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The winter Olympics are off to an interesting start, as always. And while I’ve only caught parts, I did manage to watch short track skating when Apolo Ohno miraculously won silver. From the qualifying heats to the final race he was pretty amazing to watch. While his competition in those qualifying races wasn’t super stiff, you could still see the mark of experience…As well as how strong and fit he is going into this competition. In both of those early heats he calmly hung out in...
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Rumors of MySpace integrating Facebook Connect have circulated since October . And now it looks like they’re coming true: MySpace’s Fan Video site allows users to login with either MySpace or Facebook accounts . The Fan Video site itself takes professional music videos and inserts your profile picture prominently. The site also features sharing capabilities to post the videos to MySpace, Facebook or Twitter. Additionally, you can create videos for your friends using their profile pictures...
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Your visitors are empowered with the ability to access information with the click of a button. You can’t pull a blind-fold over their eyes or manipulate them into anything. They’ll find out the truth with or without you being upfront about what that truth looks like. Being transparent means that…
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StartupNation’s 3rd Annual Home-Based 100 competition
This is the quintessential ranking of home businesses and the superstar people behind them. StartupNation selects 10 Top Ten Winners across ten categories including Recession Busters, Greenest, Wackiest, Savviest in Social Media, and more. Winners receive invaluable publicity. Many winners have been featured in national TV, newspaper and magazine articles [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "2 Contests with great upside", url: "http://www.startupnation.com/blogs/index.php/2009/09/04/2-contests-with-great-upside/" });
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Since Bing's launch, the search engine has garnered quite a bit of attention. This is no surprise since Microsoft invested so much money into marketing it. It may still be too early to tell, but it seems to be paying off so far. Bing's numbers have edged up since its launch. While Google still dominates the search market share by a very wide margin, the company does appear to view Bing as a legitimate competitor, and while not marketing on the scale that Microsoft is, the company has been...
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When we think of Google's competitors, Yahoo and Microsoft often come immediately to mind. We think of other search engines. There's no question that Google is (by far) dominating this space. What do you think Google's greatest source of competition is? Share your thoughts . We all know that Google has its hands in many other projects beyond search, but even in search itself, it is not impossible that another could come along and win people over. Microsoft's trying with Bing, and...
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In a Q&A session at SMX Advanced in Seattle, Google's Matt Cutts was asked the following question: How does Google look at the issue that I can buy suspect links and point them to my competitor? How does your algorithm track that? This practice is known as "Google Bowling". To get a better understanding of what Google Bowling (different from Google Bombing) is about, check out this article from Michael Pedone from 2005 about how competitors can sabotage you. Matt discussed how Google...
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You have to give Facebook credit. They get in the news more a lot. Maybe it’s investment. Maybe it’s a look at their numbers. Maybe it’s someone on the executive team has a hang nail. You name it they are there. That’s why this news seemed more interesting than just the usual talk. TechCrunch reports that Facebook has announced the 20 winners of a competition to be included in a program to help them develop their platforms with a combination of money and other benefits. Twenty...
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While start-up businesses may feel overshadowed by larger companies, submitting your product or service for review or in a competition is a great way to get new coverage and highlight your success. Find out if local media, analysts, industry magazines or bloggers have any scheduled product reviews or competitions in the coming months to get more coverage.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to Compete with the Big Guys", url: "http://www.startupnation.com/blogs/index.php/2009/05/22/how-to-compete-with-the-big-guys/" });
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While measurements of Hulu's audience have been disputed recently, there is no question that the site, while certainly gaining popularity, still has quite a ways to go before it catches YouTube. Hulu has lemonade to make of such lemons, however as its YouTube channel (yes, it has a YouTube Channel - who would've thought?) is the tenth most popular channel on the online video leader's site. And that's of all time. This is according to Dan Frommer at Silicon Alley Insider, who also...
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There's a short but interesting blog post up on Google's official Public Policy Blog, which states six principles the company holds with regards to competition and openness. "As Google has grown, the company has naturally faced more scrutiny about our business principles and practices," says Google's Senior Manager of Global Communications and Public Affairs. "We believe that Google promotes competition and openness online, but we haven't always done a good job telling...
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Last month Compete.com launched with a new look. WebProNews had a few words with Compete's Director of Market Development, Aaron Prebluda who talked a little bit about the new design. Have you used Compete since its relaunch? What do you think about it? Share your thoughts . More WebProNews Videos "The new site was built focusing on users a combination of advertisers, publishers, digital agencies, and anyone who is looking for insight into consumer behavior and competitive intelligence,"...
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Dominik Dommick, senior director of marketing at PayPal Germany, has put up a pretty cool post over on the PayPal blog. They gave two competing teams in Germany a PayPal account with 500 Euros and an iPhone running the PayPal app. The goal was to see how far you can get in the offline world [...]
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My Amazon habit goes way back. I joined Amazon Prime as soon as they started the program. If some villain wanted to take away my Amazon he would have to pry my mouse from cold dead hands Maybe I’m being overly dramatic but you get the point. I no longer think…
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Read this article for all the details:
‘Unbelievable’ sportsmanship in softball game
That’s the definition of sportsmanship. On a technicality, they could have forced the opposing coach into a decision to sub a player and only make it a single. But she hit the home run. She deserved the home run.
Good stuff. Play hard, but play fair; [...]
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