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AppBank Lets Anyone Create Facebook Apps and Even Share in Ad Revenue

How much do you know about your favorite baseball team? Who are your best Facebook friends? Which pin-up girl do you most identify with? The passing about of seemingly inane quiz-style apps on Facebook is a pastime for some and a ...READ»

HP and Amazon Tap Into Crowdsourcing for Ads

HP and Amazon's latest ad campaigns may use crowdsourcing to generate advertisements, but the concept is far from new. Dorito's "Crash the Super Bowl" contest, launched in 2006, has been one of the more successful campaigns of this ...READ»

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Is Wikipedia in Decline? Scientists Search for Answers in Wikipedia's Numbers

Wikipedia's ascendancy to the top of a large pool of online reference sites has come to an end, new research shows. But perhaps even more alarming to eleventh-hour term paper writers and lazy journalists everywhere, the user generated ...READ»

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Why Google's Best New Feature Is Evil

How the experimental SearchWiki is both helping and hurting us.READ»

21 Considerations Before Your Business Starts A Social Network

Social networks are all the rage and many of my posts at OnlineMarketerBlog recommend social tools for businesses. However, there are potential pitfalls to consider before you facilitate interaction between customers and your ...READ»

Writing Content In A Web 2.0 World

I released a free white paper today which answers the following questions: What exactly is Web 2.0? How should your writing style change? How has online interaction changed and what will this mean for the future of ...READ»