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GoTo is officially dead… and then there were two
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Musings from the Center. GoTo is officially dead… and then there were two. May 6, 2010. I’m learning how to let go of things that I used to cherish. I loved working at GoTo.com back in the day. We knew that we were changing the world. Times have changed. Yahoo sent an e-mail (below) out today announcing that it will be transitioning all Yahoo Sponsored Search (GoTo/Overture) advertisers to Microsoft’s adCenter. No surprise there. Who paid for Microsoft to take over Overture? And then there were two….
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ABX8-8
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Musings from the Center. Why Meg Whitman Will Be California’s Next Governor. March 2, 2010. David on Equal Signs of the Time: Facebook Profile Pictures for the Supreme Court and Same Sex Marriage. On Equal Signs of the Time: Facebook Profile Pictures for the Supreme Court and Same Sex Marriage. Marc Chevalier on Equal Signs of the Time: Facebook Profile Pictures for the Supreme Court and Same Sex Marriage. Online Video – Have fun while building a brand « Alison McDowell. On NSFW: A Hunter Shoots a Bear.
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affiliate tax
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Musings from the Center. Advertising Tax: Education, not Legislation. March 11, 2011. The Real Effect of the Advertising Tax. February 22, 2010. David on Equal Signs of the Time: Facebook Profile Pictures for the Supreme Court and Same Sex Marriage. On Equal Signs of the Time: Facebook Profile Pictures for the Supreme Court and Same Sex Marriage. Marc Chevalier on Equal Signs of the Time: Facebook Profile Pictures for the Supreme Court and Same Sex Marriage. On NSFW: A Hunter Shoots a Bear.
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Advertising Tax: Education, not Legislation
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Musings from the Center. Advertising Tax: Education, not Legislation. March 11, 2011. Yesterday Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois signed HB 3659. Into law. There is plenty of background on the so-called Advertising Tax. Whatever you call it. So I will give some basics and then move on to a view of solutions that might work. There are two main problems with these laws:. These laws may not be legal. In 1992, before eCommerce began, the US Supreme Court ruled in Quill v. North Dakota. The state of Illinois doe...
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Tweetie: The start of Twitter 2.0?
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Musings from the Center. Tweetie: The start of Twitter 2.0? April 10, 2010. I am a fan and detractor of Twitter both at the same time. Remember, I’m a centrist so I can do that. Did Twitter win microblogging? And AOL… don’t get me started. The big news yesterday was that Twitter bought Tweetie, a company of two employees (well, an owner and one employee). One of the strangest things about this was that Twitter announced its acquisition. Or was @Ev trying to hide it with the trash? I would say it is tragi...
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Twitter Beat CNN
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Musings from the Center. April 5, 2010. I found it ridiculous a few months ago when Michael Jackson died and people were claiming that Twitter beat CNN. That wasn’t true. Twitter had unverified (yes, and correct) reports that Michael Jackson died before CNN and other traditional news outlets were able to verify it. That’s what they have to do. Earthquake shakes things up. The first thing I did was check the USGS website. Don Lemon was on asking people to tweet what they felt to @donlemoncnn. I was using ...
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affiliate summit
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Musings from the Center. The Real Effect of the Advertising Tax. February 22, 2010. David on Equal Signs of the Time: Facebook Profile Pictures for the Supreme Court and Same Sex Marriage. On Equal Signs of the Time: Facebook Profile Pictures for the Supreme Court and Same Sex Marriage. Marc Chevalier on Equal Signs of the Time: Facebook Profile Pictures for the Supreme Court and Same Sex Marriage. David on Equal Signs of the Time: Facebook Profile Pictures for the Supreme Court and Same Sex Marriage.
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NSFW: A Hunter Shoots a Bear
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Musings from the Center. NSFW: A Hunter Shoots a Bear. September 2, 2010. In case you missed it, today’s viral marketing. Is courtesy of Tipp-Ex, a German maker of white out. While I am not planning on buying white out to use on my computer screen (apologies to blondes who have suffered though all of those jokes), this is better than Burger King’s Subservient Chicken. While this is interactive, it is not as customized as the Old Spice campaign from earlier this summer. Here’s what we found:. We found the...
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Did Ashton Kutcher Bring Down Twitter?
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Musings from the Center. Did Ashton Kutcher Bring Down Twitter? May 23, 2011. Try to load Twitter’s website. No luck? Nope, it’s down. What happened today that was out of the ordinary? Twitter’s first CTO, Greg Pass. Resigned today. I don’t think that he planted a daemon to bring down the site on news of his departure so we can rule that out. The other big news is that Mr. AplusK. Himself, Ashton Kutcher, launched a desktop Twitter app. It is a great way for UberSocial to grab users. Robyn Weisman on Equ...
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