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Remember The Phone Company? It’s Back And It’s Called Facebook

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For instance, consumers can effortlessly click on a desktop Facebook ad, surf a site to learn more and then execute a purchase or fill out a lead form, via their large screen, mouse and full-sized keyboard. Fortunately for consumers, not all mobile advertisers are clueless. Now consider the same experience from a mobile point of view.

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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

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But they make the overwhelming majority of their money from advertising. They are selling audiences to advertisers. Whenever I talk about advertising people comment how much everybody hates ads. The customer are advertising agencies and brands themselves. Ads are effective. As I said, YOU are the product. Believe me.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking. When using the Handjob app , users must shake the app up and down or side to side and out pops a pre-screened job applicant. All presentations were of extremely high quality and teams did a killer job.

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YouTube Introduces its Own App for iPhone and iPod touch | Google Adds Editing to the iOS Drive App

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YouTube also boasts of a new channel guide available at just a swipe from the left edge of the screen into one’s subscribed channels giving users instant access to videos they like. billion, or 90% of consolidated revenues, a 21% increase over second quarter 2011 revenues of $9.03 billion From Ads. No Bad Blood.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down. There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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How b Spot Wants To Combine Casual Games With Legal Gambling

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crackdown on illegal online gambling and online poker back in 2011. What we found at Youbet, after tens of millions of dollars of promotion and advertising, is that less than 1.15 In 2011, we watched as there was a whole world of online, illegal gambling being shut down. percent of people will play horse races directly.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. So entering 2011 why does this matter? The digital living room battle will take place over the next 5-10 years, not just the next 1-2. This is where the digital media puck is going.

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