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David Nelson a 15-year-old has created a free-music service by harnessing YouTube’s vast library of music videos. The service enables people to stream Youtube music straight to their PC without visiting Youtube. Users can build pluralists and organize this similar to iTunes. The 15 year old said “It’s really the first 100% free, legal method [...]

All the questions below i found on Google Moderator.
1. Does Googlebot have a preference in URL structure?
Matt Cutts replied to this as
“I would recommend
long-haired-dogs.html
long_haired_dogs.html
longhaireddogs.html
in that order. If your site is already live on the web, it’s probably not worth going back to change from one method to another, but if you’re just starting a new [...]

So you are a web startup and you need to get to be known when people are looking for your service. Well welcome to the world of search engine optimization. Its true no matter how good your product or service is if you don’t have a huge marketing budget to throw away you need to [...]

Twitter certainly, holds the market share when it comes to micro-blogging services. Google has now announced that it is releasing its Jaiku code under the open source Apache license 2.0. Google will no longer be developing the Jaiku codebase, but since it will be open source the community can now start contributing back to this [...]

Its really sad but true Google Inc’s online video site, YouTube, will be blocking all music videos to British user as YouTube is unable to reach a rights deal with a British collection society that collects royalties on behalf of nearly 50,000 composers. This move will take effect by Monday evening British time.
Source: TVNZ

Came across this video that walks the publisher through a few key steps to consider when joining an ad network. Hope you like the video

Twenty-seven large publishers are introducing three new types of online display ads. The new formats are meant to reduce clutter and provide more visibility.
One of this is the “pushdown,” 970 pixels wide by 418 tall on the page. What this ad space would do is when the page opens, the pushdown ad will expand downward, [...]

So you want to do something to get you some hype among friends and family then you need to try this.
WriteOnIt lets you caption and manipulate uploaded photos. The tool allows you to insert pictures onto coffee mugs, billboards, art easels, and fake mirrors.
MagMyPic - Just upload your picture and this service will instantly put [...]

A New Zealand Christchurch Company VortexDNA has created an algorithm that uses the mathematics of complex systems to predict human behavior. The technology offers companies the ability to better anticipate how their customers are likely to act. The application allocates a seven-digit number to consumers or users, which produces a new form of user segmentation, [...]

If you get to market later, thenn there are other players in the space. Also don’t think too much about equity think about success and growth and take the right steps to hit your milestones.Teresa Phillips, founder and CEO of Graspr speaks with Bambi Francisco from Vator.tv

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