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		<title>YouTube’s Advice: Dispute Hitler “Downfall” Parody Takedowns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago, several of the popular Hitler Downfall parody videos were pulled from YouTube because owner  Constantin Films claimed they infringed on the copyright. YouTube  indirectly responded on its blog today by encouraging its users to dispute the  takedowns through a process it already has in place for situations like  this.
YouTube’s only direct reference to the Hitler parodies was a  hyperlink from the word “parody” in the blog post, but it’s clear given  the timing that the Downfall takedowns were the reason YouTube ...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.avenue180.com/headline/youtubes-advice-dispute-hitler-take-downs/</link>
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		<title>Americans Conducted 15.4 Billion Core Searches in March.  Who&#8217;s in charge of your expanded searches then?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to comScore  qSearch, Americans conducted 15.4 billion &#8220;core searches&#8221; in March  2010, with Google accounting for 65.1 percent search market share.
What is a core search?  It is search on one of  the five major search engines, including partner searches and  cross-channel searches.  Searches for mapping, local directory, and  user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five  search engines are not included in the core search numbers.
Why is this significant?
If you look at core searches in March, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.avenue180.com/headline/americans-conducted-15-4-billion-core-searches-in-march-whos-in-charg-of-your-expanded-searches-then/</link>
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		<title>IPhone App Allows Users to Save Minutes by Using Wi-Fi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It can save you money. It can make calls where AT&#38;T’s  signal is weak, like indoors. It can turn an iPod Touch into a full-blown  cellphone.
And it can ruin the sleep of cellphone executives everywhere.
Line2 gives your iPhone a second phone number — a second phone line,  complete with its own contacts list, voice mail, and so on. The company  behind it, Toktumi (get it?), imagines that you’ll distribute the Line2  number to business contacts, and your regular iPhone number to friends  and family. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.avenue180.com/headline/iphone-app-allows-users-to-save-minutes-by-using-wi-fi/</link>
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		<title>iPhone Users Sue Gaming Company For Harvesting Cell Numbers</title>
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Gaming developer Storm8 has been sued for allegedly collecting phone numbers of iPhone users who downloaded the company&#8217;s popular games from the iTunes app store.
&#8220;The wireless telephone numbers of users&#8217; phones are not used or necessary to play any of Storm8&#8217;s games, yet Storm8 has written the software for all its games in such a way that it automatically accesses, collects, and transmits the wireless telephone number of each iPhone user who downloads any Storm8 game,&#8221; states the lawsuit, filed on behalf of Lynwood, Wash. resident Michael Turner.
Turner alleges that ...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.avenue180.com/headline/iphone-users-sue-gaming-company-for-harvesting-cell-numbers/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Takes a &#8220;Number&#8221; from Digg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Web publishers and blog owners have a new toy to play with: Facebook announced Monday that it has launched new &#8220;share&#8221; buttons with counters, much in the manner of Digg&#8217;s iconic buttons and the third-party TweetMeme app for Twitter sharing.
Plus, there&#8217;s more: Publishers installing Facebook share buttons can also get data back related to how many times that link has been shared, how many users have hit the thumbs-up &#8220;like&#8221; button or commented on shared versions of the story on Facebook, and how many people have clicked back to it ...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.avenue180.com/social-media-marketing/facebook-takes-a-number-from-digg/</link>
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		<title>Nokia&#8217;s Plum Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nokia on Friday said it acquired "certain assets" of "micro-social networking" start-up Plum Networks. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquired Plum assets will become part of Nokia's Services unit, according to the phone maker. "Plum will complement Nokia's Social Location services," a Nokia spokesperson said. Co-founded several years ago by serial entrepreneur Hans Peter Brøndmo and engineer Margaret Olsen as a social-bookmarking site, Plum has since sought to carve out a niche for itself in the saturated social networking market.

"Plum Groups is a service for those of us that want to share the more private parts of our lives ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.avenue180.com/news/nokias-plum-deal/</link>
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		<title>Sprint-T-Mobile Merger, Will it Happen? Administration Will Have Say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A report in the U.K.&#8217;s Sunday Telegraph that Deutsche Telekom AG is considering buying Sprint Nextel sent the U.S. carrier&#8217;s stock surging on Monday, up 11% this afternoon. Citing unnamed sources, the article said the company could make a bid for Sprint in the next few weeks.
The merger would give fourth-ranked carrier T-Mobile and third-largest Sprint a combined 78 million U.S. mobile customers and position the new entity as a more formidable competitor to Verizon Wireless and AT&#38;T. At least one analyst welcomed the deal as beneficial to the entire ...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.avenue180.com/headline/sprint-t-mobile-merger-will-it-happen-adminstration-will-have-say/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo Search To Mine Twitter Data Even Though Bing Does Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Reuters article reports Yahoo is still going to invest in search, at least until the Microsoft deal is done. Specifically, in real-time search by &#8220;mining&#8221; Twitter data. Let me quote a piece of this article:
Yahoo&#8217;s Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs, said that the company could potentially &#8220;mine&#8221; messages from Twitter, the popular microblogging service, to offer Web surfers search results beyond those offered by Microsoft&#8217;s Bing.&#8221;I&#8217;ve always held that the interesting thing of Tweets is not necessarily searching them but mining them. So we could real-time mine them, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.avenue180.com/social-media-marketing/yahoo-search-to-mine-twitter-data-even-though-bing-does-twitter/</link>
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		<title>The Myth of Organic Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well they got that link because they were the best site out there. That was organic. It is a naive view of marketing to assume that if you are the best people will notice you and people will care. It is not enough to be the best&#8230;you need others to say that you are. If anything the web is making most people more driven by self interest &#8211; rather than lending a helping hand.
Worse yet, due to the anonymous nature of the web (and other automated technologies), we are bombarded ...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.avenue180.com/search-engine-marketing/the-myth-of-organic-marketing/</link>
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		<title>Basics of Online Reputation Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As much time and effort that marketers put into improving visibility within search results, not all search engine ranking pages (SERPs) are good. Increasing numbers of companies are experiencing the sharp edge of the sword from disgruntled employees or customers taking advantage of the amazingly simplistic process of publishing content to the web.
You may recall such situations as “Dell Hell” or Googlebombing “miserable failure” for examples.
Because these references occur within the search results, many companies percieve search engine reputation management as a SEO problem. But displacing negative search results only ...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.avenue180.com/online-reputation-management/basics-of-online-reputation-management/</link>
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