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Are there days when you simply can’t understand the strange and seemingly senseless shenanigans of your husband, son, or father? Let’s face it: men certainly have their quirks. I’ve seen plenty of strange behaviors exhibited by my husband, son, and their friends. BallPark Franks is currently running a campaign called “Men. Easier Fed Than Understood” and I can totally relate.  Here are a few examples: Guy Time Many men go nuts if they don’t get in at least one afternoon of guy time each week. G...  show all text

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Advertise here with BSA I remember how much fun it was in school to get Valentines on February 14th each year. It’s one of those traditions that seems to disappear as we get older. I think it would be fun to still send little Valentine cards as adults. If we were going to send those cards as adults, we would probably want them to have adult humor, instead of the standard “Be My Valentine” message, right? Lucky for us, Jenny at Never Ending Dick Jokes has that covered for us. She sells jokes, ...  show all text

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As Sky News clamps down on staff Twitter updates, corporation tells reporters to file copy before tweeting it BBC journalists have been told not to break news stories on Twitter before they tell their newsroom colleagues. The new rules, which apply to all of the corporation's correspondents, reporters and producers, were announced on Wednesday a day after it was revealed Sky News had told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster...  show all text

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The most successful innovators are consistently portrayed as possessing a passion that borders on dogmatism. They work tirelessly to bend reality to achieve their vision, with Steve Jobs and his "reality distortion field" serving as the prototypical example. There's no doubt that passion is a critical component of innovation. After all, innovation is awfully hard work, with plenty of false starts. Rosabeth Moss Kanter teaches that everything can look like a failure in the middle. Mike Tyson puts  show all text

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By Srinivas Rao, Contributing {grow} Columnist As I’ve observed bloggers from all walks of life, writing about every subject imaginable, and as I’ve taken the journey myself, I’ve found that there is an evolution that takes place.  In each phase of the evolution we develop essential skills, but without the courage to stay the course and go through all the phases of the evolution,  we’re unlikely to unleash the creative genius within all of us.  While it’s tempting to see ourselves as marketers,...  show all text

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Fab.com features daily design inspirations and sales of up to 70% off retail. Free membership by invitation only. Limited quantities. Check out Fab.com today!

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While Facebook users certainly have the best of intentions in copying and pasting advice about timeline, erroneous information about the advanced profile is circulating among users’ status updates. The message goes like — well, just look at the screenshot above. More than anything else, these status updates reflect the level of anxiety about timeline that we’ve observed among users: people worry that suddenly everything they’ve ever put up on Facebook will become more visible than they were bef...  show all text

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The one thing all of your search traffic brings with it is a human brain. It’s easy to think that our search visitors aren’t coming with any brain at all. How can they possibly decide against what we have to offer? If they weren’t going to take action, click on the ad? It turns out [...] Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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This is Day 8 of 28 Days of Building Fierce Loyalty. Yesterday, the wise and savvy Jeffrey Summers challenged us to create a more social experience for ou

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Fab’s insanely rapid ascension to popularity is fast even for these heady days of social commerce. It took Gilt two years to get to one million users, ditto One King’s Lane. Fab got to two million users in just seven months, adding 450,000 people in just the last thirty days. The site expects to do more than $100 million in revenues this year. The rise was so quick that I’d barely heard of them when I went on maternity leave, and when I came back to work it was all anyone was talking about. How...  show all text

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Here are the 10 Super Bowl spots that garnered the highest levels of response across social media, primarily on Twitter and Facebook, according to Bluefin.

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By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist Who are the most powerful women on Boston's technology scene? Here's the Innovation Economy list. I considered three factors: Impact (how big of an organization do they oversee, how large of a fund do they...

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Amazon will announce a web video deal with Viacom that will put it in a great spot to compete more directly with Netflix, reports Reuters. Amazon's Prime Instant Video has usually been an add-on for Amazon Prime customers, but Viacom owns a boatload of content that could make Amazon's video service a more viable Netflix-killer by itself. Amazon already has partnerships with several major studios, such as CBS, Warner Bros., Fox, NBC, and Disney. A deal with Viacom would allow it access to content  show all text

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Most Folks Have Been There It was a one-person project and one you fell in love with. You put your heart in it and delivered beyond expectations. The

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What makes a blog successful? Is it the content? Is it the readers? Or is it the niche? How often should one post? What narrative should you use? Should you publish a RSS feed for your blog? These are some of the questions I’m asked as the Founder and Executive Editor of Smedio. In that context, I strongly believe that you must adhere to the following 7 fundamentals for establishing a successful blog. Quality Content is king and blogging is no exception to that rule. If your blog lacks quality ...  show all text

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Foursquare, about to celebrate its third birthday, is big but not huge. It has signed up 15 million users, hired over 100 employees and now boasts several million check-ins per day. That is impressive work for three years, but it must keep growing. To do so, Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley says the company is in the process of redesigning its mobile app for a broader audience, disassembling it and trying to put its features back together in a way that's more useful and interesting....  show all text

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Path's practice of uploading your address book without telling you is creating waves in social media.

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Fashion label Diane von Furstenberg is teaming up with mobile video app Viddy to stage a near-live, behind-the-scenes experience for NYFW.

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by Joe Pulizzi       It amazes me how even experienced bloggers can sometimes forget the basics.  Blogs that go on for years can lose focus of their objective and even the core audience.  Don’t let that happen to you.  Here are five key questions that, by answering, can turn around your blog in a heartbeat. 1.     What is the Blog’s Purpose?  You’d be surprised at how many people don’t know what the ultimate goal is for their blog.  Is it a search engine optimization play?  Direct business?   show all text

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PowerInbox, the email platform that lets you run apps for Facebook, Twitter, Groupon and Google+ inside your inbox, is today announcing the launching of its API. With this addition, companies that want to make their own emails interactive can now do so. To kick off the launch, PowerInbox signed up ten partners who used the API to build email apps across multiple verticals including video, shopping, games and more. As a refresher, PowerInbox is service that runs on top of email (Gmail, Hotmail, ...  show all text

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“It’s like Pinterest, but…” Welcome to my inbox for the last several months. Just as the world now has a Groupon and a Birchbox for everything, so too is Pinterest creating a wake of copy-cat sites. We’re not talking about sites that merely incorporate Pinterest’s design elements. There are sites that have copied Pinterest’s style, functionality and even portions of its name. Pinterest hasn’t released user numbers, but one study found it drives more traffic to websites than Google+, YouTube and...  show all text

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Don't send a boring card to your sweetie this year, send a geeky one! We've picked our 10 favorites.

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If you have a web site, you may have noticed one of two things about the traffic you get from search engines. Your search traffic may have dried up overnight, with once-healthy streams turning into a sad little trickle. Or you may have noticed a nice, steady improvement as you’ve climbed higher in the SERPs (search engine results pages), while other sites that used to outrank you suddenly evaporated. There’s a super-secret new ingredient in SEO. It was always a factor, but it’s become even more...  show all text

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I swore I wasn’t going to write about Pinterest again for a while after finishing a six part series of blog posts, but major developments keeping coming and no major news organizations see to be covering them. If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to add their own affiliate tracking code. If someone clicks through the picture from Pinterest and makes a purchase, Pinterest gets paid. They don’t ha...  show all text

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