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With the widespread protests against New Zealand's copyright law that was suppose to come into existence this month, government officials recognize that something is wrong. The government is hoping that ISPs can come up with a "code of practice" to help deal with copyright infringement online. The delay is for another month to allow ISP to hae some time.A large number of websites and blogs blacked out their sites to raise awareness about the issue.
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Feb 2009 was a month for twitter. Recently Twitter closed a $35m (NZ$68.1m) round of venture capital investment at a valuation of about $250m during the economic crisis. Secondly a research from Pew internet and American Life Project revealed that 11 per cent of Americans have used a service such as Twitter, Third, in a survey of 200 top digital marketing of which social media service is the most effective financial investment for businesses - Twitter getting 40 per cent and Facebook only 15 per cent of the vote.
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The New Zealand publishing business Fairfax reported a 29 per cent decline in profit in the six months to December 31 in Australian dollar terms, but online auction business Trade Me posted a 17 per cent increase in profit in New Zealand dollar terms.
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Social media marketing is specifically using social networks, blogs, social media to facilitate word of mouth marketing. Its not the same as word of mouth marketing. Its always great to visually view what someone is trying to say so i thought this video might help.
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The Google AdWords blog has announced the new display URL policy will take effect this week of February 24th. The new policy, which was reported by Barry Schwartz
at the Search Engine Round table about a month ago, will disallow multiple display domains per ad group.
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Antony Beswick from NZ is heading the initiative held by technology giant Sony Ericsson to help telcos get a piece of the social web. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Sony Ericsson unveiled a web-hosted "white label" portal. This white label application lets mobile network operators provide their own-branded social networking sites to allow their customers to upload photos and videos taken with camera phones to sites such as Facebook and Bebo.
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Twitter is working to convert its popularity into a business. Twitter has begun testing its search features on a few accounts prior to releases it in the open. The search is now please on the main Twitter.com page. This information was provided by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in a blog posting.
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Microsoft had a payroll error and overpaid severance to some of its recently laid off employees, they are now asking for their money back. It appears that Microsoft HR isn’t even bothering to explain how it happened
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