV series called Gemini Division. The sci-fi drama is to be broadcasted via the Internet over a span of 50 five-to-seven minute webisodes. Hollywood starlet Rosario Dawson stars as a cop who investigates the murder of her [...]

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Site of the Day: The New Dawn of the Internet as Seen on… Aurora

One interactive media company is offering web users a look into the future, or rather, one possible future. Imagine a galaxy-like desktop with different running programs grouped together like nebula. Or imagine Internet browsers that run semantic analysis on everything you’re viewing and reading. Mozilla is hosting a Labs Concept Series, inviting participants to dream [...]

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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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Increase the Readability of Your Web Pages with the Right Font

You do a search on web readability and you will come across Jakob Nielsen, the controversial “usability consultant.” Like that of many “Internet Gurus,” Nielsen’s philosophy for attracting and converting web visitors is simple: have worthwhile content and assume that the web reader is lazy and selfish. But just one look at his site, and [...]

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