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Docstoc Launches Document Marketplace

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Santa Monica-based DocStoc , the online document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, is announcing this afternoon that the firm has launched a new, online store which will allow people to both buy and sell professional documents. The new online store will allow users to pay for documents with a credit card, PayPal, or Google Checkout.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

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We own the celebrity birthday niche--we''re first in Google for searching for celebrity birthdays on every day of the year. If you look at Google Panda, they want you to be the best possible resource for a specific thing. That''s how you do well on Google, you become the best resources and site out there for a specific thing.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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Right now, when people are communicating using Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and others, those businesses are principally using display advertising and sponsored listings to monetize those users. It's almost like native advertising, which recognizes an article mention is a hotel and turning it into a link. What does that look like?

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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