Archive for April, 2008
The Dutch parliament voted down a bill that would have allowed casino operator Holland Casino open a gambling Web site on a trails basis.
The bill was defeated in a close 35-37 vote on Tuesday. The bill passed the lower house of parliament in 2006. It was the upper house that rejected the bill this time. Passage of the bill would have allowed Holland’s gambling monopoly, Holland Casino to have a three-year trial period to operate a monopoly gambling Web site.
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Promoting your business site with Squidoo is one of the most effective affiliate marketing methods, right beside article marketing and blogging. It has become one of the most popular online marketing trends for a good reason. Learn how to use Squidoo to boost your business.
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International Olympic Committee inspectors have told Beijing that the Internet must be open and uncensored during all of the Olympic games this summer.
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For most people, Facebook is still a social network - more about palling around than seeking a new job. Yet it never hurts to have an opportunity dropped in one’s lap, and a new Facebook-CareerBuilder collaboration aims to let employers do some advertising.
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Whether you use Google Maps or are sticking to traditional favorite MapQuest, Garmin’s got you covered. The maker of navigation devices has struck deals that allow for "Send to Garmin" options from both websites.
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One of the most successful marketing methods for increasing sales is offering free items to those who visit your website. Free courses by email are very popular; those who find interest in your topic increase sign up for such courses. Autoresponders provide better maintenance and delivery of these courses.
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Most people and businesses like Google. Now, if they both like Google and want to keep their email accessible and secure, there’s a new option: Google Message Discovery.
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Participation in gaming increased in 2007 over 2006, from 64 percent of the population to 72 percent of the population according to a new report from The NPD Group, "Online Gaming 2008."
More than half play games online, with 90 percent of online gamers saying they use a PC to play games and 19 percent said they use a video game console with 3 percent saying they use a cell phone.
The number of online gamers relative to the total U.S. population is 42 percent so far this year, up from 40 percent in 2007.
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Gives advice on what website aging is, how the age of your site affects your search engine rankings and how to “beat the system”.
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How to overcome frustration of failure and how to be millionaire with proper planning and allocation of time, effort and money in the best home based Internet business?
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People who do business online have to search for new methods of marketing their services and products. Through many dofferent ways of internet marketing a person can promote their goods via their site. To adopt a strong website marketing strategy, one or more of these methods can be used. It is important to collect information first to select the correct way of approach.
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This article debates the issue of internet marketing, which has become a very powerful tool to attract visitors and website owners. The goal is to spend the appropriate amount of time and money in order to get an optimum number of visitors to your website using Internet Marketing tools.
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Discusses 3 ways in which many web masters are reducing the potential number of link exchange requests they get.
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Like a regular store or business, a home based internet business sells a product or service with the goal of making a profit. The product or service is the target; the Internet aspect is the means of reaching out to customers. With home based internet business, the sale of products and services can now be directed at the global market, instead of being limited to the scope of postal services, broadcast radio & television, newspapers and word of mouth.
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Don’t worry, it’s not an outage. Google implemented its offline option for Docs via Gears, the technology the company uses to make its applications available without an Internet connection.
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Find out how many people first starting out are making money on the internet by using affiliate programs.
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First Ask.com stated an interest in being more female-focused. Yahoo followed that up with Shine, which formally launched today, and video site SheZoom announced its debut as the first video site for women.
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Yahoo’s efforts to convince the world, and its suitor from Redmond, the company is worth more than Microsoft’s proposal hasn’t brought in a viable competing bid.
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Web-video startup Blinkx says its new BBTV, released today, is a significant advancement in the online television industry. Available via downloaded application, BBTV is intended to bring a more TV-like experience to the Web, alongside speech and visual recognition technology.
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For a short while, Yahoo oneSearch spread like wildfire. Then it crossed several oceans, making the old cliche inapplicable. It looks like Yahoo oneSearch 2.0 will follow a similar growth pattern in the near future.
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RezStream, a national leader in hospitality interactive marketing solutions, is pleased to announce its recent partnership with Anna Maria Beach Cottages.
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Social networks are practically crawling with kids, according to a new report from the UK’s Office of Communications. What’s more: the children are often on them in violation of the networks’ rules, and their parents pay little attention.
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Douglas Merrill said farewell to the best job in the world, as he opted for a position with music label EMI.
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An Australian museum is creating Australia’s first email archive to capture a snapshot of Australian society and to celebrate the role email plays in daily communications.
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Despite recent developments in Web 2.0 advertising and marketing Google Adwords remains one of the most effective ways of advertising your product on the internet.
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Over at TechCrunch, Michael Arrington has a post announcing that his company is suing Facebook for $25 million for allowing "advertisers to post ads using my picture and name to endorse their products without my explicit permission."
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday its updated version of Internet Explorer Mobile and said the software would offer "desktop grade" Web browsing on mobile devices.
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The largest of stumbling blocks—well, more like walls—lain in the blogger’s path to journalistic credibility has been…journalistic credibility. That concern alone has been the traditional (read: now ye olde school) journalist’s trumping objection, a turned up nose progressively shrinking and less relevant. Until today, April Fools Day.
You’ll have to be patient on this scenic journey with me. We’re headed somewhere, I promise. Whether it’s some place cool remains to be seen.
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The TextBuyIt service opened by Amazon brings a rapid find and buy experience to text-capable mobile devices, but it helps to know exactly what you want first.
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Queen Rania of Jordan has launched a channel on YouTube asking people around the world to "send me your stereotypes" about the Arab world and Islam.
"In a world where it’s so easy to connect to one another, we still remain very much disconnected," Rania said in her YouTube video. "If what most people know about the Arab world and Arab people they’ve known through programs like 24 and Jack Bauer I think there in for a very big surprise."
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