August 2010
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Top youtubers earn six-figure incomes
YouTube.com began as a social experiment to see what people would do when given the opportunity to create homemade videos and upload them for the world to see. All for free. In the five and a half years since its founding, YouTube has evolved into big business for some independent vloggers.
A new report by, TubeMogul [tag: “More Play Time”], an analytics and...
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[jgD Originals] 7 online resources to improve your...
This is part 1 in an ongoing “7 online resources” series.
Every person in business needs shortcuts and tricks to help make their work life as efficient as possible. We’re not talking the bad kind that are never OK like cheating and stealing; we’re talking the good, useful kind of shortcuts like better ways to do research and tips to making your internet browser more organized.
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[jgD Originals] Starting from square one
You’ve worked hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hours and many weeks and months on a single project. A project can be the launch of a new product or piece of software or it can be the creation of an entire company. Nonetheless, now things don’t seem nearly as hopeful as they once did. It may even be the dream project that is sadly falling apart. It’s a scary scenario every biz...
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Foursquare vs. facebook places
With last week’s long-awaited launch of Facebook Places social media experts and everyday users alike are left asking the obvious question: Does this mean the end to dedicated location-based services? Foursquare only does location-based and does it extremely well. So does Gowalla, Whrrl and BrightKite. They differ greatly from full-service social networking sites in that ...
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[jgD Originals] Not your average tagline
Think before you tag. That should be the universal tagline for taglines. It’s impossible to count the number of nonsensical or meaningless slogans that are floating around the business world, but it has to be about the same amount as there are polka dots or Post-its in the world. Everywhere we turn we run into advertising slogans that seem eloquent and profound, but at closer glance...
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[jgD Originals] The state of facebook in numbers
The rate of growth for Facebook in 2005 was unheard of. In 2007 it continued to be overly impressive. ’08 and ’09 proved Facebook wasn’t a fad. And now in 2010 leading into 2011 it has become one of the most powerful tech companies on the planet with absolutely no signs of slowing down.
Here are 10 staggering figures to show Facebook’s dominance despite an increasingly...
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[jgD Originals] “The social network” movie
Here is a 6 Ws breakdown of the highly-anticipated Fall film The Social Network:
What:
Title: The Social Network (aka “The Facebook movie”)
Slogan: “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies“
Website: 500millionfriends.com
About the founding of the smash-hit social networking site Facebook, focusing on the turbulent early years and the tech...
