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>>   Blogging
President Obama Answers Questions From Anti-Castro Blogger 
ABC News - 2 Hours ago
ABC's Whitney Lloyd reports from New York: Just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, but a world away in terms of free speech, outspoken anti-Castro blogger Yoani Sanchez published President Obamaâ??s responses
Obama Answers Questions From Cuban Blogger WXII 12
Cuban blogger details exchange with Obama San Antonio La Prensa
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FlixUp Is Rotten Tomatoes For Twitter Movie Talk 
Washington Post - 2 Hours ago
Rotten Tomatoes is a great site because it takes all the movie reviews from around the web and condenses them into an easy-to-understand aggregate score. But let's be honest: Most movie reviewers suck.
Flixup is rotten tomatoes for twitter movie talk... (TechCrunch via TechNews AM) TechNews.AM
Forget about rotten tomatoes The Hindu
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Seize Seesmic Twitter app on BlackBerry, Android 
CNET News.com - 2 Hours ago
The Twitter service with the cutesy raccoon mascot is making a new home on BlackBerry and Google Android phones. The free Seesmic, like its proliferate rivals, lets you read, manage, and compose Twitter     Add Comment

Twitter valued at $US1b as users top 58m 
Sydney Morning Herald - 83 Minutes ago
Twitter Inc., the social-networking company valued at $US1 billion ($1.1 billion) by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $US4 million a year and plans to build on that revenue     Add Comment
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>>   Online content
[$$] Paulson Hires Gold Stars (at The Wall Street Journal Online) 
Wall Street Journal Online - 83 Minutes ago
Hires Gold Stars for His Fund - Welcome, is available in the following editions and languages: Americas     Add Comment

Wired publisher promoted to Cond Nast group role 
Media Week Online - 2 Hours ago
LONDON - Wired publisher Jamie Jouning has been promoted to the newly created role of publisher of Cond Nast Digital Britain. In his new role, effective from 1 January, Jouning will be responsible for
Cond Nast partners with Adobe, HP to develop magazines for e-readers BToBOnline
Cond Nast Creating Digital Wired For iTablet I4U
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Daily Beast Taps Former CNET, Dennis Publishing Exec Colvin As President 
paidContent.org - 66 Minutes ago
The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the siteâ??s first president. Colvin has left his post as an EVP of CNET after two years. He was previously president and CEO of lad mag purveyor     Add Comment

Oregon's Wolves on YouTube 
Sightline Daily - 112 Minutes ago
In early 2008, state wildlife officials confirmed the presence of a younger female wolf in northeastern Oregon near the Eagle Cap Wilderness. A radio-tracking collar she'd been wearing since 2006 confirmed     Add Comment
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>>   Online information
Volunteer doctors to access Elsevier's clinical decision support for free 
SmartBrief - 47 Minutes ago
give volunteer physicians of the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières free subscriptions to its electronic clinical decision support resource, MD Consult, under its "All You Need to Make     Add Comment

Reed Elsevier downgraded to hold from accumulate at Charles Stanley 
Business Financial Newswire - 48 Minutes ago
Business Financial Newswire - Ian Smith's shock departure as chief executive after only eight months in the role leaves Reed in a strategic void, says analyst Sam Hart. 'The exact reasons for his departure     Add Comment

Jon Friedman's Media Web: Dobbs a King maker in walking away 
MarketWatch - 6 Hours ago
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- When John King gives thanks on Turkey Day next Thursday, he should remember to acknowledge Lou Dobbs. Dobbs' recent stunning departure from CNN -- announced on his program --
Jon Friedman's Media Web: Bloomberg to close Bloomberg Press unit MarketWatch
Jon Friedman's Media Web: Exit makes Dobbs a King maker MarketWatch
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Milestone Biodefense Publication By Elsevier Journal Vaccine 
Red Orbit - 11/20/2009
Supplement launched at Sealy Center for Vaccine Development Symposium Last week during the 'Vaccines for Biothreats and Emerging and Neglected Diseases Symposium' in Galveston TX, USA, the Elsevier journal     Add Comment
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>>   Marketing
CSR: It's All About Marketing 
Forbes.com - 2 Hours ago
C. B. Bhattacharya Corporate responsibility policies have been gaining increasing attention from senior executives as questions of sustainability and green agendas have come to permeate business the world     Add Comment

Booth, Web and Marketing Sprint 
KDE.NEWS - 57 Minutes ago
If you read PlanetKDE, you may have noticed that there was a combined in Stuttgart last weekend. While those blog posts discussed the fun to be had in getting a load of KDE contributors together in one     Add Comment

Twitter premium accounts: A business model at last? 
IMedia Connection - 92 Minutes ago
Twitter plans to charge for premium accounts that will provide businesses with tracking and analytical data. Shelly Palmer of MediaBytes says the data could help companies justify using Twitter. To see     Add Comment

MARKETING 
Investors Business Daily - 110 Minutes ago
Eighty percent of online coupon mailings gather higher transaction-to-click rates and transaction rates than noncoupon campaigns. The study by Experian Marketing Services also found that 70% of coupon-using     Add Comment
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>>   Online marketing
Booth, Web and Marketing Sprint 
KDE.NEWS - 57 Minutes ago
If you read PlanetKDE, you may have noticed that there was a combined in Stuttgart last weekend. While those blog posts discussed the fun to be had in getting a load of KDE contributors together in one     Add Comment

Men rob Dunkin' Donuts store, make employees strip 
WTHR - 2 Hours ago
Indianapolis - Two early morning robbers surprised two downtown donut shop workers Friday morning, ordering them into a room and telling them to strip. The brazen robbery happened at the Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts Recognized for Interactive Marketing Chain Leader
Robbery at downtown Dunkin' Donuts WTHR
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BMC teams with Salesforce for service desk app 
What PC - 103 Minutes ago
Offering to be available on Force.com platform next year SAN FRANCISCO: BMC Software has teamed up with Salesforce.com to offer an IT service desk solution on the Force.com platform. The companies said
BMC Takes Service Desk to the Cloud Via Salesforce.Com CIO Magazine
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This week, In Focus examines the explosive growth of Internet retailing on the Chinese  
Hong Kong Trade Development Council - 47 Minutes ago
The global economic slowdown, far from putting a dent on Internet sales, has actually given the online retail industry a boost, as consumers look for better value and traditional businesses seek new channels     Add Comment
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>>   E-commerce
Susan Boyle: I Dreamed a Dream 
Guardian.co.uk - 2 Hours ago
The Subo circus leads from Britain's Got Talent, to YouTube phenomenon, via a pitstop at the Prioryâ?¦ to a surprisingly subtle debut album When is a record not a record? When it is a souvenir of a phenomenon.
Susan Boyle breaks CD order record Isle of Man Online
Susan Boyle breaks Amazon.com presale records National Post
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Wal-Mart And Sears Pulling An Amazon In The Marketplace 
Investors Business Daily - 99 Minutes ago
Call it Amazon Marketplace envy. Wal-Mart They hope that adding other retailers to their Web sites will help boost traffic and sales and help them become more competitive with Amazon.com 'They are trying     Add Comment

E-Com Set To Ring Up Sales 
Investors Business Daily - 2 Hours ago
Nov. 30 is the ceremonial kickoff to the online holiday shopping season this year. That's Cyber Monday. The term was coined by Shop.org in 2005 after the retail group noticed a spike in online retail     Add Comment

eBay Brings the Worlds Biggest Online Marketplace to New Yorks Premier Shopping  
Yahoo! Canada - 2 Hours ago
eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) kicks off the holiday shopping season today with ?eBay @ 57th Street,? its first-ever pop-up online shopping experience. At eBay?s 5,500-square-foot 57th Street and Fifth Avenue pop-up
eBay Brings the World`s Biggest Online Marketplace to New York`s Premier Shopping  Reuters
eBay Brings the World's Biggest Online Marketplace to New York's ... Zibb
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>>   Webmaster tips
Editors - So Many To Choose From 
About - 11/16/2009
Choose From Free Newsletter!Sign Up Jennifer's BlogBy , About.com Guide to Add to: - So Many To Choose From Monday November 16, 2009 This week, I finalized two 'best of' lists: If your favorite editor     Add Comment

7 Great Rip-offsand How to Avoid Them! 
SitePoint - 11/16/2009
Almost all web developers find themselves chasing payments from certain clients in any given year. Some circumstances Ive endured more often than others. In this article, Ive identified seven of the most     Add Comment

Month Page 
EarthWeb.com - 11/13/2009
Find a Javascript: FREE Tech Newsletters Submitted: 11/12/2009 If you maintain separate pages for each month, this script can redirect the user to the correct page automatically! The script determines     Add Comment

Info Table 
EarthWeb.com - 11/13/2009
Web Development: JavaScripts : Utilities Find a Javascript: FREE Tech Newsletters Submitted: 11/12/2009 JavaScript can write a neat little box to the screen telling the visitor's browser and operating     Add Comment
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>>   Website owner
Build powerful and interactive web applications with jQuery UI using Packt's new  
Linux PR - 3 Hours ago
is a new book that helps developers create powerful front-end interfaces for their web applications with jQuery UI. Packt is pleased to announce a new book on jQuery UI 1.7 that helps readers build rich     Add Comment

Calculate your 'fieldprint' with new USB web tool 
Agriculture Online - 7 Hours ago
United Soybean Board director Mike Thede says U.S. soybean farmers face a win-win situation with sustainability. And, to help farmers reach that goal, USB is offering a free online tool for calculating     Add Comment

Pass it on to your medical staff: New Web site has variety of learning tools 
HCPro - 8 Hours ago
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Credentialing Resource Center Connection ! Whether youâ??re in charge of tracking CME hours or finding remedial education opportunities     Add Comment

H. D. Smith launches new Web site 
Drug Store News - 7 Hours ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Nov. 20) H. D. Smith, a customer-focused national supplier of healthcare products, services and business solutions, announced Friday the launch of their new company Web site, www.
INDOT launches traveler Web site, phone number NWI Times
State Auditor Launches New Web Site for Citizens Redistricting Commission: WeDrawTheLines.ca.gov TickerTech.com
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>>   Internet news
Seize Seesmic Twitter app on BlackBerry, Android 
CNET News.com - 2 Hours ago
The Twitter service with the cutesy raccoon mascot is making a new home on BlackBerry and Google Android phones. The free Seesmic, like its proliferate rivals, lets you read, manage, and compose Twitter     Add Comment

Salesforce.com announces social-networking app 
IT World Canada - 116 Minutes ago
For: IDG News Service (Boston Bureau) Salesforce.com opened up its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Wednesday by previewing Salesforce Chatter, a social-networking application the vendor
Social networking touted for business Individual.com
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business Silicon.com
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Google's Chrome OS hits BitTorrent 
ITworld.com - 109 Minutes ago
Chrome OS, the operating system that Google released to open source yesterday, has been compiled and posted for download on several file-sharing sites, Internet searches showed today. The ready-to-run     Add Comment

Google Chrome OS 
The Register - 83 Minutes ago
Yes, Google has open-sourced Chrome OS, its much-discussed browser-based operating system. But as usual, the open sourcing only says so much about its openness. After all, this isn't something you can     Add Comment
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>>   Environment
Lower House committees pass bills amid opposition no-show 
Japan Times - 2 Hours ago
The Democratic Party of Japan-led ruling coalition passed bills and treaties at several House of Representatives committee sessions Friday that were boycotted by two opposition parties. The bills and
House passes bill to protect Oregonâ??s Molalla River Wilderness Society
House passes bill to repeal and replace the sustainable growth rate formula Cardiology Today
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Data breach at climate research center in U.K 
Washington Post - 52 Minutes ago
Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of     Add Comment

Storing Renewable Energy in Boxes of Air 
Reuters - 2 Hours ago
By Cleantechnica - Cleantechnica By Susan Kraemer Storage is needed to harvest the full yield available from intermittent sources of energy like wind and solar. One of the options is compressed-air storage;     Add Comment

Air pollution regulations drive deployment of flexible abatement solutions 
Hub 4 - 3 Hours ago
To address the growing complexity of air pollution regulations, which have to address a multi-tiered array of local authority, national and international requirements, AirProtekt of Cambridge is offering     Add Comment
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