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Izea gets leaner and meaner

Image by Wendy Piersall via Flickr I came across a post on Izea’s blog talking about their latest release to their PayPerPost platform. Here’s what Ted (IZEA’s CEO) said: When SocialSpark launched we adjusted its margins to create a model that would be profitable for the company. The model works and provides...

Microsoft tries the “Tesco strategy”

It seems like everyone and his dog has some sort of loyalty scheme nowadays. You can collect points when you shop in your local supermarket, when you take a trip in a plane and now, even when you Microsoft’s Live Search. It’s a scheme called SearchPerks and is designed to...

Analyze your backlinks

My mate Carlo just sent me a link to a website you can use to analyze your backlinks. Analyze Backlinks, as the site is so aptly called, let you specify a URL, and comes back with a list of pages that reference the URL. Using it is simple, just pop the...

That crazy little thing called … PR

I’ve just posted this to a messageboard I frequent, and it made enough sense for me to want to echo it here. It’s about Google PageRank and the recent fluctuations site owners (especially blog owners) are seeing recently. Just to add context, there are some comments labelled [] to explain...

Microsoft playing catchup again

The news that developers will be able to create offline Silverlight applications “eventually” made me chuckle this morning. Microsoft seems to be getting better and better at missing the boat with new technology and producing something that’s a couple of years behind it’s competitors. Their main two contenders in this...

Microsoft embracing the real world ..

Lots of people are commenting about yesterday’s announcement from Microsoft about their intentions to be more transparent, provide more information to the community and make their flagship products more interoperable. In a nutshell, they said that they are implementing the following principles: ensuring open connections promoting data portability enhancing support...

Inspiring Customer Confidence

Are you confident in what you are offering online? Do you believe you have the best service or product on the market? If so, you should be shouting your message out load, attracting people to your website and selling your wares. I came across a great sign of confidence on...

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