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Wordle scans your site and creates a tag cloud.

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Target Gift Cards Also Cameras, Night Lights, Thumb Drives, etc.

A new twist on gift cards this season from Target.

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You Read It Here First: Google Partners With GE

Last week came the real GE/Google energy announcement.

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Avast Ye Scurvy Dogs

Online retailers seeking the elusive Pirate demographic can use a free English-to-Pirate site translation service.

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Google Declares Bankruptcy!

You heard it here first!

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Tame Your Inbox And Increase Your Productivity

Merlin Mann at Google on managing email overload.

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“Yang” Befuddled By Google’s Lack Of Transparency

“But one thing that struck me is that I just found out today that the way AdSense works is we don’t actually know how much of a cut we’re getting. We just take their ads and run them on our site and they send us a check at the end of the month, and we trust them to give us a fair amount of whatever they were paid, though there’s no actual way to determine what a fair amount might be.” – FJY

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Google, General Electric, US Dept Of Energy Announce Open Platform for Power Generation

A broad alliance of leading technology and power generation companies today joined forces to announce the development of “Zappy”, the first truly open and comprehensive platform for power generation devices.

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Improving Web Site Conversion

Be unique in your merchandising and value proposition, not on where you put your site search box. Testing and usability labs show that conversion suffers when users can’t find site elements where they expect them to be.

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Viewing On-Deck Google PR Releases

Shhhh… RKG engineers crack Google’s PR server.

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How to Eliminate Selection Bias in Your Customer Satisfaction Surveys

As seen in real life.

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“Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

Here is a “funny” blog.

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“Here Comes Another Bubble” Video

“Here’s Comes Another Bubble” video and copyright fracas.

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Mens Et Manus: How To Fold The MIT Logo In Origami In Three Easy Steps

Incredible paper folding video from MIT.

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“I dropped the toothpaste,” said Tom, crestfallen.

Off-topic post on Tom Swifties.

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Four Friday Parodies

Four parodies heading into the weekend.

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Water Balloon Stunt + Digg Homepage = 33,000 visits in 24 hours

For fun, we wanted to see if we could get a page dugg for Father’s Day.

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The 7-Minute Website Checkup

Can you evaluate the effectiveness of your website in a mere seven minutes? This exercise can’t approach the value of a comprehensive third-party review, but it can help you brush up on usability and conversion basics.

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Humor: How The Cursor Really Moves

How the computer really moves the cursor.

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The National Postal Museum: Mail and Marketing History

Next time you have a free hour in DC, consider visiting the National Postal Museum across from Union Station.

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Friday Game Links

Random Friday fun.

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Amazing Breaking News!!!

A great news day across the web, truly amazing stuff!!!

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March 3: Total Lunar Eclipse

The best opportunity to see a total lunar eclipse in recent years will happen tomorrow night, between sunset and 8p EST.

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150 Top Marketing Blogs

Delighted to see our blog named to Todd And’s list of 150 Top Marketing Blogs. We’re honored.

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18 Assorted Links

18 assorted interesting links, no particular theme.

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