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Some Of My Favorite Blogs

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Marketing.OriginalSignal– A great collection of marketing blog feeds. The best thing is you can see the most popular posts. You can also widgetize the feed collection (or "signal" as they call it) and even grab a link to the mobile version. Or just subscribe to the feed of the signal.

CoBrandit– I love this vlog. Why these guys arent part of Podtech I dont know. Lots of great coverage of marketing and advertising events. As well as some great interviews. Below is a list of fav links from coBrandit…

More Killer Links

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Links Zoho Notebook is the newest offering from the web based office uber-suite Zoho. This thing is pretty cool. You can create a vritual notebook with different elements from simple notes to audio snippets and collaborate in realtime.

If you missed the DEMO conference you didn’t get to see the demo of Total Immersion (video). This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Basically, you can put 3D object inside live video. You just have to see the demo to really get it.

Another great DEMO presenter was VuVox. Forget YouTube and Photobucket slideshows, you gotta see how VuVox mashes your media up into an interactive embeddable player. Way more "fun" than Splashcast.

HotelsByCity is building a travel based blog network. They are looking for bloggers. You get 70% rev share from ads.

Guy has a great list of 10 stupid ways to hinder market adoption. Must Read.

Street marketing campaign gets mistaken as a bomb planting terrorist plot, all of Boston goes on lockdown. What were they marketing?? A cartoon.

Here’s a list of the best link directories with a pagerank, saturation, and cost breakdown.

MarketingSherpa and Ad:Tech released their report for best and worst online marketing tactics. MarketingVOX has the breakdown.

Vlogger Loren Feldman of 1938media goes on a curse filled rant about social media and the wisdom of crowds. The comment thread is the highlight.

Excellent post and discussion about the death of organic SEO and the relevancy of paid listing.

Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington are planning a new DEMO-style conference giving the opportunity for tech start ups to pitch FOR FREE!

Killer Link Round Up 2

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Conversionrater– Great list of 10 ways to use an ad server to boost your contextual ad performance.

Jason Calacanis– Intersting conversation about black/white hat SEO. Who’s full of shit, why SEO seems shady, and how killer content makes SEO firms obsolete.

InstigatorBlog– 10 reasons why proposals fail. (too technical, not pitching benefits, too long, etc)

Pipes.Yahoo– Yahoo has launched Pipes, a new way to mash up content from the web easily.

More Jason from iMedia– Good vs Evil 2.0, how brands can get in the conversation with consumers.

AwakenedVoice/Rob Safuto– Why Google Video is better for businesses than YouTube.

Shmula.com– Cool timeline of Google, Yahoo, and MS aquisitions.

Rotorooter– Quirky "Pimped Out John" contest hits the web

Grandfiles– Great list of useful freeware

Master Plan– Cutting edge short web film about  Google’s Master Plan and why you should be scared!

Church of The Customer– Pork Board attacks blogger over "The Other White Milk" parody.

If you have any cool links I missed, or other links related to the list above please leave some in the comments.

Killer Link Round-Up

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Inside Adwords– adwords quality score update. They also added a "quality score" column in adgroups to see the quality of your keywords. Very awesome.

NIN Web Trail– Industrial band Nine Inch Nails quietly launched a pretty complicated promotional campaign for their new record "Year Zero". T-shirts sold on the current tour have an encrypted message on the back which leads to IAmTryingToBelieve.com, a website with a very disturbing vision of the future. But that is only one site out of a cast of "web characters" that support the theme of the new album. There is also AnotherVersionOfTheTruth.com, BeTheHammer.org, ChurchOfPlano.com, and all the weird stuff interlinked between them. Very interesting marketing strategy.

Josiah Cole– 19 things NOT to do when building a website

LinkedInABox– slick blog widget that shows off your LinkedIn info

8apps– a social network with collaboration on productivity tools? weird.

Mr.SEO– list of 22 places to submit your press release for free

Blackberry 8800– new trackball on the front AND media player. I want it.

Problogger– 11 ways to find new RSS subscribers

Negotiations.com– 32 reasons why geeks are severely underpaid. What it boils down to is that geeks aren’t ballsy enough to negotiate. ALWAYS NEGOTIATE, never accept the first offer!

SmashingMagazine– 83 gorgeous WordPress themes

Stumble Video and Wii– hands on with the cool app and the new device

The Power 150– I don’t know how I missed this for so long but it’s a list of the 150 best marketing blogs. I just grabbed the OPML and stuffed Google Reader. I’ll probably spend most of the week going through everything in it.

GTD– getting things done with Google

Another Crazy Boss (but in a good way)- Ricardo Semler’s employees set their hours, determine their salaries and choose their bosses. Meet the Brazilian businessman who does everything differently

WebProNews– Search guru Danny Sullivan runs into traffic (diggers) over SEO debate

Sitemaps– how sitemaps can improve your rank

SoloSEO– a simple do-it-yourself SEO system

More SEO debate– SEO vs. Paid Search

Proposal Writing– never wrote a proposal before? Start here.

ConversionRater.com– 11 tools to help publishers make more money

Typepad Hack– Dynamic title tags for better Google rank

Wow, that’s a pretty big list of links. I hope you enjoy them!