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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Eve 2009: Reflections of a Blue Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Consorte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illuminated by the light of a blue moon, we can take time out to reflect on the past as we plan for a successful 2010 personally, professionally and as a society.


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		<title>China Wants To Invade Your Privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard this story yet?
I was watching the news late the other night when I learned that there have been memos sent around to hotels in and around Beijing informing them that they would need to install Internet monitoring software prior to the Summer Olympic Games of 2008 at their own expense.
 
The purpose, [...]


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		<title>Weekly Ecommerce News Wrap-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could it be that we have almost survived another work week?&#160; I think so!
And just because I can, I have certified this post as Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Free!
The Ultimate Collection of Online SEO Tools      I just came across this link yesterday and have still barely made it through half [...]


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		<title>Why You Never Mess With Your IT Person</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ridiculousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Media Beat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA â€“ Terry Childs, 43, is in jail.&#160; It seems that his employer upset him enough for him to cause a little problem on the job.
Did I forget to mention that Childs works (worked?) for the City of San Francisco as an IT Network Administrator?&#160; Because yeah, he does/did.&#160; It seems that after [...]


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		<title>P &amp; G Courts Blogging Baby Mamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The power of the blogger is being realized and capitalized upon by companies big and small and tThe latest to jump on the bandwagon is one of the most recognizable household names in the United States.
One of Procter &#38; Gambleâ€™s most well known products is responsible for bringing as many as fifteen mommy bloggers to [...]


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		<title>Weekly Ecommerce News Wrap-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it seems to be that time of the week again â€“ TGIF!
iPhone 3G hits the marketplace
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		<title>Weekly Ecommerce News Wrap-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TGIF and Happy July 4th Weekend to everyone in the U.S.!&#160; Here are a few of the ecommerce and Internet marketing headlines that caught my attention over the past few days:
If you canâ€™t beat â€˜em, buy â€˜em.&#160; Search engine web site Ask.com has completed their purchase of the company that owns Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com â€“ [...]


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		<title>Bill Gates leaves microsoft</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in the companyâ€™s 33 year history, Microsoft founder Bill Gates will not be reporting to work today.&#160; Friday was Gates&#8217; last day as a full time employee of the software giant, though he will stay on as a consultant and advisor.
He&#8217;s been paving the way for this change since he gave [...]


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		<title>Weekly Ecommerce News Wrap-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TGIF Everyone!
Here are a few headines that caught my eye over the past few days:
Top 100&#8217;s Ad-Spend Growth Grinds to Haltfrom AdAge.comsynopsis: The big-spending advertisers who once spared no expense to get the word out about the next great idea are spending less and less, with ad spending increasing overall a mere 1.7%.
Disney-ABC Makes &#8216;Lost,&#8217; [...]


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		<title>When the Geeks Inherited the Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you old enough to remember the dot com boom? 
What about the Internet crash that eft hundreds of thousands of would-be entrepreneurs thumbing through the classified ads while sipping lattes from the kitchens of their soon-to-be-reposessed luxury homes?
The Economist is carrying a well-executed article about three of the biggest name companies who each have [...]


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		<title>Microsoft acquires Navic Networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Media Beat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to E-Commerce News, Microsoft has acquired advertising gurus Navic Networks, a, interactive television advertising company whose purpose is to direct and assist advertisers in targeting their ads to the right audiences.
Using statistical data, Navic works their magic by providing interactive overlays for television commercials that allow viewers to react to the commercials by using [...]


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		<title>Moldy Media Mavens to Talk Tech Tonight</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/moldy-media-mavens-to-talk-tech-tonight.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Siddhartha Naithani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Media Beat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Auletta, respected author and writer for The New Yorker since 1992, joins Charlie Rose against the latterâ€™s bleak backdrop tonight for a chat on Google and related topics.  Donâ€™t just dismiss these two as a couple of crusty relics.  Theyâ€™re both media veterans with reputations for thoughtfulness.  Iâ€™m gonna watch.  [...]


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		<title>AT&amp;T Lets its Fingers do the Walking &#8211; All Over Yahoo!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mainstream media have been fixating, unsurprisingly, on Viacomâ€™s effort to get $1 billion from Google, almost two-thirds of what the search engine giant paid for YouTube, as copyright damages caused (allegedly) by the still pretty fledgling video-sharing upstart.
But another Old Media versus New Media struggle is also worth reporting on.
Googleâ€™s struggling search rival â€“ [...]


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		<title>800 lb Gorillas vs. 200 lb Gorillas &#8211; Google Picks its Battles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you do if you were Google? (Imagine that thought for an instance!)
I donâ€™t mean in size or capitalization, but just as the newish owner of a social networking website that specializes in video.  I mean of course the difficult newly-adopted child, YouTube.
Consider that youâ€™d purchased, for $1.65 billion, the upwardly rocketing newcomer, [...]


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		<title>Childern&#8217;s Entertainment &#8211; Just Giant Toy Ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there remains any lingering doubt about the true meaning and purpose of childrenâ€™s entertainment in the media, it comes in research published this week before Christmas. It is of course MERCHANDISING.
The revealing numbers come from the Center for Media Research â€“ as it has surveyed which websites people mostly visit in search of toys [...]


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		<title>Flogging all the Way â€“ Phony Corporate Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, theyâ€™ve done it again. And they got caught â€“ again. When are they gonna learn?
Big business has been producing phony blog sites in promotion of a consumer product â€“ only to be exposed, as both meretricious (of course) but also stupid. The whole maneuver wins no friends â€“ indeed alienates potential buyers in this [...]


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		<title>What&#8217;s Good for General Motors is Good for Interactive Marketing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may seem odd to turn to someone who works for General Motors to learn anything about communicating with the great American public.  Hasnâ€™t their inability to persuade Americans to buy GM cars resulted in one of the most alarming prospects to loom before Wall Street â€“ bankruptcy among the Big Three Detroit manufactures?
That [...]


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		<title>Big Shifts in Big Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world of media commerce is mercifully becoming, even at its topmost
layers at last, more digitally literate.
The latest shift has come with the unexpected departures last week of Ross
Levinsohn as president of Fox Interactive Media &#8211; News Corp&#8217;s internet
division, which includes the social networking phenomenon MySpace.com &#8211; and
Jonathan Miller, chairman and chief executive of Time [...]


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		<title>Google&#8217;s YouTube Woe&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My, my â€¦ the ups and downs that giants may have to endure when they buy a smaller entity.
If you ever wanted to feel sorry for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, owners of Google, be prepared to feel so now. They hare finding life after buying youTube for $1.65 billion a lot more difficult than [...]


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		<title>Microsoft and McCann</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can be a bit glib, and even flip, sometimes.  I admit it.
My confessional mode is brought on by Microsoftâ€™s ad campaign starting today (Friday Oct 27, 2006) trying once again to boost their search engine capacity. And what I have to confess is that in a recent article.  I dismissively referred to [...]


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