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		<title>So, I&#8217;ve Switched Blogging Platforms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 20:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s On The Way Down?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I wrote that Google should stay out of the content business and focus on organizing content instead (their stated goal), perhaps because they are spreading their talent too thin. This is worrying investors, considering the growing amount of employees they are hiring. Recently, especially after the discovery that Google&#8217;s paid click volume is sliding, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brandingme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=875648&amp;post=79&amp;subd=brandingme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Know Interactive Advertising Is Still A New Field When&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Palacios</dc:creator>
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		<title>Super-Bloggers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Palacios</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times takes a stab at instructions for how to become a blogging star. Oh, for it to be as easy as following a few bullet points&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brandingme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=875648&amp;post=77&amp;subd=brandingme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winners of the FCC Airwaves Auction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Palacios</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following the FCC auction for a while now (exhibit A, B, and C), especially because it appeared Google may have been positioning itself for some new service that had yet to be disclosed. Well, I was wrong&#8230; Verizon Wireless is the big winner in the airwaves auction. So it looks like the analysts interviewed by Bloomberg were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brandingme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=875648&amp;post=76&amp;subd=brandingme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Difficulties Monetizing Web 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Palacios</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Branding Me First: I Was Right About Something!!! It&#8217;s a bittersweet day for those of us who keep repeating over and over and over again that advertising on social networking sites is not effective. I think I have been spouting the same line since I started this blog: advertising, although it may create revenue, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brandingme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=875648&amp;post=75&amp;subd=brandingme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Bids On Yahoo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Palacios</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to Compete with Google In what Bloomberg states is &#8220;the biggest-ever technology takeover,&#8221; Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. That figure marks a 62% premium of Yahoo&#8217;s stock price as of yesterday&#8217;s closing. It seems this bid is the culmination of the roller-coaster ride Yahoo has been on the past month: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brandingme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=875648&amp;post=74&amp;subd=brandingme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Music Sales Grow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Palacios</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But Overall Sales Still Falter Although music sales as a whole have declined, digital music sales grew to $2.9 billion in 2007 (compared to $2.1 billion in 2006), according to reports from The New York Times and The Economist (handy graphs in the latter link&#8230; especially if you fancy Beyonce). Once again, the fall in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brandingme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=875648&amp;post=73&amp;subd=brandingme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So Much For Consumer-Generated Ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Palacios</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subway is suing Quizno&#8217;s over a contest the latter company held, where users were encouraged to make commercials depicting Quiznos&#8217; sandwiches as &#8220;superior&#8221; to Subway&#8217;s. A breakdown of the suit thus far can be read here. If you&#8217;ve been thinking of working in copyright and defamation law, now would be a good time to do so. Unfortunately, consumers may find themselves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brandingme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=875648&amp;post=72&amp;subd=brandingme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Complete WSJ.com Access</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Palacios</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal Won&#8217;t Be Free Hopes of the Wall Street Journal getting rid of their online subscription revenue have been seriously dashed: speaking at the World Economic Forum, Rupert Murdoch reportedly stated, &#8220;&#8216;The really specialized (material) giving the greatest insights, that will still be a subscription service.&#8217;&#8221; However, the New York Times pointed out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brandingme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=875648&amp;post=71&amp;subd=brandingme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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