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BlogRovR Launches New Release with Personalization Tools
from Mashable at 8/17/2007 11:12 PM
BlogRovr, the roving blog feed reader, has just announced several new features to its latest release. The service has been integrated into your Google Reader, so as you read blogs in Google Reader, BlogRovr can see what the rest of the blogoshpere says in regards to related content. It’s also added more analysis features, in [...]
American Airlines Sues Google for Selling AdWords
from Mashable at 8/17/2007 10:28 PM
Google is being sued by American Airlines for selling search words with the airline’s name. American Airlines has claimed that Google’s pay-per-click ad system is being unfairly used by competitors in an effort to grab attention from consumers and earn more business. The accusations against Google include infringing on trademark laws, as the search company [...]
How is the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project Going for You?
from ProBlogger at 8/17/2007 10:06 PM
We’ve passed the halfway point in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project and so I thought it might be worth taking a few moments out from the daily tasks to ask how readers are finding it.I’ve been getting some wonderful feedback via email and comments but thought that a little storytelling (both [...]
Jive Software Gets $15M in Funding
from Mashable at 8/17/2007 9:46 PM
Jive Software, the collaboration software developers, has raised $15 million in funding, led by Sequoia Capital. With its suite of business solutions for collaborative software, Jive has become a player in the quest to go up against the Microsoft Office tools. Founded in 2001, the Portland, Oregon-based company has seen significant growth with the ongoing [...]
nTag Raises $8.3M in Series B Round of Funding
from Mashable at 8/17/2007 8:45 PM
Ntag, the remote-control nametag for networking events, has raised $8.3 million in a round of Series B funding. The round was led by Sevin Rosen Funds and Pilot House Ventures. This brings the total amount of venture capital raised by Ntag to $23.5 million, with Sevin Rosen Funds and Pilot House Ventures providing [...]
NowPlayIt Offers Music Lessons from Famous Bands
from Mashable at 8/17/2007 8:19 PM
NowPlayIt is a new how-to site that offers video music lessons from the artists that wrote the songs themselves. There are three different options for accessing a video lesson: the first is a full tutorial, which features a lesson, a recap, and a play through. This will cost you about $8. For $6 you [...]
Skype Downtime Caused by Algorithm Deficiency (Whatever That Is)
from Mashable at 8/17/2007 8:02 PM
For those continuing to suffer through the Skype outage, the news today was that Skype has neither been hacked nor broken by a recent update. The Skype Heartbeat blog explains: The Skype system has not crashed or been victim of a cyber attack. We love our customers too much to let that happen. This problem [...]
MetaCafe Launches Facebook Application
from Mashable at 8/17/2007 7:16 PM
MetaCafe has launched its Facebook application, giving you another way to view and share videos on Facebook. With this app you can watch video clips from MetaCafe, grab the embed code, email them to a friend, and leave comments. You can easily choose a friend to share the clip with as a short list of [...]
YouPorn Blocked by Google.de
from Mashable at 8/17/2007 6:38 PM
It’s been noted that the German Google.de has blocked search results for the site YouPorn.com (NSFW). This web 2.0 site offers user-generated video content of the pornographic type, and wouldn’t necessarily be the type of site you’d think should be included in a search ban from Google. Apparently Google.de has removed search results for YouPorn [...]
More on Advertising on StumbleUpon
from ProBlogger at 8/17/2007 6:35 PM
A number of readers have questioned whether running a StumbleUpon advertising campaign is the best use of a marketing budget for a blogger. The main point of contention was that 0.05 cents per impression ($50 CPM - or per 1000 impressions) is too much to pay.I wanted to write a brief response to this on [...]